August 1-5, 2011 - Lake Junaluska, North Carolina
Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
Yasuhiko Arakawa, U. Tokyo
Lu Sham, U. California San Diego
Kerry Vahala, California Institute of Technology
Martin Wegener, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Confirmed Invited Speakers:
Jeremy Baumberg, Cambridge U., UK
Rolf Binder, U. Arizona
Xiaodong Cui, U. Hong Kong, China
Steve Cundiff, NIST Colorado
Benoit Deveaud-Pledran, Lausanne, Switzerland
David Gershoni, Technion Institute, Israel
Pawel Hawrylak, NRC, Canada
Tony Heinz, Columbia U.
Mackillo Kira, Philipps U. Marburg, Germany
Stefan Koch, Philipps U. Marburg, Germany
Junchiro Kono, Rice U.
Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami, U. Tokyo
Wolfgang Langbein, Cardiff U., UK
Alfred Leitensdorfer, U. Konstanz, Germany
Torsten Meier, U. Paderborn, Germany
Peter Michler, U. Stuttgart, Germany
Ted Norris, U. Michigan
Ilias Perakis, University of Crete
Th. Rasing, Nijmegen U., Netherlands
S. Reitzenstein, U. Wuerzburg, Germany
Glenn Solomon, NIST Maryland
Heinrich Stoltz, U. Rostock, Germany
Willem Vos, U. Twente, Netherlands
Hailin Wang, U. Oregon
Patrick Wen, MIT
Ming-Wei Wu, USTC, China
Topics:
Photonic Metamaterials
Spontaneous Coherence and Condensation in Exciton and Polariton Systems
Solitons and Nonlinear Processes in Semiconductor Optics
Dynamic Screening and Mott Transition in Electron-Hole Systems
Excitons and Spins in Quantum Dots
Quantum Information in Solid State Optical Systems
Many-Body Theory of Electron-Hole Systems
Ultrafast Optical Phenomena
Cavity QED
Nanowires and Nanocrystals
Excitons in Graphene