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

Andrea Alu
The City College of New York, USA
Paper title: Exotic Leaky-wave Phenomena in Meta-structures
Organized by: Prof. Paolo Baccarelli, Prof. Paolo Burghignoli, Prof. Alessandro Galli, and Prof. Paolo Lampariello
Focus Session Title: Leaky Waves in Electromagnetics

Hatice Altug
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Paper title: Nanophotonic Metasurfaces for Label-free Biosensing
Organized by: Dr. Lucia Petti
Session Title: Label-free Optical Nanobiosensors for Bio-diagnostics, Environmental Monitoring and Food Safety

Guillaume Baffou
Institut Fresnel, CNRS, Aix Marseille University, Centrale Marseille, France
Paper title: Quantitative Phase Imaging for Thermoplasmonics
Organized by: Prof. Alessandro Alabastri and Prof. Remo Proietti Zaccaria
Focus Session Title: Thermoplasmonics and Photo-thermal Applications

Christophe Caloz
University Sapienza, Italy
Paper title: Investigation of Fractional Cylindrical Bessel Beams
Organized by: Prof. Mauro Ettorre, Prof. Walter Fuscaldo
Session Title: Localized Waves: Science and Applications

Federico Capasso
Harvard Paulson School, Cambridge, USA
Paper title: Multifunctional Flat Optics
Organized by: Prof. Roberto Caputo and Prof . Antonio De Luca
Focus Session Title: Hybrid and Plasmonic Metastructures
Paper title: Polariton Meta-optics with Phase-change Materials
Organized by: Prof. Yeshaiahu Shaya Fainman, Prof. Newton C. Frateschi
Focus Session Title: Nanophotonics

Demetrios N. Christodoulides
University of Central Florida, USA
Paper title: Parity-time and Other Symmetries in Optics and Photonics
Organized by: Prof. Yeshaiahu Shaya Fainman, Prof. Newton C. Frateschi
Focus Session Title: Nanophotonics

Claudio Conti
University Sapienza, Italy
Paper title: Quantum and Classical X-waves with Angular Momentum
Organized by: Prof. Mauro Ettorre, Prof. Walter Fuscaldo
Session Title: Localized Waves: Science and Applications

F. Javier Garcia De Abajo
Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Italy
Paper title: Plasmonics in Two-dimensional Crystals
Organized by: Prof. Guangcun Shan
Session Title: 2D Materials and Optoelectronic Devices

Aldo Di Carlo
Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
Paper title: Perovskite Solar Cells with 2D Materials
Organized by: Prof. Guangcun Shan
Session Title: 2D Materials and Optoelectronic Devices

Kishan Dholakia
University of St. Andrews, UK
Paper title: Optical Tweezers Comes of Age: New Studies in Liquid, Air and Vacuum
Organized by: Prof. Francesco Simoni and Dr. Luigino Criante
Focus Session Title: Advanced Optofluidics: where Photonics Meets Microfluidics and Life Science

Danilo Erricolo
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Paper title: High-gain V-band Dielectric Lens Antenna for Communication and Direction Finding Systems
Organized by: Prof. Renato Cicchetti and Prof. Antonio Faraone
Session Title: Progress in Broadband and UWB Printed and Dielectric Antennas for Wireless Applications

Jerome Faist
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Paper title: Quantum Cascade Lasers and Frequency Combs
Organized by: Prof. Wei Dong Chen, Prof. Vincenzo Spagnolo and Dr. Ulrike Willer
Focus Session Title: Advanced Photonic Technologies for Spectroscopic Applications 1 & 2

Vladimir Fal'ko
University of Manchester, UK
Paper title: Electronic and Optical Properties of Few-layer Films of 2D Semiconductors
Organized by: Prof. Guangcun Shan
Session Title: 2D Materials and Optoelectronic Devices

Donglei (Emma) Fan
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Paper title: Raman Nanosensors by Design: Photonic-plasmonic Enhanced Ultra-sensitivity, Tunable Biorelease, and Accelerated Detection via Motorization
Organized by: Dr. Lucia Petti
Session Title: Label-free Optical Nanobiosensors for Bio-diagnostics, Environmental Monitoring and Food Safety

Saulius Juodkazis
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Paper title: Releasable Micro-waveplates
Organized by: Prof. Alessandro Alabastri and Prof. Remo Proietti Zaccaria
Focus Session Title: Thermoplasmonics and Photo-thermal Applications

Francesco Giazotto
NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR & Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
Paper title: Advanced Josephson Junction Quantum Circuits: The Phase Coherence in Thermal Transport
Organized by: Prof. Alessandro Alabastri and Prof. Remo Proietti Zaccaria
Focus Session Title: Thermoplasmonics and Photo-thermal Applications

Alexander Govorov
Ohio University, Athens, USA
Paper title: Photonics of Hybrid Nanostructures and Bio-assemblies: Coherent Transfer of Plasmons, Hot Electrons and Chirality
Organized by: Prof. Roberto Caputo and Prof . Antonio De Luca
Focus Session Title: Hybrid and Plasmonic Metastructures

Xiao Hu
National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Paper title: Topological LC Circuit
Organized by: Prof. Jian-Wen Dong and Prof. Wenjie Chen
Session Title: Topological Features of Metamaterials and Non-Hermitian Systems: From Microwave to NIR

