Invited Speakers

Plenary Speakers

	Dr Tingye Li AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T Labs (Retired) Tingye Li retired from AT&T in 1998 after a 41-year research career at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs, working in the fields of microwaves, millimeter waves, lasers, and lightwave communications. He is presently a consultant in lightwave technologies and systems. He is a fellow of OSA, IEEE, and AAAS, and is a member of NAE, CAE and Academia Sinica. He received the 1975 IEEE W. R. G. Baker Prize, the 1979 IEEE David Sarnoff Award, the 1995 OSA/IEEE John Tyndall Award, the 1997 OSA Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus Quinn Endowment, the 1997 AT&T Science and Technology Medal, and the 2004 IEEE Photonics Award. He was President of OSA in 1995.

	Kim Roberts Optical Systems, Nortel Kim has been developing innovative solutions, in the areas of optical transmission and high capacity packet connections, since 1984. Optical products that Kim initiated have generated billions of dollars in revenue. He has been granted 59 US patents while at the Nortel labs in Edmonton, Ottawa Canada, and Harlow UK.

Invited Speakers

	Dr Brenton Hall Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Swinburne University Brenton obtained his PhD in 1999 from Griffith University. He then undertook a postdoctoral research position at Sussex University and Imperial College London pursuing permanent magnet atom optics and atom chips. In 2004 he joined the ARC CoE for Quantum-Atom Optics at the Swinburne University node investigating the Coherence of BEC on a permanent magnetic film atom chip.

	Prof. Howard Wiseman Federation Fellow Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University Howard Wiseman did his B.Sc. (1991) and Ph.D. (1994) at the University of Queensland, followed by a post-doc at the University of Auckland. Since then he has held fellowships from the Australian Research Council, being currently Federation Fellow and Professor at Griffith University. His principle research areas are quantum feedback control, quantum information, and fundamental questions in quantum mechanics.

	Phill Sporton Managing Director Service Delivery South West - Telstra Phill has extensive experience in the Australian telecommunications industry having been an active participant for the past 23 years. Phill is a highly respect executive within this sector with extensive contacts across both the Australian Telecommunications and Construction industries. During his time in Telstra, Phill has been responsible for a range of senior roles including recently leading Telstra's very successful involvement in the Melbourne M2006 Commonwealth Games. Phill currently holds the position of the Managing Director of Service Delivery South West and is accountable for Customer Service in all states except NSW and Queensland.

	Dr. André Richter Product Manager Optical Engineering Solutions, VPI photonics (a division of VPIsystems) André received a Masters degree from Georgia Tech in 1995 and a Doctorate degree from TU Berlin in 2002. At VPIphotonics, André has contributed to the development of various modeling tools for optical components and systems. He invoked an industry training and consulting program, and coauthored more then 25 papers on different topics of Photonic Design Automation.

	Martijn A van Eijkelenborg Senior Research Fellow, Optical Fibre Technology Centre, University of Sydney Martijn received his PhD (cum laude) in 1997 from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and was a research associate for two years in the quantum optics group at Imperial College in London. He joined the Optical Fibre Technology Centre of the University of Sydney early 2000 and initiated the development of microstructured polymer optical fibres (mPOF) later that year and has been a key researcher in its development. The mPOF team was awarded the 2005 Australasian Science Prize for air-core mPOF, the 2004 EUREKA Award for Innovation in ICT and the 2002 CommsWorld Award for Excellence in Innovation.

	Christian Grillet Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) School of Physics, University of Sydney Christian Grillet received his PhD degree in electronic integrated devices from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France, in 2003. His research included the design, nanofabrication and characterization of InP planar photonic crystal devices for optical interconnections and telecommunications. He Joined the CUDOS group at the University of Sydney in 2004. He has been involved in projects combining integrated microphotonics and microfluidics. His research is currently focused on nonlinear 2D planar photonic crystal devices for all-optical signal processing.

	Stephen Collins Associate Professor, Victoria University Stephen Collins has a PhD in physics from the University of Melbourne. He has been with Victoria University since 1986 (then Footscray Institute of Technology), and has been awarded two ARC Discovery Grants for optical fibre sensing. He serves on the Council of the Australian Optical Society as Honorary Treasurer.

	Professor Alexander Alexandrov Dreischuh Department of Quantum Electronics, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Bulgaria ARC Fellow at The Australian National University (NLPC, RSPhysSE) Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the MPI for Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany) Alexander Dreischuh received both PhD and Dr.rer.nat.habil. in Physics from the Sofia University (Sofia, Bulgaria). He is presently the Head of the Department of Quantum Electronics. His current research activities include nonlinear optics (third-order nonlinear phenomena, all-optical interactions, and solitons), ultrashort pulse generation and application, and singular optics.

	Professor Keith A Nugent ARC Federation Fellow, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne. Keith Nugent is an ARC Federation Fellow and Executive Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science. His research interests are in the area imaging and coherence, with an empahsis on the development of ideas relevant to x-rays. He has received a numer of awards for his work, including the 2004 Victoria Prize and, in 2006, a second Federation Fellowship. He is aa Director of the public company IATIA formed to commercialise some his work. IATIA recently received a 2006 Australian Technology Showcase Patrons Award.

	David Hunter Electro-optics Technology Group Electronic Warfare and Radar Division Defence Science and Technology Organisation David Hunter received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Sydney. He has been with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation since 1992, working in various fields of electronic warfare and radar. His research interests include the application of photonic links and photonic signal processing to naval and airborne systems.

	Dr. Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem Dr Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem received her PhD in 1994 from the University of Jena, Germany, where she continued to work on optical and rare-earth-doped glasses. In 2001, she joined the Optoelectronics Research Centre of the University of Southampton, UK, where she worked on the development of novel photosensitive glasses and soft glass microstructured optical fibres with record high nonlinearity. Since February 2005, she has been leading the glass science and fabrication technology research within the newly formed Centre of Expertise in Photonics at the University of Adelaide . One of her key research interests is the application and advance of the extrusion technique for the fabrication of complex preforms for microstructured fibres.

	Trevor Anderson Project Leader, Optical Performance Monitoring, NICTA Trevor Anderson is project leader for Optical Performance monitoring at NICTA. He has over 15 yrs industrial R&D experience including Product Development Manager at JDS Uniphase and Principal Research Scientist in Optical networks and Data mining at Telstra Research.

	Dr. Elena Ostrovskaya Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics and Nonlinear Physics Centre Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering Australian National University Elna has received a MSc degree in physics from the Moscow State University in 1993, and obtained a PhD from the Australian National University in 1999. Since 2003 she has been a member of the Australian National University theory node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics.

	Dr. John Canning Group Leader and Principal Research Scientist, Gratings and Photonic Crystal Fibre Science and Technologies, University of Sydney John Canning pioneered the first complex non-uniform fibre gratings and developed the model of hypersensitisation; the only successful predictive model on photosensitivity, which has led to the first custom, tailored gratings for specific applications. He founded the photonic crystal fibre fabrication work and the high power air-clad fibre laser development at the OFTC, and is inventor of the Fresnel fibre. He has worked in planar and fibre technologies including photonic crystal fibre DFB lasers and microfluidic electronics. He was involved with the establishment of a number of spin-off companies, including ROC, RIO and Centaurus Technologies. He has over 28 patents over 280 journal and conference publications. He was 2004 Otto Monsted Professor at the Research Centre COM, Danish Technical University and is the 2007 Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), University of Aarhus, Denmark.

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