LPHYS'10.  SPECIAL SESSION: 50 YEARS OF LASERS:

1. Sergey N.
Bagayev
Director of the Institute of Laser Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia " "
2. Thomas M.
Baer
President of the Optical Society of America
Executive Director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
"The Laser Past, Present, and Future: A Transformative Technology Based on Quantum Mechanics"
3. Herch M.
Nussenzveig
Professor of the University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil "Laser 50: from Mickey Mouse balloons to Living Cells"