Plenary Talks

Monday, 3 January 2011
Time: 08:00-08:45
Location: Olympia Room

     Peidong Yang (UC Berkeley), “Nanowire Photonics and Single Cell Endoscopy"

Biography:
Peidong Yang received a B.S. in chemistry from University of Science and Technology of China in 1993 and a PhD. in chemistry from Harvard University in 1997. he did postdoctoral research at University of California, Santa Barbara before joining the faculty in the department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1999. He is currently professor in the Department of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, and a senior faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is the deputy director for the center of Integrated nanomechanical Systems. He is an associate editor for Journal of the American Chemical Society and also serves on editorial advisory board for number of journals including Acct. Chem. Res. and Nano. Lett. he was the first chaiperson for the nanoscience subdivision within American Chemical Society. He is the recipient of Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator award, National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, MRS Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics, ACS Pure Chemistry Award, nd Alan T. Waterman Award. He was recently elected as MRS Fellow. His main research interest is in the area of one dimensional semiconductor nanostructures and their applications in nanophotonics, nano electronics, energy conversion and nanofluidics.

Tuesday, 4 January 2011
Time: 08:00-08:45
Location: Olympia Room

    Tony Heinz (Columbia University, USA),
“Seeing Electrons in One and Two Dimensions: Optical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene”

Biography:
Tony Heinz is the David Rickey Professor in the Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. Heinz received a BS degree in Physics from Stanford University and a PhD degree, also in Physics, from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982. Heinz was subsequently at the IBM Research Division in Yorktown Heights, NY until he joinded Columbia University in 1995. He served as the Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering from 2003 until 2007. He is currently the Scientific Co-Director of the Columbia Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center and of the Energy Frontier Research Center. He is also the President Elect of the Optical Society of America.

Heinz's research work, as documented in more than 175 technical publications, has centered on the application of ultrashort laser pulses to nonlinear and time-resolved spectroscopy. His application of these approaches to probe surfaces, interfaces, and nanoscale materials, such as carbon nanotubes and graphene, has been recognized by Optics Prize of the International Commission for Optics, a Research Award of the von Humboldt Foundation, and the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics.

Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Time: 08:00-08:45
Location: Olympia Room

    Vlad Shalaev (Purdue University), " Transforming Metamaterials" 

Biography:
Vladimir (Vlad) M. Shalaev, the Robert and Anne Burnett Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Perdue University specializes in nanophotonics, plasmonics, and optical metamaterials. Vlad Shalaev received several awards for his research in the field of nanophotonic and metamaterials, including the Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America for his pioneering contributions to the field of optical metamaterials and the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, APS, SPIE, and OSA. prof. Shalaev authored three books, twenty one book chapters and over 300 research publications.

Thursday, 6 January 2011
Time: 08:00-08:45
Location: Olympia Room

     Federico Capasso (Harvard University), "Journal of Optics Plenary Lecture"
                                  “Electrodynamical Forces at the nanoscale”

Biography:
Federico Capasso is the Robert Wallace professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University, which he joined in 2003 after a 27 years career at Bell Lab where did research, became Bell Labs fellow and held several management positions including Vice President for Physical research. His research has spanned a broad range of topics from applications to basic science in the areas of electronics, photonics, solid-state physics and quantum electrodynamics. He is a co-inventor of the quantum cascade laser.
He is member of the national Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His awards include the King Faisal International Prize for Science, the Berthold Leibinger Future prize, the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics, the American Physical Society Arthur Schawlow Prize, the IEEE Edson Medal, the Wetherill medal of the Franklin Institute, the Optical Society of America Wood Prize, the Materials Research Society Medal and the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics.