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Dinner and
Garden Lunch

Visiting Caltech

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Symposium

The symposium will be held at Beckman Institute Auditorium (campus map 240kb) from 9:00am to 5:00pm on April 14, 2005. Boxed lunches will be provided for the invitees of the symposium.

Tentative Schedule

8:00-9:00am	Reception
9:00am	Paul Jennings Provost, Professor of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Caltech Introduction
9:15am	Ivan Kaminow Visiting McKay Professor, UC-Berkeley
9:30am	Bruno Crosignani Professor of Physics, Universita' dell’Aquila and Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia, Italy A Friend's Perspective
9:45am	Desmond Armstrong Reminiscences
10:00am	David Hall Northrop Grumman The Beginnings of Integrated Optics
10:15am	Michiharu Nakamura Executive Vice President, Executive Officer, Head of R&D, Hitachi Corporation Distributed Feedback Lasers
10:30-10:45am	Coffee Break
10:45am	Elsa Garmire Sydney E. Junkins 1887 Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth College Mode-locked Lasers, Integrated Optics
11:00am	Pochi Yeh Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC-Santa Barbara Periodic Structures
11:15am	Israel Ury Co-Founder and President of ORTEL Corporation Integrated Optoelectronics, ORTEL
11:30am	Nadav Bar-Chaim Co-Founder of ORTEL Corporation From Science to Business in Not So Straight Line
11:45pm	Thomas Koch Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics, Director, Center for Optical Technologies, Lehigh University Photonic Integrated Circuits
12:00-1:00pm	Lunch Boxed lunches will be provided for the invitees. Others may dine at Chandler, Avery, or the restaurants on Lake Ave.
1:00pm	K. L. Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC-Berkeley High Frequency Modulation of Semiconductor Lasers, ORTEL
1:15pm	Kerry Vahala Ted and Ginger Jenkins Professor of Information Science and Technology and Professor of Applied Physics, Caltech Noise and Spectral Properties of Semiconductor Lasers
1:30pm	Robert Lang Origami Artist, Mathematician, and Author Those Crazy Laser Days of Summer
1:45pm	Kazuo Kyuma Director of the Central Research Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric Co.
2:00pm	David M. Pepper Malibu Scientific Consulting Optical Phase Conjugation and Other Retro-Reflections at Caltech
2:15pm	Baruch Fischer Professor, Max Knoll Chair in Electro-Optics and Electronics, Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion Light-Mode-Pulse "Thermodynamics"
2:30pm	Joseph Nilsen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory X-Ray Lasers
2:45-3:00pm	Coffee Break
3:00pm	Aharon Agranat Chairman of the Department of Applied Physics, N. Jaller Professor of Applied Science, Hebrew University Electroholography: Past and Present
3:15pm	George Rakuljic Executive VP, Kotura Photorefractives
3:30pm	Moti Segev Trudy and Norman Louis Professor of Physics, Technion, and Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University Optical Spatial Solitons, etc.
3:45pm	Ali Shakouri Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, UC-Santa Cruz Heterostructure-based Detectors and Energy Converters
4:00pm	William Green and Joyce Poon Current Graduate Students The Fellowship of the Ring (Resonators)
4:30pm	Closing Remarks

Information for Speakers

Please keep your talks to less than 15 minutes. After all, we would all like get to dinner on time!

A PC (Windows XP) and an Apple computer (OS X) with MS PowerPoint 2002 and Adobe Acrobat 6.0 will be available at the symposium. Speakers who wish to use our computers can bring a CD or a USB key drive containing their presentations. An overhead projector will also be available for transparencies.

If you would like to use other media or require any special audio-visual equipment, please contact Connie Rodriguez (626.395.4854).