The Photonics Institute Opening Ceremony and International Photonics Workshop at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

The Photonics Institute Opening Ceremony
Thursday, 30 October 2014, 9.15 am at Nanyang Executive Centre Auditorium

9.15 AM: Arrival of Guests
9.45 AM: Guests to be seated
10.00 AM: Welcome Remarks / Speeches
10.30 AM: Official Opening of The Photonics Institute
10.40 AM: Tour of Exhibition Gallery / Reception
11.10 AM: Tour of The Photonics Institute and Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies
1.00 PM: Special Session: The Century of Light
3.00 PM: End of Programme

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International Photonics Workshop by The Photonics Institute, Nanyang Technological University

Friday, 31 October 2014
Nanyang Executive Centre Auditorium

8.45 AM Welcome Remarks

Technical Session 1 ( Presider: Wang Qijie)
9.00 AM Semiconductor lattice engineering for photonic integration
Yoon Soon Fatt, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

9:45 AMPolarization control of light by symmetry-controlled materials
Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami, University of Tokyo, Japan

10.30 AM Tea/coffee break

Technical Session 2 ( Presider: Volkan Demir)
11.00 AM Technology Development for Future High Capacity Optical Networks
Alex Wai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

11:45 AM Photonics circuits in the new information age: Faster, smaller and smarter
Benjamin Eggleton, University of Sydney, Australia

12.30 PM Lunch

Technical Session 3 ( Presider: Anand Asundi)
1.30 PMThe Laser Response to the Grand Scientific and Societal Challenges
Gerard Mourou, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

2.15 PM Complex functional plasmonics: from fundamentals to applications
Harald Giessen, University of Stuttgart, Germany

3.00 PM Tea/coffee break

Technical Session 4 ( Presider: Shen Zexiang )
3.30 PMExtreme Photonics
Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania, USA

4:15 PM Silicon Photonics - A developing technology
Graham Reed, Univ of Southampton, UK

5.00 -6:00 PM Panel Discussion
Photonic Technologies into the future
Presider: David Payne, University of Southampton, UK

To register for the events, click on https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe/REGISTER_NTU.REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA14073...