Invited speakers

Mario N. Baibich, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) Giant magnetoresistance: from discovery to Nobel prize and beyond

Antonio H. Castro Neto, Boston University (USA) The electronic properties of graphene

Yara G. Gobato, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (Brazil) Spin polarization in resonant tunneling diodes

Maria Gracheva, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) Multilayered semiconductor membranes for biomolecular sensing and manipulation

Isaac Hernandez-Calderon, CINVESTAV (Mexico) Interface structure and excitonic properties of quantum wells and superlattices based on subnanometric CdSe epitaxial films

Seunghun Hong, Seoul National University (South Korea) Self-assembly for mass-production of nanowire/nanotube-based integrated devices

Tomas Jungwirth, Institute of Pysics ASCR (Czech Republic) Ferromagnetic semiconductor materials and spintronic transistors

Denis Maryenko, Max Planck Institute (Germany) Ultrafast photoconductive switches operated at 1.55 μm: suitable material and application

Sergey Mikhailov, University of Augsburg (Germany) Non-linear optics of graphene for terahertz applications

Byung-Gook Park, Seoul National University (South Korea) Nanosculpture: Three-dimensional CMOS device structures for the ULSI Era

Armando Rastelli, IFW Dresden (Germany) Optically active lateral quantum dot molecules

Lars Samuelson, Lund University (Sweden) Growth, Physics and Applications of Semiconductor Nanowires

Michael Scheibner, Naval Research Laboratory (USA) Optical level anticrossing of quantum dot molecules

Mahi Singh, The University of Western Ontario (Canada) Photonic transistors made from photonic quantum wires

Yoshimasa Sugimoto, National Institute for Materials Science (Japan) Advanced quantum dot and photonic crystal technologies for integrated nano-photonic circuit

Mauricio Terrones, IPICyT (Mexico) The importance of Defects in carbon Nanotubes: How to Identify them using different techniques

Karl Unterrainer, Technische Universität Wien (Austria) THz Quantum Cascade Lasers: Microcavities and Photonics Crystal Devices

Bernhard Urbaszek, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (France) Manipulating a single spin in a single quantum dot through optical control of the hyperfine interaction with nuclear spins

Ming-Wei Wu, University of Science & Technology of China (China) Spin dynamics in semiconductor nanostructures

Xiulai Xu, Hitachi Cambrigde Laboratory (UK) ‘Plug and play’ single photon sources at 1.3 μm approaching GHz operation