The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the XIth European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO(r)/Europe-EQEC) has announced an exciting programme of invited and keynote speakers.  An international array of leading scientists will present their latest breakthrough results in a wide range of frontier research domains.

The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the XIth European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO(r)/Europe-EQEC) is being held as part of the World of Photonics Congress from 14-19 June 2009 in Munich.  The conference programme committee has now defined the range of technical areas that will welcome contributed papers, and has also identified a smaller number of pre-invited, keynote tutorial and plenary talks that will review and highlight the most important areas of current research. 

For CLEO(r)/Europe, Professor Erich Ippen from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will survey the field of ultrafast optics and its many applications, whilst for EQEC, Professor Serge Haroche from the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure in France will discuss novel results exploring the quantum nature of light. 

The plenary talks will be complemented by a range of other presentations from world experts in their fields.  Amongst the highlights are tutorial talks on femtosecond lasers in materials processing (Eric Mazur, Harvard University), research challenges and applications in nanophotonics (Alfred Forchel, University of Würzburg), the fascination of metamaterials (Allan Boardman, University of Salford) and recent developments in the field of optical cavity quantum electrodynamics (Gerhard Rempe, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching). 

Keynote talks will cover some of these topics in more detail, and will also provide additional coverage of new and emerging areas of research.  For CLEO(r)/Europe, the keynote presentations include talks on visible and ultraviolet semiconductor disk lasers (Martin Dawson, University of Strathclyde), femtosecond-laser-written waveguides for communications and biophotonics (Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano), astrophotonics and observational cosmology (Joss Bland-Hawthorn, University of Sydney), and research into the new horizons of nanoplasmonics (Mark Stockman, Georgia State University).  Highlights of EQEC include keynote presentations on superoscillations and optical superresolution (Michael Berry, University of Bristol), metamaterials (Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania), plasmonics (Albert Polman, FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam) and quantum information (Han Woerdman, Leiden University). 

Taken together, these talks will survey all important areas of research into the fundamentals and applications of lasers, photonics and quantum electronics.  For a full list of these talks, and other confirmed invited talks, please see the conference website www.cleoeurope.org.

CLEO(r)/Europe-EQEC also welcomes contributed papers that cover 25 different topical areas.  The website provides details of the corresponding technical programme committee organisation and information about submission. Please note the deadline 26 January 2009.