John Rosebush -.The Worldwide Development Corporation (WDC) was recently formed after 12 years of painstaking relentless effort, disappointments, self funding, failures, successes, etc. developing an energy invention that can change the world. .I have an extensive construction background which includes building 2 mobile home parks, assisting in the installation of a municipal sewer system along with building multiple homes. I am a veteran of the U.S. Army. I graduated from Ferris State University in 1981 with a bachelor’s degree in I.T. Services. I worked for Marathon Oil Company’s Corporate Office as a Lead Analyst in almost a think tank environment until retirement in early 2006. Since 2006 I have worked exclusively on generating kinetic energy from river flow. The amount of experience I obtained working 12 years on an open fluid dynamics system makes me one of the leading experts in the world

, assisting in the installation of a municipal sewer system along with building multiple homes

Bruno Wacogne is a CNRS Research Director at the FEMTO-ST Institute (UMR CNRS 6174) where he is leading the transversal axis Biom’@x concerning Sciences and Technologies for a Translational Medicine. He is also the technological coordinator of the Clinical Investigation Center of Besançon University hospital (INSERM CIC1431) where he is leading the Microsystems and Biological Qualification team. His research interests are micro technologies, optics, translational research, biological qualification and immune-combined medical devices. He is the author or co-author of nearly 200 communications and 10 patents

Micro technologies, optics, translational research, biological qualification and immune-combined medical devices

Dr. Andrei Ivanov is a Head of the Department of Optical Physics and Modern Natural Science at the ITMO University. He received his degree as a Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in 2007. Dr. Ivanov’s main fields of interest are nano-photonics, nonlinear optics, and laser cooling of solids. His current research activities focus on multiphoton transitions in the bulk and on the surface of the semiconductors of different dimensions; pre-breakdown generation of free carriers in the insulators and semiconductors caused by the ultra-short pulse laser radiation; photon avalanche effect in the semiconductors and heterostructures, and dynamical Stark effect. His research at the ITMO University has been supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. He is the member of the D. S. Rozhdestvensky Optical Society and the Optical Society of America (OSA).

nano-photonics, nonlinear optics, and laser cooling of solids

Naturalized US citizen (since 1985). Goal oriented, highly motivated and creative performer with proven leadership, administrative and coaching ability, extensive project and financial management experience, team player attitude, strong analytical and planning skills, effective communications (written and verbal) and presentation skills, as well as excellent organizational, interpersonal, and negotiation capabilities. Possesses thorough and in-depth understanding of the state-of-the-art in materials, mechanical, electrical, optical, information, telecommunication, reliability and related areas of engineering, of new and emerging technologies, and a clear vision for the most promising directions in the development of applied science and engineering. Works exceptionally well in dynamic and rapidly changing environments, under pressure and in short time frames. Performs effectively across multiple organizations, companies and departments, with specialists from various disciplines and fields, and with people of different mentalities, origins, and cultural backgrounds. Good public speaker and a quick learner. Exhibits strong interest in, and possesses good knowledge of, foreign cultures, values, attitudes, and customs. Always willing to learn new things and has exceptional receptiveness to, and quick grasp of, new approaches and ideas. Has a sociable disposition and gets along well with peers, supervisors, and subordinates. Bi-lingual: English and Russian. Fluent in Ukrainian.

Photonics, Fiber Optics and Mechanics of Optical Fibers

Günter Nimtz has completed his PhD in the year 1969 from Vienna University. He is the Professor of Physics and a consultant of several Companies. He has published more than 200 papers in reputed journals and owns some patents. He was member of the supervisory board of an organic electronic materials company.

Quantum optics, Virtual particles, Photonics for information

I am a CNRS Senior Researcher at the FEMTO-ST research institute in Besançon in France and I am leading the nonlinear photonics group since 2010. I am supervising both theoretical and experimental studies of fundamental nonlinear effects that occur in optical fibers and other tiny optical waveguides (photonic crystal fibers, optical micro and nanofibers, and resonators), with the aim of investigating potential applications to ultrafast signal processing, fiber-based telecommunications, fiber lasers and optical fiber sensors. I have broad expertise in nonlinear fiber optics and related fields and I made scientific achievements in the fields of broadband fiber-based parametric amplification, pulsed and cw-pumped supercontinuum generation, high-power Raman fiber lasers, passive mode-locking of fiber lasers through dissipative four-wave mixing, and Brillouin light scattering in specialty fibers, for which I have been awarded with the Fabry-Gramont Prize from the French Optical Society. I co-authored more than 100 publications in leading scientific journals and as many conference papers I have also been the principle investigator and co-investigator of several projects funded by national and european agencies and industrial partners (Europe H2020-MSCA-ITN, French research minister, ACI and ANR, LABEX Action, Europe Interreg Program, FEDER, Franche-Comté Region, University of Franche-Comté, PRES, CEA, Alcatel-Lucent). I am working closely with a number of industrial and academic collaborators in France and abroad (ULB Bruxelles, EPFL, Lausanne, McGill University, Montreal, University of Auckland, NZ, Max Planck Institute, Erlangen, Germany, Tampere University, University of Maryland, USA,..)

