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Biophotonics, Novel Sensing, and Advanced Imaging
Session chair: Parsin H. Reza, University of Waterloo (Canada)
 
Session co-chairs: 
Albert Stolow, University of Ottawa (Canada)
Sangeeta Murugkar, Carleton University (Canada)
Kamran Avanaki, University of Illinois Chicago (USA)
 
This session provides a forum to present and discuss theory, design, fabrication, instrumentation, and applications in the areas of biophotonics, novel sensing, and advanced imaging. Topics in biophotonics include but are not limited to biomedical optical sensing/imaging technologies, image-guided drug delivery, brain imaging, clinical systems and applications, image-guided surgery, bio-inspired optics, and novel optical technologies for diagnosis and treatment. Novel sensing encompasses a range of rapidly advancing technologies that include but are not limited to fiber-optic and optical waveguide techniques, micromechanical oscillators, microcavity resonators, laser-based sensors, novel molecular probe design, nanoparticles and fluorescent markers, optofluidics, lab-on-a-chip, and small-footprint devices. This session also encourages submissions relating to all types of optical imaging technologies for diverse applications. Topics include but are not limited to 3D imaging, AR/VR, wearable display, image processing, computational imaging/spectroscopy, tomographic imaging, holography, high-dimensional imaging, multi-modal imaging, and advanced microscopy.
 
Keynote Speakers: 
  1. Ji-Xin Cheng (Boston, USA)
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  2. Brian Pogue (Wisconsin, USA)
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Invited Speakers: 
  1. Daniel Cote (U. Laval)
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  2. Kathleen Gough (U. Manitoba)
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  3. Andrew Harris (Carleton U)
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  4. Eno Hysi (U. Toronto)
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  5. Leila Mostaco-Guidolin (Carleton University)
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  6. Juergen Popp (Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology - Leibniz IPHT)
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  7. Dmitry Pushin (U. Waterloo)
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  8. Maurice Retout
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  9. Guan Gary Xu
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  10. Xinmai Yang
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  11. Xincheng Yao
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  12. Haishan Zeng (BC cancer agency)
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  13. Chi Zhang  (Purdue U)
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  14. Jitao Zhang
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  15. Danielle Tokarz

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Green Photonics, Energy, and Related Technologies
Session chair: Sharif Sadaf, INRS
 
Session co-chairs: 
Eva Monroy, CEA-Grenoble
Sofiane Haffouz, NRC Canada
 
Efficient utilization of light, both natural and artificial, is an essential goal of photonics technology. This session investigates photovoltaics and photonics applications in energy efficiency and manufacturing. Paper with novel results in the following topics will be considered: Materials, Characterization techniques, Numerical modeling, Advanced light management and spectral shaping, Devices including photovoltaics, LEDs, power converters, low power sensors, fuels generation, System architectures, Solar resource, and economics models, Converged bidirectional power and data and Agricultural adaptations.
 
Keynote Speakers: 
  1. Prashant Kamat, University of Notre Dame (USA)
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  2. Yoon-Ho Cho, KAIST
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Invited Speakers: 
  1. Shamsul Arafin, Ohio State University
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  2. Masazumi Fujiwara, Okayama Univerity
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  3. Soffiane Haffouz, NRC Canada
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  4. Ray laPierre, McMaster University
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  5. Gary Leach, Simon Fraser University
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  6. Kunal Mukherjee, Stanford University
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  7. Emanuele Orgiu, INRS
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  8. Gwenole Jacopin
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  9. Karen L. Kavanagh
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  10. Oussama Moutanabbir
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High Power Laser Technology, Ultrafast Optics, and Applications
Session chair: Arkady Major, University of Manitoba (Canada)
 
Session co-chairs: 
Shawn Sederberg, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Bernd Witzel, Laval University (Canada)
Ksenia Dolgaleva, University of Ottawa (Canada)
 
This session will provide a forum to present and explore recent developments in the areas of high power laser technology, ultrafast optics, and applications. Topics include, but are not limited to, the foll owing areas: advances in laser sources; ultrafast solid-state, fiber, waveguide, and semiconductor laser sources; nonlinear frequency conversion; high peak power lasers and amplification technologies; high-intensity laser-matter interactions; laser-based XUV and X-ray sources; applications of novel short wavelength sources; laser-based particle acceleration; attosecond science; high harmonic generation; relativistic nonlinear phenomena; intense pulse propagation; sources of THz radiation; THz spectroscopy, sensing, and imaging; new THz measurement techniques; THz nonlinear optics; ultrafast devices, systems, and measurement techniques; applications of ultrafast technology.
 
