Saturday January 10
Morning Session Chair:
Joseph Eberly
07:30 - 08:30 Registration
Desk Opens
08:30 - 09:00 Opening
Remarks: Joaquin Ruiz, Linn Mollenauer
09:00 - 09:45 Linn Mollenauer (Bell Lab, Lucent Tech) : "Ultra-Long-Haul Dense WDM with Dispersion-Managed
Solitons: the Paradox of Best Performance from the Most Nonlinear of
Transmission Modes."
09:45 - 10:30 Peter
Halevi (INAOE) : "Tunable Photonic Crystals"
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 Bane
Vasic (UA) : "Advanced Forward Error Control for Optical
Comunications"
11:45 - 12:30 Alexander
Pisarchik (CIO) : "Nonlinear Dynamics in a Fiber Laser with Pump
Modulation"
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session Chair: Anatolii Khomenko
14:00 - 14:45 Sergei Tretiak (Los Alamos Nat Lab) : "Nonlinear
Optical Response of Organic Electronic Material"
14:45 - 15:30 Evgueni
Kuzin (INAOE) : "Ultrashort
Pulsed Fiber Lasers"
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:45 Christopher
Jones (Univ. of North Carolina) : "Optical Pulse Propagation:
Shortening Pulses, Randomizing the fiber and Cancelling Dispersion"
16:45 - 17:30 Maria
Strojnik (CIO): "TBA"
Sunday January 11
Morning Session Chair: Linn
Mollenauer
08:30 - 09:15 Vladimir
Shalaev (Purdue University) : "Plasmonic
Nanophotonics"
09:15 - 10:00 Richard Ziolkowski (UA)
: "Double Negative Metamaterial
Simulations and Experiment"
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:15 Joseph
Eberly (UR), "Dark Area Theorem and Asymptotic Singularities for
Resonant Pulse Pairs"
11:15 - 12:00 Anatolii Khomenko (CICESE):
"Vectorial Wave Coupling in Nonlinear Media"
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session Chair: Bernardo Mendoza Santoyo
13:30 - 14:15 Boris
Zeldovich (CREOL) : "Spin-Orbit Interaction of a Photon: Mutual Influence
of Polarization and Propagation"
14:15 - 15:00 Eugenio
Mendez (CICESE) : "Coherent Effects in the Second-Harmonic
Generation by Random Systems"
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:15 Jerry
Moloney (UA) : "High Power Femtosecond Laser Pulse Propagation: From
Light Strings to Dynamic X-Waves"
16:15 - 17:00 Nicolas Orestes Stavroudis (CIO), "The Optical k-function
: its Origins and its Uses"
17:00 - 17:10 Short break
17:10 - 17:55 Javier Sanchez-Mondragon
(INAOE): "The
Jaynes-Cummings and Dicke Models on Quantum Dots"
19:00 Workshop Banquet
Monday January 12
Morning Session Chair: Jerry Moloney
08:30 - 09:15 George Stegeman (CREOL):"Discrete
Solitons, Their Instabilities and Interactions in Quadratic and
Cubically Nonlinear Media"
09:15 - 10:00 Alan Newell (UA)"Can a Weak χ²
Lead to a Large Effective χ³"
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:15 Michael Chertkov (T-Division, Los
Alamos Nat Lab): "Evaluating Errors in Optical
Communications: a Statistical Physics Approach"
11:15 - 12:00 Pierre Meystre (UA)"Nonlinear
Matter-Wave Optics of Atoms and Molecules"
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session Chair: Nicolas Orestes Stavroudis
13:30 - 14:15 Hyatt Gibbs (UA): "Nonlinear Semiconductor
Optics"
14:15 - 15:00 Bernardo Mendoza Santoyo (CIO):
"Layer-by-Layer Analysis of Spectroscopic Optical Surface Probes"
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:15 Neal Armstrong, Sergio
Mendes, Scott Saavedra
(UA): "Molecular Films Investigated by Guided-Wave Spectroscopies"
16:15 - 17:00 TBA
17:10 - 18:40 Poster Session Math. East Building
Tuesday January 13
Morning Session Chair: Eugenio Mendez
08:30 - 09:00 Snack
09:00 - 09:45 Antoinette Taylor
(Los Alamos Nat Lab):"Observation, Manipulation, and Control of
Femtosecond Pulse Propagation in Optical Fibers"
09:45 - 10:30 Miroslav
Kolesik (UA):"Nonlinear Propagation
Simulation: Application to Supercontinuun Generation"
10:30 - 11:15 Alejandro Aceves (Univ Of
New Mexico):"Nonlinear Pulse Dynamics in Periodic Structures"