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All speakers and talks in the hot topic session are BY INVITATION ONLY, and will be very selective on some hot/emerging topics or disruptive technologies. Each invited speaker will be given only 10 minutes to talk as a big picture talk or a highlight talk. An invited speaker in this section can also refer to his or her longer talk (if any) in PIERS.
List of date/time of hot topic talks.
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Andrew is presently a Distinguished Professor within the School of Physics at the U. Witwatersrand (South Africa) where in 2015 he established a new laboratory for Structured Light. He is a Fellow of SPIE, Optica, the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP), an elected member of the Academy of Science of South Africa and editor-in-chief of the IoP’s Journal of Optics. Andrew has won several awards for his research, including the NSTF national award for his contributions to photonics in South Africa (2015), the Georg Forster prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for outstanding contributions to photonics (2020), the SAIP Gold Medal (2020), the highest award for physics in South Africa, making him the youngest winner to date, the Sang Soo Lee award from Optica and the Korean Optical Society (2022) and the TWAS prize for Physics (2024). He is Director of South Africa’s Quantum Technology Initiative.
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Professor of physics, Peking University. Dr. Ma received his PhD degree in Physics from Peking University in 2009. He was a postdoc researcher at UC Berkeley during 2009 to 2014 before joining Peking University as a faculty. His research interests include laser physics, nanophotonics, light-matter interaction, non-Hermitian and topological photonics. He published over 80 peer reviewed papers, including 5 in Nature/Science, 11 in Nature/Science sister journals, 2 in PRL. His works has been selected as China’s Top 10 Optical Breakthroughs of 2018 and 2020, APS Physics Top 10 "Highlights of the Year" of 2018, China’s Top 10 Semiconductor Research Breakthroughs of 2020, and Top 100 high impact research articles of China 2020.
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Guglielmo Lanzani is a physicist. Full professor at Politecnico di Milano, he has served from 2010 to 2023 as Director of the Center for Nano Science and Technology at Italian Institute of Technology, where he is senior researcher. He studies photoresponsive materials able to induce light sensitivity and signaling in biological systems. The ultimate goal is to realize photo-driven human-machine interfaces for application in regenerative medicine, prosthet-ics and hybrid robotics. He has recently developed, in collaboration with neuroscientist and medical doctors, a new retina prosthesis that exploit semiconducting polymer nanoparticles for rescuing vision in photodetector-degraded retinas. He is a founding partner in two start-ups (NOVAVIDO, and SAMS Technology).
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Mona Jarrahi is a Professor and Northrop Grumman Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA and the Director of the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory. Prof. Jarrahi has made significant contributions to the development of ultrafast electronic and optoelectronic devices and integrated systems for terahertz, infrared, and millimeter-wave sensing, imaging, computing, and communication.
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