Van Driel, Henry - University of Toronto
"Nonlinear optics in semiconductor photonic crystals"

Hughes, Stephen - NTT Basic Research Labs, Japan
"Optical Scattering Loss and Single-Quantum-Dot Strong Coupling in Semiconductor Photonic Crystal Slabs"

Wegener, Martin - University of Karlsruhe
"3D-Nanolithography and characterization of 3D Photonic Crystals: Semiconductors for light"

Butov, Leonid - University of California at San Diego
"Phenomena in cold exciton gases: Condensation, macroscopic ordering and beyond"

Snoke, David - University of Pittsburgh
"Trapping high mobility excitons in 2D"

Rapaport, Ronen - Bell Labs
"Formation and Dynamics of Exciton Emission Rings in Quantum Wells"

Mysyrowicz, Andre - ENSTA
"Bose-Einstein condensation of excitonic particles"

Cornell, Eric - JILA/NIST/University of Colorado
"What's hot in cold atoms?"

Binder, Rolf - University of Arizona
"Theory of transversal light forces in semiconductors"

Kuwata-Gonokami, Makoto - University of Tokyo
"Optical manipulation of ultracold excitonic particles"

Kira, Mackillo - Philipps University, Marburg
"Theory of exciton formation and luminscence"

Galbraith, Ian - Heriot-Watts University Edinburgh
"Excitonic Signatures in Photoluminescence and Terahertz Absorption"

Gibbs, Hyatt - University of Arizona
"Excitonic Light Doesn't Have to Come from Excitons"

Deveaud-Pledran, Benoit - EPFL, Lausanne
"Excitons, free carriers, Mott transition and related topics in quantum wells"

Koch, Stephan - University of Marburg
"Many-body theory of Terahertz absorption and gain in optically excited semiconductors"

Sherwin, Mark - University of California at Santa Barbara
"Terahertz Nonlinear Optics"

Heinz, Tony - Columbia University
"THz spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures"

Kaindl, Robert - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"Transient terahertz conductivity of excitons and electron-hole gases"

Haug, Hartmut - Goethe University, Frankfurt
"Observation of light-induced band gaps"

Hawton, Margaret - Lakehead University
"Polarization driven exciton dynamics in asymmetric nanostructures"

Flatté, Michael - University of Iowa
"Theory of the density dependence of the electron g-factor and spin decoherence"

Citrin, David - Georgia Institute of Technology
"Plasmon-polariton propagation in metal-nanoparticle waveguides"

Giessen, Harald - University of Bonn
"Metallic photonic crystals"

Stockman, Mark - Georgia State
"Nanophotonics in Metal-Semiconductor Nanostructures: Spaser and Other Phenomena"

Feldman, Jochen - University of Munich
"Energy transfer in hybrid nanoparticle systems"

"Intensity and polarization correlations between single photons emitted from microcavity embedded single semiconductor quantum dots"

Mirin, Richard - NIST-Boulder
"Single photon sources based on single quantum dots"

Wang, Hailin - University of Oregon
"Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Semiconductors"

Unterrainer, Karl - Technical University of Vienna
"Quantum cascade structures"

Elsaesser, Thomas - Max Born Institute, Berlin
"Ultrafast dynamics of nonlinear intersubband excitations in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells"

Gmachl, Claire - Princeton
"Nonlinear optical effects in quantum cascade lasers and applications"

Merlin, Roberto - University of Michigan
"Low Energy Excitations in Quantum Wells: Coherent Density Fluctuations and Entangled Spins"

Kono, Junichiro - Rice University
"Ultrafast Optical Manipulation of Ferromagnetism in Mn-doped III-V Semiconductors"

Yakovlev, Dmitri - University of Dortmund
"Spin dynamics in diluted-magnetic-semiconductor heterostructures with free carriers"

Gammon, Daniel - Naval Research Laboratories
"Optically measuring and controlling the spin of single quantum dots for quantum computing"

Borri, Paola - University of Dortmund
"Dephasing processes in InGaAs quantum dots and quantum-dot molecules"

Nozik, Arthur - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
"Electron Relaxation Dynamics in Photoexcited Quantum Dots and the Relevance to Solar Photon Conversion: Carrier Cooling, Impact Ionization, and Interfacial Charge Transfer"

Huffaker, Diana - University of New Mexico
"Patterned Quantum Dot Formation"

Stolz, Heinrich - University of Rostock
"Ultra-high resolution spectroscopy of excitons in Cu₂O"

Kim, DaiSik - Seoul National University
"Virtual-real quantum beats in semiconductor quantum well systems"

Norris, Theodore - University of Michigan
"Propagation, Diffraction, and Nanoscale Imaging with Coherent Acoustic Phonon Pulses"

Cundiff, Steve - JILA/NIST/University of Colorado
TBA

Heberle, Alfred - University of Pittsburgh
"Ultrafast dynamics in VCSEL's - from coherent control to mode locking"

Akiyama, Hidefumi - University of Tokyo
"Lasing in T-shaped quantum wires with high uniformity"

Smirl, Arthur - University of Iowa
"Subtle spins on the injection & control of charge densities in semiconductors"

Sipe, John - University of Toronto
"All-optical injection of spin currents"

Silva, Tom - NIST
"Optical studies of spins in GaAs using laser diode technology"

Phillips, Richard - University of Cambridge, UK
"Exciton spin in wells, wires and dots"

Khitrova, Galina - University of Arizona
"Entanglement between a photon and a quantum dot"

Sham, Lu - University of California at San Diego
"Theory and applications of cavity quantum electrodynamics with nanodots"

Forchel, Alfred - University of Wurzburg
"Optical spectroscopy of single quantum dots and microcavities"