NIT Strategic Workshop Canada Scotland Workshop Emerging Technologies for Future Optical and Wireless Networks September 8 & 9, 2003 S C H E D U L E Monday September 8th 9:30 - 10:00 Registration and coffee 10:00 - 10:30 Welcome opening remarks SESSION 1: Materials 10:30 - 10:50 Laser Nanofabrication Tools for Photonics and BioPhotonics Peter Herman Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto 10:50 - 11:10 Nanotechnology for Networks: Merging bottom-up self-assembly with top-down engineering design Ted Sargent Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto 11:10 - 11:30 Towards the Synthetic All-Optical Computer: Science Fiction or Reality? Geoff Ozin Chemistry, University of Toronto 11:30 - 11:50 PhotoPolymer for Planar Lightwave Circuits Frank Tooley 11:50 - 12:10 Zheng-Hong Lu Material Science and Engineering, University of Toronto 12:10 - 12:30 Discussion 1:00 - 2:00 Lunch with student posters SESSION 2: Funding opportunities and future directions 2:00 - 2:20 Gerry Lynch Photonics Research Ontario 2:20 - 2:40 Funding for UK-Canada exchanges and collaboration Julie Wright-de Hennin British High Commission 2:40 - 3:00 Discussion 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee SESSION 3: Metamaterials 3:30 - 3:50 Negative Refractive Index Metamaterials Using Loaded Transmission Lines and Enabling RF Devices George Eleftheriades Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto 3:50 - 4:10 Ultrafast Systems @ Glasgow Iain Thayne Electronics & Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow 4:10 - 4:30 Numerical Modeling of Meta-material Structures in the Time-Domain Costas Sarris Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto 4:30 - 4:50 Dispersion Engineering: The Use of Abnormal Velocities and Negative Index of Refraction to Compensate Dispersion Mohammad Mojahedi Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto Tuesday, September 9th 9:00 - 9:30 Coffee SESSION 4: Photonic Band Gap Materials 9:30 - 9:50 John Sipe Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto 9:50 - 10:10 Sajeev John Physics Department, University of Toronto 10:10 - 10:30 Photonic Crystal Integrated Optics Thomas Krauss School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews 10:30 - 10:50 University of Strathclyde & Institute of Photonics Martin Dawson Institute of Photonics, Strathclyde University 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee SESSION 5: Industrial Presentations 11:30 - 11:50 FibreflowTM in FTTH Harry Ferguson Emtelle Europe 11:50 - 12:10 Optocap Ltd. - Optoelectronis packaging center David Ruxton OptoCAP 12:10 - 12:30 Laser Support Services Grahame Rogers Laser Support Services 12:30 - 12:50 Compound Semiconductor Global Technologies Inc. Alastair Wilson CST Global Ltd. 1:00 - 2:00 Lunch SESSION 6: Nonlinear Materials 1:30 - 1:50 Enhanced Second Harmonic Generation from 2-D planar photonic crystals Henry van Driel Physics, University of Toronto 1:50 - 2:10 Photonics in St. Andrews Alan Miller School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews 2:10 - 2:30 Discrete Optical Solitons Roberto Morandotti Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto 2:30 - 2:50 Nonlinear effects in periodic structures Stewart Aitchison Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto 3:00 - 3:30 Concluding remarks 3:30 End Nortel Institute for Telecommunications Bahen Centre for Information Technology 40 St. George St. University of Toronto