¡New! Final programm available
The detailed program for ISLiST 2018 is available here.Invited Speakers
The following speakers have been confirmed for this 2018 edition of ISLiST:INVITED | AFFILIATION | TITTLE | |
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Prof. Sir John Pendry Inventor of metamaterials
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The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, UK |
The science of the invisibility cloaks and metamaterials. Controlling Light on the Nanoscale. |
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Prof. Eli Yablonovitch Director |
NSF Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
The birth of the Photonic Bandgap concept and its application in Technology, as well as in Nature. |
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Prof. Philip Russell OSA 2015 President Director |
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany |
The birth of PCF and its use in advanced fiber-based devices and applications. |
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Prof. Peter Andrekson Director |
FORCE, Photonics, Laboratory at the Microtechnology and Nanoscience Department, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
Optical fiber communication: Challenges and opportunities.
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Dr. Peter Winzer Chair |
Optical Transmission Systems and Networks Research Department, Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, Editor in Chief of IEEE/OSA JLT,USA |
Breaking the optical fiber Shannon limit hrough full control of the optical field. |
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Prof. Harald Haas Director |
LIFI Research Development Centre, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
LiFi - High Speed Wireless Networking using Nano-Metre Waves. |
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Prof. Pavel Cheben Principal Research Officer |
National, Research Council (NRC), Ottawa, Canada |
Advanced Silicon Photonics for Communications and Sensing. |
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Prof. Hugo Thienpont Chair |
Dept. of Applied Physics and Photonics Director of Research, Brussels Photonics Team Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium |
Photonics as a key-enabling technology: from disruptive research to successful innovation with societal impact. Invited talk and round table |
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Dr. Joel Carpenter | School of Information Technology; University of Queensland, Australia. |
Spatial mode manipulation in communications and imaging. |
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Prof. David D. Sampson Director |
WA State Centre of Excellence in eMedicine. The University of Western Australia, Australia. |
Biomedical optical sensors. |
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Dr. Nikolaus P. Schmitt Senior Researcher |
Optronic Systems, Airbus Group Innovations, Muenchen, Germany |
Forward-looking LIDAR for aircraft: research results, lessons learned and trends. |
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Prof. José Capmany Head |
Photonics Research Lab at iTEAM Institute, Technical University of Valencia, Spain |
Advances in Analog and RF Photonics. |
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Prof. Manuel López-Amo Head |
Optical Communications Group of Public University of Navarre, , Pamplona, Spain. |
Optical fiber sensor Networks. |
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Prof. Miguel González Herráez Head |
Photonics Engineering Group of Univ. of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain |
Optical fiber Distributed Sensors. |
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Prof. Joseba Zubía Head |
POF based sensors group, University of the Basque Country, Spain, Spain |
POF sensors for Aircraft Structural and Engine Health Monitoring. |
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Prof. José Miguel López-Higuera Head |
Photonic Engineering Group of University of Cantabria, CIBER_BBN and IDIVAL, Spain | Smart Light-based Sensors. |
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DIRECTOR: José Miguel López Higuera
Head of the Photonics Engineering Group
University of Cantabria
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SECRETARIAT: Adolfo Cobo
Photonics Engineering Group
University of Cantabria
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