23 - 27 October 2005
Hilton Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Advance Program will be available late August 2005

LEOS 2005 PLENARY SPEAKERS
CAREERS IN RESEARCH FORUM & SPEAKERS
LEOS 2005 SHORT COURSES
LEOS 2005 PLENARY SPEAKERS
PLE1 08.30 - 9.15 "Concurrent Commercialization" Milton Chang, Incubic
PLE2 09.15 - 10.00 “Major Trends for Optical Communications in the Pacific Rim” Vince Pizzica, Alcatel APAC CTO
PLE3 10.30 - 11.15 “Fluorescence Nanoscopy: Breaking the Diffraction Barrier by the RESOLFT Concept” Stefan W. Hell, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
PLE3 11.15 - 12.00 “Photonics Down Under” Rod Tucker, University of Melbourne
CAREERS IN RESEARCH FORUM & SPEAKERS
LEOS is announcing a new session geared towards students seeking R&D careers. The session entitled, "Careers in Research Forum" will take place on Sunday October 23. Attendees will have the opportunity to:
1.	Listen to presentations from academia, industry, and entrepreneurs highlighting milestones for achieving success.
2.	Interact with the hightlighted speakers
3.	Present poster papers of their research
Speakers & Abstracts
LEOS 2005 SHORT COURSES
SC101 12.30 - 14.30 “Advanced Components and Solutions for 40 Gb/s Systems” Leda LunardI, North Carolina State University SC102 12.30 - 14.30 “Photonic Crystals and High Index Contrast Devices” Toshihiko Baba, Yokohama National University SC103 12.30 - 14.30 “Introduction to Biophotonics” Thomas Huser, LLNL SC201 15.30 - 17.30 "Flat Panel Displays-Technology Overview" Arokia Nathan, University of Waterloo SC202 15.30 -17.30 “Nonlinear Impairments in Communication Systems” Greg Raybon, Lucent Technologies SC203 15.30 - 17.30 "Advancements in Metropolitan Optical Networks Architectures and Technologies” Loukas Paraschis, Ph.D., Cisco Systems, Optical Networking, CTO group