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Attendees are invited to arrive to Zakopane on Wednesday, September 23rd and stay until Saturday, September 26th.

The scientific sessions will start at 9 a.m., Thursday, September 24th.

 NOA 2009 Conference Program and Abstract Book (PDF 892kB)


Wednesday, 23 September
 18.00 - 20.00 registration
 18.00 - 20.00 dinner
Thursday, 24 September 8.00 - 9.00 breakfast Chairman: Gaetano Assanto 9.00 - 9.10 opening of the workshop 9.10 - 10.10 George Stegeman - "Complexity in discrete surface soliton generation" 10.10 - 10.30 Piotr Lesiak - "Z-scan measurements of oriented Au nanoparticles suspension" 10.30 - 11.00 coffee break Chairman: Bożena Jaskorzyńska 11.00 - 12.00 Gaetano Assanto - "Liquid Crystal Light Valves: a versatile platform for nematicons" 12.00 - 13.00 Noel Smyth - "Mathematical modelling of nematicon control" 13.00 - 14.00 lunch Chairman: Noel Smyth 14.30 - 15.30 Bożena Jaskorzyńska - "Dielectric and plasmonic slot waveguides for subwavelength light confinement" 15.30 - 16.00 Piotr Berczyński - "Gaussian beam diffraction in nonlinear media of Kerr type"
16.00 - 16.30 coffe break
Chairman: Roberto Morandotti 16.30 - 16.50 Urszula Laudyn - "Properties of spatial solitons in chiral nematic liquid crystal cells" 16.50 - 17.10 Michał Kwaśny - "Discrete beam propagation in chiral nematic liquid crystals" 17.10 - 17.30 Filip Sala - "Numerical simulation of beam propagation in layer filled with chiral nematic liquid crystal" 17.30 - 17.50 Krzysztof Zegadło - "Analysis of beam propagation in optical fiber structures with high step index" 17.50 - 18.10 Waldemar Bajdecki - "Some aspects of the weather change" 18.10 - 19.00 dinner
Friday, 25 September 8.00 - 9.00 breakfast Chairman: George Stegeman 9.00 - 10.00 Falk Lederer - "Cavity polariton solitons" 10.00 - 10.30 Jerzy Jasiński - "Evolution of supergaussian pulses in nonlinear kerr media" 10.30 - 11.00 coffe breake Chairman: Falk Lederer 11.00 - 12.00 Roberto Morandotti - "The dawn of nonlinear optics in the terahertz regime" 12.00 - 12.20 Katarzyna Rutkowska - "Control of nonlinear collapse in magnetooptical Kerr media" 12.20 - 12.40 Łukasz Michalik - "Depolarization of elliptically polarized light in complex birefringence structures" 12.40 - 13.00 Piotr Makowski - "Influence of the uncertainty of splice angles on the dynamics of all-fiber polarimetric sensors" 13.00 - 14.00 lunch Chairman:Ewa Weinert-Rączka 14.30 - 15.30 Dumitru Mihalache - "Discrete spatiotemporal Ginzburg-Landau solitons: Collision scenarios" 15.30 - 16.30 Bouchta Sahraoui - "Azo-functionalized push pull systems for optical holography" 16.30 - 17.00 Yan Sheng - "Optical parametric processes in two-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystals" 18.00 - 19.00 dinner



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