Day 2nd

Invited Talk1: Dr. Isinsu Baylam

Biography:

Dr. Işınsu Baylam received her BS degree in Physics from Bilkent University in 2010, MS, and PhD degrees in Physics from Koç University in 2012 and 2017. During her MS and PhD studies, she focused on the development of ultrafast, near- and mid-infrared solid-state lasers, graphene-based nanomaterials and their use as saturable absorbers to generate femtosecond pulses from solid-state lasers. She currently works as a doctoral researcher at Koç University Surface Science and Technology Center (KUYTAM) and she supervises the Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory located at KUYTAM. Her research interests include near- and mid-infrared solid-state lasers, ultrafast laser spectroscopy, and laser-based microfabrication.

Dr. Baylam is a member of the Optical Society (OSA) and the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). During her OSA and SPIE student memberships, she received “Outstanding Student Oral Presentation Award” in both 2015 and 2016 Advanced Solid-State Lasers Conferences organized by the OSA in Berlin, Germany and in Boston MA, USA. She also received “Newport Research Excellence Award” in 2013 SPIE Photonics West Conference, San Francisco CA, USA. Dr. Baylam has been selected to serve as an Ambassador of the OSA and she was recently selected as one of the participants of the 69^th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

Invited Talk2: Prof. Satoshi Kawata

Biography:

Professor Satoshi Kawata joined the Department of Applied Physics of Osaka University in 1981 where he currently serves as a professor emeritus. Kawata founded the Photonics Advanced Research Center (PARC) at Osaka University in 2007, where he was executive director until 2016. Kawata also led a research group on nanophotonics as a chief scientist in RIKEN from 2002 to 2015 and now serves as an honorary scientist. He founded two companies, one of which is a laser-scanning Raman microscope company, Nanophoton, established in 2002, where he has been the chairman.

Professor Kawata has served on a number of society boards, committees and councils of the societies, including OSA, SPIE, and JSAP. He has been the advisor for the Student Chapters of Osaka University of OSA, SPIE, and JSAP, all the first student chapters of them in Japan. He is a Fellow of OSA, IOP, SPIE, and JSAP.

He chaired and organized a number of international conferences, including Near Field Optics, Focus on Microscopy and UV Nanophotonics.

Professor Kawata was the president of the Japan Society of Applied Physics, president of the Spectroscopical Society of Japan, general chair of Nanoscience and Engineering of SPIE, editor of Optics Communications), and the regional representative of the Journal of Microscopy. He will serve as the Vise President of OSA from January 2020, and then the President in 2022.

He is one of the pioneers of near field optics and plasmonics, two-photon engineering, bio-molecular imaging, molecular spectroscopy and signal recovery. He has authored/edited more than 30 books and published more than 530 papers with h-index 73 (Web of Science). The "8-micron bull" fabricated with his invented two-photon technology has been awarded in Guinness Book of World Records 2004 Edition.

Day 3rd

Invited Talk3: Dr. Ryosuke Oketani

Biography:

Dr. Ryosuke Oketani is a posdoc working on Super resolution microscopy at Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University, Japan. For more information, visit his website via following link.