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Program

Time Event
9:30 - 10:00 Welcome of the participants
10:00 - 11:00 Session I details
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 Session II details
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Session III details
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:15 Session IV details
17:30 - 18:45 No Event
18:45 - 22:00 Social Dinner
Dinner will be at 6.45 PM at Adega’s restaurant
33 Elm St, Toronto, ON M5G 1H1, Canada

Session I : Chair, Aephraim Steinberg

Time Speaker Title
10:00 Steve Hughes Slow-light photonic crystal waveguides – the fabrication disorder problem
10:15 Steve Cundiff 2+3 Quantum interference control of injected photocurrents in semiconductors
10:30 Nicolas Quesada Waveguided sources of consistent, single-temporal-mode squeezed light: the good, the bad, and the ugly
10:45 Zhenshan Yang Density-matrix formalism for mode-coupling, modal dispersion and mode-dependent loss in optical communication systems

Session II: Chair, Marc Dignam

Time Speaker Title
11:30 Virginia Lorenz TBA
11:45 Pierre Berini Plasmonic hot carriers and their application in catalysis
12:00 Lora Ramunno Modelling Complex Nanophotonic Systems
12:15 Robert Spekkens On the synergy between basic and applied research: an example from quantum foundations
12:30 Aephraim Steinberg TBA
12:45 James Fraser So maybe it's not just a phase

Session III: Chair, Lora Ramunno

Time Speaker Title
2:00 Ben Eggleton Renaissance in nonlinear optics
2:15 Zachary Vernon Device physics for photonic quantum computing: Concept to commercialization
2:30 Sharon Weiss Porous nanomaterials for optical biosensing
2:45 Nir Rotenberg Nonlinear optics with a quantum dot and a few photons
3:00 Anatoli Shkrebtii Nonlinear optics for the selected confined system: theory and experiment
3:15 Stewart Aitchison Linear and nonlinear integrated photonics: past, present and future

Session IV: Chair, Marco Liscidini

Time Speaker Title
4:00 Marc Dignam Nonlinear entangled squeezed state generation in lossy, multimode cavity systems
4:15 Luke Helt Yellowsubmaring: Simulating squeezed light generation in resonators with Python
4:30 Mike Steel Gratings, ghosts, and grinding wheels: A journey to the center of some very pretty gratings
4:45 Martijn de Sterke Nonlinear propagation with high-order dispersion
5:00 Dave Moss Highlights of my research over the past ten years