Invited Speakers

Ashok Krishnamoorthy, Oracle Corporation, United States, Brutally-efficient Photonics for Future Intra-system Communications, Plenary

Guifang Li, University of Central Florida, United States, Coherent Optical Communications and Beyond, Plenary

Ronen Adato, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Mid-infrared plasmonics for ultra-sensitive chemical fingerprinting and real-time, in-situ spectroscopy, Invited

Ishwar Aggarwal, Univ of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States, Infrared Chemical Sensors, Invited

Warwick Bowen, University of Queensland, Australia, Cavity Optomechanical Magnetometry, Invited

David Erickson, Cornell University, United States, Smartphone based Molecular Diagnostics, Invited

James Gates, Optoelectronics Research Centre, United Kingdom, UV Written Planar Bragg Grating Sensors - An Overview of Fabrication, Geometries and Applications, Invited

Rafael Gattass, US Naval Research Laboratory, United States, Title to be Announced, Invited

John Harvey, Southern Photonics, New Zealand, Title to be Announced, Invited

Samuel Hernandez-Rivera, United States, Title to be Announced, Invited

Hans Peter Herzig, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Challenges in Optical Microsystems for Sensing, Invited

Christopher Howle, Defence Science & Technology Laboratory, United Kingdom, Proximal Detection of Liquid Chemical Warfare Agents, Invited

Toshiaki Iwai, Tokyo Univ of Agriculture and Technology, Spectral-domain Low-coherence Dynamic Light Scattering: to Analyze Spatio-nonstationary Brownian Dynamics, Invited

Mona Jarrahi, University of Michigan, United States, Title to be Announced, Invited

Malcolm Kadodwala, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, Biosensing with a Twist: Detection and Characterization of Biomaterials with Sculpted EM Fields, Invited

Young-Jin Kim, Korea Advanced Inst of Science & Tech, South Korea, Ultra-precision LIDAR System Using Femtosecond Light Pulses, Invited

Martin Koch, Philipps Universitat Marburg, Germany, Title to be Announced, Invited

Laura Lechuga, Spain, Pushing the Limits of Plasmonic Biosensingin Molecular Biology, Invited

Robert Levis, Temple University, United States, Title to be Announced, Invited

Alvydas Lisauskas, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Germany, Foundry-processed Detector Arrays for Terahertz Spectroscopy and Real-time Imaging Applications, Invited

Alexis Mendez, United States, Optical Fiber Sensors for Bio-Medical Applications, Invited

Oleg Mitrofanov, University College London, United Kingdom, Title to be Announced, Invited

Stephen Morgan, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, Ultrasound Modulated Optical Tomography, Invited

Nathan Newbury, National Inst of Standards & Technology, United States, Frequency Comb-based Laser Sensors for Precision Ranging, Spectroscopy and Frequency Transfer, Invited

Sang-Hyun Oh, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, United States, High-throughput Fabrication of Nanoplasmonic Devices for SPR and SERS Biosensing, Invited

Chandra Kumar Patel, Pranalytica Inc, United States, Title to be Announced, Invited

Mark Phillips, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States, Infrared Laser Spectroscopy of Explosives Particles and Residues, Invited

Pablo Ruiz, Loughborough University, United Kingdom, Tomographic Sensing of Displacement Fields, Invited

David Sampson, University of Western Australia, Australia, Sensing and Imaging in Tissue Using Fiber Optics: 3D Micro-imaging Optics and Medical Applications, Invited

Erik Schartner, University of Adelaide, Australia, New Tools for Measurement: Opportunities for Sensing Chemicals or Biomolecules with Optical Fibers, Invited

Todd Stievater, US Naval Research Laboratory, United States, Waveguide Evanescent Field Spectroscopy of Trace Gases, Invited

Frank Vollmer, Max-Planck-Inst Physik des Lichts, Germany, Plasmon-Enhanced Microcavity Biosensing, Invited

Yun-Feng Xiao, Peking University, China, Label-free Detection of Single Nanoparticles and Lentiviruses Using an Optical Microcavity, Invited

Minghong Yang, Wuhan University of Technology, China, Novel Optical Sensors Based on Integration of Fiber Micro-machining with Sensitive Thin Films, Invited

Lei Zhang, Zhejiang University, China, Microfluidic Chip Based Microfiber Sensors, Invited

Peter Zijlstra, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands, A Plasmonic Biosensor with Single-molecule Sensitivity, Invited