Special Events
Hawaiian Cultural Workshop for NLO attendees and their families in
Traditional & Modern Hula and Chants with Ka'iulani Visiko
Dates: Tuesday, 19 July and Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Time: 9.00 –11.30
Location: Puna Court, Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club
Cost: US $50 per person (not included in registration fees)
There will be a 15 minute coffee break with Wayne “Kimo” Knox at 10.00 each day.
On Wednesday, 20 July, 2011, there will be an opportunity to perform what you learned in the workshop at the Conference Luau during Kimo and Ka'iulani's Cocktail Hour Concert. **
**Note: Luau admission ticket required to participate. Additional tickets may be purchased at
Registration until 18.30, Monday, 18 July 2011.**
For Ka'iulani's Workshop you'll need:
- Tank top or t-shirt
- Shorts or sarong
- Bare feet
- Notepad and pencil
- Much ALOHA and FUN!!
Open to members, family, and friends (Children 12 years old and under must have a parent present at
all times).
For more information and any questions, visit www.GalleryKauai.com or contact Kimo and Ka'iulani by email, or
call +1 585.313.1195.
To register for this workship, visit the registration page.
To add this workshop to an existing registration, contact OSA Customer Service.
Luau
The luau will be held on Wednesday 20 July from 18.00–21.00. The luau will feature traditional Hawaiian food and entertainment and is open to all paid full technical registrants. To add extra luau tickets to an existing registration, contact OSA Customer Service or visit Registration on-site before 18.30, Monday, 18 July 2011.
Poster Sessions
Poster sessions are an integral part of the technical program and offer a unique networking opportunity, where presenters can discuss their results one-to-one with interested parties. Each author is provided with a 4 ft. × 8 ft. (1.22 m × 2.44 m) board on which to display the summary and results of his or her paper.
Postdeadline Sessions
The postdeadline session is an opportunity to showcase the most late-breaking innovations in the field.
Symposium Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Nonlinear Optics
Since the famous paper in Physical Review Letters by P. Franken, et al., demonstrating nonlinear optical effects for the first time appeared in 1961, NLO 2011 will be the natural opportunity to celebrate the 50th anniversary of nonlinear optics. A special symposium will be organized, giving a unique chance to see and hear some of the leading people who helped to found nonlinear optics.
Invited Speakers include:
Plenary Speaker:
Long and Short Entangled Photons, 
(pdf) Steve Harris, Stanford Univ., USA
Invited Speakers:
The Birth of Nonlinear Optics, (pdf) Nicolaas Bloembergen, Univ. of Arizona, USA
50 Years of Nonlinear Optics, Tunable Sources From OPOs to Coherent X-rays , (pdf) Robert Byer, Stanford Univ., USA
Vacuum Nonlinear Optics, Nonlinear QED, (pdf) Gérard Mourou, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Surface Nonlinear Optics, (pdf) Ron Shen, Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA
The Beginnings of Quantum Nonlinear Optics and Optical Phase Conjugation-Answers to Communication Challenges, (pdf) Amnon Yariv, Caltech, USA
