| 1) Optical Engineering, Design and Lithography + | |||
| Chair: | Yoshio Hayasaki | Utsunomiya University, CORE, Tochigi | Japan |
| Sub-Program committee: | Maria Teresa Flores Arias | University of Santiago de Compostela | Spain |
| Guillermo Baldwin Olguin | Pontificia Universidad Catolica, San Miguel | Perú | |
| Joris Dirckx | Universiteit Antwerpen | Belgium | |
| Alois Herkommer | Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Technische Optik | Germany | |
| Ray-Hua Horng | National Chiao Tung University | Taiwan | |
| Luciana R. P. Kassab | Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo | Brazil | |
| Norbert Kerwien | Zeiss AG | Germany | |
| Bernd Kleemann | Zeiss AG | Germany | |
| Andrés Lasagni | TU Dresden | Germany | |
| Jyoti Mazumder | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | USA | |
| Jie Qiao | Rochester Institute of Technology | USA | |
| Giorgio Quaranta | SUSS MicroOptics SA | Switzerland | |
| Henning Rehn | FISBA AG, St. Gallen | Switzerland | |
| Detlev Ristau | Leibniz Universität Hannover | Germany | |
| 2) Display and Vision + | |||
| Chair: | Thilo Sandner | Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS), Active Microoptical Components and Systems (AMS), Dresden | Germany |
| Sub-Program committee: | Christopher Dainty | Xperi FotoNation | Ireland |
| Daniel Gloess | Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology, Dresden | Germany | |
| Nathan Hagen | Center for Optical Research and Education, Utsunomiya University | Japan | |
| Bahram Javidi | University of Connecticut | USA | |
| Peter Schelkens | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Belgium | |
| Yasuo Tomita | The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo | Japan | |
| Maria J. Yzuel | Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona | Spain | |
| 3) Optical MEMS and Micro-Optics + | |||
| Chair: | Nabeel Riza | University College Cork | Ireland |
| Sub-Program committee: | Stefan M B Bäumer | TNO | Netherlands |
| Mike Douglass | Texas Instruments, Dallas | USA | |
| Asher Albert Friesem | Weizmann Institute of Science | Israel | |
| Hans Peter Herzig | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland | |
| Wilfried Noell | SUSS MicroOptics SA | Switzerland | |
| Thilo Sander | Fraunhofer IPMS, Dresden | Germany | |
| Harald Schenk | Brandenburg University of Technology | Germany | |
| Hiroshi Toshiyoshi | The University of Tokyo | Japan | |
| Ulrike Wallrabe | University of Freiburg | Germany | |
| 4) Optical Sensing + | |||
| Chair: | Fernando Mendoza Santoyo | Ctr. de Investigaciones en Óptica, León | Mexico |
| Sub-Program committee: | Armando Albertazzi | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis | Brazil |
| Francis Berghmans | Vrije Universiteit Brussels | Belgium | |
| Bernd Bodermann | PTB, Braunschweig | Germany | |
| Harald Bosse | PTB, Braunschweig | Germany | |
| Arup Lal Chakraborti | IIT Ghandhinagar | India | |
| Anna Consortini | Universita' degli Studi di Firenze | Italy | |
| Ari T. Friberg | The Institute of Photonics, University of Eastern Finland | Finland | |
| Gerd Häusler | University of Erlangen | Germany | |
| Wilhelm Kaenders | Toptica, München | Germany | |
| Jeff Kuhn | Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii | USA | |
| Peter Lehmann | University of Kassel | Germany | |
| Eberhard Manske | Ilmenau University | Germany | |
| Kaoru Minoshima | The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo | Japan | |
| Thorsten Pfister | Sick AG, Waldkirch | Germany | |
| Stephan Reichelt | SwissOptic | Switzerland | |
| Giuanhao Wu | Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University | ||
| 5) Computational Metrology + | |||
| Chair: | Ralf Bergmann | BIAS, Bremen | Germany |
| Sub-Program committee: | Anand Asundi | Nanyang Technological University in Singapore | Signapore |
| Christian Faber | University of Applied Sciences Landshut | Germany | |
| Claas Falldorf | BIAS, Bremen | Germany | |
| Andreas Fischer | University of Bremen | Germany | |
| Robert Kuschmierz | TU Dresden | Germany | |
| Ali-Reza Moradi | Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan | Iran | |
| Pascal Picart | Le Mans Université | France | |
| Christof Pruß | University of Stuttgart | Germany | |
| Steffen Reichel | University of Applied Sciences Pforzheim | Germany | |
| Joseph Shaw | Montana State University, Bozeman | USA | |
| Rainer Tutsch | TU Braunschweig | Germany | |
| Toyohiko Yatagai | CORE, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi | Japan | |
| 6) Optical Information Processing and Optical Imaging + | |||
| Chair: | Guohai Situ | Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Shanghai | China |
| Sub-Program committee: | Percival F. Almoro | University of the Philippines, Quezon City | Philippines |
| Miguel Alonso | Fresnel | France | |
| Lars Büttner | TU Dresden | Germany | |
| Liangcai Cao | Tsinghua University, Beijing | China | |
| Xinyan Li | Sichuan University, Chengdu | China | |
| Jörg Petschulat | Zeiss AG | Germany | |
| Enrique Tajahuerce | Universitat Jaume | Spain | |
| Mitsuo Takeda | CORE, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi | Japan | |
| Ivo Vellekoop | University of Twente | Netherlands | |
| Zeev Zalevsky | Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan | Israel | |
| 7) Quantum and Nonlinear Optics + | |||
| Chair: | Vladislav Yakovlev | Texas A&M University, College Station | USA |
| Sub-Program committee: | Milena D'Angelo | Università di Bari | Italy |
| Wolfgang Ertmer | Hannover University | Germany | |
| Silvia Ledesma | Universidad de Buenos Aires | Argentinia | |
| Luigi Lugiato | Università dell'Insubria | Italy | |
| Giovanni Morigi | Saarland University | Germany | |
| Sven Ramelow | Humbuldt University of Berlin | Germany | |
| Ernst Rasel | Leibniz Universität Hannover | Germany | |
| Vahid Sandoghdar | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen | Germany | |
| Vincenzo Tamma | University of Portsmouth | UK | |
| Artur Zrenner | Paderborn University | Germany | |
| 8) Ultrafast Phenomena and Ultrafast Optics + | |||
| Chair: | Sangam Chatterjee | University of Gießen | Germany |
| Sub-Program committee: | Rocio Borrego Varillas | IFN-CNR, Politecnico di Milano | Italy |
| Rüdiger Grunwald | Max Born Institute Berlin | Germany | |
| Wilhelm Kaenders | Toptica, München | Germany | |
| Gladys Mínguez Vega | Universitat Jaume I of Castellón | Spain | |
| Uwe Morgner | University of Hannover | Germany | |
| 9) High Power Lasers, X-Ray and High-Energy Optics + | |||
| Chair: | Uwe Morgner | University of Hannover | Germany |
| Sub-Program committee: | Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh | Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona | Spain |
| Stefan Eisebitt | Max-Born-Institut & Technische Universität Berlin | Germany | |
| Jörg Neumann | Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. | Germany | |
| Clara Saraceno | Ruhr University Bochum | Germany | |
| Roland Sauerbrey | Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. | Germany | |
| Valdas Sirutkaitis | Laser Research Center, Vilnius University | Lithuania | |
| Takunori Taira | Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Aichi | Japan | |
| Andreas Tünnermann | Fraunhofer IOF, Jena | Jena | |
| Sulaiman Wadi Harun | University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia | |
| 10) Nano-Optics, Plasmonics and Metamaterials + | |||
| Chair: | Boris Chichkov | Hannover University | Germany |
| Sub-Program committee: | Lukas Eng | TU Dresden | Germany |
| Juejun Hu | MIT, Cambridge | USA | |
| Boris Luk'yanchuk | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia | |
| Tero Setälä | University of Eastern Finland | Finland | |
| Simon Thibault | Laval University | Canada | |
| Nikolay N. Zheludev | NTU Singapore | Signapore | |
| 11) Photonic Crystals, Nanostructures and Functions + | |||
| Chair: | Giancarlo Righini | University of Firenze, CNR | Italy |
| Sub-Program committee: | John Dudley | Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon | France |
| Sasan Fathpour | CREOL, Orlando | USA | |
| Andrew Forbes | University of the Witwatersrand | South Africa | |
| Thomas Härtling | Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS | Germany | |
| Silvia Soria Huget | IFAC-CNR Institute of Applied Physics, Sesto Fiorentino | Italy | |
| Frederik Laurell | KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm | Sweden | |
| Rajesh Menon | The University of Utah, Salt Lake City | USA | |
| Alexander Szameit | University of Rostock | Germany | |
| Eric W. Van Stryland | CREOL, Orlando | USA | |
| Eli Yablonovitch | University of California, Berkeley | USA | |
| 12) Fiber Optics + | |||
| Chair: | Thomas Schneider | TU Braunschweig | Germany |
| Sub-Program committee: | Harith Ahmad | University of Malaya | Malaysia |
| Gilles Pauliat | Institut d’Optique Graduate School, CNRS | France | |
| Wolfgang Schade | Germany | ||
| Kenny Weir | Imperial College London | UK | |
| Avinoam Zadok | Bar-Ilan University | Israel | |
| 13) Optical Communications and Photonic Network + | |||
| Chair: | Thomas Schneider | TU Braunschweig | Germany |
| Sub-Program committee: | Govind P. Agrawal | University of Rochester | USA |
| David Marpaung | University of Twente | Netherlands | |
| Boon Ooi | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Jeddah | Saudi Arabi | |
| Christian G. Schaeffer | Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Hamburg | Germany | |
| Marcelo A. Soto Hernández | Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso | Chile | |
| Linjie Zhou | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China | |
| 14) Optoelectronics, Terahertz-Photonics and Silicon Photonics + | |||
| Chair: | Kambiz Jamshidi | TU Dresden | Germany |
| Sub-Program committee: | Manfred Helm | Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. | Germany |
| Martin Hofmann | Germany | ||
| Bhavin J. Shastri | Queen's University, Ontario | Canada | |
| Mathias B. Steiner | IBM, Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | |
| Jeremy Witzen | RWTH Aachen | Germany | |
| Mourad Zghal | Univ. of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia and Institut Mines-Telecom | France | |
| 15) Microscopy, Biomedical Spectroscopy and Advanced Imaging + | |||
| Chair: | Pietro Ferraro | Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (ISASI) | Italy |
| Sub-Program committee: | Pablo Artal | Universidad de Murcia | Spain |
| Cornelia Denz | University of Münster | Germany | |
| Nektarios Koukourakis | TU Dresden | Germany | |
| Malgorzata Kujawinska | Warsaw University of Technology | Poland | |
| Yukitoshi Otani | CORE, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi | Japan | |
| Jan Peychl | MPI-CBG, Dresden | Germany | |
| Adrian Podoleanu | University of Kent | United Kingdom | |
| Erich Rohwer | Stellenbosch University | South Africa | |
| Efrain Solarte | Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali | Colombia | |
| George A. Stanciu | University Politehnica of Bucharest | Romania | |
| Peter Török | Nayang Technological University | Signapore | |
| 16) Biomechanics, Optical Elastography and BioBrillouin + | |||
| Chair: | Kareem Elsayad | Vienna BioCenter | Austria |
| Sub-Program committee: | Giuseppe Antonacci | Ghent University | Belgium |
| Alberto Bilenca | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba | Israel | |
| Thomas Dehoux | Université Bordeaux | France | |
| Daniele Fioretto | Università degli Studi di Perugia | Italy | |
| Kirill V. Larin | University of Houston | USA | |
| Oliver Otto | University of Greifswald | Germany | |
| Francesca Palombo | University of Exeter | UK | |
| Robert Prevedel | EMBL Heidelberg | Germany | |
| Oli Stachs | University of Rostock | Germany | |
| 17) Biomedical Optics + | |||
| Chair: | Valery Tuchin | Saratov State University | Russia |
| Sub-Program committee: | Ekaterina Borisova | Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia | Bulgaria |
| Kayvan Forouhesh Tehrani | University of Georgia, Athens | USA | |
| Katrin Philipp | Voco digital GmbH | Germany | |
| Roberto Pini | National Research Council of Italy, Sesto Fiorentino | Italy | |
| Monika Ritsch-Marte | Medizinische Universität Innsbruck | Austria | |
| Janis Spigulis | University of Latvia | Latvia | |
| Ronald Tetzlaff | TU Dresden | Germany | |
| Kevin Tsia | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | |
| Julia Walther | TU Dresden | Germany | |
| Dan Zhu | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | China | |
| 18) Nanobiophotonics, Optogenetics and Nanosensing + | |||
| Chair: | Michel Meunier | École Polytechnique de Montréal | Canada |
| Sub-Program committee: | Volker Busskamp | Germany | |
| Stefan Diez | TU Dresden | Germany | |
| Klaus Gerwert | Center for Protein Diagnostics, University Bochum | Germany | |
| Debabrata Goswami | IIT Kanpur | India | |
| Caroline Murawski | Kurt-Schwabe-Institute, Meinsberg | Germany | |
| Alexander V. Priezzhev | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia | |
| Cather Simpson | University of Auckland | New Zealand | |
| Uwe Vogel | Fraunhofer FEP Dresden | Germany | |
| 19) Optical Technologies Fighting Infectious Diseases + | |||
| Chair: | Alexander Heisterkamp | University of Hannover | Germany |
| Sub-Program committee: | Sangam Chatterjee | University of Giessen | Germany |
| Alberto Diaspro | Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia | Italy | |
| Eric Rosas | Cluster Mexicano de Fotónica | Mexico | |
| Fernando Mendoza Santoyo | Centro de Investigaciones en Optico | Mexico | |
| Thomas Schneider | TU-Braunschweig | Germany | |
| 20) Further Members + | ||
| Veronica Ahufinger | Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona | Spain |
| David L. Andrews | University of East Angli | UK |
| Peter de Groot | Zygo | USA |
| Nabeel A. Riza | University College Cork | Ireland |
| Giuliano Scarcelli | Maryland University | USA |
| Ulrike Woggon | TU Berlin | Germany |
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