Committees

General Chair

Hiroyuki Niino, AIST, Japan

Honorary Chairs

Isamu Miyamoto, Emeritus Prof., Osaka University, Japan

Koji Sugioka, RIKEN, Japan

Co-Chairs

Prof. Yongfeng Lu, University of Nebrasska-Lincoln, USA
Prof. Michael Schmidt, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Prof. Yasuhiro Okamoto, Okayama University, Japan

Steering Committee

Chair: Prof. Yasutaka Hanada, Hirosaki University, Japan

Co-chair: Toshihiko Ooie, AISTーNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

Treasurer

Mitsuhiro Terakawa, Keio University, Japan

Godai Miyaji, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

Publicity

Aiko Narazaki, AISTーNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

Yoshiki Nakata, Osaka University, Japan

Publication

Shigeki Matsuo, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan

Tetsuya Makimura, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Yoshio Hayasaki, Utsunomiya University, Japan

Exhibitions

Masahito Katto, University of Miyazaki, Japan

Daisuke Nakamura, Kyushu University, Japan

Toshiyuki Kusumoto, The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries, Japan

Local Arrangements

Mizue Mizoshiri, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan

Yoichiro Hosokawa, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Hiroaki Nishiyama, Yamagata University, Japan

Akira Watanabe, Tohoku University, Japan

Kazuhiko Oka, Hirosaki University, Japan

Hideki Nakazawa, Hirosaki University, Japan

Program Committee

Chair: Prof. Yasuhiro Okamoto, Okayama University, Japan

Members:

José A. Alvarez-Chávez, University of Twente, Faculty of Science and Technology, The Netherlands

Antonio Ancona, CNR- Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Italy

Craig B. Arnold, Princeton University, USA

Stephan Barcikowski, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Yves Bellouard, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Miguel Holgado Bolaños, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Ya Cheng, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS, China

Jan J. Dubowski, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

Andrés Fabian Lasagni, Technische Universität Dresden, Fraunhofer IWS, Germany

Arnold Gillner, Fraunhofer ILT, Germany

Yasutaka Hanada, Hirosaki University, Japan

Duncan P. Hand, Heriot-Watt University, UK

Henry Helvajian, The Aerospace Corporation, USA

Guido Hennig, Daetwyler Graphics AG, Switzerland

Peter R. Herman, University of Toronto, Canada

Minghui Hong, Data Storage Institute, Singapore

Jürgen Ihlemann, Laser Laboratory Goettingen, Germany

Udo Klotzbach, Fraunhofer IWS, Dresden, Germany

Tetsuya Makimura, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Shoji Maruo, Yokohama National University, Japan

Shigeki Matsuo, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan

Mizue Mizoshiri, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan

Daisuke Nakamura, Kyushu University, Japan

Yoshiki Nakata, Osaka University, Japan

Alexander Olowinsky, Fraunhofer ILT, Germany

Alberto Piqué, US Naval Research Laboratory, USA

Gediminas Račiukaitis, FTMC - Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Lithuania

Juergen Reif, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany

G.R.B.E. (Gert-Willem) Römer, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Masaaki Sakakura, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK

Pere Serra, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Razvan Stoian, Université Jean Monnet, France

Mitsuhiro Terakawa, Keio University, Japan

Olivier Utéza, LP3 Laboratory, France

Akira Watanabe, Tohoku University, Japan

Ioanna Zergioti, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

International Advisory Committee

Chair: Dr. Hiroyuki Niino, AIST, Japan

Members:

Chung-Wei Cheng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Sung-Hak Cho, Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials, South Korea

Burkhard Fechner, Coherent GmbH, Germany

Costas Fotakis, FORTH - Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece

Bo Gu, BOS Photonics, USA

Yoshiro Ito, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan; ITAC, Japan

Masayuki Okoshi, National Defense Academy of Japan

Saulius Juodkazis, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Lin Li, The University of Manchester, UK

Eric Mottay, Amplitude Systems, France

Andreas Ostendorf, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Jim Bovatsek, Spectra Physics, USA

Vadim Veiko, St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Russia

Kunihiko Washio, Former president of Paradigm Laser Research Ltd., Japan

Xianfan Xu, Purdue University, USA