Invited Speakers: 
  1.  Almantas Galvanauskas, University of Michigan, USA
    Abstract title: Coherently combined femtosecond fiber lasers – pathways to power scalable multi-TW drivers of laser plasma accelerators and secondary radiation sources
  2. Regina Gumenyuk, Tampere University, Finland
    Abstract title: Tapered fiber amplifiers: harnessing the power of light
  3. Ivan Konoplev, UK Atomic Energy Authority, UK
    Abstract title: Cherenkov THz demonstrator with multistage depressed collector: concept and first steps toward experiment
  4. Angela Gamouras, National Research Council, Canada
    Abstract title: From single pulses to single photons: Breakthroughs in terahertz detection techniques
  5. R. Jason Jones, University of Arizona, USA
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  6. Chandrashekhar Joshi, University of California Los Angeles, USA
    Abstract title: How are Ultra-short pulse high field science and quantum electronics related?
  7. Oleg Pronin,Helmut Schmidt University, Germany
    Abstract title: χ² and χ³ Multipass Nonlinear Optics: Overview and Recent Progress
  8. Caterina Vozzi, CNR-IFN, Italy
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  9. Giulio Vampa, University of Ottawa, Canada
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Nonlinear Optics, Nanophotonics, and Plasmonics

Session chair: Pablo Bianucci, Concordia University (Canada)

Session co-chair: Jayshri Sabarinathan, University of Western Ontario

 
This session aims at giving an overview on recent trends and achievements in nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, and plasmonics, with a particular emphasis on fundamental nonlinear radiation-matter interactions, practical applications of nonlinear spectroscopy, integrated nonlinear optical devices, deep-subwavelength investigations, nanostructures, and nanomaterials for photonics, nanoplasmonic systems, metasurfaces, and metamaterials. We encourage the submission of abstracts that are related to one or more of the above topics.
 
Keynote Speaker: 
  1. Melissa Guidry, Stanford University
    Abstract title: Quantum Noise Structure of Kerr Microcombs
  2. Ksenia Dolgaleva, University of Ottawa
    Abstract title: Nonlinear Optical Response of Solids at the THz Frequencies
     
Invited Speakers: 
  1. François Blanchard, École de Technologie Superieure
    Abstract title: Single-shot broadband detection of terahertz waves
  2. Giuseppe Brunetti, Politecnico di Bari
    Abstract title: Optical Bistability in Chip-Scaled Ring Resonators
  3. Qiying Chen, Memorial Universiyy Newfoundland
    Abstract title: Achieving Femtosecond Laser 3D Printing Opto-Microfluidics
  4. Marcello Ferrera, Herriot-Watt University
    Abstract title: Transparent Conductors and Time-Varying media
  5. Ali Hatef, Nipissing University
    Abstract title: Tunable Optical Responses of Plasmonic Nanostructures Mediated by Phase Change Materials via Photothermal Processes
  6. Sebastien Loranger, École Polytechnique de Montréal
    Abstract title: Waveguide optimization criteria for THz generation through Stimulated Raman Scattering in hydrogen-filled hollow-core fiber
  7. Sergey Ponomarenko, Dalhousie University
    Abstract title: Structured Random Light, Orbital Angular Momentum and Number Factorization
  8. Claudine Allen, Université Laval - COPL
    Abstract title: Controlling the Photoluminescence Stability and the Energy Levels of Colloidal Quantum-Dot Photon Emitters in Plastic Optical Fibers
  9. Aaron Slepkov, Trent University
    Abstract title: Temperature dynamics of fundamental microwave resonances in aqueous spheres
  10. Aycan Yurtsever, Institut Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique
    Abstract title: Unveiling light-matter interactions at single nanoparticle level and ultrafast times
Semiconductor Photonics
Session chair: Winnie Ye, Carleton University (Canada)
 
Session co-chair: Jens Schmid, NRC (Canada)
 
The goal of this session is to provide an overview of recent achievements and trends on optical communications, involving theoretical and experimental advances from the component and device level to the system application level. Both short and long-haul communication platforms will be considered. The central interest of the session is on envisioned technologies and strategies aimed at increasing the performance capabilities of available broadband communication platforms. Topics of interest in optical communications include innovative optical multiplexing strategies, such as space-domain multiplexing combined with time-domain or/and frequency-domain multiplexing techniques, advanced optical modulation formats, coherent communication strategies, digital-signal processing methods for pre- and post-compensation of linear and nonlinear impairments,  and linear and nonlinear photonic technologies for communication applications, such as integrated-waveguide (e.g., silicon photonic) technologies.
 
