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LPHYS'06 |
15th INTERNATIONAL LASER PHYSICS WORKSHOP
(Lausanne, July 24 - 28, 2006)
ORGANIZERS:
- A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow, Russia
- L'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
- The international journal Laser Physics
- The international journal Laser Physics Letters
- International Laser Center, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, Russia
SPONSORS:
- Russian Foundation for Basic Researches, Moscow, Russia
- EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Swiss National Science Foundation, Berne, Switzerland
- Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
- United States European Office of Aerospace Research and Development
- U.S. Army International Technology Center-Atlantic, European Research Office
- International Laser Center of Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- Russian Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow, Russia
- Astro Ltd., Little Rock, AR, USA
- ILEE AG, Urdorf, Switzerland
- DYNEOS AG, Effretikon, Switzerland
- LOT-Oriel AG, Romanel-sur-Morges, Switzerland
- DIAMOND SA, Losone, Switzerland
- Time-Bandwidth Products, Inc., Zurich, Switzerland
- Femtolasers Production GmbH, Vienna, Austria
- Quantum Photonics National Centre of Competence in Research, Switzerland
- Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories 1855 S. 57th Ct. Boulder, CO 80301 USA
CHAIRMEN:
- Hans G. Limberger (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Pavel P. Pashinin (A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
- Markus Pollnau (University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands)
STEERING COMMITTEE:
- Dusan Chorvat (International Laser Center, Bratislava, Slovakia)
- Joseph H. Eberly (University of Rochester, Rochester, USA)
- Mikhail V. Fedorov (A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
- Sergey A. Gonchukov (Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia)
- Günter Huber (Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany)
- Hans G. Limberger (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Pavel P. Pashinin (A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
- Markus Pollnau (University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands)
- Kirill A. Prokhorov (A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
- Wolfgang Sandner (Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany)
- Toshi Tajima (Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan)
- Herbert Walther (Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany)
- Valery M. Yermachenko (Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia)
- Igor V. Yevseyev (Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia)
- Vyacheslav I. Yukalov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia)
- Aleksey M. Zheltikov (Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)
ADVISORY & PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
- P. Agostini (CEA/CE, Saclay, France)
- S.N. Bagayev (Institute of Laser Physics, RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia)
- V. S. Bagnato (University de San Paulo, San Carlos, Brazil)
- W. Becker (Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany)
- S.L. Chin (Laval University, Quebec, Canada)
- G. Denardo (The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy)
- S. De Silvestri (Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy)
- E.M. Dianov (A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
- G. Ferrante (Palermo University, Palermo, Italy)
- C. Fotakis (Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Heraklion, Greece)
- M.D. Girardeau (University of Arizona, Tucson, USA)
- M. Jelinek (Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic)
- Y. Kato (Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan)
- U. Keller (ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland)
- V.I. Konov (A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
- N. Kroo (Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, HAS, Budapest, Hungary)
- F. Krausz (Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany)
- S.P. Kulik (Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)
- A.S. Kurkov (A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
- J. Lademann (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)
- V.A. Makarov (Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)
- D. Mathur (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)
- F. Mendoza S. (Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, León, Mexico)
- G.A. Mesyats (Vice-President of RAS, Moscow, Russia)
- V.B. Morozov (Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)
- K. Petermann (Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany)
- G. Petite (CEA/DSM/DRECAM, Saclay, France)
- L.P. Pitaevskii (University of Trento, Trento, Italy)
- P.M. Saari (Tartu Institute of Physics, Tartu, Estonia)
- R.-P. Salathe (EPF Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland)
- V.V. Samartsev (Kazan Physics Technical Institute, RAS, Kazan, Russia)
- V.M. Shalaev (Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA)
- I.A. Shcherbakov (A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
- D.P. Shepherd (University of Southampton, Southampton, UK)
- G.V. Shlyapnikov (LPTMS, Orsay, France)
- I.T. Sorokina (Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria)
- O. Svelto (Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy)
- E.A. Vinogradov (Institute of Spectroscopy, RAS, Troitsk, Russia)
- K. Ueda (University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan)
- I.A. Walmsley (Oxford University, Oxford, UK)
- E. Wintner (Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria)
- E. Zaremba (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada)
- N.V. Znamenskiy (Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, Russia)
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Chairman:
- Hans G. Limberger (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
Members:
- Feridun Ay (MESA+ institute for Nanotechnology, Enschede, The Netherlands)
- Yvette Bernard (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
- Manuelle Borruat (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
- Christian Ban (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
- Camelia Borca (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
- Rodrigue Chatton (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
- Dragan Coric (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
- Florent Gardillou (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
- Gerard Harbach (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
- Yari Luchessa (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
- Thomas Sidler (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne)
- Yann Tissot (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
PLENARY SPEAKERS:
- Benjamin J. Eggleton (Australia)
"New Frontiers in Photonic Crystal Fibres"
- Paul M.W. French (UK) "Multidimensional Fluorescence Imaging"
- Marvin D. Girardeau (USA) "Exact Properties of Strongly Correlated Ultracold Gases in Tight Waveguides"
- Nicolas Gisin (Switzerland) "Quantum Communication in Telecom Networks"
- Deepak Mathur (India) "Clusters in Strong Laser Light: Science and Applications"
- Susumu Noda (Japan) "Recent Progresses in Photonic Crystals"
- René-Paul Salathé (Switzerland) "From Surgery to Tweezers - Some Laser Developments in Biophotonics"
- Vahid Sandoghdar (Switzerland) "Interaction of Light with Single Emitters and Nanoparticles"
- Andreas Tünnermann (Germany) "High Power Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers"
SCIENTIFIC SEMINARS:
- Modern Trends in Laser Physics
Co-Chairs: Thomas Feurer (Switzerland), Franz X. Kaertner (USA), and Kirill A. Prokhorov (Russia)
- Strong Field Phenomena Co-Chairs: Wilhelm Becker (Germany), Jens Biegert (Switzerland), and Mikhail V. Fedorov (Russia)
- Biophotonics Co-Chairs: Vanderlei S. Bagnato (Brazil), Sergey A. Gonchukov (Russia), and Jürgen Lademann (Germany)
- Physics of Lasers Co-Chairs: Guenter Huber (Germany), Ivan A. Shcherbakov (Russia), and Alessandra Toncelli (Italy)
- Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy Co-Chairs: See Leang Chin (Canada), Christos Flytzanis (France), and Vladimir A. Makarov (Russia)
- Physics of Cold Trapped Atoms Co-Chairs: Lev P. Pitaevskii (Italy), Vyacheslav I. Yukalov (Russia), and Eugene Zaremba (Canada)
- Quantum Information and Computation Co-Chairs: Nicolas Gisin (Switzerland), Sergei P. Kulik (Russia), and Leong Chuan Kwek (Singapore)
The Proceedings of the Workshop will be published in vol.
17, # 2 and # 4 of the international journal Laser Physics, 2007.