• Investigation of optomechanical interactions and Brillouin scattering in optical nanofibers and microstructured fibers • Development of supercontinuum fiber sources from the ultraviolet to the mid-infrared band, • Design and development of broadband fiber optical parametric amplifiers at 1.5 µm and 1 µm, • Design and development of ultrafast fiber lasers using novel nonlinear mode-locking techniques,

Mahmoud Fallahi is a professor in the college of optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toulouse and LAAS-CNRS, in 1988. He joined the National Research Council of Canada in 1989 and became a member of technical staff as a Research Scientist during 1992-1995. He joined the University of Arizona as an Assistant professor in 1995. His research has been extensively published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, reported in invited talks and published in international conference proceedings. He has authored or co-authored several book chapters, patents and invention disclosures. His recent research interests are in high power semiconductor lasers, tunable sources, nonlinear frequency generation, photonic integrated circuits, micro/nanofabrication, and hybrid organic-inorganic components for heterogeneous integration. He has served as Conference Chair and Program Committee member in several international conferences in the field of semiconductor lasers and integrated optics. Since August 2014 he has been with the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a Program Director of the photonics program in the ECCS Division of Engineering Directorate. As a Program Director he is promoting and managing translational research programs in the field of optics and photonics.

Field of optics and photonics

Anna Orlova is Professor of the Department of Optical Physics and Modern Natural Science at the ITMO University, Head of international research lab “Magnetically controlled nanosystems for theranostics of oncological and cardiovascular diseases”. Prof. Orlova successfully combines lecture activity with development and research of hybrid nanosystems for theranostics and sensing based on colloidal quantum semiconductor nanocrystals, magnetic nanoparticles, graphene, titanium dioxide nanocrystals, and organic molecules. She graduated with honors from the Engineering Physics Faculty of LITMO Institute (St. Petersburg) in 1997, and then received the scientific degrees of Candidate of Technical Sciences in 2003 and Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in 2016 from the same institution (now ITMO University). Since 1997 to 2006 she was junior researcher at Vavilov Optical Institute, then returned to her Alma Mater and developed there from research associate to professor (2017).

The research interests of Prof. Orlova’s group are spectroscopy and photophysics of hybrid nanosystems for theranostics and sensing based on semiconductor quantum nanocrystals, magnetic nanoparticles, graphene, titanium dioxide nanocrystals and organic molecules

Ottorino Veneri graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Naples 'Federico II' in 1996. By the same University in March 2000 he has been awarded his PhD in Electrical Engineering. From 1999 to 2001 he had a research grant provided by the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Naples 'Federico II'. Since 2002 he works as a researcher with the Istituto Motori of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy in Naples. In recent years he has also become Full Professor at the International Telematic University UNINETTUNO. His main fields of interest are the electric drives for transportation systems, electric energy converters, electric energy storage systems, power sources with hydrogen fuel cells and hybrid propulsion architecture. He is co-author of 2 book published by Springer, 2 chapters of books and more than 60 papers published in International Journals and in proceedings of conferences. He is reviewer of various International Journals that publish material in the area of energy and power conversion, and technical reviewer of Italian Research and Development Projects. He is director of operative units at Istituto Motori within more than 10 Research National and International Projects.

Energy storage systems, hydrogen fuel cells and hybrid propulsion architecture.

Dr. Jing Bai is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) in Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007. Dr. Bai’s current research activities focus on nano-photonics, nano-photovoltaics, nonlinear optics, and nanoscale biomedical devices. Her research at UMD has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Whiteside Institute for Clinical Research, the MN Drive Initiatives, and the Graduate School of University of Minnesota. She is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE), the Optical Society of America (OSA), and the American Physics Society (APS).

Dr. Bai’s current research activities focus on nano-photonics, nano-photovoltaics, nonlinear optics, and nanoscale biomedical devices.

Manijeh Razeghi joined Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, as a Walter P. Murphy Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices in Fall 1991, where she created the undergraduate and graduate program in solid-state engineering. She is one of the leading scientists in the field of semiconductor science and technology, pioneering in the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices. She has authored or coauthored more than 1000 papers, more than 31 book chapters, and 18 books. She holds 55 U.S. patents and has given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. She received the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize in 1987, the Achievement Award from the SWE in 1995, the R.F. Bunshah Award in 2004 and many best paper awards. Dr. Razeghi is an elected Fellow of SWE (1995), SPIE (2000), IEC (2003), OSA (2004), APS (2004) IOP (2005), IEEE (2005) and MRS (2008). And IBM teacher of excellence 2013, and the 2016 Jan Czochralski Award. She is editor , associate, and Board member of many journals, including Nano Science and Nano technology.

Pioneer in the area of III-V compound semiconductors and optoelectronic devices from the deep ultraviolet to the far infrared spectral bands, including in particular InP and GaAs based semiconductors and devices, which were at the heart of the optical fiber telecommunication revolution of the late 20th Century and the rise of the information age.

Dr. Douglas R McCarter, Dhc, is the Technical Integrator of McCarter Machine & Technology Inc. , founded in 1981. McCarter’s patented and proprietary silicon processes achievements were documented by published technical papers and over 50 oral presentations. In turn, McCarter has won many awards, mentioned in Forbes.com, Kiplinger Letter, Entrepenuer.com, Nasa Tech Briefs, Missile Defense Briefs Open and Classified, and recognized as the current world expert in precision silicon components. McCarter has served as member of editorial staff of Advanced Optical Technology, in Munich Germany since 2012. In 2016, Dr. Babin, Congressman District 37 and leader of Nasa Committee endorsed McCarter’s development of McCarter Silicon Space Systems. In addition to over 3000 hours of Technical Schools, McCarter has been directly mentored by the late Frank Anthony, Bell Labs and past 10 years Roger Paquin Perk & Elmer retired Materials Expert.

