XLII ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA
OSI - International Symposium on Optics (OSI-ISO 2018)
19 - 22 September 2018
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR


PLENARY LECTURES
Stefan Enoch (Institut Fresnel, Marseilles) Metamaterials, transformation optics and some applications beyond optics
N. Mukunda (IISc, Bengaluru) E C G Sudarshan's contribution to Quantum Optics : the Optical Equivalence Theorem
Yuri S. Kivshar (Australian National University, Canberra) All-dielectric resonant meta-optics and nanophotonics
G. Ravindra Kumar (TIFR, Mumbai) Extreme light - spin offs for optics and photonics
Gautam Vemuri (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis) Non-hermitian dynamics in delay-coupled semiconductor lasers


LIFETIME DISTINCTION LECTURES
Ajoy K. Ghatak (Formerly IIT Delhi) Evolution of Quantum theory and entanglement
Kehar Singh (Formerly IIT Delhi) Optical Cryptography for Information Security: A Personal Tour (2000-2018)


INVITED LECTURES
Arvind (IISER Mohali) Multiphoton Bell's inequalities
Ayan Banerjee (IISER Kolkata) Microlithography using micro-bubbles manipulated using thermo-optical tweezers
Aranyabhuti Bhattacharjee (BITS Pilani, Hyderabad) Measuring finite-range phase coherence in an optical lattice using Talbot interferometry
Kallol Bhattacharya (University of Calcutta) Full field birefringence microscopy using a rotating polarizer
Shanti Bhattacharya (IIT Madras) Diffractive Optics on fibre facets
Subhananda Chakrabarti (IIT Bombay) Strain-coupled homogeneous and heterogeneous In(Ga)As quantum dot heterostructures for detector and photovoltaic applications
Rajadurai Chandrasekhar (University of Hyderabad) NLO properties of Self-Assembled Organic and Polymer Whispering-Gallery-Mode Cavities
Murali Krishna Chilakapati (ARCTREC Mumbai) Overview of Biomedical Raman spectroscopy
Yidong Chong (NTU Singapore) Nonlinear topological lattices
Anabela da Silva (Institut Fresnel, Marseilles Quantitative PhotoAcoustic Imaging of Biological Tissues: Accessing to Multiphysics Informationnal Content
Bijoy K. Das (IIT Madras) Design and modeling of thermo-optic phase shifters for integrated silicon photonics
Ritwick Das (NISER Bhubaneswar) Tamm-plasmon-polaritons in periodic and aperiodic photonic crystals
Shubhrangshu Dasgupta (IIT Ropar) Quantum dots on the metal-dielectric interface: a novel architecture for quantum information processing
P.K. Datta (IIT Kharagpur) Methods of Ultrafast Optical Characterization for Photonic, Electronic and Magnonic Applications
A. R. Ganesan (IIT Madras) Measurement and characterization of higher order human ocular aberrations
Sankalpa Ghosh (IIT Delhi) Theoretical studies of the ultra-cold BEC in a crossed cavity system
Achanta Venu Gopal (TIFR Mumbai) Quasicrystal based metamaterials and their applications
David Grojo (CNRS / Aix-Marseille Universite) Exceeding the threshold of ultrafast laser writing in bulk Si: opening the horizon for 3D silicon photonics
Ravi Hegde (IIT Gandhinagar) Flat Optics - Computational Techniques for designing Wide-area Metasurfaces
Alexander A. Iskandar (Institut Teknologi, Bandung, Indonesia Plasmonic Cylindrical Nanoshell and Its Sensing Applications
Rajan Jha (IIT Bhubaneswar) Acoustic sensor based on post processed optical fiber
Joby Joseph (IIT Delhi) Nano-photonic structures through phase controlled interference lithography and its applications
Renu John (IIT Hyderabad) Optical Coherence Tomography: Clinical Applications
Myeong Soo Kang (KAIST, Daejeon) Nonlinear frequency conversion of sound and light in micro/nano-scaled photonic systems
Vinod Karar (CSIO Chandigarh) Head-Up Displays
Ajay Kumar (IRDE Dehradun) Technologies and trends in electro-optical and thermal imaging instrumentations
Rajesh Kumar (IIT Roorkee) Hybrid Silicon Photonic Devices for Switching and Memory Applications
Sulabha Kulkarni (Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology Pune) Optically Tuned Anisotropic, Plasmonic, Multitasking Nanostructures
Basudev Lahiri (IIT Kharagpur) Nanoscale chemical imaging of plasmonic modes beyond the diffraction limit
C.S. Narayanamurthy (IIST Trivandrum) Wave propagation analysis through pseudo random phase plate (mimicking atmospheric turbulence) for imaging
Naveen K. Nischal (IIT Patna) Vector beam with required phase-only functions for asymmetric image encryption
Mrinmay Pal (CGCRI Kolkata) Fiber Laser and Supercontinuum Source - Versatility in Light Domain
Prashanta K Panigrahi (IISER Kolkata) On the contributions of Prof. Porsezian
Reji Philip (Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru) Expansion dynamics of ultrafast laser produced metal plasmas
B. Raghavendra Prasad (IIA Bengaluru) Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) on India's First Space Solar Mission AdityaL1 - Design and realization challenges
Praveen C. Ramamurthy (IISc Bengaluru) Opto-electronic enhancement in nanostructured thin film photovoltaic devices
D. Narayana Rao (University of Hyderabad) Laser induced subwavelength periodic surface structures and their applications towards broad band absorption and super-hydrophobic surfaces
Dibakar Roy Chowdhury (Ecole Mahindra Hyderabad) Thin Film Sensing with Terahertz Metamaterials
Amarendra K. Sarma (IIT Guwahati) Unconventional Photon Blockade in Cavity Optomechanics
P. Senthilkumaran (IIT Delhi) Angular momentum transfers in spin-orbit beams
Kamal Priya Singh (IISER Mohali) Optically probing nanomechanical effects of light-fluid interaction
Rakesh Kumar Singh (IIT BHU, Varanasi) Coherence waves interference to overcome phase recovery challenge: in optical, crystallography and X ray imaging
Ranjan Singh (NTU, Singapore) Ultrafast dual-channel switching and ultrathin superconducting metamaterials
R.P. Singh (PRL Ahmedabad) Statistics of Heralded Twisted Single Photons
Ravindra K. Sinha (CSIO Chandigarh) Slow light enabled nanophotonic devices on Photonic Crystal Platform
Hari Babu Srivastava (LASTEC Delhi) Laser based Systems: Recent Developments at LASTEC
Ganapati S. Subramania (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque) Nanophotonics for Tailoring Propagation, Emission and Topological behavior of Light
Shailendra K. Varshney (IIT Kharagpur) Revisiting Multimode Optical Fibers: Nonlinear Applications
Nirmal Viswanathan (University of Hyderabad) Investigation of exceptional point in a non-Hermitian system

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