David R. Jackson
University of Houston, USA
Paper title: The Role of Leaky Waves in the Beamforming of 2-D Leaky-wave Antennas
Organized by: Prof. Paolo Baccarelli, Prof. Paolo Burghignoli, Prof. Alessandro Galli, and Prof. Paolo Lampariello
Focus Session Title: Leaky Waves in Electromagnetics

Iam-Choon Khoo
Pennsylvania State University, USA
Paper Title: Liquid Crystalline Photonic Crystals for Ultrafast (pico-femtoseconds) All-optical Self-action Processes
Organized by: Prof. Antonio d'Alessandro and Rita Asquini
Focus Session Title: Organic Photonics for Optical Interconnections and Switching

Jacob B. Khurgin
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Paper title: Epsilon (and mu) Near Zero Materials --- Photonics on Steroids?
Organized by: Prof. Yeshaiahu Shaya Fainman, Prof. Newton C. Frateschi
Focus Session Title: Nanophotonics

Stefano Maci
University of Siena, Italy
Paper title: Leakage from Metasurfaces: from Basic Theory to Antenna Applications
Organized by: Prof. Paolo Baccarelli, Prof. Paolo Burghignoli, Prof. Alessandro Galli, and Prof. Paolo Lampariello
Focus Session Title: Leaky Waves in Electromagnetics

Stefan A. Maier
Imperial College London/Nanoinstitute Munich, UK
Paper title: TBD
Organized by: Prof. Costantino De Angelis and Prof. Michele Celebrano
Focus Session Title: Nonlinear Optics at the Nanoscale

Martin Maldovan
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Paper title: Thermal Phonon Transport and Coherent Interference in Nanomaterials and Metamaterials
Organized by: Prof. Alessandro Alabastri and Prof. Remo Proietti Zaccaria
Focus Session Title: Thermoplasmonics and Photo-thermal Applications

David A. B. Miller
Stanford University, USA
Paper title: Waves, Modes, and Nanophotonics
Organized by: Prof. Yeshaiahu Shaya Fainman, Prof. Newton C. Frateschi
Focus Session Title: Nanophotonics

Arri Priimagi
Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Paper title: Towards Autonomous, Adaptive, and (Re)programmable Photomechanical Actuators
Organized by: Prof. Atsushi Shishido, and Prof. Marina Grenzer Saphiannikova
Focus Session Title: Photosensitive Materials and Devices for Opto-mechanical Applications

Paul R. Prucnal
Princeton University, USA
Paper title: Progress on Neuromorphic Silicon Photonics
Organized by: Prof. Yeshaiahu Shaya Fainman, Prof. Newton C. Frateschi
Focus Session Title: Nanophotonics

Philippe Roy
University of Limoges, France
Paper title: Review on Fully-Aperiodic Large-pitch-fiber for High Average/Peak Power Operation: Concept and Last Experimental Results
Organized by: Prof. Stefano Selleri, Prof. Jesper L?gsgaard
Focus Session Title: Optical Fibers for High Power Applications

Takahiro Seki
Nagoya University, Japan
Paper title: Photoalignment and Surface Morphing Attained from the Free Surface
Organized by: Prof. Atsushi Shishido, and Prof. Marina Grenzer Saphiannikova
Focus Session Title: Photosensitive Materials and Devices for Opto-mechanical Applications

Fabien Sorin
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Paper title: Glass-based Optical Metasurfaces and Multi-material Fibers for Sensing and Monitoring
Organized by: Prof. Luigi Zeni, Prof. Andrea Cusano
Session Title: Photonic Sensing in Health Science and Environmental Monitoring

Koji Sugioka
RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, Japan
Paper title: Femtosecond Laser 3D Processing for Functional Biochip Fabrication
Organized by: Prof. Francesco Simoni and Dr. Luigino Criante
Focus Session Title: Advanced Optofluidics: where Photonics Meets Microfluidics and Life Science

Rick Trebino
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Paper title: Recent Developments in Ultrashort-laser-pulse Measurement, Including a 100% Reliable FROG Algorithm
Organized by: Prof. Zhiwen Liu, and Prof. Michelle Y. Sander
Session Title: Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics: Ultrafast Fiber Lasers and Nonlinear Applications

Leung Tsang
University of Michigan, USA
Paper title: Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil, Vegetation and Ocean Using Numerical Solutions of Maxwell Equations
Organized by: Joel T. Johnson, Nazzareno Pierdicca,
Focus Session Title: Modeling in Remote Sensing

Frank Wise
Cornell University, USA
Paper title: Gain-managed Nonlinear Fiber Amplification
Organized by: Prof. Zhiwen Liu, and Prof. Michelle Y. Sander
Session Title: Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics: Ultrafast Fiber Lasers and Nonlinear Applications

Anatoly V. Zayats
Kings College London, UK
Paper title: Taming Ultrafast Nonlinear Response of Plasmonic Nanostructures
Organized by: Prof. Costantino De Angelis and Prof. Michele Celebrano
Focus Session Title: Nonlinear Optics at the Nanoscale

Michalis N. Zervas
University of Southampton, UK
Paper title: Fundamental Power Scaling Limits in High Power Fibre Lasers and Amplifiers
Organized by: Prof. Stefano Selleri, Prof. Jesper L?gsgaard
Focus Session Title: Optical Fibers for High Power Applications

Lei Zhou
Fudan University, China
Paper title: Metasurfaces for Controlling Terahertz Waves
Organized by: Prof. Tao Li and Prof. Yun Lai
Focus Session Title: Advanced Metasurface Designs and Devices