Keynote Speaker: 
  1. Kei May Lau, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
    Abstract title: A New Paradigm for Photonic Integration - Direct Lateral III-V Growth on SOI for lasers and more
  2. Roberto Morandotti, INRS
    Abstract title: Advances in Quantum and Smart Photonics in fiber-based systems

Invited Speakers: 

  1. Shamsul Arafin, Ohio State University (USA)
    Abstract title: Recent Progress on Green Light Generation and Manipulation through Non-Linear Waveguide Technology
  2. Wim Bogaerts, Ghent University 
    Abstract title: Programmable Photonic Chips for Optical Signal Processing
  3. Camille-Sophie Bres, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 
    Abstract title: Aluminum nitride integrated photonics
  4. Lado Filipovic, TU Wien (Austria Vienna)
    Abstract title: Theoretical Insights into Next-Generation Hot Carrier Solar Cells
  5. Cameron Horvath, Applied Nanotools Inc.
    Abstract title: Development of Silicon Nitride PIC Platforms for Rapid Prototyping
  6. Di Liang, University of Michigan (USA)
    Abstract title: Building Blocks and Heterogeneous Photonic Integration Platforms for AI-ML Age
  7. Goran Mashanovich, University of Southampton
    Abstract title: Silicon and germanium photonics for mid-IR applications
  8. Daniele Melati, University of Paris Saclay (France)
    Abstract title: Metamaterial devices for free-space optical systems
  9. Zindine Mokeddem, University of Paris Saclay (France)
    Abstract title: Design of polarization beam splitters and splitter-rotators on silicon nitride platforms for 950 nm and 1300 nm wavelengths
  10. Andrew Poon, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
    Abstract title: Recent Progress in SiC integrated nonlinear and quantum photonics
  11. Alejandro Sanchez Postigo, University of Malaga (Spain)
    Abstract title: High-performance surface grating couplers on silicon and silicon nitride platforms
  12. Laurent Vivien, University of Paris Saclay (France) 
    Abstract title: Emerging Photonic Platforms: Surpassing the Limitations of Silicon
  13. Ksenia Yadav, Enablence Technologies
    Abstract title: Machine learning-driven design for precise phase control in integrated photonics
  14. Jianhao Zhang, National Research Council Canada
    Abstract title: Advanced designs of optical antennas and optical phased arrays
  15. David Laleyang, NS Nanotech Canada
    Abstract title: Insulation and Planarization of Nanowire LEDs
  16. John Yeow, University of Waterloo
    Abstract title: 2D Material Composites for Infrared Photodetectors
  17. Paul Barclay, University of Calgary (Canada)
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Photonic Materials

Session chair: Tigran Galstian, COPL (Canada)

Session co-chairs: 
Younès Messaddeq, Université Laval (Canada)
Sylvain G. Cloutier, École de technologie supérieure (Canada)
 
Innovative photonic solutions often heavily rely on material properties of components used. The traditional approach was to choose those materials at relatively late stages of the design. However, many solutions may benefit from the “smart” design of optical materials keeping in mind their specific use. Multi-functional optical materials are the focus of our attention in this symposium. We would like to invite contributions describing innovative photonic devices with particularly emphasized role of photonic materials used as well as innovative multifunctional photonic materials that may enable new photonic devices. The symposium is also open for contributions describing natural photonic materials and structures (since we have so much to learn from nature) as well as materials with potential use in biophotonics and biomedicine.
 
Keynote Speakers: 
  1. Arutyun Bagramyan, Harvard University
    Abstract title: Miniaturized microscope for noninvasive immune system monitoring in humans

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  1. Hany Aziz, University of Waterloo
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  2. Martin Bolduc, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
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  3. Harutiun Bagramyan, Harvard University
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  4. Peter Herman, University of Toronto 
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  5. Domenico Pacifici, Brown University
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  6. Raphael St-Gelais, University of Ottawa
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  7. Thierry Cardinal, ICMCB - Université de Bordeaux
    Abstract title: How exotic oxide glasses can provide solutions for integrated optics
  8. Frederic Smektala, Université Bourgogne Europe - CNRS
    Abstract title: High-power ultra-broadband supercontinuum generation in tapered chalcogenide fibers

