List of invited speakers

Plenary talks Sessions
  1. Nonlinear Optics - Ady Arie, Tel-Aviv University
    • Wieslaw Krolikowski - Australian National University, Australia
    • Fredrik Laurell - KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
    • Roberto Morandotti, INRS-EMT, Canada
  2. Light Modulators and their Applications - Ibrahim Abdulhalim, Ben-Gurion University
    • Neil Collings - University of Cambridge, UK
    • Sven Lagerwall - Chalmers University, Sweden
    • Zeev Zalevsky - Bar Ilan University
    • Victor Reshetnyak - National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
  3. Electro-optics in Industry, Inspection & Vision - Doron Meshulach, Applied Materials
    • Ira Blevis - GE healthcare, Israel
    • Alon Litman - Applied Materials, Israel
    • Noam Sapiens - KLA-Tencor, Israel
  4. Ultrafast Phenomena - Nirit Dudovich, Weizmann Institute of Science
    • David Villeneuve, NRC, Ottawa, Canada
    • Mauro Nisoli - Politecnico of Milan, Italy
  5. Solar Cells - Jeffrey Gordon, Ben-Gurion University
    • N.J. Ekins-Daukes, Imperial College London, UK
    • Arie Zaban - Bar Ilan University
    • Gary Hodes - Weizman Institute of Science, Israel
    • Yossi Rosenwaks - Tel Aviv University, Israel
  6. Optical Engineering - Rami Finkler, Afeka
    • Ariela Donval - KiloLambda Technologies, Ltd., Israel
    • Ron Folman - Ben-Gurion University, Israel
    • Steve Lipson - Ort Braude College and Technion, Israel
  7. Micro & Nano Optics and Periodic Structures - Erez Hasman, Technion
    • Guy Bartal - Technion, Israel
    • Ronen Rapaport - The Hebrew University, Israel
  8. Optics in Medicine and Biology - Israel Gannot, Tel-Aviv University
    • Joseph Izatt - Duke University, USA
    • Jin Kang - The Johns Hopkins University, USA
    • Jessica Ramella-Roman, Catholic University of America, USA
    • Xingde Li - The Johns Hopkins University, USA
  9. Electro-optics in Defense & Security - Asher Peled, Rafael
    • Dmitry Budker - University of California at Berkeley, USA
    • Sergey Mirov - University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
  10. Quantum Optics - Hagai Eisenberg, The Hebrew University
    • John Martinis - UCSB, USA
    • Fabio Sciarrino - Sapienza Universitā di Roma, Italy
  11. Lasers and Applications - Itamar Shoshan
    • Joseph Zyss - Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan, France
    • Nikolay A. Vinokurov - Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia
    • Carmel Rotschild - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  12. Remote Sensing, Imaging and Lidars Smadar Egert, Israel Institute for Biological Research
    Shlomo Fastig, Soreq Research Center
    • Gelsomina Pappalardo - IMAA, Italy
    • Chris Lavers - Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth and Plymouth University, UK
  13. Optical Devices and Communications - Zeev Zalevsky, Bar Ilan University
    • Pietro Ferraro, INOA - CNR, Italy
    • Ekmel Ozbay, Nanotechnology Research Center (NANOTAM),
      Bilkent Space Technologies Research Center (BILUZAY), Turkey