07:30-19:00

Registration Foyer 517

08:30-10:00

Biophotonics, Novel Sensing, and Advanced Imaging - 1 Lei Tian Parsin Haji Reza, University of Waterloo, Canada Room: 514a

08:30-09:55

Quantum Light-Matter Interactions: Sensing, Communications, and Information Processing - 1 Kent Bonsma-Fisher, University of Ottawa, Canada Room: 514b

08:30-09:55

Optical Communications - 1 Roberto Morandotti, Inrs-emt, Canada Room: 513

08:30-10:00

Photonic Theory Design and Simulations - 1 Jonathan Bradley, McMaster University, Canada Room: 514c

08:30-10:05

High Power Laser Technology, Ultrafast Optics, and Applications - 1 Arkady Major, University of Manitoba, Canada Room: 515ab

10:00-10:15

Coffee Break Room: 516

10:15-10:25

Opening Welcome Ebrahim Karimi, Nexus for Quantum Technologies Institute, University of Ottawa, Canada Room: 513

10:25-11:25

Plenary Speaker 1 - Ursula Keller Lora Ramunno, University of Ottawa, Canada Luca Razzari, INRS-EMT, Canada Room: 513

11:25-12:40

Biophotonics, Novel Sensing, and Advanced Imaging - 2 Jinyang Liang, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Canada Lei Tian Room: 514a

11:25-12:30

Quantum Light-Matter Interactions: Sensing, Communications, and Information Processing - 2 Yingwen Zhang, University of Ottawa, Canada Room: 514b

11:25-12:30

Optical Communications - 2 Jens Schmid, National Research Council Canada, Canada Room: 513

11:25-12:40

Photonic Theory Design and Simulations - 2 Jianhao Zhang, NRC, Canada Room: 514c

11:25-12:30

High Power Laser Technology, Ultrafast Optics, and Applications - 2 Bernd Witzel, COPL, Canada Room: 515ab

12:30-13:30

Lunch - Presentation from Plenary Speaker Ursula Keller Lora Ramunno, University of Ottawa, Canada Luca Razzari, INRS-EMT, Canada Room: 512ab

13:30-14:30

Tutorial 1 - José Azaña Luca Razzari, INRS-EMT, Canada Lora Ramunno, University of Ottawa, Canada Room: 513

14:30-16:20

Biophotonics, Novel Sensing, and Advanced Imaging - 3 Irene Georgakoudi, Tufts University, United States Of America Parsin Haji Reza, University of Waterloo, Canada Room: 514a

14:30-16:30

Quantum Light-Matter Interactions: Sensing, Communications, and Information Processing - 3 Frédéric Bouchard, National Research Council Canada, Canada Room: 514b

14:30-16:30

Optical Communications - 3 Winnie Ye, Carleton University, Canada Room: 513

14:30-16:35

Photonic Theory Design and Simulations - 3 Michael Sumetsky, Aston University, United Kingdom Room: 514c

14:30-16:35

High Power Laser Technology, Ultrafast Optics, and Applications - 3 Bernd Witzel, COPL, Canada Room: 515ab

16:30-16:45

Coffee Break Room: 516

16:45-17:55

Biophotonics, Novel Sensing, and Advanced Imaging - 4 Weijian Yang, University of California, Davis, United States Of America Darren Roblyer, Boston University, United States of America Room: 514a

16:45-17:55

Quantum Light-Matter Interactions: Sensing, Communications, and Information Processing - 4 Philip Bustard, National Research Council, Canada Room: 514b

16:45-18:25

Optical Communications - 4 Jens Schmid, National Research Council Canada, Canada Room: 513

16:45-18:00

Photonic Theory Design and Simulations - 4 Silvia Maria Pietralunga, CNR-IFN, Italy Room: 514c

16:45-18:00

High Power Laser Technology, Ultrafast Optics, and Applications - 4 Shawn Sederberg, Simon Fraser University, Canada Room: 515ab

18:00-20:00

Welcome Reception Chapiteau

19:00-20:00

CMC / Photons Canada Workshop - How to start a company in Photonics Gordon Harling, CMC Microsystems, Canada Room: 512ab

08:00-19:00

Registration Foyer 517

08:30-10:25

Biophotonics, Novel Sensing, and Advanced Imaging - 5 Lei Li, Rice University, United States of America Srivalleesha Mallidi, Tufts University, United States Of America Room: 514a

08:30-10:20

Quantum Light-Matter Interactions: Sensing, Communications, and Information Processing - 5 Guillaume Thekkadath, National Research Council, Canada Room: 514b

08:30-10:30

Optical Communications - 5 Jens Schmid, National Research Council Canada, Canada Room: 513

08:30-10:35

Photonic Theory Design and Simulations - 5 Pavel Cheben Room: 514c

08:30-10:35

High Power Laser Technology, Ultrafast Optics, and Applications - 5 François Blanchard, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Canada Room: 515ab

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break and Exhibition Room: 516

10:00-12:00

Photons Canada Pitch Competition Kexing Liu, Photons Canada, Canada Room: 512ab

11:00-12:05

Biophotonics, Novel Sensing, and Advanced Imaging - 6 Nicholas Durr, Johns Hopkins University, United States Of America Shalin Mehta, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, United States Of America Room: 514a

11:00-12:00

Quantum Light-Matter Interactions: Sensing, Communications, and Information Processing - 6 Benjamin Sussman, National Research Council Canada, Canada Room: 514b

11:00-12:05

Optical Communications - 6 Graham Reed, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Room: 513

11:00-12:05

Photonic Theory Design and Simulations - 6 Serge Bidnyk, Enablence, Canada Room: 514c

11:00-11:55

Nonlinear Optics, Nanophotonics, and Plasmonics - 1 Pablo Bianucci, Concordia University, Canada Room: 515ab

12:00-13:30

Lunch and Networking Room: 512cd & 510d

12:00-13:30

Student - Industry Speed Networking Lunch David Hélie, Centre d'optique, photonique et laser, COPL, Canada Room: 512ab

12:00-13:30

Student Best Paper Award In-Camera Competition - COPL and STARaCom Luca Razzari, INRS-EMT, Canada Lora Ramunno, University of Ottawa, Canada Room: 514b

12:00-13:30

Exhibition Room: 516

13:30-15:00

Exhibitor Product Presentation Sparrow McGowan, Photons Canada, Canada Room: 512ab

13:20-15:00

Biophotonics, Novel Sensing, and Advanced Imaging - 7 Frédéric Leblond, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada Amina Hussein, University of Alberta, Canada Room: 514a

13:30-15:00

Quantum Light-Matter Interactions: Sensing, Communications, and Information Processing - 7 Duncan England, NRC, Canada Room: 514b

13:30-15:00

Optical Communications - 7 Winnie Ye, Carleton University, Canada Room: 513

13:30-15:00

Photonic Theory Design and Simulations - 7 Hugh Podmore, Honeywell Aerospace, Canada Room: 514c

13:30-15:00

Nonlinear Optics, Nanophotonics, and Plasmonics - 2 Jayshri Sabarinathan, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Room: 515ab

15:00-16:00

Plenary Speaker 2 - Gilles Brassard Lora Ramunno, University of Ottawa, Canada Luca Razzari, INRS-EMT, Canada Room: 513

16:00-16:10

Student Best Paper Award Announcement - COPL and STARaCom Luca Razzari, INRS-EMT, Canada Lora Ramunno, University of Ottawa, Canada Room: 512ab

16:10-16:30

Coffee Break and Exhibition Room: 516

16:30-18:00

Exhibitor Product Presentation Sparrow McGowan, Photons Canada, Canada Room: 512ab

16:30-17:50

Biophotonics, Novel Sensing, and Advanced Imaging - 8 Kanwarpal Singh, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany Room: 514a

16:30-17:55

Quantum Light-Matter Interactions: Sensing, Communications, and Information Processing - 8 Kate Fenwick, University of Ottawa, National Research Council of Canada, Canada Room: 514b

16:30-18:00

Optical Communications - 8 Inigo Molina-Fernandez, Málaga University, Spain Room: 513

16:30-18:00

Photonic Theory Design and Simulations - 8 Daniel Benedikovic, University Science Park, University of Zilina, Slovakia Room: 514c

16:30-18:00

Nonlinear Optics, Nanophotonics, and Plasmonics - 3 Kaveh Rahbardar Mojaver, McGill University, Canada Room: 515ab

18:00-20:00

Poster Session 1 and Exhibition Room: 516

18:00-19:00

Photonics Roadmap - CMC Community Consultation Gordon Harling, CMC Microsystems, Canada Room: 512ab

08:00-19:00

Registration Foyer 517

08:30-10:30

Biophotonics, Novel Sensing, and Advanced Imaging - 9 Parsin Haji Reza, University of Waterloo, Canada Lei Tian Room: 514a

08:30-10:30

Quantum Light-Matter Interactions: Sensing, Communications, and Information Processing - 9 Aaron Goldberg, National Research Council of Canada, Canada Room: 514b

08:30-10:30

Optical Communications - 9 Laurent Vivien, CNRS, Univ. Paris Saclay, Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (C2N), France Room: 513

08:30-10:35

Photonic Theory Design and Simulations - 9 Carlos A. Ramos Room: 514c

08:30-10:30

Nonlinear Optics, Nanophotonics, and Plasmonics - 4 Kartik Srinivasan, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States of America Room: 515ab

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break and Exhibition Room: 516

11:00-11:05

Photons Canada special announcement Kexing Liu, Photons Canada, Canada 513

11:05-12:05

Tutorial 2 - Ksenia Yadav Luca Razzari, INRS-EMT, Canada Lora Ramunno, University of Ottawa, Canada Room: 513

