ICONO/LAT 2016 Committees

Sergey Bagayev, General Co-Chair, Inst.of Laser Physics, RAS, Russia

Nikolai Kazak, General Co-Chair, Stepanov Inst. of Physics, NASB, Belarus

Elisabeth Giacobino, General Co-Chair, Univ. et Marie Curie, France

Vladimir Makarov, General Vice-Chair, Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Russia
Vitalii Plavskii, General Vice-Chair, Stepanov Inst. of Physics, NASB, Belarus

ICONO Program Committee

Victor Zadkov, Co-Chair, Inst. of Spectroscopy, RAS, Russia
Sergey Kilin, Co-Chair, Stepanov Inst. of Physics, NASB, Belarus
Klaus Mølmer, Co-Chair, Aarhus Univ., Denmark

Yulia Vladimirova, Vice-Chair, Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Russia
Vasilii Mashko, Vice-Chair, Stepanov Inst. of Physics, NASB, Belarus

1. Quantum and Atom Optics

Chairs: Dieter Meschede (Univ. of Bonn, Germany); Victor Balykin (Institute of Spectroscopy, Russia); Dmitri Mogilevtsev (Stepanov Inst. of Physics, NASB, Belarus)

Ennio Arimondo (Univ. of Pisa, Italy)
Hans Bachor (*) (The Australian National Univ., Australia)
Claude Fabre (*) (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
Kohzo Hakuta (Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Nikolay Kolachevsky (Lebedev Physical Inst., Russia) 
Andrey Klimov (Univ. de Guadalajara, Mexico) 
Gerd Leuchs (*) (MPQ for the Science of Light, Germany) 
Aleksander Lvovsky (Univ. of Calgary, Canada)
Aleksei Taichenachev (Inst. of Laser Physics, Russia)

2. Quantum Information Science, Engineering, and Technologies

Chairs: Sergey Kulik (Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Russia); Dmitri Horoshko  (Stepanov Inst. of Physics, NASB, Belarus)

Alessandra Gatti (*) (Inst. di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Italy)
Mikhail Kolobov (Univ. Lille, France)
Christine Silberhorn (*) (Paderborn Univ., Germany)
Nicolas Treps (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France)

3. Nanophotonics and Plasmonics

Chairs: Yuri Kivshar (The Australian National Univ., Australia); Andrey Fedyanin (Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Russia)

Pavel Belov (*) (Univ. ITMO, Russia)
Harald Giessen (Univ. Stuttgart, Germany)
Zubin Jacob (Univ. of Alberta, Canada)
Philippe Lalanne (*)(Inst. d’Optique, France)
Thomas Pertsch (*)(Friedrich-Schiller Univ. Jena, Germany)
Romain Quidant (ICFO, Spain)
Vladimir Shalaev (*)(Purdue Univ., USA)
Din Ping Tsai (Research Ctr for Applied Science, Taiwan)
Shuang Zhang (*)(Univ. of Birmingham, UK)

4. Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena

Chairs: Alexey Zheltikov (Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Russia); Alexander Grabchikov (Stepanov Inst. of Physics, NASB, Belarus); Yuri Kulchin (Inst. of Automation and Control Processes, Russia)

Pavel Apanasevich (B.I.Stepanov Inst. of Physics, Belarus)
Victor Bespalov (ITMO University, Russia)
Tom Brown (Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK)
Joseph Haus (Univ. of Dayton, USA)
Svetlana Kurilkina (B.I.Stepanov Inst. of Physics, Belarus)
Yanfeng Li (Tianjin Univ., China)
Aleksej Rodin (Cntr for Physical Sciences and Technology, Lithuania)
Kazuaki Sakoda (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Concita Sibilia (La Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy) 
Aleksei Tolstik (Belorusian State Univ., Belarus)

5. Nonlinear Space-Time Dynamics, Instabilities, and Patterns

Chairs: Yaroslav Kartashov (Inst. of Spectroscopy, Russia); Lluis Torner (ISFO, Spain); Vyacheslav Chizhevsky (Stepanov Inst. of Physics, NASB, Belarus)

Claudio Conti (Univ. Sapienza, Italy)
Andrey Maimisov (Moscow Engineering Physics Inst., Russia)
Boris Mantsyzov (Lomonosov Moscow State Univ.)
Boris Malomed (Tel Aviv Univ., Israel)
Wieslaw Krolikowski (The Australian Natl Univ., Australia)
Kestutis Stalinas (Univ. Politechnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Stefano Trillo (Univ. of Ferrara, Italy)

6. Symposium “Diamond and Silicon Carbide Based Quantum Technologies”

Chairs: Fedor Jelezko (Inst. for Quantum Optics, Ulm Univ., Germany); Alexander Nizovtsev (Stepanov Inst. of Physics, NASB, Belarus)

Pavel Baranov (Ioffe Physical-Technical Inst., Russia)
Dmitry Budker (Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA; Johanes Gutenberg Univ., Germany)
Philip Hemmer (*) (Texas A&M Univ., USA)
Mikhail Lukin (*) (Harvard Univ., USA)
Dieter Suter (Technical Univ. of Dortmund, Germany)

7. Symposium “Beyond Non-Linear Optics: High & Extreme Optical Field Physics”

Chairs: Mikhail Fedorov (Prokhorov General Physics Inst., Russia); Mikhail Kalashnikov (Max Born Inst. for nonlinear optics and short pulse spectroscopy, Germany); Andrey Savel'ev (Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Russia) 

Dimitris Charalambidis (Univ. of Crete and Foundation for Research and Technology - HELLAS)
Calin Alexandry Ur (*)(Univ. Politechynica of Bucharest, Romania)
Georg Korn (*)(ELI BEamless, Chezh Republic)
Sargis Ter-Avetisyan (Inst. for Basic Science, Republic of Korea)
Valery Bychenkov (Lebedev Physical Inst., Russia)
Ruxin Li (*)(Shanghai Inst. of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China)
Efim Khazanov (Inst. of Applied Physics, Russia)
Wilhelm Becker (MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany)

8. Symposium “Topological States and Hall Physics with light”

Chairs: Sergey Tarasenko (Ioffe Physical-Technical Inst., Russia); Evgenii Tolkachev (Stepanov Inst. of Physics, NASB, Belarus)

Guillaume Malpuech (Inst. Pascal, France)
Sergey Ganichev (Univ. of Regensburg, Germany)
Alexander Furs (Belarusian State Univ., Belartus)
Alexander Khanikaev (City Univ. of New York, USA)

9. Symposium “Spectroscopy and Nanoscopy down to Single Molecules and Atomic Resolution”

Chair: Andrey Naumov (Inst. of Spectroscopy, Russia)

Andriy Chmyrov (Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, Germany
Igor Dushkin (NanoScanTechnology, Russia)
Boleslaw Kozankiewicz (Inst. of Physics, Poland)
Taras Plakhotnik (Univ of Queensland, Australia)
Ivan Scheblykh (Lund Univ., Sweden)
Aleksander Starukhin (Stepanov Inst. of Physics, Belarus)
Thobias Utikal (MPI for the Science of Light, Germany)

10. Symposium “Quantum Optomechanics”

Chairs: Stefan Danilishin (Glasgow Univ., UK); Sergey Vyatchanin (Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Russia)

(*) Names are to be confirmed

LAT Program Committee

Ivan Shcherbakov, Co-Chair, Prokhorov General Physics Inst., RAS, Russia
Valentin Orlovich, Co-Chair, Stepanov Inst. of Physics, NASB, Belarus
Guenter Huber, Co-Chair, Univ. Hamburg, Germany

Sergey Garnov, Vice-Chair, Prokhorov General Physics Inst., Russia
Vladimir Belyi, Vice-Chair, Stepanov Inst. of Physics, NASB, Belarus

1. Laser System and Materials 

 Chairs:  Eugeny Dianov (Fiber Optics Research Center, Russia); Igor Bufetov (Prokhorov General Physics Inst., Russia); Nikolay Kuleshov (Belarusian National Technical University, Belarus); Irina Sorokina (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway)

2. Laser Remote Sensing and Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy

Chairs:  Vladislav Mikhalevich (Prokhorov General Physics Inst., Russia); Anatoly Chaikovsky (B.I.Stepanov Insti. of Physics, Belarus)

3. Ultra-Fast Diagnostics in Laser Research

Chairs:  Mikhail Schelev (Prokhorov General Physics Inst., Russia); Konstantin Vereshchagin (Prokhorov General Physics Inst., Russia); Sergei Tikhomirov (B.I.Stepanov Inst. of Physics, Belarus)

4. Biophotonics and Laser Biomedicine

Chairs:  Viktor Loschenov (Prokhorov General Physics Inst., Russia); Rudolf Steiner (Institut für Lasertechnologien in der Medizin (ILM), Germany); Boris Dzhagarov (B.I.Stepanov Inst. of Physics, Belarus)

5. Nanomaterials for Lasers

Chairs:  Elena Obraztsova (Prokhorov General Physics Inst., Russia); Sergey Gaponenko (B.I.Stepanov Insti. of Physics, Belarus); Sergey Maksimenko (Belarusian State Univ., Inst. for Nuclear Problems, Belarus)