General Information General Information Programs Mon 31 Jul: Short Courses Tue 1 Aug: Plenary and Technical Sessions & Welcome Reception Wed 2 Aug: Technical Sessions & Conference Banquet Thu 3 Aug: Technical Sessions Fri 4 Aug: Postdeadline Paper Session Exhibition Date: 1st Aug 2017 Time: 14.00-18.00 Venue: Room 4701 Date: 2nd Aug 2017, 3rd Aug 2017 Time: 8.30-18.00 Venue: Room 4701 All attendees are welcomed to visit the exhibition and build professional contacts. Explanation of Session Codes Oral 1-2 B-3 Day of the Conference Session Number (4 sessions a day) Room Presentation Order IV General Information Presentation Guideline Instructions for Presenters Speakers are requested to be in their respective session rooms at least 10minutes prior to the commencement of each session. The duration of a plenary/keynote presentation is 45 minutes. This includes 35 minutes for the presentation itself and 5 minutes for Q&A. The duration of an invited presentation is 30 minutes. This includes 25 minutes for the presentation itself and 5 minutes for Q&A. The duration of a regular presentation is 15 minutes. This includes 12 minutes for the presentation itself and 3 minutes for Q&A. We would appreciate if all presenters can adhere strictly to this time limit. Presentation mush be carried our using Microsoft PowerPoint or PDF. No slide prejectors will be made available. Speakers should being their presentation materials in a thumb-drive and upload the files from 08:00—08:30 daily or during the tea breaks or lunches. Instructions for Presiders We provide a small bell in every session room. Please ring a warning bell as follows Invited talk: one ring at 12 minutes, two rings at 15 minutes (20 min talk) one ring at 20 minutes, two rings at 25 minutes (30 min talk) Regular talk: one ring at 10 minutes, two rings at 12 minutes It is a good idea to remind your speakers at the start of the session that you will be ringing this bell. Please leave this bell in the room for the next presider. Please remember the time frame. Keeping the Program to time is very important. Please be aware of the time periods speakers have been designed to present. Poster Sessions Four 90 minutes poster sessions will be held in room 4603-4604 . Poster presenters are requested to put up their respective posters 1 hour prior to the commencement of each poster session. Poster session 1 10:15—11:45 Wed, 02.Aug.2017 Poster session 2 15:45—17:15 Wed, 02. Aug.2017 Poster session 3 10:15—11:45 Thu, 03. Aug.2017 Poster session 4 15:45—17:15 Thu, 03. Aug.2017 At least one author should be present for each poster during the poster session. V Conference Venue Floor Plan VI Conference Program Plenary Speakers The Story of Photonics and Single Molecules, and the Challenges and Promises of Super-Resolution Microscopy and Dynamical Tracking in Biological Imaging William E. Moerner, Nobel Laureate 2014, Stanford University, USA Roughly 30 years ago, low temperature experiments aimed at establishing the ultimate limits to optical storage in solids led to the first optical detection and spectroscopy of a single molecule in the condensed phase. At this unexplored ultimate limit, many surprises occurred where single molecules showed both spontaneous changes (blinking) and light-driven control of emission, properties that were also observed in 1997 at room temperature with single green fluorescent protein variants. In 2006, PALM and subsequent approaches showed that the optical diffraction limit of ~200 nm can be circumvented to achieve super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, or nanoscopy, with relatively nonperturbative visible light. Essential to this is the combination of single-molecule fluorescence imaging with active control of the emitting concentration and sequential localization of single fluorophores decorating a structure. Super-resolution microscopy has opened up a new frontier in which biological structures and behavior can be observed in live cells with resolutions down to 20-40 nm and below, and many examples abound. Current methods development research addresses ways to image in thick cells and to extract more information from each single molecule such as 3D position and orientation, as well as to assure not only precision, but also accuracy. Still, it is worth noting that in spite of all the interest in super-resolution, even in the “conventional” single-molecule tracking regime where the motions of individual biomolecules are recorded in solution or in cells rather than the shapes of extended structures, much can be learned about biological dynamical processes when ensemble averaging is removed. W. E. (William Esco) Moerner, the Harry S. Mosher Professor of Chemistry and Professor, by courtesy, of Applied Physics at Stanford University, conducts research in physical chemistry and chemical physics of single molecules, single-molecule biophysics, super-resolution imaging and tracking in cells, and trapping of single molecules in solution. His interests span methods of precise quantitation of single-molecule properties, to strategies for three-dimensional imaging and tracking of single molecules, to applications of single-molecule