NIT Strategic Workshop Emerging Technologies for Future Optical and Wireless Networks September 8 & 9, 2003 Alan Miller Alan Miller is currently a Professor of Semiconductor Physics and Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews. He is a Principal Investigator for the UK-wide Ultrafast Photonics Collaboration. In September 2003 he takes on a new role as Vice Principal for Research at the University of St Andrews. Born in Scotland, he graduated with a first class honours BSc degree in physics from the University of Edinburgh in 1971 and gained a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Bath in 1975 researching semiconductor optical properties. He held a SERC Research Fellow in the Department of Physics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, from 1974 to 1979 followed by a Visiting Assistant Professorship at the University of North Texas until 1981. At the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Malvern, UK, from 1981 to 1989 he was responsible for a group covering nonlinear and ultrafast optics as an Individual Merit, Senior Principal Scientific Officer. He joined the Centre for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL) at the University of Central Florida, Orlando in January 1989, with joint professorial appointments in Physics and Electrical Engineering, where he continued research in dynamic nonlinear optical properties, optical switching, carrier transport and spin relaxation in quantum well semiconductors, and demonstrated self mode-locking in Cr:LiSAF and Cr:LiCAF or the first time. In 1993, he moved to his present position at the University of St Andrews where he established a research group on ultrafast phenomena in advanced semiconductor materials and devices. He has directed four NATO Advanced Study Institutes in Sicily (1993) and St Andrews (1995, 1998, 2002). He is co-editor of the international journal, Optical and Quantum Electronics with responsibility for special issues. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA) and the Institute of Physics (UK). More info: Prof. Miller's web site