Program

Thursday, 17 June

18.00 – 22.00	registration
18.00 – 19.00	dinner

Friday, 18 June

  8.00 –   9.30	breakfast

Chairman: Gaetano Assanto
9.25 – 9.30	opening of the workshop
9.30 – 10.15	Falk Lederer – “Discrete Solitons”
10.15 – 11.00	George Stegeman – “Spatial Solitons and Beam Instabilities in 1D Discrete Kerr Media”

11.00 – 11.30	coffee break

Chairman: George Stegeman
11.30 – 12.15	Allan Boardman – “Nonlinear left-handed waveguides”
12.15 – 13.00	Wiesiek Królikowski – “Nonlinear waves and discrete solitons in  photorefractive lattices”

13.00 – 14.00	lunch

Chairman: Falk Lederer
14.30 – 15.00	Dumitru Mihalache – “Stable spinning optical solitons in two and three dimensions ” 
15.00 – 15.20	Jerzy Jasiński – “Oscillations of light bullets propagating in saturable Kerr-like media with nonlinear dispersion and self frequency shift”
15.20 – 15.40 	Kazimierz Gniadek – “Nonlinear cut-off Integrated Optical Isolator”
15.40 – 16.00 	Bouchta Sahraoui – “Induced Optical Second harmonic generation using electromagnetic and acoustic fields in Ru-derivatives incorporated in PMMA Matrices”

16.00 – 16.30	coffee break

Chairman: Wiesiek Królikowski
16.30 – 17.00	Bożena Jaskorzyńska – “Approximate analytical model and the experimental verification for decay behavior of upconversion in Er-doped fibers”
17.00 – 17.20	Andrzej Ziółkowski – “Solitary Waves in Photorefractive Multiple Quantum Well Slab Waveguide”
17.20 – 17.40	Grzegorz Staroń – “Discrete solitons in waveguides array optically induced in PRMQW structure”
17.40 – 18.00	Andrzej Gajda – “Temporal evolution of the grating higer harmonics in photorefractive multiple quantum wells”

19.00	dinner

Saturday, 19 June

8.00 – 9.30	breakfast

Chairman: Allan Boardman 
9.30 – 10.00	Roberto Morandotti – “Discrete Optics in Non Homogeneous Waveguide Arrays”
10.00 – 10.30	Robert Iwanow – “Discrete Quadratic Solitons in PPLN Waveguide Arrays”
10.30 – 11.00	Andrey Sukhorukov – “Optical vortices in nonlinear periodic lattices”

11.00 – 11.30	coffee break

Chairman: Bożena Jaskorzyńska
11.30 – 12.15	Gaetano Assanto – “Light self localization: Non locality and nonlinearity in liquid crystals”
12.15 – 12.35	Kasia Brzdąkiewicz – “Discrete Spatial Solitons in Nematic Liquid Crystals”
12.35 – 12.55	Kasia Osińska – “Light Beam Propagation in Twisted Nematic Film”

13.00 – 14.00	lunch

Chairman: Dumitru Mihalache
14.30 – 14.50	Andrzej Domański – “Polarization fading of partially coherent light in birefringent media”
14.50 – 15.10	Andrzej Walczak – “Optically tuned wave guided structures over organic junction”
15.10 – 15.30	Marcin Roszko – “Optical modes in planar liquid crystal films”
15.30 – 15.50	Kasia Szaniawska – “Propagation Properties of Photonic Crystal Fiber filled with Nematic Liquid Crystal”

15.50 – 16.20	coffee break

Chairman: Bouchta Sahraoui
16.20 – 16.40	Grzegorz Żegliński – “The influence of chosen nonlinear effects on quality of digital signals transmission in fiber systems”
16.40 – 17.00	Danuta Podgórska – “Growth and optical properties of Li2B4O7 pure and doped single crystals for nonlinear applications”
17.00 – 17.20	Piotr Lesiak – “External perturbation effects on polarization mode dispersion in highly birefringent optical fibers”
17.20 – 17.40	Marek Sierakowski – “Dyes-enhanced nonlinear threshold measurements in liquid crystals”

18.00 	bonfire

Sunday, 20 June

8.00 – 9.30	breakfast
9.30 – 13.00	excursion
13.00 – 14.00	lunch