For the second time, EOS will dedicate a special session to the “Grand Challenges of Photonics" focusing on the fantastic capabilities of photonics and the science of light.  Photonics is true enabling technology that each one of us uses on a daily basis. For example, it brings us information over the internet, it provides new ways for energy production and lighting, it is used for treatments of diseases and it can create the warmest and the coldest place in the universe.

Grand Challenges of Photonics will give you the opportunity to hear from world-class speakers about technologies which are revolutionary, uncommon and not realizable to date, but can pave the way for a bright future in optics and photonics.

Grand Challenges of Photonics is held in the spirit of Albert Einstein saying:  “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

Chairs

• Fredrik Laurell, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, SE
• Paul Urbach, Delft University of Technology, NL

Speakers

• Luis Banares, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES: "Light in femtoseconds: the making of molecular movies with ultrashort lasers"
• Ghassan Jabbour, University of Oulu, FI: " Inkjet Printing in Device and Materials Discovery"
• Ulf Leonhardt, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK: "Transformation optics: from invisibility to artificial black holes"
• Albert Polman, FOM Institute AMOLF, NL: "Light trapping in thin-film solar cells"
    

Contact

European Optical Society (EOS)
Judith Oumard
Senior Comunications Manager
Phone: +49-511-2788-159
E-Mail: paris@myeos.org