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Photonics and AI

Session chair: Antonio Calà Lesina, Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany)

Session co-chairs: 
Stefanie Czischek, University of Ottawa (Canada)           
Sean Molesky, Polytechnique Montréal (Canada)
Ksenia Yadav, Enablence Technologies Inc. (Canada)
 
This session aims at giving an overview of how artificial intelligence (AI) intersects with photonics from two different perspectives:
(1) Using AI for photonics: application of artificial neural networks, deep learning, machine learning, genetic algorithms, automated reasoning, Bayesian approaches, big data, advanced optimization techniques for inverse design, and other AI paradigms to integrated optics, nanophotonics, remote sensing, spectroscopy, microscopy, quantum optics, computational imaging, quantum communication protocols, augmented and virtual reality, and other areas of photonics.
(2) Using photonics for AI: application of photonics technology for AI computing, such as analogic optical computing for AI, reservoir computing, photonic quantum machine learning, photonic hardware accelerators, neuromorphic computing, and photonics neural networks.
 
Keynote Speakers: 
  1. Aydogan Ozcan, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
    Abstract title: Programming Light Diffraction for Information Processing and Computational Imaging
  2. Costantino De Angelis, University of Brescia, Italy
    Abstract title: Analog image processing with nonlinear flat optics
Invited Speakers: 
  1. Antonio Hurtado, University of Strathclyde, UK
    Abstract title: Photonics for high-speed neuromorphic computing
  2. Michael Kues, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
    Abstract title: Quantum frequency circuits for information processing
  3. Giuseppe Leo, Université Paris Cité, France
    Abstract title: Nonlinear generation of orbital angular momentum in metasurfaces
  4. Zin Lin, Virginia Tech, USA
    Abstract title: Freeform Metasurface Inverse Design beyond Locally Periodic Approximation
  5. Alexander Lvovsky, University of Oxford, UK
    Abstract title: The many faces of optical neural networks
  6. Daniele Melati, Université Paris Saclay, France
    Abstract title: Optimization and machine learning for the inverse design of photonic integrated devices
  7. Nir Rotenberg, Queen's University, Canada
    Abstract title: Quantum photonic neural networks
  8. Carsten Schuck, University of Münster, Germany
    Abstract title: Optimizing Nanophotonic Inverse Design with Reinforcement Learning, Deep Template Networks, and Stochastic Methods
  9. Grigorii Slinkov (Birgit Stiller’s group), Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany
    Abstract title: Advancing photonic computation with sound waves
  10. Peter Wiecha, LAAS-CNRS Toulouse, France
    Abstract title: Differentiable Nano-Photonics: Physics Informed Learning and Inverse Design
  11. Kiyoul Yang, Harvard University, USA
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  12. Tatsuhiro Onodera, Cornell University, USA
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  13. Alina Karabchevsky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
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  14. Goery Genty, Tampere University, Finland
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Photonic Theory, Design, and Simulations
Session chair: Pavel Cheben, National Research Council, Canada
 
Session co-chair: Jonathan Bradley, McMaster University, Canada
 
This session focuses on the physics, design, and simulations of optical and photonic structures, devices, and systems. It is intended to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas on optics, photonics and, optoelectronics theory, design, simulation and, verification techniques at different levels, including material properties, components, devices, systems, fabrication, and applications. The session covers a wide range of topics in photonic theory, simulation, and design, including: waveguide photonic bandgap engineering, microcavities, passive and active photonic devices, sensors, diffractive and subwavelength structures, integrated optical circuits for datacom, WDM, and coherent communication systems, light sources, photodetectors, modulators, amplifiers, wavelength converters, switches, couplers, resonators, filters, free-space optics, optical interconnects, optics for aerospace and defense, photonic design automation, manufacturing and verification tools, and novel algorithms and photonic CAD software for photonics and integration with electronics.
 
