Preliminary list of invited speakers
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John Pendry (UK): ‘Negative refraction opens new doors in optics'
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Eli Yablonovitch (USA): ‘Quantum computing'
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Bertrand Poumellec (France): ‘Fundamentals of photosensitivity‘
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Evgeni Dianov (Russia): ‘Raman fiber lasers: breakthrough in laser physics'

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Walter Margulis (Sweden): ‘Poling of glass'
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Peter Kazansky (UK): ‘Breaking the limits in glass: From quantum interference to fs nanostructuring'

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Morten Ibsen (UK): ‘UV-written Bragg gratings'

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David Webb (UK): ‘Bragg gratings in sensing applications'
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Marc Douay (France): ‘New directions and the future of UV-written technologies'
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Anatoly Grudinin (UK): ‘High-power ultrafast fiber lasers: new horizons and applications'
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Philip Russell (UK): ‘Photonic crystal fibres: Fundamentals & applications'

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Jonathan Knight (UK): ‘Non-linear optics in PCF '
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John Dudley (France): ‘Supercontinuum generation'
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Kishan Dholakia (UK): ‘Optical trapping/tweezing of microscopic objects and atoms'
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John Rarity (UK): ‘Quantum optics in wavelength-scale structures'
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Ole Keller (Denmark): ‘Near-field optics in a quantum physical perspective'
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Anatoly Zayats (UK): ‘Experimental nano-optics'

Lecture Ron Folman (Israel): 'The atom chip'
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Margaret Murnane (USA): ‘Multiphoton EUV photonics'
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Peter Kryukov (Russia): ‘Advances in ultrashort pulse lasers'
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Gerhard Seifert (Germany): ‘Laser engineering in nano-structured glasses'
Lecture Raman Kashyap (Canada): 100 years of photosensitivity in optical glasses'
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Hans Limberger (Switzerland): 'Are stresses and stress changes in optical fibres the key to understanding the phenomenon of photosensitivity'