LPHYS'08.  SCIENTIFIC SEMINARS:

 
Seminar 1 Modern Trends in Laser Physics
 
Co-Chairs:      Thomas Feurer (Switzerland)
 
       Franz X. Kaertner (USA)
 
       Fredrik Laurell (Sweden)
       Kirill A. Prokhorov (Russia)

Coherent Control of the Fundamental Processes in Optics symposium

As part of the Modern Trends in Laser Physics seminar the Coherent Control of the Fundamental Processes in Optics symposium will be held. The Symposium will be focused on the recent progress in the various fields of coherent interaction of laser radiation with matter resulting in control of properties of both matter and light with applications to physical systems of different origin: atomic and molecular gases, rare-earth and transition metal ions doped crystals, semiconductor heterostructures, etc.

Co-chairs:
Michael Fleischhauer (Germany)
Olga Kocharovskaya (USA)

Seminar 2 Strong Field & Attosecond Physics
 
Co-Chairs:      Wilhelm Becker (Germany)
 
 Jens Biegert (Spain)
 
 Mikhail V. Fedorov (Russia)
Seminar 3 Biophotonics
 
Co-Chairs:      Sergey A. Gonchukov (Russia)
 
 Jürgen Lademann (Germany)
 
 Mikael Lindgren (Norway)
Seminar 4 Physics of Lasers
 
Co-Chairs:  Markus Pollnau (The Netherlands)
 
   Gunnar Rustad (Norway)
 
   Ivan A. Shcherbakov (Russia)
Seminar 5 Nonlinear Optics & Spectroscopy
 
Co-Chairs:      See Leang Chin (Canada)
 
     Christos Flytzanis (France)
 
       Vladimir A. Makarov (Russia)
Seminar 6 Physics of Cold Trapped Atoms
 
Co-Chairs:      Lev P. Pitaevskii (Italy)
 
 Vyacheslav I. Yukalov (Russia)
 
 Eugene Zaremba (Canada)
Seminar 7 Quantum Information & Computation
 
Co-Chairs:      Marco Genovese (Italy)
 
     Sergei P. Kulik (Russia)
 
 Leong Chuan Kwek (Singapore)

Round Table "Standardization of Quantum Key Distribution systems"

Quantum key distribution (QKD) systems, albeit in its incipient stage, are already easily available off the shelf today. There are now some concerns world wide regarding the issues of standardization and protocols. A global standard will ensure security levels and address quality and customer demands. For QKD, there are several aspects that may need to be standardized. Some of these issues are

(a) physical system on which the QKD protocol is based and its requirement for sufficient level of security,
(b) issues related to metrology and internal interfaces, and
(c) external interfaces to QKD systems including physical and algorithmic interfaces to the available classical (standard) protocols and resources like authentication, error correction, privacy amplification, etc.

This round table discussion is an effort to explore the possibility of initiating QKD standards and benchmarks. The discussion will also focus on identifying new challenges in this field.

Co-chairs:
Prof. Mohamed Ridza Wahiddin (Malaysia)
Prof. Hugo Zbinden (Switzerland)
Prof. Sergey Molotkov (Russia)

ROUND TABLE devoted to the Standardization of QKD will be held on Thursday (July, 3) during the evening session of SEMINAR 7.

Seminar 8 Laser Nanotechnologies
 
Co-Chairs:      Pavel K. Kashkarov (Russia)
 
       Vitali I. Konov (Russia)
 
       Helge Weman (Norway)
Seminar 9 Fiber Lasers
 
Co-Chairs:      Evgeni M. Dianov (Russia)
 
       Hans G. Limberger (Switzerland)
 
       David N. Payne (UK)