measurements to understand biological processes in cells, to observations of the photodynamics of single photosynthetic proteins and enzymes. He has been elected Fellow/Member of the NAS, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, AAAS, ACS, APS, and OSA. Major awards include the Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy, the Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics, the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award, the Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry, the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, and the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Controlling Light on the Nanoscale John B. Pendry, Imperial College London, UK Our intuitive understanding of light has its foundation in the ray approximation and is intimately connected with our vision: as far as our eyes are concerned light behaves like a stream of particles. Here we look inside the wavelength and study the properties of plasmonic structures with dimensions of just a few nanometres: a tenth or even a hundredth of the wavelength of visible light, where the ray picture fails utterly. In this talk we show how the new concept of transformation optics that manipulates electric and magnetic field lines rather than rays can provide an equally intuitive understanding of sub wavelength phenomena and at the same time be an exact description at the level of Maxwell’s equations. The concepts are applied to a number of plasmonic structures. Professor Sir John Pendry is a condensed matter theorist at Imperial College, London. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1969 and worked at Bell Labs from 1972-1973. He has held his professorship in the Blackett Laboratory (Imperial College, London) since 1981. Shortly after, he became the head of the Physics Department and Principle (Dean) of faculty of Natural Sciences. He is currently the Chair in Theoretical Solid State Physics. Prof Pendry is a Fellow of many academic societies, including the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences of United States, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Physics (IOP), the Optical Society of America (OSA), American Physical Society (APS), etc. In 2004, he was knighted in the British Honours for his services to science. Professor Pendry is one of the most highly cited British Scientists. He is recognized worldwide for his pioneering work on the structure of surfaces and their interaction with electrons and photons. He has also worked extensively on transport in disordered systems where he produced a complete theory of the statistics of transport in one-dimensional systems. He founded the field of “metamaterials”, a concept for engineered structures whose electromagnetic properties depend on their internal structure rather than their chemical constitution. He discovered that a perfect lens manufactured from negatively refracting material would circumvent Abbeʼs diffraction limit to spatial resolution, which has stood for more than a century. His most recent innovation of transformation optics gives the metamaterial specifications required to rearrange electromagnetic field configurations at will. In its simplest form, the theory shows how we can direct field lines around a given obstacle and thus provide a cloak of invisibility. Several realizations of this concept have been built some operating at radar and others at visible wavelengths. 8 Conference Program Professor Pendry has won numerous awards, including the Dirac Medal in 1996, the Royal Medal in 2006, the UNESCO- Niels Bohr gold medal in 2009, the Isaac Newton Medal in 2013, the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience in 2014, the Dan David Prize in 2016, etc. Optical Coherence Tomography: from Healthcare Idea to Healthcare Impact Eric A. Swanson, Acacia Communications, USA The commercialization and growth of OCT which has occurred over the past 25 years has been highly impactful, scientifically, clinically, and economically. Many factors have helped drive this success starting with the clinical need for new cost-effective high-resolution minimallyinvasive imaging solutions for various diagnostic and therapeutic applications. But equally important to this success was the intertwined role of researchers, engineers, clinicians, professional societies, government agencies, government funding, regulatory bodies, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and small and large corporate entities within biomedical optics industry and other industries. This talk will review some of the history of the commercialization of OCT and illustrate how the benefits of a healthy ecosystem and the power of tight collaboration across engineering, clinical medicine, and for-profit business and healthcare organizations overcame the complex time-consuming process to close the gap between a healthcare idea and healthcare impact Eric Swanson is an active participant in a variety of entrepreneurial, industrial, academic, and volunteer activities. He chairs the board of directors for Acacia Communications and is a member of the boards of directors for NinePoint Medical and Curata.