List of Keynote Speakers
List of date/time of keynote talks

Yasuhiko Arakawa
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Paper Title: Quantum Dot Lasers for Silicon Photonics

Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Paper Title: Coupling of NV Centers in Nanodiamonds to Plasmonic Waveguides

Hans Peter Buechler
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Paper Title: Strongly Interacting Rydberg Slow Light Polaritons

Weng Cho Chew
University of Illinois, USA
Paper Title: Sesquicentennial Year of Maxwell's Equations and Computational Electromagnetics

Arnaud Couairon
Ecole Polytechnique, France
Paper Title: Laser Energy Deposition in Glasses with Bessel Beams

Kenneth B. Crozier
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Paper Title: Recent Progress in Nanoscale Sensing Using Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering

Tie Jun Cui
Southeast University, China
Paper Title: Passive and Active Devices for Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons in the Microwave Frequency

Javier Garcia de Abajo
ICFO, Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain
Paper Title: Graphene Nanophotonics

Jens Eisert
Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
Paper Title: Weak Thermal Contact is Not Universal for Work Extraction

Ceferino Lopez Fernandez
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC), Spain
Paper Title: Innovative Materials and Methods for Disorder Photonics

Andrea C. Ferrari
University of Cambridge, UK
Paper Title: Graphene Photonics and Optoelectronics

Ron Folman
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Paper Title: Probing the Surface with Atoms

Jose Capmany Francoy
Instituto de Telecomunicaciones y Aplicaciones Multimedia, Spain
Paper Title: Software-defined Integrated Microwave Photonics for Radio Access Networks

Harald W. Giessen
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Paper Title: Complex Functional Nanooptics and Plasmonics

Mats Gustafsson
Lund University, Sweden
Paper Title: Source Reconstruction from Near- and Far-field Data with Antenna and Radome Applications

Ortwin Hess
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Paper Title: Plasmonic Stopped-light Nanolasing

Iam-Choon Khoo
Pennsylvania State University, USA
Paper Title: Liquid Crystals for Nonlinear Optics with Femtoseconds --- CW Lasers

Katrin Kneipp
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Paper Title: Hot Spots of Plasmonic Nanostructures and Their Spectroscopic Potential for Molecular Probing at the Nanoscale and at the Single Molecule Level

Cedric F. Lam
Google, USA
Paper Title: Advancements in Next Generation Broadband Optical Access Networks

Juerg Leuthold
Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Paper Title: The Path towards 100 Gbit/s Wireless Communications

Tim Liedl
Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany
Paper Title: DNA-based Functional Plasmonic Particle Assemblies

Qing Huo Liu
Duke University, USA
Paper Title: Reconstruction of 3D Anisotropic Magnetodielectric Objects with the Mixed Order BCGS-FFT and DBIM

Boris S. Luk'yanchuk
Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
Paper Title: Optimum Forward Light Scattering with High Refractive Index Nanoparticles

Stefan Maier
Imperical College, London
Paper Title: Dielectric Platforms for Surface Enhanced Spectroscopies

Hernan Miguez
Spanish National Research Council, Spain
Paper Title: Random Optical Media for Third Generation Photovoltaics

Jesper Mork
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Paper Title: Decoherence of Semiconductor Quantum Dots Coupled to Micro and Nanocavities

David J. Norris
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Paper Title: Quantum-dot Plasmonics

Arno Rauschenbeutel
Vienna University of Technology, Germany
Paper Title: Chiral Interaction of Light and Matter in Confined Geometries

Pramod Reddy
University of Michigan, USA
Paper Title: Experimental Study of Near-field Radiative Heat Transport

Vahid Sandoghdar
Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Light, Germany
Paper Titel: Single Molecules Coherently Coupled to a Dielectric Nanoguide

Mordechai Segev
Technion --- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Paper Title: Photonic Topological Insulators

Vladimir M. Shalaev
Purdue University, USA
Paper Title: Metamaterials and Transformation Optics for Single-photon Emitters

Marin Soljacic
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Paper Title: Nanophotonics in Material-systems of Large Sizes

Kartik Srinivasan
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Paper Title: High-performance Single-quantum Dot Nanophotonic Devices through Photoluminescence Imaging

Alfred Vogel
University of Lubeck, Germany
Paper Title: Nonlinear Energy Deposition into Aqueous Media by Tightly Focused Laser Pulses: Tracking of Free-electron Density, Temperature Evolution, and Hydrodynamic Phenomena in a Large Range of Laser Pulse Durations and Wavelengths

Lan Yang
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Paper Title: Whispering-gallery-mode Optical Resonators around an Exceptional Point

Leonid V. Zhigilei
University of Virginia, USA
Paper Title: Computer Modeling of Material Modification by Short Laser Pulses and Optically-induced Surface Acoustic Waves

Joseph Zyss
Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France
Paper Title: Playing Billiard in Laser Micro-cavities: A Test-bed for Semi-classical Physics