Chairs

General chair

Koji Sugioka RIKEN Japan

Co-chairs

Hiroyuki Niino AIST Japan Seiji Katayama Osaka Univ. Japan
Friedrich Dausinger Dauginer+Giesen GmbH
 Germany Alberto Piqué Naval Research Laboratory
 USA
Kazuyoshi Itoh Osaka Univ. Japan

Honorary Chair

Isamu Miyamoto Osaka Univ. Japan

International Advisory Committee

Chairperson

Koji Sugioka RIKEN Japan

Members

Alan Arai IMRA America, Inc USA Sylvain Lazare Universite de Bordeaux 1 France
Chung-Wei Cheng ITRI-Industrial Technology Research Institute Taiwan Hiroshi Masuhara Nara Institute of Science and Technology Japan
Burkhard Fechner Coherent GmbH Germany Hiroaki Misawa Hokkaido Univ. Japan
Costas Fotakis F.O.R.T.H.-Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas Greece Sumio Nakahara Kansai Univ. Japan
Kenshi Fukumitsu Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. Japan Tatsuo Okada Kyushu Univ. Japan
Costas Grigoropoulos niv. of California Berkeley U USA Rajesh S. Patel Spectra Physics USA
Takahisa Jitsuno Osaka Univ. Japan Reinhart Poprawe Fraunhofer ILT Germany
Teruyoshi Kadoya L.T. F.-Laser Technology Foundation Japan Shozui Takeno Mitsubishi Electric Corp. Japan
Vitali Konov GPI- General Physics Institute Russia Xianfan Xu Purdue Univ. USA
Dietmar Kracht LZH-Laser Zentrum Hannover Germany

Program Committee

Program Committee Chair

Hiroyuki Niino AIST Japan

Members

Craig B. Arnold Princeton Univ.
 USA Etsuji Ohmura Osaka Univ. Japan
Ya Cheng Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS China Masayuki Okoshi National Defense Academy Japan
Sung-Hak Cho Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials South Korea Toshihiko Ooie AIST Japan
Jan J. Dubowski Université de Sherbrooke Canada Andreas Ostendorf Ruhr-Univ. Bochum Germany
Arnold Gillner Fraunhofer ILT Germany Juergen Reif Brandenburg Univ. of Technology Germany
Henry Helvajian The Aerospace Corporation USA Michael Schmidt Univ. of Erlangen-Nürnberg Germany
Peter R. Herman Univ. of Toronto Canada Pere Serra Universitat de Barcelona Spain
Minghui Hong Data Storage Institute Singapore Javier Solis Instituto de Optica Spain
Jürgen Ihlemann Laser Laboratory Goettingen Germany Juergen Stampfl TU Wien (Univ. of Vienna) Austria
Yoshiro Ito Nagaoka Univ. of Technology Japan Razvan Stoian Universite Jean Monnet France
Thomas Lippert Paul Scherrer Institut Switzerland Stelios Tzortzakis F.O.R.T.H.-Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas Greece
Yong-Feng Lu Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln USA Vadim Veiko St. Petersburg State Univ. of Information Technologies Russia
Tetsuya Makimura Tsukuba Univ. Japan Bert Huis in 't Veld Univ. of Twente The Netherlands
Shoji Maruo Yokohama National Univ. Japan Kunihiko Washio Paradigm Laser Research Ltd. Japan
Michel Meunier École Polytechnique de Montréal Canada Wataru Watanabe AIST Japan
Yoshiki Nakata Osaka Univ. Japan

Steering Committee

Steering Committee Chair

Toshihiko Ooie AIST Japan

Members

Takanori Hino Niihama National College of Technology Japan Yasuhiro Okamoto Okayama Univ. Japan
Yoichiro Hosokawa Nara Institute of Science and Technology Japan Masayuki Okoshi National Defense Academy Japan
Masahito Katto Univ. of Miyazaki
 Japan Yasuyuki Ozeki Osaka Univ. Japan
Takashi Kunimoto Tokushima Bunri Univ. Japan Tomokazu Sano Osaka Univ. Japan
Tetsuya Makimura Tsukuba Univ. Japan Takaaki Suzuki Kagawa Univ. Japan
Shigeki Matsuo The Univ. of Tokushima Japan Masato Tanaka AIST Japan
Yoshiki Nakata Osaka Univ. Japan Akihiro Utsumi AIST Japan
Aiko Narazaki AIST Japan Masahiro Yamashita Kagawa Prefectural Industrial Technology Center Japan
Hiroaki Nishiyama Hokkaido Univ. Japan Tetsuo Yano AIST Japan
Etsuji Ohmura
 Osaka Univ.
 Japan Wataru Watanabe AIST
 Japan