| Friday April 1st | |
| Morning Research Session Chair: Fernando Mendoza Santoyo | |
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Registration Desk Opens |
| 08:30 - 08:45 | Opening Remarks: Nicholas Ercolani, Fernando Mendoza Santoyo, Joaquin Ruiz |
| 08:45 - 09:30 | Ruben Ramos-Garcia (INAOE):"Nonlinear phase contrast" |
| 09:30 - 10:15 | Stephan Koch (UA): "Optics and quantum optics with semiconductor nanostructures" |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 - 11:30 | Alfred U'Ren (CICESE):"Generation of non-classical radiation in controlled spatio-temporal modes for quantum information processing" |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Masud Mansuripur (UA):"Radiation pressure and the linear momentum of light" |
| 12:15 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| Afternoon Educational Session Chair: Alejandro Aceves | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Nicolaas Bloembergen (UA):"The development of femtosecond laser pulses" |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Jonathan Lunine (UA):"Radiative transfer on Titan" |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Break |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Hector Moya (INAOE):"Measuring the harmonic oscillator wave Function - Fresnel Transforms" |
| Saturday April 2nd | |
| Morning Research Session Chair: Anatolii Khomenko | |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Eugenio Mendez (CICESE): "The role of coherence in near field optics" |
| 08:30 - 09:15 | Alejandro Aceves (UNM): "Nonlinear optics in photonic structures" |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Bane Vasic (UA) and Ivan Djordjevic (UA): "Modulation codes for ghost pulse reduction in 40 Gb/s optical communications systems" |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Viktor Klimov (LANL): "Ultrahigh efficiency carrier multiplication in semiconductor nanocrystals: implications for solar energy conversion" (Tutorial Talk) |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Jerome Moloney (UA): "Computational photonics: modeling ultrashort pulse propagation and light interaction with nanoscale objects" |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| Afternoon Educational Session Chair: Eugenio Mendez | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Jim Gordon (Lucent): "The NLS equation and ordinary solitons" |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Linn Mollenauer (UA):"Dispersion-managed solitons and dense WDM" |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Break |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Marlan Scully (Texas A&M and Princeton):"Ultra-slow light: generation and application" |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Roger Cudney (CICESE): "Uses of ferroelectric domains in optics" |
| Sunday April 3rd | |
| Morning Research Session Chair: Tamar Seideman | |
| 08:30 - 09:15 | Rocio Jauregui (IF-UNAM): "Mechanical properties of Bessel beams and their effect in atomic systems" |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Avner Peleg (UA): "Effects of dissipative disorder on nonlinear coherent patterns: from soliton collisions in optical fibers to diverging distributions in pattern formation" |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30- 11:00 | Joshua Soneson (UA):"Polariton dynamics in nanocomposite media" |
| 11:00- 11:30 | Brenda Martinez (University of Toronto):"Semiconductor laser under optical injection: theory and experiments" |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Grover Swartzlander (UA): "Optical Vortex Soup" |
| 12:15 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| Afternoon Educational Session Chair: Rocio Jauregui | |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Bernardo Mendoza (CIO): "Calculation of second harmonic generation at surfaces" |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Break |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | Alexander Pisarchik (CIO):"On-off intermittency and its control: theory and experiments within a semiconductor Laser" (Research Talk) |
| 16:45 - 17:30 | Tamar Seideman (Northwestern): "On the dynamics of rotationally-broad wavepackets" |
| 17:30 - 19:00 | Poster Session Math East Building |