12:00-13:00

Lunch and Learn - EPIC Member Presentations Carlos Lee, EPIC, France Room: 512ab

12:00-13:00

Lunch and Networking Room: 512cd & 510d

12:00-13:00

Exhibition Room: 516

13:00-13:45

Symposium on Technology and Market Trend Jean-Christophe Gauthier, Optonique, Canada Room: 513

13:45-14:30

Panel on Commercializing Photonic Technologies Velko Tzolov, National Research Council Canada, Canada Room: 513

14:30-15:45

Biophotonics, Novel Sensing, and Advanced Imaging - 10 Martin Villiger, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, United States Of America Jonghwan Lee, Brown University, United States Of America Room: 514a

14:30-15:45

Photonic Materials - 1 Tigran Galstian, Université Laval, Canada Room: 514b

14:30-15:45

Photonics and AI - 1 Antonio Cala' Lesina, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Room: 513

14:30-15:45

Photonic Theory Design and Simulations - 10 José Manuel Luque González, Universidad de Malaga, Spain Room: 514c

14:30-15:50

Nonlinear Optics, Nanophotonics, and Plasmonics - 5 Tao Lu, University of Victoria, Canada Room: 515ab

15:45-16:00

Coffee Break and Exhibition Room: 516

16:00-17:55

Green Photonics, Energy, and Related Technologies - 1 Kirk Bevan, McGill University, Canada Sharif Sadaf, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)-University of Quebec, Canada Room: 514a

16:00-18:00

Photonic Materials - 2 Tigran Galstian, Université Laval, Canada Room: 514b

16:00-18:00

Photonics and AI - 2 Antonio Cala' Lesina, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Room: 513

16:00-17:30

Photonic Theory Design and Simulations - 11 Ayse Turak, Concordia University (Physics, Centre for NanoScience Research), Canada Room: 514c

16:00-17:45

Nonlinear Optics, Nanophotonics, and Plasmonics - 6 Pablo Bianucci, Concordia University, Canada Room: 515ab

18:00-20:00

Poster Session 2 and Exhibition Room: 516

18:00-20:00

Networking with EPIC members Jean-Christophe Gauthier, Optonique, Canada 516

08:00-15:30

Registration Foyer 517

08:30-09:30

Tutorial 3 - Pierre Berini Lora Ramunno, University of Ottawa, Canada Luca Razzari, INRS-EMT, Canada Room: 513

09:30-10:50

Green Photonics, Energy, and Related Technologies - 2 Siddharth Rajan, The Ohio State University, United States of America Sharif Sadaf, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)-University of Quebec, Canada Room: 514a

09:30-10:45

Photonic Materials - 3 Tigran Galstian, Université Laval, Canada Room: 514b

09:30-10:45

Photonics and AI - 3 Sean Molesky, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Room: 513

09:30-10:45

Optical Communications - 10 Maziyar Milanizadeh, NRC, Canada Room: 514c

09:30-10:40

Nonlinear Optics, Nanophotonics, and Plasmonics - 7 Pablo Bianucci, Concordia University, Canada Room: 515ab

10:45-11:00

Coffee Break Room: 516

11:00-12:00

Plenary Speaker 3 - Andrea Alù Luca Razzari, INRS-EMT, Canada Lora Ramunno, University of Ottawa, Canada Room: 513

12:00-13:00

Lunch and Learn - Protect your research and innovation Sparrow McGowan, Photons Canada, Canada Room: 512ab

12:00-13:00

Lunch and Networking Room: 512cd & 510d

13:00-15:00

Green Photonics, Energy, and Related Technologies - 3 Eva Monroy, CEA-IRIG, PHELIQS, France Sharif Sadaf, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)-University of Quebec, Canada Room: 514a

13:00-15:00

Photonic Materials - 4 Jean-Michel Nunzi, Queen's U, Canada Room: 514b

13:00-14:45

Photonics and AI - 4 Antonio Cala' Lesina, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Room: 513

13:00-14:55

Quantum Light-Matter Interactions: Sensing, Communications, and Information Processing - 10 Alicia Sit, University of Ottawa, Canada Room: 514c

13:00-15:00

Nonlinear Optics, Nanophotonics, and Plasmonics - 8 Pablo Bianucci, Concordia University, Canada Room: 515ab

15:00-15:15

Coffee Break Room: 516

15:15-17:35

Green Photonics, Energy, and Related Technologies - 4 Xihua Wang, University of Alberta, Canada Sharif Sadaf, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)-University of Quebec, Canada Room: 514a

15:15-17:40

Photonic Materials - 5 Mark Andrews, McGill University, Canada Room: 514b

15:15-17:35

Photonics and AI - 5 Sean Molesky, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Room: 513

15:15-16:15

High Power Laser Technology, Ultrafast Optics, and Applications - 6 Bernd Witzel, COPL, Canada Room: 514c

15:15-17:55

Nonlinear Optics, Nanophotonics, and Plasmonics - 9 Jayshri Sabarinathan, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Room: 515ab