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NLO 50 PROGRAM OF INVITED TALKS
September 21, Wednesday |
07:00-09:00 |
Breakfast |
09:00-09:15 |
Gerard Mourou (Institut de la Lumière Extrême, France)
"Introduction to NLO-50: East-West Reunion" |
09:15-10:00 |
Donna Strickland (Optical Society of America, Vice-President)
Vladislav Panchenko (Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Chairman)
Sergei Bagayev (Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Presidium)
”Welcome from East and West” |
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10:00-10:30 |
Alan Hill (Quantum Physics Institute, Texas A&M University, USA) "Memories of the Discovery of Optical Harmonics, Peter Franken, and Some Thoughts About the Future of Non-Linear Optics" |
10:30-11:00 |
Valery Ragulsky (Institute for Problems in Mechanics RAS, Russia) "Russian Predecessors of the Laser Age" |
11:00-11:30 |
Coffee break |
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11:15-11:45 |
Paul Kelley (Tufts University, USA) "Self-Phase-Modulation of Optical Beams: From Filaments to Solitons to Frequency Combs" |
11:45-12:15 |
Vladimir Makarov (Physics Department and International Laser Center,
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) "The First Fifty Years of the Laser Age îf Nonlinear Optics in Lomonosov Moscow State University" |
12:15-12:45 |
Raymond Chiao (University of California, Merced, USA) "My Early Contributions to Nonlinear Optics" |
12:45-13:15 |
Pierre Agostini (Ohio State University, USA) "The Birth of Multiphoton Physics and Nonlinear Optics at Saclay" |
13:30-15:00 |
Lunch |
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15:00-15:30 |
Charles Rhodes (University of Illinois, USA) "History of the 50 Year Ascent – 1961-2011" |
15:30-16:00 |
Vladlen Korobkin (A.V. Prokhorov General Physics Institute RAS, Russia) "Self-Focusing and Self-Channeling of Powerful Light Beams:History and Perspectives" |
16:00-16:30 |
André Mysyrowicz (Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, École Polytechnique, France) "Filamentation: the Past and the Future" |
16:30-17:00 |
Martin Fejer (Stanford University, USA) "35 Years of Quasi-Phasematching" |
17:00-17:15 |
Coffee break |
September 21, Wednesday (evening) |
17:15-17.45 |
Jean-Pierre Taran (Office National d’Etudes et Recherches Aérospatiales - ONERA, France) "Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering at ONERA: from Hell to Heavens" |
17:45-18.15 |
Stanislav Sukharev (Russian Federal Nuclear Center-VNIIEF, Russia) "Application of Nonlinear Processes in Laser Studies at the Russian Federal Nuclear Center in Sarov" |
18:15-18:45 |
Joseph Zubarev (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute RAS, Russia) "Beams Combining and Beam Clean Up with Stimulated Scattering of Light" |
18:45-19:15 |
Yuri Malakhov (International Science and Technology Center, Russia)
"17 Years of Contribution to Bridging East and West in Nonlinear Optics" |
19:30-21:30 |
Welcome party |
21:30-22:00 |
Orazio Svelto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) "After Banquet Speech" |
September 22, Thursday |
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09:00-09:30 |
Anatoly Sukhorukov (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) "Space-Time Analogies in Nonlinear Optics" |
09:30-10:00 |
Yehiam Prior (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Four Wave Mixing Spectroscopy – a Mirror in Time" |
10:00-10:30 |
Alexander Litvak (Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Russia) "Self-Focusing and Self-Compression in Plasma: Basic Ideas and New Results" |
10:30-11:00 |
Alexander Manenkov (A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute RAS, Russia) "Comments on Self-Focusing Models of Stationary and Non-Stationary Optical Beams" |
11:00-11:15 |
Coffee break |
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11:15-11:45 |
Alexander Gaeta (Cornell University, USA)
"Extreme Nonlinear Photonics with Milliwatt Powers" |
11:45-12:15 |
Vladimir Zakharov (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute RAS, Russia)
"Integrable Models in Nonlinear Optics and Optical Solitons" |
12:15-12:45 |
Nikolai Rozanov (S.I. Vavilov State Optical Institute, Russia)
"Dissipative Optical Solitons: Towards Nanosizes and Attodurations" |
12:45-14:15 |
Lunch |
September 22, Thursday (afternoon) |
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14:15-14:45 |
Claude Fabre (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
"Quantum Frequency Combs" |
14:45-15:15 |
Herbert Winful (University of Michigan, USA) "Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Periodic Structures: Bistability, Pulse Compression, and Gap Solitons" |
15:15-15:45 |
Svetlana Lukishova (University of Rochester, USA)
"Liquid Crystals under High-Power Laser Irradiation" |
15:45-16:00 |
Coffee break |
16:00-19:00 |
Sightseeing tour of Suzdal |
19:00-22:00 |
POSTER SESSION |
20:00-21:00 |
Dinner |
22:00-23:00 |
Musical concert |
September 23, Friday |
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09:00-09:30 |
Mauro Nisoli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
"Attosecond Science: Challenges and Prospects" |
09:30-10:00 |
Toshi Tajima (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
"Nonlinear Optics of Vacuum" |
10:00-10:30 |
Nikolai Narozhny (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Russia) "
Vacuum as a Non-Linear Optical Medium" |
10:30-11:00 |
Bjorn Manuel Hegelich (Los Alamos National Laboratories, USA)
"Ultrarelativistic Nonlinear Optics" |
11:00-11:30 |
Coffee break |
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11:30-12:00 |
Konstantin Vodopyanov (Stanford University, USA) "Octave-Spanning Combs in the mid-IR: Frequency Divide-and-Conquer Approach" |
12:00-12:30 |
Donna Strickland (University of Waterloo, Canada)
"The First NLO Experiments with a CPA Laser" |
12:30-13:00 |
Vladimir Trunov (Institute of Laser Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia) "The Coherent Combining of Parametric Amplified Beams Locked by Optical Clock – the Way to Exawatt Femtosecond Laser System" |
13:00-13:30 |
Efim Khazanov (Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Russia)
"OPCPA for Petawatt Lasers" |
13:30-14:00 |
Closing Ceremony |
14.00-15:00 |
Lunch |
15:00 |
Departure |
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