Inventor of processes to enable the use of Silicon in Optics and Opto-mechanical structures. McCarter’s Silicon Components are Modular, Scalable and Producible. In particular, McCarter has developed a glass frit bonding process for building meter class systems for ground, flight or space missions.

Branislav Vlahovic is Director of the National Science Foundation Computational Center of Research Excellence, NASA University Research Center for Aerospace Device, and NSF Center Partnership for Research and Education in Materials at North Carolina Central University. In 2004, he was awarded by the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina Oliver Max Gardner statewide award for his research and contribution to science. He has published more than 300 papers in peer reviewed journals.

Computer simulations of nanostructures, tunneling and charge transfer between nanostructures, pulsed laser deposition of nanostructures, nonlinear optics, detectors and devices based on quantum confinement, nanophotonics, semiconductor structures, and photovoltaics

Mahmoud Fallahi is a professor in the college of optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toulouse and LAAS-CNRS, in 1988. He joined the National Research Council of Canada in 1989 and became a member of technical staff as a Research Scientist during 1992-1995. He joined the University of Arizona as an Assistant professor in 1995. His research has been extensively published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, reported in invited talks and published in international conference proceedings. He has authored or co-authored several book chapters, patents and invention disclosures. He has served as Conference Chair and Program Committee member in several international conferences in the field of semiconductor lasers and integrated optics. Since August 2014 he has been with the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a Program Director of the photonics program in the ECCS Division of Engineering Directorate. As a Program Director he is promoting and managing translational research in the field of optics and photonics.

Mahmoud Fallahi’s research is in the field of high power semiconductor lasers, nonlinear frequency generation, photonic integrated circuits, micro/nanofabrication, hybrid organic-inorganic components, heterogeneous integration.

Ching Eng Jason PNG completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from Surrey University and MBA from INSEAD and Tsinghua. He is the director of Electronics & Photonics Department, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) A*STAR, a premier organization. He published more than 90 papers in reputed journals, conferences, books, and book chapters. He is President and Founding Chair for URSI Singapore Committee, SPIE Photonics West Committee member, and also serves as topic editor for Frontiers in Physics and Taylor CRC Press. Funded by INSEAD, Singapore Government and investors, Jason started up A*STAR’s first silicon photonics spin-off company Optic2connect offering end-to-end solutions for telecoms and datacenters.

Quantum photonics, silicon photonics, dielectric nanoantennas, radio frequency electromagnetic interference and compatability (EMI/EMC), wireless charging

Dr. Selim Shahriar completed his PhD at the age of 27 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Professor in the Department of EECS and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University (NU). He is the Director of the Laboratory of Atomic and Photonic Technologies, and the Director of the Solid and Photonics Division within EECS. He is a council member for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. He has published 173 papers in reputed journals, and has served as an Associate Editor for Optical Engineering. For his contributions to the detection of gravitational waves, he was a co-recipient of the 2016 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics and the Gruber Prize in Cosmology.

Optical Communication, Quantum Information Processing, Atomic Interferometry, Atomic Clock, Slow and Fast Light, Holographic and Polarimetric Image Processing, Spin Squeezing

Prof. Tang Xiahui has completed his PhD at the age of 37 years from Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST) and now work as a professor and doctoral supervisor in School of Optical and Electronic Information, HUST. He is the vice director of National Engineering Research Center for Laser Processing. He has published more than 60 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of reputed journals.

Laser Technology

Chaohong Lee got his PhD degree from Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003. From 2003 to 2009, he worked as a guest scientist in Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and then a Research Fellow in Australian National University. Since December 2009, he works as a full professor in Sun Yat-Sen University. He has published more than 50 papers in high-impact international academic journals, including one in Rev. Mod. Phys., seven in Phys. Rev. Lett. and 23 in Phys. Rev. A/B/E.

many-body quantum physics (macroscopic quantum phenomena, quantum correlations and quantum phase transitions etc), quantum dynamics (nonlinear matter-waves, Kibble-Zurek mechanism and quantum walks etc) and quantum technology theory (quantum metrology and quantum simulation etc).

Ephraim Suhir is on the faculty of the Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, and Technical University, Vienna, Austria. He is also CEO of the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos, CA, USA. Ephraim is Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (he was born in that country); IEEE Life Fellow; Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS), the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) . Dr. Suhir has authored about 400 publications (patents, technical papers, book chapters, books), presented numerous keynote and invited talks worldwide, and received many professional awards, including 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering (he is the third Russian American, after S. Timoshenko and I. Sikorsky, who received this prestigious award); and 1996 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award for developing effective methods for predicting the reliability of complex structures used in AT&T and Lucent Technologies products.

Probabilistic Methods in Reliability Engineering; Analytical (Mathematical) Modeling in Applied Science and Engineering; Photonics, Fiber Optics, Mechanics of Optical Fibers; Shock and Vibration Analyses and Testing; Thermal Stress Analysis, Embedded Systems; “Human-in-the-Loop”: Human-Equipment-Environment Interaction;

Professor Blanche received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Liege (Belgium) in 1999 in the field of non-linear optics and holography. He then held a post-doctoral position at the University of Arizona where he developed new refreshable holographic recording materials called photorefractive polymers. Back in Belgium, he co-founded a company manufacturing large volume phase gratings for the optics industry, astronomers, and space applications. Professor Blanche returned to the University of Arizona in 2005 where he is currently an Associate Research Professor.

