List of confirmed speakers

Tobin Marks (Northwestern University), “Twisted π-System chromophores:  Progress and prospects”

Aleks Rebane (Montana State University), “Molecular symmetry in two-photon absorption: Things are not always what they seem”

Demetrios Christodoulides (University of Central Florida), “Parity-time and other symmetries in optics and photonics”

Romolo Savo/Rachel Grange (ETH Zόrich), “Second harmonic generation in complex assemblies of oxides nanoparticles”

Do Hyeok Jeon/Tsampikos Kottos (Wesleyan University) , “Self-shielded receiver protectors using topological photonic circuits”

Isak Kilen/Jerry Moloney (University of Arizona) , “Non-equilibrium dynamics in mode-locked vertical external-cavity surface-emitting lasers”

Koen Clays (KU Leuven), “Fine-tuning and switching of the molecular second-order nonlinear response: the “effective optical molecular symmetry””

Kevin Pichler/Stefan Rotter (Vienna University of Technology), “Experimental realization of the random anti-laser”

Robert Twieg (Kent State University), “Discotic liquid crystals Do NOT require tails”

Kenneth Knappenberger (Pennsylvania State University), “Ultrafast dynamics in metal nanostructures”

Şahin Φzdemir (Pennsylvania State University), “Optics and optomechanics at exceptional points”

Ivan Biaggio (Lehigh University), “From molecules to materials: smaller is better?”

Nathan Dawson (University of The Bahamas), “Homotopy analysis and perturbation methods as generalized approximations of classical nonlinear optical phenomena”

Stephen Rand (University of Michigan), “Magneto-electric charge separation - a new optical nonlinearity”

Tuan Trinh (University of Michigan), “Experiments and theory of second harmonic generation induced by magneto-electric rectification”

Gregory Smail (University of Michigan), “Experiments and theory of magneto-electric rectification”

Krishnandu Makhal (University of Michigan), “Probing orbital shapes with magneto-electric scattering”

Long Cheng (University of Michigan), “Nonlinear dynamics of laser cooling: New materials, new methods”

Javier Perez-Moreno (Skidmore College), “A toy model for the nonlinear optical response of molecules”

Mark Kuzyk (Washington State University), “Nonlinear optics at the classical/quantum divide”

Li Ge (College of Staten Island), “Parity-time symmetry breaking in a synthetic dimension”

Joy Haley (Air Force Research Laboratory), “Nonlinear optical organic and organometallic dye development”

Shekhar Guha (Air Force Research Laboratory), “Second harmonic reflection and transmission from nonlinear optical media of arbitrary anisotropy”

Tom Cooper (Air Force Research Laboratory), “Nonlinear optical properties of platinum acetylides”

Ekaterina Poutrina/Augustine Urbas (Air Force Research Laboratory), “Controlling nonlinear generation via multipolar interference”

***Additional reading materials provided by the speakers are available here.***