Prof. S. John (University of Toronto, Canada)
Photonic Band Gap Materials: Semiconductors of Light

Dr. S. Fan (Stanford University, USA)
Two-dimensional photonic crystals and photonic crystal slabs

Prof. K. Sakoda (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)
Symmetry of crystal structure and symmetry of electromagnetic eigenmodes

Dr. Yu. Vlasov (IBM, Yorktown Heights, USA)
Fabrication of photonic crystals via self-assembly

Prof. S. Kawata (Osaka University, Japan)
Single- and two-photon photopolymerization for micro-nano fabrication

Prof. A. Maradudin (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Optical interactions in a left-handed medium

Prof. C.T. Chan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Unconventional photonic band gap systems

Dr. S.F. Mingaleev (Karlsruhe University, Germany & Kiev, Ukraine)
Nonlinear photonic crystals: Towards all-optical technologies

Prof. C. Soukoulis (Ames Labs, USA)
Photonic band gap materials and random lasers

Dr. C.M. de Sterke (School of Physics, University of Sydney)
Photonic crystal fibers

Prof. A.D. Boardman (University of Salford, UK)
Spatial solitons in inhomogeneous magneto-optic waveguides and photonic bandgap materials

Prof. L.C. Botten (University of Technology, Sydney)
Analytical and computational methods for photonic crystal waveguides

Prof. R. McPhedran (School of Physics, University of Sydney)
Density of states and localised modes in photonic crystals - a new treatment

Dr. M. Yokoyama (Kyoto University, Japan & Minolta Corporation, Japan)
Prof. S. Noda (Kyoto University, Japan)
Two dimensional photonic crystal lasers

Dr. C.M. de Sterke (School of Physics, University of Sydney)
Physics and applications of fiber gratings

Prof. A. Maradudin (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Surface polaritonic crystals

Prof. A.D. Boardman (University of Salford, UK)
Soliton-driven photonics: A new dawn

Prof. Len Pismen (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
Non-equilibrium patterns from macro- to nanoscale

Prof. S. John (University of Toronto, Canada)
Public Lecture