Diffraction optics, 3D display, non-linear and photonic materials.

Professor Devki N. Talwar, is a Distinguished University Professor in the Physics Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), USA and conducts research on defects in semiconductor materials used in various electronics and opto-electronics applications. He has been with IUP for almost thirty years, and is the author of more than 135 refereed journal articles, four book chapters and more than 80 international conference presentations. He served as an Organizer in nine International Conferences organized by Materials Research Society, USA; Singapore; 5th World Congress on Materials Science and Engineering – Spain; Optics 2016; Mesoscopic Condensed Matter Physics, and Condensed Matter Physics -USA. He was invited as Honorary Guest member in Science Conclave with Nobel Laureates at IIIT-Allahabad from 2009-2014 and delivered Keynote addresses at Moscow Institute of Science and Technology and many other international conferences. His expertise in the sophisticated Green’s function technique is considered very useful for providing information on the electronic and vibrational properties of defects in semiconductors, quantum wells, and superlattices. He is recognized by the international community as a prolific researcher.

Defect characterizations in III-V, II-VI and III-N semiconductors by optical spectroscopy (infrared, Raman and Photoluminescence). Lattice dynamics study of bulk and low dimensional structured materials, Band structure calculations of III-V semiconductors and superlattices.

Yifu Zhu received his PhD degree from University of Virginia in 1987 and did postdoctoral studies at University or Oregon. He is a professor of physics at Florida International University. He has published over 100 papers in refereed journals.

Quantum optics and nonlinear optics

Shien-Kuei (Peter) Liaw received double PhD degrees from National Chiao-Tung University in photonics engineering and from National Taiwan University in mechanical engineering, respectively. He joined the Chunghua Telecommunication, Taiwan, in 1993. Since then, he has been working on optical communication and fiber based technologies. Prof. Liaw joined the department of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) in 2000. He has ever been director of the Optoelectronics Research Center and the Technology Transfer Center, NTUST. He was a visiting researcher at Bellcore (now Telcordia), USA for six months in 1996 and a visiting Professor at University of Oxford, UK for three months in 2011. He owned six U.S. patents, and authored or coauthored for 250 journal articles and international conference presentations. He earned many national honors such as Outstanding Professor of the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in 2015; the winner of The 7th Y. Z. Hsu Scientific Paper Award in 2009; the best project award of National Science and Technology Program for Telecommunication in 2006; the outstanding Youth Award of The Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering; and the outstanding Youth Academic Award of the Optical Engineering Society of the Republic of China. He has been actively contributing for numerous conferences as technical program chair, international advisory committee, session chair and invited speaker. He serves as an Associate Editor for Fiber and Integrated Optics. Currently, Dr. Liaw is a senior member of IEEE, OSA and SPIE. Currently, Dr. Liaw is a distinguished Professor of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Vice President of the Optical Society (OSA) Taiwan Chapter and Secretary-General of Taiwan Photonic Society.

Optical sensing, optical communication, fiber optics devices and reliability testing.

Dr. Peng-Sheng Wei received Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Department at University of California, Davis, in 1984. He has been a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering of National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, since 1989. Dr. Wei has contributed to advancing the understanding of and to the applications of electron and laser beam, plasma, and resistance welding through theoretical analyses coupled with verification experiments. Investigations also include studies of their thermal and fluid flow processes, and formations of the defects such as humping, rippling, spiking and porosity. Dr. Wei has published more than 80 journal papers, delivered keynote or invited speeches in international conferences more than 90 times. He is a Fellow of AWS (2007), and a Fellow of ASME (2000). He also received the Outstanding Research Achievement Awards from both the National Science Council (2004), and NSYSU (1991, 2001, 2004), the Outstanding Scholar Research Project Winner Award from National Science Council (2008), the Adams Memorial Membership Award from AWS (2008), the Warren F. Savage Memorial Award from AWS (2012), and the William Irrgang Memorial Award from AWS (2014). He has been the Xi-Wan Chair Professor of NSYSU since 2009, and Invited Distinguished Professor in the Beijing University of Technology, China, during 2015-2017.

Thermal science in manufacturing and materials processing, Interactions between laser and surfaces ,Plasma physics, Controlling of surface patterns and porosity Phase change across interfaces

Manijeh Razeghi joined Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, as a Walter P. Murphy Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices in Fall 1991, where she created the undergraduate and graduate program in solid-state engineering. She is one of the leading scientists in the field of semiconductor science and technology, pioneering in the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices. She has authored or coauthored more than 1000 papers, more than 31 book chapters, and 18 books. She holds 55 U.S. patents and has given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. She received the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize in 1987, the Achievement Award from the SWE in 1995, the R.F. Bunshah Award in 2004 and many best paper awards. Dr. Razeghi is an elected Fellow of SWE (1995), SPIE (2000), IEC (2003), OSA (2004), APS (2004) IOP (2005), IEEE (2005) and MRS (2008). And IBM teacher of excellence 2013, and the 2016 Jan Czochralski Award. She is editor , associate, and Board member of many journals, including Nano Science and Nano technology.

