LPHYS'16.    Keynote Speakers:

The LPHYS'16 Organizing and Steering Committees have announced their decision that this year LPHYS'16 will be dedicated to paying tribute to the three major events:

100th birth anniversary of Alexander M Prokhorov

,

100th anniversary of the Optical Society (OSA)

and

25th anniversary of the Laser Physics Workshop

The Organizing and Steering Committees are very pleased to announce the following keynote presentatons at the keynote session:

  1. Alexander Prokhorov, a great scientist, an excellent teacher and а true friend

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      Radik Martirosyan


      National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

  2. OSA's 100 Year Anniversary and an Example for the Surprises Offered by Optics

    Abstract:

    The first part is devoted to the 100th anniversary of the Optical Society (OSA) reminding us of the development from a national to an international learnt society.

    The second part is devoted to an example of how the old discipline optics can hold surprises even today. The example given is related to total internal reflection, the somewhat unusual concept of the transverse optical angular momentum and steering light in different directions [1].

    [1] A Aiello, P Banzer, M Neugebauer and G Leuchs, Nat. Photonics 9, 789 (2015)