10 % more attendees than in 2006 registered for the meeting, which in the meatime has become an important biannual event for the European optics and photonics community.

Statistics

Number of attendees: 650
Number of oral presentations: 324
Number of poster presentations: 194

Prizes and Fellows

Besides from seven topical meetings and two workshops, the EOS Annual General Assembly took place, where not only the board election results and other important items of the last year were presented, also the EOS prize winners as well as the EOS fellows and student poster awards were announced.

The EOS prize went to Sanshui Xiao, Niels Asger Mortensen, Min Qiu for their outstanding contribution on "Enhanced transmission through arrays of subwavelength holes in gold films coated by a finite dielectric layer", published in JEOS: RP, the e-journal of the EOS.

Eight EOS fellows have been nominated this year:

• Mario Armenise
• Nicolas Gisin
• Philippe Grangier
• Massimo Inguscio
• Karl Knop
• Pavel Tománek
• Peter Török
• Jari Turunen

Terahertz Focus Group young investigator award  

• 1st prize: Rupert Huber for his exciting research performed in the area of terahertz science and technology, namely „THz quantum optics”. The first prize of 1000 € is sponsored by Femtolasers.
• 2nd: Fumiaki Miyamaru for the presentation on “Higly sensitive terahertz imaging with plasmonic crystals”.
• 3rd prize: Markus Walther for his presentation on “Terahertz nearfield imaging of electric fields in meta-materials”. Both, the 2nd and the 3rd price, were sponsored with books by Wiley Blackwell Publishing.

The student poster awards, sponsored by Springer went to:

• L. Alchab, G. Dupuis, C. Balleyguier, J.R. Garbay, M.-C. Mathieu,F. Rochard, M.-P. Fontaine-Aupart and R. Farcy for their poster presentation on "Towards an optical biopsy for the diagnosis of breast cancer in vivo: Analysis of the autofluorescence signal" at the EOS Topical Meeting on Biophotonics (TOM 1).
• J. Bianca Jackson, Marie R. Mourou, John F. Whitaker, Irl N. Duling,Michel Menu, Julien Labaune and Gerard A. Mourou for their poster presentation on "Reflection Pulse Imaging of Hidden Fresco Paintings" at the EOS Topical Meeting on Terahertz - Science and Technology (TOM 2).
• L. Le Xuan, A. Slablab, C. Zhou, D. Chauvat, S. Perruchas, C. Tard, T.Gacoin, P. Villeval and J-F. Roch for their poster presentation on "Single KTiOPO4 nanocrystals for nonlinear probing of local optical fields and interaction with a metallic nanostructure" at the EOS Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics, Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials (TOM 3).
• S. van Haver, O.T.A. Janssen, A.J.E.M. Janssen, J.J.M. Braat, S.F. Pereira for their poster presentation on "Image simulations of extended objects using an algorithm
  based on the Extended Nijboer-Zernike (ENZ) formalism" at the EOS Topical Meeting on Micro- and Nanoscale Photonic Systems (TOM 4).
• T. Ceyhan, M. Yüksek, H. Gül Yağhoğlu, B. Salih, M.K. Erbil, A. Elmah and Ö. Bekaroğlu for their poster presentation on "Nonlinear absorption of novel octakis -POSS substituted Metallophthalocyanines and strong optical limiting property of CuPc"at the EOS Topical Meeting on Organic Photonics (TOM 5).
• L.Philippet, S. Chénais, S. Forget and M.-C. Castex for their poster presentation on "Investigation of a laser-induced ablation plume of mercury as a
  nonlinear medium for efficientVacuum UltraViolet generation" at the EOS Topical Meeting on Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Devices and Spatio-Temporal Effects (TOM 6).
• E. Odlund, M. Navarro, E. Lavergne, F. Martins, X. Levecq and A. Dubra for their poster presentation on "Optimization of the temporal performance
  of an electromagnetic deformable mirror" at the EOS Topical Meeting on Dynamical Optics (TOM 7).

The Springer Presentation Award for students went to:

• A. Lecointre, Q. LeMasne, A. Bessière, C. Chanéac, B. Viana, C. Richard and F. Pellé for the presentation on "Small animal imaging based on long-lasting luminescence nanoparticle" at the EOS Topical Meeting on Biophotonics (TOM 1)
• R.Sowade, I. Breunig, J. Kiessling and K. Buse on for the presentation on "Terahertz generation with a continuous-wave dual-crystal optical parametric oscillator" at the EOS Topical Meeting on Terahertz - Science and Technology (TOM 2)
• N.D .Lanzilotti-Kimura, A. Fainstein, B. Jusserand, B. Perrin and A. Lemaitre for the presentation on "Enhancement of coherent acoustic phonon generation and detection in optical microcavities" at the EOS Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics, Photonics Crystals and Metamaterials (TOM 3)
• Y. Gorodetski, A. Niv, V. Kleiner and E. Hasman for the presentation on "Spin-based plasmonics in nanoscale structures" at the EOS Topical Meeting on Micro- and Nanoscale Photonic Systems (TOM 4).
• R. Häusermann, N. A. Reinke, E. Huber, B. Ruhstaller for the presentation on "Towards Comprehensive Simulation of Organic Solar Cells" at the EOS Topical Meeting on Organic Photonics (TOM 5).
• F. Schaal, M. Warber, S. Zwick, H. van der Kuip, T. Haist, W. Osten, "Cell discrimination by holographic optical tweezers" at the EOS Topical Meeting on Dynamical Optics (TOM 7).

We thank all authors for their contribution!

Special thanks go to all our chairs and all our sponsors for their support!