Pioneer in the area of III-V compound semiconductors and optoelectronic devices from the deep ultraviolet to the far infrared spectral bands, including in particular InP and GaAs based semiconductors and devices, which were at the heart of the optical fiber telecommunication revolution of the late 20th Century and the rise of the information age.

Prof. Vladislav E. Bougrov, Director of School of Photonics, Head of Chair of Light Technologies and Optoelectronics at the ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia, a leading Russian University in the filed of Photonics, Photonics Materials, and Quantum Informatics; 42 years old; Master degree in optoelectronics from Department of Optoelectronics chaired by Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Zhores Alferov, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI"; Ph.D. in 1999 and D.Sc. in 2013 in physics from Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia; holder of the prize of the Government of Russian Federation in science and engineering; highly qualified in material physics and engineering of semiconductor optoelectronics devices; author of more than 60 papers in reputed journals, inventor in more than 100 patent applications, including more than 30 granted patents; extensive experience with dynamic management of growing international start-up companies, founder of Optogan.

III-nitride based semiconductor heterostructures, ultrahigh performance light-emitting diodes (LEDs), development of novel MOCVD growth technique, advanced laser device structures, bulk materials growth: gallium nitride and gallium oxide.

Dr. Douglas R McCarter, Dhc, is the Technical Integrator of McCarter Machine & Technology Inc. , founded in 1981. McCarter’s patented and proprietary silicon processes achievements were documented by published technical papers and over 50 oral presentations. In turn, McCarter has won many awards, mentioned in Forbes.com, Kiplinger Letter, Entrepenuer.com, Nasa Tech Briefs, Missile Defense Briefs Open and Classified, and recognized as the current world expert in precision silicon components. McCarter has served as member of editorial staff of Advanced Optical Technology, in Munich Germany since 2012. In 2016, Dr. Babin, Congressman District 37 and leader of Nasa Funding, endorsed McCarter and staffers are working directly with backing of the development of McCarter Silicon Space Systems. In addition to over 3000 hours of Technical Schools, McCarter has been directly mentored by the late Frank Anthony, Bell Labs and past 10 years Roger Paquin Perk & Elmer retired Materials Expert.

Inventor of processes to enable the use of Silicon in Optics and Opto-mechanical structures. McCarter’s Silicon Components are Modular, Scalable and Producible. In particular, McCarter has developed a glass frit bonding process for building meter class systems for ground, flight or space missions.

Branislav Vlahovic is Director of the National Science Foundation Computational Center of Research Excellence, NASA University Research Center for Aerospace Device, and NSF Center Partnership for Research and Education in Materials at North Carolina Central University. In 2004, he was awarded by the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina Oliver Max Gardner statewide award for his research and contribution to science. He has published more than 300 papers in peer reviewed journals.

Computer simulations of nanostructures, tunneling and charge transfer between nanostructures, pulsed laser deposition of nanostructures, nonlinear optics, detectors and devices based on quantum confinement, nanophotonics, semiconductor structures, and photovoltaics.

Mahmoud Fallahi is a professor in the college of optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toulouse and LAAS-CNRS, in 1988. He joined the National Research Council of Canada in 1989 and became a member of technical staff as a Research Scientist during 1992-1995. He joined the University of Arizona as an Assistant professor in 1995. His research has been extensively published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, reported in invited talks and published in international conference proceedings. He has authored or co-authored several book chapters, patents and invention disclosures. He has served as Conference Chair and Program Committee member in several international conferences in the field of semiconductor lasers and integrated optics. Since August 2014 he has been with the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a Program Director of the photonics program in the ECCS Division of Engineering Directorate. As a Program Director he is promoting and managing translational research in the field of optics and photonics.

He has over 28 years of active research in the field of photonic components, integrated optics and heterogeneous integration. His recent research interests are in high power semiconductor lasers, tunable sources, nonlinear frequency generation, photonic integrated circuits, micro/nanofabrication, and hybrid organic-inorganic components for heterogeneous integration.

Devki N. Talwar conducts research on defects in semiconductor materials used in various electronics and opto-electronics applications. He has been with IUP for almost twenty nine years, and is the author of more than 130 refereed journal articles, three book chapters, and review articles. His expertise in the sophisticated Green’s function technique is considered very useful for providing information on the electronic and vibrational properties of defects in semiconductors, quantum wells, and superlattices. He is recognized by the international community as a prolific researcher.

Electronic, Vibrational and Optical properties of Nano-structured Semiconductor materials and Superlattices

Ortwin Hess is a theoretical physicist in condensed matter quantum optics. He currently holds the Leverhulme Chair in the Blackett Laboratory (Department of Physics) at Imperial College London. He heads a team of researchers working on light-matter interaction in quantum nano-photonics, plasmonics and metamaterials, semiconductor nano-photonics and nano-laser dynamics and is Co-Director of Imperial’s Centre for Plasmonics & Metamaterials. He obtained the PhD degree from the Technical University of Berlin (Germany) in 1993, while spending extended time (1990 – 1992) in Edinburgh (UK). After a post-doc at the University of Marburg (Germany) he obtained his Habilitation in Theoretical Physics at the University of Stuttgart in 1997. He was Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1997/98) and at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (1999/2000). Before moving to Imperial College in January 2011 he was from 2003 to 2010 Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter and Optical Physics at the University of Surrey (Guildford, UK).

• quantum nano-photonics (nanoplasmonics, plasmonic nano-lasers, quantum plasmonics) • optical, electronic and phononic metamaterials, • ultrafast semiconductor nano-photonics and nano-laser dynamics.

