Program Photonics2008

Plenary morning program

09.45 – 10.30

Welcome & Opening keynote by Chairman of the day, Thomas P. Pearsall, General Secretary,  European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC)

10.30 - 11.15

Prof. Willem Vos, Professor on the chair "Photonic Media" (POM) at the Department of Science and Technology and the MESA+ Research Institute, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, in the group "Complex Photonic Systems" (COPS), Groupleader Photonic Bandgaps FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF)

11.15 – 11.30

Break at the Expo

11.30 – 12.15

From photonics research to applications: recent results and industrial initiatives in Finland
Prof. Markus Pessa, Founder and Director of Opto electronics Research Center and the LCC (Laser Competence Centre), Finland and he member of the Board of Directors of the Kista Photonics Research Center

12.15 - 13.00

Challenges and developments in Photonic measurements
Dr Eric W. M. van der Ham, Research scientist, Dutch Measurement Institute (NMi) VSL B.V.

13.00 - 14.30

Lunch at the Expo

Parallel afternoon program  

14.30 – 15.10

"Plasmonics" (Metal optics at sub-micrometer length scales)
Dr. E.R. Eliel Huygens Laboratory, Quantum Optics & Quantum Information, University of Leiden

14.30 – 15.10

Oleds mean Business
Ir. Peter Visser, Project Manager OLLA Project,  Aachen Germany.

15.15 – 16.00

Towards a complete band gap in the visible: epitaxial growth of colloidal structures
Drs. E.C.M. Vermolen, Soft Condensed Matter, Debye Institute for NanoMaterials Science, Utrecht University
Abstract

3 LED Masterclass

14.30 – 16.00

LED Masterclass: The evolution of LED drivers
Roger Alm, Product marketing manager, Melexis, UK

16.00 - 16.30

Coffee break at the expo

Plenary afternoon program

16.30 – 17.30

Closing Keynote: Fibre Lasers as High Power Photonics Devices
Professor Johan Nilsson, ORC, University of Southampton, UK

17.30 - 19.00

Reception drinks at the Expo