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Call for Papers

The 5th International Symposium on Filamentation (COFIL2014)
Sept.20-26, 2014
Shanghai, China
Co-Organized by:  Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS
                                    East China Normal University
International organizing committee
Chairs:
            Zhizhan Xu (SIOM, CAS, China)
            Ruxin Li (SIOM,CAS, China)
Past Chairs:
See Leang Chin (Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada) (2006)
Andre Mysyrowicz (ENSTA, Palaiseau, France) (2008)
Stelios Tzortzakis (IESL-FORTH, Heraklion, Greece) (2010)
Jerome V. Moloney (University of Arizona,Tucson, AZ, USA) (2012)
Scientific Committee
See Leang Chin, University Laval, Quebec, Canada
Demetrios Christodoulides, CREOL, University of Central Florida, Florida, USA
Jean-Claude Diels, The University of New Mexico, New Mexico, USA
Alexander Gaeta, Cornell University, New York, USA
Kazuyoshi Itoh, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Olga Kosareva, University of Moscow, Russia
Robert Levis, Temple University, Pennsylvania, USA
Ruxin Li, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Shanghai, China
Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA
Jerome V. Moloney, University of Arizona,Tucson, AZ, USA
Andre Mysyrowicz, ENSTA, Palaiseau, France
Martin Richardson, CREOL, University of Central Florida, Florida, USA
William P. Roach, AFRL/RDLA, New Mexico, USA
Stelios Tzortzakis, IESL-FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
Jean-Pierre Wolf, Universite de Geneve, Switzerland
Xi-Cheng Zhang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China & University of Rochester, USA
Arie Zigler, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Zhizhan Xu, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Shanghai, China
Jie Zhang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
Qihuang Gong, Peking University, Beijing, China

Local Organization committee:

Co-chairs:
Heping Zeng (ECNU, China)
Ya Cheng (SIOM, CAS, China)

Members:

Zhengming Sheng (SJTU, China)
Zhiyi Wei (IOP, CAS, China)
Peixiang Lu(HUST, China)
Yunquan Liu (PKU, China)
Xiaojun Liu (WIPM, CAS, China)
Weiwei Liu (NKU, China)
Huailiang Xu (JLU, China)
Jiansheng Liu (SIOM, CAS, China)
Tiejun Wang (SIOM, CAS, China)
Yimin Zhu (SUST, China)

Foreword

On behalf of the 5th International Symposium on Filamentation (COFIL 2014), it is our great pleasure to invite you to attend COFIL 2014, which will be held on September 20-25, 2014 in Shanghai, China. We are look forward to welcoming our friends and colleagues both from abroad and China. 

COFIL2014 is the fifth of a very successful series of conferences organized every 2 years. The previous editions took place in Quebec (Canada) in 2006, Paris (France) in 2008, Crete (Greece) in 2010 and Tucson (America) in 2012.

COFIL2014 aims at bringing together of scientists working in the field of femtosecond laser filamentation in transparent optical media and applications, as well as scientists from other fields interested in this research field to discuss present status and future perspectives.

Join us and we would like to share with you the new achievements on femtosecond laser filamentation and its applications. We are sure you will enjoy not only the exchange of laser scientific and technical information but also the memorable experience in China. 

We are looking forward to your contribution and participation.

 Date and venue

?   Sept. 20,         registration and reception
?   Sept.21-25,     regular sessions
?   Sept.26,      Scientific free discussion and departure
?  Venue: Conference Hall, SIOM, China