Plenary and Keynote Talks

Robert Boyd
University of Ottawa, Canada;
University of Rochester, USA
Tailoring light propagation by controllable phase and group velocities

Alexey Eliseev
Lomonosov Moscow State University;
A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences;
Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Earth system models hierarchy

Martin Fullekrug
University of Bath, UK
Earth-ionosphere cavity resonances

Wulfram Gerstner
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Dynamics of memory retrieval in hippocampus

Björn Manuel Hegelich
University of Texas at Austin, USA;
Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Study of isochorically heated warm dense carbon foam at the Texas Petawatt Laser

Thomas Kuehl
GSI-Helmholtzcentre Darmstadt, Germany
Novel nuclear physics opportunities with high intensity particle bunches from laser acceleration

Jürgen Kurths
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Quantifying stability in complex networks and its application to power grids

Gerd Leuchs
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany;
Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Soliton quantum dynamics in a two mode fibre

Victor Malka
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Commissioning and first results from the new 2x100 TW laser at the WIS

Alexander Pukhov
Institut für Theoretische Physik I, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
Prospects of plasma-based particle acceleration

Itamar Procaccia
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Plasticity and screening in amorphous solids

Philip Russell
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany
Nonlinear optical phenomena in photonic crystal fibres