Welcome to ODS ‘06 OPTICAL DATA STORAGE TOPICAL MEETING The 22nd ODS topical meeting provides an excellent forum for exchanging information on the status, advances, and future directions in the field of optical data storage. Third generation high density recording systems using blue-violet lasers have been introduced to the commercial market. Technology for fourth generation products - holographic, volumetric, near field, super resolution and hybrids - will be a main focus at ODS 2006. Hot new concepts such as small form factor optical disc, optical card device, and others will also be explored. Contributions are encouraged from a variety of areas spanning basic theory and modeling to manufacturing and testing methods including optical drive systems, sub-systems and components, coding and channels, media development and design, and industrial and consumer applications. Invited talks in many of these areas will round out the 3 day program. Program Commitee: General Co-Chair: Ryuichi Katayama NEC Corporation, Japan General Co-Chair: Tuviah Schlesinger Carnegie Mellon University, USA Program Chair: Bernard Bell DataPlay, Inc, USA Program Chair: Takeshi Shimano Hitachi, Ltd. Central Research Laboratory, Japan Vijayakumar Bhagavatula Carnegie Mellon University, USA Kevin Curtis InPhase Technologies, USA Atsushi Fukumoto Sony Corporation, Japan Kenya Goto Tokai University, Japan Der-Ray Huang Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, R.O.C. Yutaka Kashihara Toshiba Corporation, Japan Takashi Kikukawa TDK Electronics Corp., Japan Jin-Yong Kim LG Electronics Inc, Korea Yoshiaki Komma Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Japan Robert McLeod University of Colorado, USA Tim Rausch Seagate Research, USA Kimihiro Sait Sony Corporation, Japan Kees Schep Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands Luping Shi Data Storage Institute, Singapore Dong-Ho Shin Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Korea Advisory Commitee: Chair: Isao Ichimura Sony Corporation, Japan Chair: Tom Milster University of Arizona, USA Henryk Birecki Hewlett Packard Company, USA David Davies DataPlay, Inc, USA Hiromichi Kobori Toshiba Corporation, Japan Masud Mansuripur University of Arizona, USA Naoyasu Miyagawa Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Japan Norio Ohta Hitachi Maxell Ltd., Japan Takeo Ohta Ovionic Phase Change Institute, USA Michael O'Neill Fox Technology Group, USA Isao Satoh Unaxis Balzers AG, Japan Barry Schechtman Information Storage Industry Consortium, USA Han-Ping Shieh National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C. Din Ping Tsai National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C. Paul Wehrenberg Apple Computer, Inc., USA For more information: Mary S. Hendrickx Conference Administrator Phone + 1 732-562-3897 Fax + 1 732-562-8434 m.hendrickx@ieee.org IEEE/LEOS 445 Hoes Lane Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 USA www.i-leos.org Hotel Accommodations: Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel 1201 Boulevard Rene-Levesque West Montreal, Quebec H3B 2L7 / Canada Phone:  +1 514 878 2000 Fax:  +1 514 878 3958 » Hotel Information Conference Forms: ODS 2006 Registration Form   ODS 2006 Exhibit Reservation Contract Event Sponsors:

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