Topical Meeting on Optoinformatics 2008

Within the framework of
V Int. Optical Congress
"Optics - XXI Century"
Congress' Chairs:
Zh. Alferov, V. Vasilev

Topical Meeting on
Optoinformatics

'2008

Has been co-sponsored by the ICO

September 15-18, 2008, St.Petersburg, Russia

Post-deadline papers can be submitted.

List of Focus Sessions

Session "Holography. Signal and Image Processing"

Chairs: Leonid Yaroslavsky (Tel Aviv University, Israel; Institute for Information Transmission Problems, RAS)

Holography
Optical Digital Processors, Optical Computers, Optics in Computing
Optical Logical Processors and Gates
Optical Interconnections
Optical Correlators and Convolvers, Control Systems, Industrial Applications
Computational imaging
Numerical Methods in Optics
Image and Video Processing
Digital Holography
Computer Generated holograms
3D Visualization
Recording Media

Invited speakers: Leonid I. Muravsky (Karpenko Physico-Mechanical Institute, Lviv, Ukraine: Institute of Computer Sciences, Lodz Technical University, Lodz, Poland); Tatiana N. Smirnova (Institute of Physics NASU, Kiev, Ukraine)

Session "Bio-Optics, Bio-Photonics, High Resolution Imaging, Vision and Photoreceptors"

Chairs: Adrian Podoleanu (University of Kent, UK); Richard B. Rosen (New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, USA)

Optical Coherence Tomography
Ocular Wavefront Aberrometry, Adaptive Optics, Photoreceptors, Processing and Modeling of Visual Information
Flying Spot Scanning Laser in Ophthalmoscopy and Microscopy
Multiphoton Microscopy, Multidimensional Microscopy and Super-resolution
Photons, Ultrasound and Biomedical Vibration Spectroscopy in Sensing and Imaging
Optical Manipulation of Cells and Biomolecules
Mechanisms of Phototoxicity and Damage Assessment
Optics of the Tissue
Low Level Laser Therapy
Polarization Measurements and Imaging of Tissue
Optics for Tumor Detection, Visualization and Treatment, Systems for Photodynamic Therapy
Laser Welding of Tissue
Optical Devices for Bio-Photonics Instrumentation and Bio-Sensors, Nano Bio-Photonics

Invited speakers: Prof. Susana Marcos (Instituto de Optica in Madrid, Spain); Prof. David Sampson (University of Western Australia, Australia);

Session "Quantum Optics and Quantum Information"

Chairs: Valerii Gorbachev (St.Petersburg); Alexander Kazakov (St.Petersburg)

Quantum Entanglement, Bell Inequalities, Quantum Non-Locality
Quantum Teleportation
Quantum Cryptography
Quantum Error Correction and Decoherence-Free Subspaces
Generation and Manipulation of Entangled States of Light
Quantum Information with Continuous Variables, Optical Implementations
Quantum Computation with Linear Optics
Models of Quantum Computers

Invited speakers: Prof. Luis L. Sanchez-Soto (Unviersidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain); Prof. Maris Chekhova (Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia); Prof. Alexei V. Chizhov (Bogoliubov Lab. of Theor. Physics, JINR, Russia); "Optical quantum channel evolution in dispersing and absorbing media"

Session "Optical Microscopy and Metrology"

Chairs: Sergey Bozhevolny ; Evgenii Zolotov

High-resolution Confocal Microscopy, including Heterodyne and Phase-Shifting Techniques
High-resolution Image Ellipsometry
Superresolving Methods of Image Processing in Microscopy
Near-Field Optics and Microscopy, including Image Formation
A Rigorous Analysis of Diffraction, including Phase Singularities and Polarization Effects
Optics of Metal Nanostructures, including Plasmons and Polaritons
Nonlinear Microscopy, including Local Field Enhancement Effects
Femtosecond Metrology
Integrated-optical sensors and processors

Invited speakers: Prof. John Erland Ostergaard (Institute of Sensors, Signals and Electrotechnics (SENSE), University of Southern Denmark) Prof. Nataliya D. Kundikova (Southern Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia); Prof. Valeri Z. Lozovski (Kyiv National T.Shevchenko University, Kyiv, Ukraine); Prof. Valentyn S. Volkov (Institute of Sensors, Signals and Electrotechnics (SENSE), Denmark); Dr. Jonas Beermann (Institute of Sensors, Signals and Electrotechnics (SENSE), Denmark); Prof. Vladimir Tychinsky (Moscow Institute for Radioengineering, Electronics and Automations, Russia)

Session "Phase space optics"

Chairs: Tatiana Alieva (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain); Martin J. Bastiaans (Technical University of Eidhoven, the Netherlands);

Canonical Integral Transforms
Wigner Distribution and other Bilinear Distributions. Phase Space Tomography
Optical Convolution and Correlation Operations. Filtering
Optical Wavelet Transforms
Optical Hilbert, Hough, Hankel and other Transforms
Optical Fractional Transforms
Mode Converters
Beam Characterization and Propagation
Fractal Optics

Invited speakers: Prof. Miguel A. Alonso (University of Rochester, U.S.A); Prof. Eugeny G. Abramochkin (Samara branch of P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of RAS, Russia)

Session "Recent Advances in Femtosecond Laser Technology"

Chairs: Sergey A. Kozlov (St.Petersburg State Univ. of IT, Mechanics & Optics, Russia); Andrei B. Savel'ev (M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Russia); Mikhail Kalashnikov (Max-Born-Institute for nonlinear optics and short pulse spectroscopy, German)

Invited speakers:

Few cycle pulse generation & characterization
Extreme power femtosecond lasers
Non-linear femtosecond optics
Femtosecond laser pulse control
Applications of ultrashort laser pulses

Invited speakers: Prof. S. Klimentov (GPI RAS, University of Stuttgart); Prof. A. Shkurinov (MSU, Russia); Prof. S. Ashitkov (); Prof. P. Mikheev (MSU, Russia); Prof. A. Fedotov (MSU, Russia); Prof. D. Uryupina ()

Session "Education in Optoinformatics"

Chairs: Mari'a S. Milla'n Garci'a-Varela (Universidad Polite'cnica de Catalun~a / Polytechnic University of Catalonia), Barselona, Spain); Thomas J. Naughton (National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and University of Oulu, Finland)

Invited spakers: Prof. Pierre Ambs (Universite de Haute Alsace, MULHOUSE, France) Prof. Yuriy N. Dubnishchev (Institute of Thermophysics of SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia)