PROGRAMME

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME    (05 September 2008)

Monday 15.09.2008
09:00 - 15:00	Registration
Hall Amphibian
15:00 - 15:30	Opening
	Acad. N. Sabotinov - Chair of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) Dr. S. Gateva - Vice-Director of Institute of Electronics - BAS Dr. E. Borisova - Chair of XV ISQE Org. Committee
15:30 - 19:00	Session 1A - Laser-matter interactions Chairs: Prof. P.Atanasov / Prof. C.Fotakis
15:30 - 16:30	Prof. Markus Pollnau, University of Twente, The Netherlands, Optical waveguide fabrication by femtosecond laser irradiation and ion-beam implantation
16:30 - 17:00	Coffee break
17:00 - 18:00	Prof. Dr. C. Fotakis, IESL-FORTH, Greece, Ultrafast laser in materials processing: From optical to biological and cultural heritage applications
18:00 - 19:00	Dr. Xuan Wang, University of Napoli, Italy, Laser ablation in background gas: nanosecond and femtosecond cases
20:00 - 23:00	Welcome party

    

Tuesday 16.09.2008
Hall Amphibian		Hall Nymph
09:00 - 12:30	Session 1B - Laser spectroscopy and metrology Chairs: Dr. St. Cartaleva / Prof. F. Renzoni	09:00 - 12:30	Session 1D - Lasers in biology and medicine Chairs: Dr. L. Avramov / Prof. A. Serafetinides
09:00 - 10:00	Prof. Evgeny Alexandrov, Vavilov State Optical Institute, Russia, The slow light hustle	09:00 - 10:00	Prof. HJCM Sterenborg, Centrum voor Optische Diagnostiek en Therapie Afdeling Radiotherapie, The Netherlands, In vivo optical spectroscopy for diagnosis of disease
10:00 - 11:00	Dr. Daniel Bloch, CNRS University of Paris-13, France, Where are the photons in a Laguerre-Gauss laser beam?	10:00 - 11:00	Prof. Alexander Serafetinides, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Biophotonics in diagnosis and modelling of tissue pathologies
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee break	11:00 - 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30	Prof. Luigi Moi, University of Siena, Italy, The Legnaro magneto optical trap of Francium: recent measurements and perspectives	11:30 - 12:30	Dr. Stoyan Tanev, Carleton University, Canada, Simulation and modeling of optical phase contrast microscope cellular nanobioimaging
12:30 - 13:00	Industrial Presentations
13:00 - 15:00	Lunch	13:00 - 15:00	Lunch

Hall Amphibian
15:00 - 18:30	Session 1E - Laser systems and nonlinear optics Chairs: Prof. S. Saltiel / Dr. A. Couairon
15:00 - 16:00	Prof. Christos Flytzanis, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France, Coherent optically driven electron charge and spin transport in polar photonic structures: merging photo-galvanics and photo-spintronics
16:00 - 17:00	Prof. Yasuhiro Ohshima, Institute for Molecular Science, Japan, Coherent rotational dynamics of molecules in intense laser field
17:00 - 17:30	Coffee break
17:30 - 18:30	Prof. Ady Arie, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, Radially symmetric nonlinear photonic crystals
18:30 - 19:00	Industrial Presentations
19:00 - 20:30	POSTER SESSION I

   

Wednesday 17.09.2008
Hall Amphibian		Hall Nymph
09:00 - 13:30	Session 2A - Laser-matter interactions Chairs: Prof. N. Nedialkov / Prof. M. Obara	09:00 - 12:30	Session 2B - Laser spectroscopy and metrology Chairs: Prof. L. Moi / Prof. D. Bloch
09:00 - 10:00	Prof. Wolfgang Husinsky, Technical University-Vienna, Austria, Identification of processes during ultra-short laser-matter interaction by analyzing ejected particles and surface topography	09:00 - 10:00	Prof. Aram Papoyan, Institute for Physical Research, Armenia, Magneto-optical processes in atomic vapor cells with radiation wavelength-scale thickness
10:00 - 11:00	Prof. Dr. Minoru Obara, Keio University, Japan, Nanostructure processing by Near-field with femtosecond laser excitation: metallic VS dielectric particle	10:00 - 11:00	Prof. Brana Jelenkovic, Institute of Physics, Serbia, Open system CPT with spatially separated interaction fields
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee break	11:00 - 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30	Prof. Peter Townsend, University of Sussex, UK, The benefits of imperfections in technology	11:30 - 12:30	Prof. Ferruccio Renzoni, University College London, UK, Symmetry and transport in an AC driven ratchet for cold atoms
12:30 - 13:30	Dr. Didier-Luc Brunet - HORIBA Jobin Yvon, France, Advanced mapping techniques for Material characterization
13:30 - 15:00	Lunch	13:30 - 15:00	Lunch

Hall Amphibian
15:00 - 17:00	Session 2D - Lasers in biology and medicine Chairs: Prof. A. Serafetinides/ Prof. H. Sterenborg
15:00 - 16:00	Prof. Stefan Andersson-Engels, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden, Biomedical Optical Spectroscopy in Photodynamic Therapy Dosimetry
16:00 - 17:00	Prof. Valery Tuchin, Saratov State University, Russia, Tissue optical imaging and spectroscopy at optical clearing using immersion agents
17:00 - 17:30	Coffee break
17:30 - 18:00	Industrial Presentations
18:30 - 19:30	POSTER SESSION II
20:30 - 00:00	OFFICIAL DINNER

   

Thursday 18.09.2008
Hall Amphibian
09:00 - 11:00	Session 1C - Laser remote sensing and ecology Chairs: Prof. D. Stoyanov / Dr. M. Hardesty
09:00 - 10:00	Dr. Michael Hardesty, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, USA, Evolution and new advancements in Doppler lidar for atmospheric studies
10:00 - 11:00	Prof. Kazuma Aoki, University of Toyama, Japan, Aerosol and cloud optical properties by ground-based sky radiometer measurements
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 - 13:30	Session 2E - Laser systems and nonlinear optics Chairs: Dr. L. Kovachev / Prof. C. Flytzanis
11:30 - 12:30	Prof. Vladimir Serkin, Univesidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico, Nonautonomous solutions in nonlinear optics and Bose-Einstein condensates
12:30 - 13:30	Dr. Arnaud Couairon, CNRS, France, Filaments and plasma channels generated by intense Bessel beams
13:30 - 14:30	Lunch
15:00 - 20:00	FREE AFTERNOON, EXCURSION

   

Friday 19.09.2008
Hall Amphibian
09:00 - 12:00	Young scientists' presentations
09:00 - 10:00	Oral presentations of the selected best posters of young scientists
10:00 - 10:30	Industrial Presentations
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00	SPIE awards and presentations of the best posters of students
12:00 - 12:30	Closing Session

   

The programme of the XV ISQE could be downloaded here.