Shien-Kuei Liaw received double doctorates in photonics engineering from National Chiao-Tung University in 1999, and in mechanical engineering from National Taiwan University in 2014, respectively. He joined the Chunghua Telecommunication, Taiwan, in 1993. Since then, he has been working on optics communication and fiber based devices. He joined the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology since 2000 and served as the directors of Optoelectronic Center and Technology Transfer Center, respectively. Currently, he is a distinguished Professor at the same university and Taipei Chapter Chair of the IEEE Photonic Society. He was an academic visitor of University of Oxford, Nanyang Technological University, Tsing Hua University and Bellcore (now Telcordia). He has been awarded about 37 patents and has published 240 journal articles and international conference presentations. His research interests are in optical sensing, optical communication and reliability testing. He is a senior member of IEEE, OSA and SPIE.

optical sensing, optical communication and reliability testing

Dr. Peng-Sheng Wei received Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Department at University of California, Davis, in 1984. He has been a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering of National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, since 1989. Dr. Wei has contributed to advancing the understanding of and to the applications of electron and laser beam, plasma, and resistance welding through theoretical analyses coupled with verification experiments. Investigations also include studies of their thermal and fluid flow processes, and formations of the defects such as humping, rippling, spiking and porosity. Dr. Wei has published more than 80 journal papers. He is a Fellow of AWS (2007), and a Fellow of ASME (2000). He also received the Outstanding Research Achievement Awards from both the National Science Council (2004), and NSYSU (1991, 2001, 2004), the Outstanding Scholar Research Project Winner Award from National Science Council (2008), the Adams Memorial Membership Award from AWS (2008), the Warren F. Savage Memorial Award from AWS (2012), and the William Irrgang Memorial Award from AWS (2014). He has been the Xi-Wan Chair Professor of NSYSU since 2009, and Invited Distinguished Professor in the Beijing University of Technology, China, during 2015-2017.

1.Thermal science in manufacturing and materials processing 2.Interactions between laser and surfaces 3.Plasma physics 4.Controlling of surface patterns and porosity Phase change across interfaces

Huikai Xie is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Florida. He received his BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees all in electrical engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Tufts University, and Carnegie Mellon University, respectively. Before he joined the University of Florida in 2002, he worked at Tsinghua University (1992-1996), Bosch Corporation (2001), and Akustica Inc. (2002). His research interests include MEMS/NEMS, integrated inertial sensors, microactuators, optical MEMS, biophotonics, optical microendoscopy, microspectrometers, and micro-LiDAR. He has published over 250 technical papers and holds 30 US patents. He has served on the technical program committees of various international conferences including IEEE Transducers, IEEE Optical MEMS, and IEEE Sensors, and the editorial boards of several international journals. He is a senior member of IEEE and OSA

Optical MEMS, optical imaging, microspectrometers, micro-LiDAR

Dr. Jingsi Li is currently working as a Scientific R&D Manager in Integrated Photonics Chip Design Team at Lumentum. Lumentum is a market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide. Dr. Li has completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, focusing on design, fabrication, and characterization of integrated distributed feedback laser arrays for wavelength division multiplexing systems.

Optical Communications, Photonic Integrated Circuits

Kimberley Hall completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in 2002, followed by postdoctoral studies at the University of Iowa. Since 2004, Hall has been a faculty member in the Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science at Dalhousie University and holds a Canada Research Chair in Ultrafast Science. At Dalhousie University, Dr. Hall directs a research group focused on ultrafast spectroscopy and quantum control in semiconductor materials.

Electron spin coherence and relaxation, Quantum information, Photonic and spintronics devices, Magnetic semiconductors, Ultrafast dynamics in semiconductors, nanostructures.

Y. Fainman received M. Sc and Ph. D degrees from Technion, Israel in 1979 and 1983, respectively. Currently he is a Cymer Professor of Advanced Optical Technologies and Distinguished Professor in ECE at UCSD. He is directing research of the Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics group at UCSD and made significant contributions to near field optical phenomena, nanophotonics and plasmonics, and non-conventional imaging. The research applications target information technologies and biomedical sensing. He contributed over 250 manuscripts in peer review journals and over 450 conference presentations and conference proceedings. He is a Fellow of OSA, IEEE, and SPIE, and a recipient of the Miriam and Aharon Gutvirt Prize, Lady Davis Fellowship, Brown Award, Gabor Award and Emmett N. Leith Medal.

Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics

Luís António Dias Carlos got his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Évora, Portugal, in 1995 working on photoluminescence of polymer electrolytes incorporating lanthanide salts. Currently, he is Full Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Aveiro and vice-director of the CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials (Portugal). He is member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. His current research interests include luminescent nanothermometers, luminescent solar concentrators, organic-inorganic hybrids for green photonics (solid-state lighting and integrated optics), and luminescent/magnetic nanoparticles, as new probes for multimodal imaging. He has published around 370 papers and 6 patents, which have received ca. 10,500 citations (Hirsch’ index h of 53), and co-guest editor of a RSC book on Nanoscale Thermometry (Nanoscience & Nanotechnology series) and special issues of the Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology (2010) and of the Journal of Luminescence (2015).

