Invited Plenary Speakers

• Professor Neil W. Ashcroft
  Horace White Professor of Physics
  Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
  Superconductivity: Developments and Prospects in Light Element Systems
   
• Dr. Russell J. Hemley
  Director, Carnegie/DOE Alliance Center for
  High Pressure Science and Technology
  Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC
  New Findings in Materials Under Pressure
   
• Professor Allan H. MacDonald
  Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair
  University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
  Excitonic Superfluidity in Quantum Hall Bilayers: The Wisdom of Experience
  
   
• Professor Peter J. A. Nordlander
  Director, Rice Quantum Institue
  Rice University, Houston, Texas
  Plasmonics, a hot topic in nanophotonics
   
• Professor Marlan Scully
  Distinguished Professor
  Texas A&M University
  College Station, Texas
  Application of Slow Light Physics