Chairs & Committee Members
The Technical Program Chairs and Committee Members are integral to the success of the meeting. These volunteers dedicate countless hours to planning, including such critical activities as raising funds to support the event, securing invited speakers, reaching out to colleagues to encourage submissions, reviewing papers, and scheduling sessions. On behalf of OSA, its Board, and its entire staff, we extend enormous gratitude to the following members of the Nonlinear Photonics (NP) Technical Program Committee.
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Program Committee
Information for Conference Chairs and Committee Members
Information for Session Chairs/Presiders
Program Committee
General Chairs
Wieslaw Krolikowski, Australian Natl. Univ., Australia
Frank Wise, Cornell Univ., USA
Program Chairs
Nail Akhmediev, Australian National Univ., Australia
John Dudley, Universite de Franche-Comte, France
Karsten Rottwitt, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
Subcommittee 1: Temporal and Spatio-Temporal Effects
Keith Blow, Aston Univ.,UK, Subcommittee Chair
Gunter Steinmeyer, MBI Berlin and TUT Tampere, Germany
William Wadsworth, Univ. of Bath, UK
Michael Frosz, Max Planck Inst. for the Science of Light Erlangen, Germany
Arnaud Mussot, Univ. of Lille, France
Subcommittee 2: Nonlinear Devices and Systems
Sergei Turitsyn, Aston Univ.,UK, Subcommittee Chair
Robert Boyd, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Pavel Mamyshev, Mintera Corp., USA
Jesper Mork, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
Colin J.McKinstrie, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Curtis Menyuk, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore, USA
Liam Barry, Dublin City Univ., Ireland
Andrew Ellis, Tyndall National Inst., Ireland
Subcommittee 3: Spatial Effects, Poling, Periodic Structures
Thomas Pertsch, Friedrich Schiller Univ. Jena, Germany, Subcommittee Chair
Jaromir Pistora, Technical Univ. of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Andrey Sukhorukov, Australian National Univ., Australia
Walter Margulis, Acreo Sweden
Costantino De Angelis, Univ. Brescia, Italy
Yaroslav Kartashov, ICFO, Castelldefels, Spain
Subcommittee 4: Novel Nonlinear Materials
John Ballato, Clemson University, USA Subcommittee Chair
Siddarth Ramachandran, Boston University, USA
Robert Norwood, University of Arizona, USA
Alex Gaeta, Cornell University, USA
Seth Marder, Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA
Edo Waks, Univ. of Maryland, USA
Subcommittee 5: Instabilities in Nonlinear Optics
Goery Genty, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Subcommittee Chair
Stefano Wabnitz, Univ. of Brescia, Italy
Stefania Residori, CNRS and INLN Nice, France
Jerome Kasparian, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland
John Travers, Max Planck Inst. for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany
Subcommittee 6: Nonlinearities in Novel Propagation Environments
Anna Peacock, ORC and Univ. of Southampton, UK, Subcommittee Chair
Francois Courvoisier, CNRS Inst. FEMTO-ST, France
Fabio Biancalana, Max Planck Inst. of the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany
Neil Broderick, Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand
Boris Kuhlmey, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Nicolae Panoiu, Univ. College London, UK
Roberto Morandotti, INRS-EMT, Canada
Subcommittee 7: Nonlinearities in Lasers and Dissipative Systems
Philippe Grelu, University of Burgundy, France, Subcommitteee Chair
J. Nathan Kutz, University of Washington, USA
Steven Cundiff, JILA/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, USA
J. Roy Taylor, Imperial College London, UK
Juan-Diego Ania-Castanon, Instituto de Optica, CSIC, Spain
Stephane Coen, Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand
Subcommittee 8: Modelling, Analysis and Computational Techniques in Nonlinear Photonics
Stefano Trillo, University of Ferrara, Italy
Alejandro Aceves, Southern Methodist University, USA
Sonia Boscolo, Aston University, UK
Claudio Conti, Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy
Ulf Peschel, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany
Ping Kong Alex Wai, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.
If you are a member of the committee and have any questions or concerns at any point along the way, please refer to the information below or contact your program manager.
Information for Conference Chairs and Committee Members
Information for Session Chairs/Presiders
Presiders are requested to identify themselves at least 20 minutes before the session begins to the audiovisual personnel for a quick review of equipment and procedures.
Guidelines
Remember to introduce yourself as the presider and announce the session. The total amount of time allotted for each paper will be listed in the online program as well as in the conference program book. Generally, invited talks are allowed 25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion. Generally, contributed talks are allowed 12 minutes for presentation and 3 minutes for discussion. Generally, tutorials are allotted 45 minutes to 1 hour, with 5 minutes for discussion. A 60-minute mechanical timer will be available for your use. We recommend that the timer is set two minutes prior to the end of the presentation time in order to provide a warning to wrap up the talk and start the discussion period. Notify the authors of this warning system. It is also important to remind the speaker to repeat the questions asked from the audience.
Maintaining the scheduled timing of papers is very important. In cases where the paper is withdrawn or the speaker does not show, use the time for an extended question period for authors of previously presented papers or call a break. PLEASE DO NOT START TALKS EARLIER THAN THEY ARE SCHEDULED. All requests to modify the program schedule should be directed to the program chair.
Speaker Check-in Sheet
Once you arrive at your session room, you’ll find a folder at the podium or on the table at the front of the room. This folder will contain a sheet for each session in that room. Please be sure to remove only your session sheet. The check-in sheet will list the talks within your session, the order in which they will be given, and the name of the author giving the presentation. Please be sure to check the box to indicate which speakers presented during the session. Make note of any no-show speakers or replacement speakers. Also, please try to estimate the number of attendees at the session at the start of the session, about halfway into the session, and at the end of the session; note these counts where indicated in the upper right corner. Leave the completed sheet in the folder in the pocket marked “Completed” and leave the folder on the podium or table for the next session presider. The check-in sheet serves two purposes: 1) to assist you in running an effective session and 2) to help us ensure that the appropriate speakers’ files are archived on OSA Optics InfoBase after the meeting. Only those authors who attend and present are included in the InfoBase, so it’s important that you make note of any presenters who are absent.
View a sample check-in sheet.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to licensing restrictions, the use of music in presentations, including video presentations, is prohibited. If a speaker uses music during his/her presentation, please inform Meeting Management immediately.