Luminescent nanothermometry Applications of organic-inorganic hybrids in luminescent solar concentrators, solid-state lighting, and integrated optics Light emission of organic-inorganic hybrids, silicates, nanocrystals and metal organic frameworks Crystal-field, local coordination and energy transfer in lanthanide-based compounds Luminescent, magnetic and luminescent/magnetic nanoparticles as new probes for multimodal imaging Self-assembly and emergence of complexity in organic/inorganic hybrids

Junpeng Guo earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined Rockwell International Science Center in Thousand Oaks, California as a Research Scientist after receiving his Ph.D. and later moved to Sandia National Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff. Since 2005, he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Optics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Dr. Guo has worked in many areas of optics, including ultrafast fiber laser, semiconductor lasers, RF/Photonics, photonics crystals, waveguide optics, micro-ring resonators and sensors. He fabricated the first high resolution micropolarizer array device, which enabled the industrial development of 3D TV displays. Currently, Dr. Guo’s research is nanostructure plasmonics, photonics, metamaterials, and spectrometer sensors. He received Alan Berman Research Publication Award in 2012 and was the sole recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Research Award of the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2016. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor of Photonics Research.

Plasmonics, Metamaterials, Nanophotonics, and Sensors

Prof. Manuel Hegelich, an experimental laser physicist, very successfully joint with his group the exploration of the laser interaction with ultra-thin foils (produced at MAP). We are observing very dense laser-induced ion beams, the breakout of dense electron bunches and the production of high harmonics at different lasers, exploring this new coherent physics. The ultrashort dense secondary beams promise to have new properties in nonlinear interactions.

Interaction of ultra-intense electromagnetic fields with matter; high-energy density physics; laser-particle acceleration

Prof. Minvydas Ragulskis received his Ph.D. (Doctor of Sciences) degree at Kaunas University of Technology. In 2008 he has been a professor at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. In 2012 he has elected as Member of Lithuanian Academy of Science, in 2013 he received award from Official Expert at the Committee of National Science Awards. In 2015 he is Invited as Expert for Horizon 2020 projects (European Commission)

Optics has traditionally been an important research area for our Group. Our field in optics could be shortly described as modelling of optical effects in virtual computational environments. The utilization of three basic components – numerical models of elastic dynamically interacting bodies, a physical model describing interference effects occurring whenever optical whole field fringe based experimental techniques are used to investigate these bodies, and the construction of digital graphical representations helps to mimic realistic optical processes taking place in those systems. And not only – such tools help to interpret complex optical phenomena and help to develop new measurement techniques. We managed to propose several new measurement techniques and improvements of existing measurement techniques – time average photoelasticity; time average stochastic moire; time average geometric super moire; the generalization of Abel transform for vibrating tubes; corrections of classical formulas describing time average projection moire and time average geometric moire. The range of investigated systems is quite wide: from MEMS up to fluids, membranes, or bodies with fractal surface geometry. Investigations of optical phenomena originated new numerical cryptographic methods and initiated the development of specialized numerical techniques.

Ottorino Veneri graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Naples 'Federico II' in 1996. By the same University in March 2000 he has been awarded his PhD in Electrical Engineering. From 1999 to 2001 he had a research grant provided by the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Naples 'Federico II'. Since 2002 he works as a researcher with the Istituto Motori of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy in Naples. In recent years he has also become Full Professor at the International Telematic University UNINETTUNO. His main fields of interest are the electric drives for transportation systems, electric energy converters, electric energy storage systems, power sources with hydrogen fuel cells and hybrid propulsion architecture. He is co-author of 2 book published by Springer, 2 chapters of books and more than 60 papers published in International Journals and in proceedings of conferences. He is reviewer of various International Journals that publish material in the area of energy and power conversion, and technical reviewer of Italian Research and Development Projects. He is director of operative units at Istituto Motori within more than 10 Research National and International Projects.

Energy storage systems, hydrogen fuel cells and hybrid propulsion architecture.

Belyakov V.A. (Belyakov Vladimir Alekseevich), physics researcher; born Leningrad USSR 17-02-1937.Gradueted from Moscow Engeeniring Istitute in 1961; Postgraduate student of I.V.Kurchatov Atomic Energy Institute 1961 – 64; Head of Laboratory in All-Union Physics-Technical and Radio – Technical Institute 1964 – 82 and in Surface and Vacuum Research Centre, Moscow 1982 – 95; Since 1995 Senior Researcher in L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics; Since 1982 Partr-time Professor in Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology; Short term Visiting professor of some Universities: Leuven (Belgium), Tokyo (Japan), Paris Sud (France), Glasgow Thrathclyde (Scotland) etc. Author of the following monographs: Optics of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals, 1982, Optics of Chiral Liquid Crystals, 1989; Diffraction Optics of Complex Structured Periodic Media , 1988, 1992; "Optics of Photonic Crystals", Publishing House of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 2013 (Textbook, in Russian) Candidate of Science 1965; Doctor of Science, 1974, Professor 1980; Honors:Grants of Russion Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), Soros Grants, INTAS Grants; Member of Rassian Academy of Natural Sciences, Member of Rassian Academy of Metrology, Member of International Liquid and Liquid Crystal Society of CIS (mem. Governing bd. 1982).

His research interests range from the theory of solid state nuclear physics to the interaction of radiation with matter.

Dr. Koji Sugioka is a Unit Leader of RIKEN-SIOM Joint Research Unit at RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics. He concurrently serves as a guest professor both at Kyoto University and Tokyo Denki University. He is currently a member of the board of directors of LIA and JLPS, and the SPIE, OSA and IAPLE Fellow.

