18th International Laser Physics Workshop
(Barcelona, July 13-17, 2009)

The eighteenth annual International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS'09) was held from to in the city of Barcelona, Spain, at the World Trade Center Barcelona, hosted by Institute of Photonic Sciences, ICFO.

Barcelona

LPHYS'09.  Chairpersons:

LPHYS'09.  Deputy Chairpersons:

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    Igor V. Yevseyev


    Department of Theoretical Physics, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
     

LPHYS'09.  Steering Committee:

LPHYS'09.    Plenary Speakers:

  1. Advanced Nanostructured Films for Integrated Optics

  2. Laser Induced Imaging of Molecular Structure - Tunneling Diffraction and Tomography

  3. Quantum Simulation with Ultracold Atoms in Laser Lattices

  4. Attosecond Physics

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      Ferenc Krausz

      Nobel Prize Winner 
      Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany, Garching, Germany
      Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, Munich, Germany
      Center for Molecular Fingerprinting, Budapest, Hungary, Budapest, Hungary

  5. Non Surgical Laser and Light in the Treatment of Chronic Diseases

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      Leonardo Longo


      International Academy for Laser in Medicine and Surgery (IALMS), Firenze, Italy

  6. Laser Information Technologies for Medical Applications

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      Vladislav Ya. Panchenko


      Institute on Laser and Information Technologies, RAS, Shatura, Moscow Region, Russia

  7. Dynamics of Solitons in a Weakly Inhomogeneous Medium

  8. Brilliant FEL Light: New Frontiers in AMO Research

  9. Multiphoton Entaglement

LPHYS'09.  Local Organizing Committee:

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    Pedro Andres


    Universitat de València, València, Spain
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    Pablo Artal


    Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
     

  • Luis Banares


    Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
     
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    Ramon Corbalan


    Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Bellaterra, Spain

  • Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh


    Institute of Photonic Sciences, ICFO, Barcelona, Spain

  • Jürgen Eschner


    Institute of Photonic Sciences, ICFO, Barcelona, Spain
     

  • Laura Grau


    Institute of Photonic Sciences, ICFO, Barcelona, Spain
     

  • Niek van Hulst


    Institute of Photonic Sciences, ICFO, Barcelona, Spain

  • Maciej Lewenstein


    Institute of Photonic Sciences, ICFO, Barcelona, Spain

  • Dmitri Petrov


    Institute of Photonic Sciences, ICFO, Barcelona, Spain

  • Luis Roso


    Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

  • Carles Serrat


    Institute of Photonic Sciences, ICFO, Barcelona, Spain
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    Ramon Vilaseca


    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
     

LPHYS'09.  Advisory & Program Committee:

LPHYS'09.    Scientific Seminars:

  • Seminar 1:   Modern Trends in Laser Physics

    Co-chairs:

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      Franz X. Kärtner

      Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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      Olga Kocharovskaya

      Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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      Kirill A. Prokhorov

      A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

  • Seminar 2:   Strong Field & Attosecond Physics

    Co-chairs:

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      Wilhelm Becker

      Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany
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      Jens Biegert

      Institute of Photonic Sciences, (ICFO), Barcelona, Spain
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      Mikhail V. Fedorov

      A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    • Symposium:   Dynamic Imaging - in memory of Prof. N.B. Delone

      Co-chairs:

  • Seminar 3:   Biophotonics

    Co-chairs:

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      Vanderlei S. Bagnato

      University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
      Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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      Sergey A. Gonchukov

      National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
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      Jürgen Lademann

      Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany

  • Seminar 4:   Physics of Lasers

    Co-chairs:

  • Seminar 5:   Nonlinear Optics & Spectroscopy

    Co-chairs:

  • Seminar 6:   Physics of Cold Trapped Atoms

    Co-chairs:

  • Seminar 7:   Quantum Information Science

    Co-chairs:

  • Seminar 8:   Nanophotonics

    Co-chairs:

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      Pavel K. Kashkarov

      Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, Russia
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      Vitaly I. Konov

      Natural Scienses Center, A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
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      Jordi Martorell

      Institute of Photonic Sciences, ICFO, Barcelona, Spain

  • Seminar 9:   Fiber Lasers

    Co-chairs:

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      Miguel V. Andrés

      University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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      Evgueni M. Dianov

      Fiber Optics Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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      Hans G. Limberger

      Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

LPHYS'09.  Proceedings:

Proceedings of the 18th International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS'09, Barcelona, July 13-17, 2009) have been published in Laser Physics, vol. 20 (2010). To read all contributed papers please visit http://iopscience.iop.org/lp/.

LPHYS'09.  Sponsors and Endorses: