Keynote speakers for the special historical session dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Tandem Fabry Perot Interferometer:

• Fabrizio Nizzoli (University of Ferrara, Italy) "Birth and development of surface Brillouin Light Scattering from phonons"
• Burkard Hillebrands (Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) - "Ubi BLS, ibi scientia: 40+ years of magnonic Brillouin Light Scattering"
• John Sandercock (The Table-Stable Ltd, Zurich) - "The invention of the Tandem Fabry-Perot interferometer and its impact on science" (Lectio Magistralis)

Invited speakers

• Ahmad Awad (Gothenburg Univ., Sweden), "Mutual synchronization of large arrays of Spin Hall nano-oscillators"
• Dmytro Bozhko (Tech. Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany) "Brillouin light scattering detection of unconventional spin currents in magnetic films“
• Mauro Dalla Serra (CNR Istituto di Biofisica, IT) "The Arbre-MOBIEU network"
• Sergej Demokritov (Munster Univ., Germany), "BLS studies with multiple combinable resolution on magnetic micro- and nano-structures"
• Alba Diz-Munoz (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany) "Studying the role of tissue mechanics with Brillouin microscopy”
• Kristian Franze (University of Cambridge, UK) "Comparing Brillouin microscopy and AFM"
• Kristie Koski (University of California, USA) "Elastic Properties of Marine Biomaterials: From Nacre to Sea Sponges"
• Francesca Palombo (University of Exeter, UK) "Brillouin Microscopy, Route to Translation”
• Paul Pudney (Unilever, UK) "Feel and function: understanding how products interact with people using spectroscopy"
• David Sampson (University of Surrey, UK) "How does optical coherence elastography compare with Brillouin microscopy?"
• Helmut Schulteiss (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany), "Magnon Transport in Spin Textures"
• Peter Török (Imperial College, London)"How to design and build a Brillouin microscope"
• Nick Stone (University of Exeter. UK) "Developing clinical diagnostics with Raman spectroscopy "