Academic research and development of practical applications in the area of applying laser materials processing to microfabrication, nanotechnology and biotechnology

Victor Victorovich Apollonovis the leading specialist in the area of basic principles of creation and development of high power laser systems and high power laser radiation interaction with matter. He has made an outstanding input into creation and development of new branches of science - physical and technical fundamentals of high power laser optics and adaptive optics, investigation of physical processes in a high volume self-controlled volume discharges, creation of high power continuous wave, pulsed and high repetition rate pulse-periodic laser systems, high intensity laser radiation interaction with matter, high power laser application for an effective protection of valuable objects and water surface cleaning from oil films, medical applications for UV lasers. He is the author of more than 1160 publications, 14books, 350 presentations and 144 patents. (from Research Gate). He is a high profile scientist and well known around all over the world, for more than 40 years of his international scientific activity, he has participated and organized more than 56 international conferences, symposiums and workshops, prepared more than 32 candidates and doctors of physics and mathematics. He is the General Director of “Energomashtechnika” Ltd. He is the member of European and American Physical Society, SPIE, AIAA, American Society for QE and the member of specialized scientific council of Russia. He is a full member of Russian Academy of Natural Science and Academy of Engineering Sciences, member of the Presidium RANS. He is the laureate of State Prize of USSR (1982) and of Russia (2002).

Physical and technical fundamentals of high power laser optics and adaptive optics, Investigation of physical processes in a high volume self-controlled volume discharges, Creation of high power continuous wave, Pulsed and high repetition rate pulse-periodic laser systems, High intensity laser radiation interaction with matter, High power laser application for an effective protection of valuable objects and water surface cleaning from oil films, Medical applications for UV lasers

Branislav Vlahovic is Director of the National Science Foundation Computational Center of Research Excellence, NASA University Research Center for Aerospace Device, and NSF Center Partnership for Research and Education in Materials at North Carolina Central University. In 2004, he was awarded by the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina Oliver Max Gardner statewide award for his research and contribution to science. He has published more than 300 papers in peer reviewed journals.

Pulsed laser deposition of nanostructures, nonlinear optics,Computer simulations of nanostructures, tunneling and charge transfer between nanostructures,detectors and devices based on quantum confinement, nanophotonics, semiconductor structures and photovoltaics.

Vladimir V. Rumyantsev is Head of Department of Theory of Complex Systems Dynamic Properties at A.A. Galkin Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering (DonIPE). He is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Nanotechnology Department at Donetsk National University (DonNU). He received PhD in Theoretical Physics (1988) from DonNU and Dr. Sci. in Condensed Matter Physics (2007) from DonIPE. Prof. Rumyantsev has authored/co-authored 4 books, 2 chapters in books and more than 230 scientific publications. He is a member of the American Physical Society as well as Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics (MIFP, Italy) and Editor-in-Chiff of Journal of Photonic Materials and Technology (Science PG, USA).

Current research interests include various aspects of solid state physics, crystallooptics, photonics; more particularly - theoretical study of the effects of disorder in quasi-two-dimensional nanofilms and layered structures caused by the propagation of electromagnetic and acoustic excitations, light-matter coupling in composite nanostructures.

Teresa Monteiro is an Associated Professor with Habilitation at the Physics Department of University of Aveiro and a Full Member of i3N - Institute for Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication.In this research field she has published more than 200 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals of the speciality and participated in dozens of international conferences, both as oral and poster contributions. She supervised and co-supervised 22 post-graduate and 18 graduate students’ dissertations. She has also participated in several jury Academic Degrees (in Portugal and abroad). In the last 20 years she participated in more than 20 national and international research projects.

Optical characterization of wide band gap materials (undoped and intentionally doped with different elements, lanthanides and transition metal ions), including nitrides and oxides from bulk to low dimensional structures.

Arkady Major received his BSc in engineering physics from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in 1997 and MSc in laser physics and nonlinear optics from Vilnius University in 1999, both in Lithuania. In 2002 he got the PhD in laser physics from the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom. After this Dr. Major was as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto (2002 – 2007) where he worked on various nonlinear optical spectroscopy and laser microscopy projects. Dr. Major joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba in 2007 where he is now an Associate Professor.

Major’s current research interests are in the development of diode-pumped ultrashort pulse solid-state lasers for biomedical applications. In particular, his efforts are focused on development of advanced laser sources and optical laser technologies for multiphoton imaging and spectroscopy of biological and other systems.

Xiushan Zhu received his Ph.D degree in optical sciences from the University of Arizona in 2008, specializing in fiber lasers and fiber devices. After three years working as a postdoctoral research associate, he became an Assistant Research Professor at the College of Optical Sciences of the University of Arizona in 2011 where he is currently an Associate Research Professor. His research interests include fiber optics, fiber lasers and amplifiers, solid-state lasers, and nonlinear optics. He is also a Senior Optical Scientist at NP Photonics focusing on the research and development of advanced glass and fiber lasers. He has published over 35 articles in refereed journals and has been awarded two patents. He is a member of the OSA and SPIE. He is serving as an Assistant Editor for Journal of Optical Society of America B

Xiushan Zhu research interests include fiber optics, fiber lasers and amplifiers, solid-state lasers, and nonlinear optics.