¡á Opening Program

Conference Address : to be announced
Conference Lecture : Honorable Shanghee Rhee, Ph.D
(Member of Korean National Assembly, Chairman of Committee for Information Science and Technology, National Assembly).
"Present and Future Information Science and Technology in Korea"

¡á Scientific Program

Plenary Speakers

Alan Heeger (Nobel Laureate, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
- The Plastic Electronics Revolution: Opportunities Based on Semconducting
and Metallic Polymers


Seizo Miyata (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)
- Novel Organic EL Devices

Gerhard Wegner (Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Germany)
- Polyconjugated Macromolecules: A Short History on Their Structural
Chemistry and Physical Properties


Special Speakers

Takuzo Aida (University of Tokyo, Japan)
- Molecular Design of Photoresponsive Supramolecular and Macromolecular
Systems


Dongho Kim (Yonsei University, Korea)
- Molecular Photonics Based on Porphyrin Arrays

Invited Speakers

Harry Anderson (Oxford U., UK)
- Conjugated Rotaxanes: Encapsulated Dyes and Insulated Molecular Wires

Chantal Andraud (ENS-Lyon, France)
- Conjugated Oligomers: A New Strategy to Design Efficient Two-Photon
Absorbers


Patrice L. Baldeck (U. Grenoble, France)
- Optical Applications with Nanostructured Organic Materials

Andreas Braeuer (Fraunhoper Inst., Germany)
- Wafer-Scale Fabricated Microoptical and Guided Wave Interconnects in
Polymers


Christoph Bubeck (MPI-P, Germany)
- Dispersions of Cubic Nonlinearities and Attenuation Losses of Polymer
Waveguides


Bong Rae Cho (Korea U., Korea)
- Nonlinear Optical and Two-Photon Absorption Properties of Octupolar
Molecules


Yoshiki Chujo (Kyoto U., Japan)
- New ¥ð-Conjugated Boron-Containing Polymers

Graham Cross (Durham U., UK)
- Local Field Aggregation Dependence of the Micro- and Macroscopic Optical
Non-linearity of Zwitterionic Molecules


Larry R. Dalton (USC & U. Washington, USA)
- Nano and Mesoscale Engineering of Electro-Optic Materials

Stephen Forrest (Princeton U., USA)
- Efficient Harvesting of Excited States in Organic LEDs and Photodetectors

Jean M. J. Frechet (UC Berkeley, USA)
- to be announced

Peter Guenter (ETH, Switzerland)
- Organic Crystals and Thin Films for Nonlinear Optics

Sun-Gyu Han (Zen Photonics, Korea)
- Photonics Passive Devices with Polymers for Optical Networks

Samson A. Jenekhe (U. Washington, USA)
- Macromolecular Architecture Directed Self-Assembly of Conjugated Polymers

Francois Kajzar (CEA-LETI, DEIN/SPE, France)
- Light Control of Orientation of Molecules

Shashi P. Karna (Air Force Res. Lab., USA)
- Molecular Wires, Diodes, and Transistors: Fundamental Device Physics and
Structure-Property Relationships


Jae-Ho Kim (Ajou U., Korea)
- Photophysical Properties of Organic Dyes in the Self-Assembled Monolayers

Oh-Kil Kim (Naval Res. Lab., USA)
- Oligothiophene as Photonic/Electronic Property Modulator

Iam-Choon Khoo (Pennsylvania State U., USA)
- Nonlinear Nematic Liquid Crystals and Phototunable 2- and 3-D Photonic
Crystal for Visible 1.55 Micron Spectral Region


Takayoshi Kobayashi (U. Tokyo, Japan)
- Ultrafast Optical Nonlinearity in Conjugated Polymers

Charles Lee (AFOSR, USA)
- Basic Research in Organics and Polymers at Air Force Office of Scientific
Research


Roger A. Lessard (Laval U., Canada)
- Sol-Gel BaTiO3 on Photochromic Materials for Optical Recording

Klaus Meerholz (U. Munich, Germany)
- Recent Progress on Photorefractive Polymers

Andrezej Miniewicz (Wroclaw U. Tech., Poland)
- Liquid Crystals for Photonic Applications

Klaus Muellen (MPI-P, Germany)
- Nanocolorants

Yung Woo Park (Seoul N. U., Korea)
- Quantum Transport in Synthetic Metals: Low Dimensional Organic
Nanostructures

Andre Persoons (U. Leuven, Belgium)
- Nonlinear Optical Electric and Magnetic Susceptibilities of Chiral Molecules

Nassar Peyghambarian (U. Arizona, USA)
- New Polymeric and Hybrid Materials for Photonics Applications

Paras N. Prasad (SUNY Buffalo, USA)
- Nanophotonics: Nanoscale Optical Science and Technology

Lyong Sun Pu (Fuji Xerox, Japan)
- Femtosecond Optical Switches by Squarylium Dye J-Aggregates

Gopal Rao (U. Boston, USA)
- Nonvolatile Holography in Organic Films with Optimized Molecular Reorientation

Narayana Rao (U. Hyderabad, India)
- Excited State Dynamics in Tetra Tolyl Porphyrins in Relevance to Third-Order
Nonlinearity and Optical Limiting


Marek Samoc (ANU, Australia)
- Third-Order Optical Nonlinearities of Oligomers, Dendrimers and Polymers
Derived from Solution Z-Scan Studies


Hiroyuki Sasabe (CIST, Japan)
- Photorefractive Carbazole Derivatives: Molecular Design and Applications

Yuen-Ron Shen (UC Berkeley, USA)

- Nonlinear Optics in Chiral Media

Yasuhiko Shirota (Osaka U., Japan)
- Photochromic Amorphous Molecular Materials and Their Applications

Benzhong Tang (Hong Kong U. Sci. Tech., Hong Kong)
- Synthesis and Optical Properties of Hyperbranched Polyarenes

M. O. Tjia (Bandung Inst. Tech., Indonesia)
- Theoretical and Numerical Studies of Coherent Nonlinear Optical Coupler

Robert Twieg (Kent State U., USA)
- Organic Charge Transport Materials and Their Importance in Optical and
Electronic Devices


Fosong Wang (Chinese Acad. Sci., China)
- Linear Molecular Wires: Solid Phase Synthesis and Electron Conduction Study

Wayne Wang (Carleton U., Canada)
- Organic Electrochromic Materials for Optical Attenuation

Joachim H. Wendorff (Marburg U., Germany)
- Optoelectronic Properties of Discotic Materials and Their Applications

Jeong Weon Wu (Ewha Womans U., Korea)
- Chiral Nonlinear Optics in Oxides, Polymers and Liquid Crystals

Masaki Yokoyama (Osaka U., Japan)
- Organic Multi-Layered Optical Logic Device

Taehyoung Zyung (ETRI, Korea)
- Plastic EL Display

Joseph Zyss (Ecole Normale Sup. Cachan, France)
- A Multipolar Track in Nonlinear Photonics

Tutorial Lecturers

El Hang Lee (Inha U., Korea)
- Photonics in the 21st Century: Issues and Challenges

Sin Doo Lee (Seoul N. U., Kora)

- Optics of Organic Thin Films and Devices

Toshikuni Kaino (Tohoku U., Japan)
- Polymer Waveguide Fabrication and Application to Nonlinear Optics

Nakjoong Kim (Hanyang U., Korea)

- Organic Photorefractive Materials

Tetsuo Tsutsui (Kyushu U., Japan)
- Organic Electroluminsecence: Past, Present and Future

*** Additional list of speakers is to be announced in the final circular ***

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