Keynote Speakers: 
  1. Michael Berry, University of Bristol, UK 
    Abstract title: The singularities of light:  intensity, phase and polarization
  2. Yasuhiko Arakawa, University of Tokyo, Japan 
    Abstract title: Quantum-dot single photon sources
     
Invited Speakers: 
  1. Ahmad Atieh, Optiwave Systems, Canada
    Abstract title: Flexible system-level characterization of photonic Integrated circuits in OptiSystem software
  2. Gabriele Bolognini, CNR, Italy 
    Abstract title: Distributed acoustic sensing: fading noise and impact of optical pre-amplification
  3. Mario Dagenais, University of Maryland, USA
    Abstract title: Photonics Integration for Quantum Information Applications
  4. Hao Sun, INRS, Canada
    Abstract title: Advancing Waveguide Bragg Gratings with Subwavelength Gratings and Phase Filters
  5. Antonio Hurtado, University of Strathclyde, UK
    Abstract title: Photonic-Electronic Spiking Neurons for High-speed and Efficient Neuromorphic Technologies
  6. David Moss, Swinburne University, Australia
    Abstract title: Ultra-high bandwidth applications of optical microcombs
  7. Gualtiero Nunzi Conti, CNR, Italy
    Abstract title: TBA
  8. Alexandre Pohl, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil 
    Abstract title: Design and fabrication of photonic components using the additive manufacturing
  9. Carlos A. Ramos, Universite Paris Saclay, France
    Abstract title: Harnessing nonlinearities in silicon nanostructures
  10. Peter G.R. Smith,  University of Southampton, UK
    Abstract title: Photonic structures for novel close-to-eye display technology based on nonlinear wave-mixing
  11. Aaron Zilkie, WEBridge Ventures, USA
    Abstract title: Broadband on-chip spectrometers
  12. Crina Maria Cojocaru, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
    Abstract title: Tailoring plasmonic metasurfaces for efficient harmonic generation
  13. Muthukumar Packrisamy, Concordia University, Canada
    Abstract title: Photonics and Plasmonics Integrated Microsystems and Applications
  14. Periklis Petropoulos, University of Southampton
    Abstract title: Applications of optical nonlinear systems in communications and computing
  15. Zhenguo Lu, NRC Canada
    Abstract title: Quantum dot coherent comb laser-based photonics integrated chips
  16. Jose Manuel Luque Gonzales, University of Malaga, Spain
    Abstract title: Expanding the Boundaries of Inverse Design: High-Performance Silicon Photonics with Anisotropic SWG Metamaterials
  17. Newton Cesario Frateschi, Campinas University, Brazil
    Abstract title: Hybrid integration of 2D dichalcogenides for low power saturable absorption in photonic integrated circuits
  18. Radovan Korcek, National Research Council, Canada
    Abstract title: Recent advances in nanophotonic couplers
  19. Raman Kashyap, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
    Abstract title: Recent progress in Fs laser glass modification with an ultrafast laser
  20. Dawson B Bonneville, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente (Netherlands)
    Abstract title: Commercially competitive optical gain in erbium doped polycrystalline aluminium oxide spiral waveguide amplifiers
  21. Frederic Gardes, University of Southampton, UK
    Abstract title: Silicon nitride for monolithic integration of compound semiconductor on silicon
Quantum Light-Matter Interactions: Sensing, Communications, and Information Processing
Session chair: Benjamin Sussman, NRC (Canada)
 
Session co-chairs: 
Bienvenu Irenge Ndagano
Andrew Proppe
 
Considerable efforts are underway globally to employ fundamental aspects of quantum physics to develop quantum technologies. This session will bring together leading theoretical and experimental physicists to discuss the latest developments in various implementations of quantum applications using atoms, molecules, and photons. Concerning quantum communications, though the emphasis is on quantum key distribution, we welcome a diverse range of topics: from components (sources, detectors, memories, repeaters, integrated devices) to systems (fiber-based and free-space), from novel protocols to quantum hacking schemes to quantum measurements.
 
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  1. Robert Boyd, University of Ottawa
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  2. Boris Bravermann, University of Toronto
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  3. John P. Davis, University of Alberta
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  4. Alessandro Fedrizzi, Heriott-Watt University 
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  5. Kimberely Hall, Dalhousie University 
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  6. Stephen Hughes, Queen’s University 
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  7. Ebrahim Karimi, University of Ottawa
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  8. Na Young Kim, University of Waterloo
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  9. Jonathan Lavoie, Xanadu
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  10. Lindsay J. Leblanc, University of Alberta
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  11. Brahim Lounis, CNRS & Université Bordeaux
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  12. Jeff Lundeen, University of Ottawa
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  13. Maiken Mikkelsen, Duke University 
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  14. David Northeast, National Research Council
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  15. Nicolas Quesada, Polytechnique Montréal
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  16. Micheal Reimer, University of Waterloo
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  17. Nir Rotenberg, Queen’s University 
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  18. Kai Weng, McGill University
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  19. Philip Bustard
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