LPHYS'08.  PLENARY SPEAKERS:

1.		Michael Bass	The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA	"Gain Guided, Index Anti Guided Fiber Lasers"
2.		Martin E. Fermann	IMRA America, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA	"Ultrafast Fiber Lasers in Advanced Technology and Science"
3.		Stephen E. Harris	Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA	"Generation of Biphotons with Controllable Waveforms"
4.		Günter Huber	Institute for Laser Physics, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany	"Diode Pumped Solid-State Lasers in the Near Infrared and Visible Spectral Region"
5.		Randall G. Hulet	Rice University, Houston, USA	"Pairing and Superfluidity in an Atomic Fermi Gas"
6.		Franz X. Kärtner	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA	"Femtosecond Lasers: Tools for Attosecond Science"
7.		Christian Kurtsiefer	Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore	"What Can You Do with Photonic Qubits?"
8.		Jeffrey H. Shapiro	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA	"Imaging with Phase-Sensitive Light: What Is Quantum and What Is Not"
9.		Konstantin L. Vodopyanov	Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA	"New Light from Gallium Arsenide: Efficient THz-Wave Generation from Periodically-Inverted GaAs"