Leading researchers from all over the world will be delivering their talks on photonics and optical sensors.

Emerging areas of photonic devices, silicon photonics, active devices, nonlinear photonics and numerical methods needed for their optimisation will be presented. Development and use of FBG, LPG, and silicon slot based sensors will also be presented.

List of speakers:

Day 1

1. Sir David N Payne, FRS, University of Southampton
2. Prof. Boon Ooi, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
3. Prof. Harith Ahmad, University of Malaya, Malaysia
4. Prof. Saif Islam, University of California, Davis, USA
5. Prof. Thomas Schneider, TU Braunschweig, Germany
6. Prof. Ajoy Kar, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh
7. Prof. David Marpaung, Univ Twente, The Netherlands
8. Prof. Linjie Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
9. Prof. Andrea Melloni, Politechnic Milan, Italy
10. Dr Akimasa Kaneko, Vice President, NTT, Japan
11. Prof. B M A Rahman, City, University of London
12. Prof. Salah Obayya, JewelCity University, Cairo, Egypt
13. Prof. Hugo Hernandez, University Campinas, Brazil

Day 2

1. Prof. K T V Grattan, City, University of London
2. Prof. Bishnu Pal, MEC, India
3. Prof. Nan-Kuang Chen, Lianchao University, China
4. Prof. Asokan Sundarrajan, IISc, Bangalore, India
5. Prof. Arup Lal Chakraborti, IIT Ghandhinagar, India
6. Prof. Richard De La Rue, University of Glasgow
7. Dr Parama Pal, TCR Research and Innovation, India
8. Prof. Elfed Lewis, University of Limerick, Ireland
9. Prof. Andy Augousti, Kingston University, London
10. Prof. P Kyriacou, City, University of London
11. Prof. Stewart Aitchison, University Toronto