AOS 2000 : THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE
AUSTRALIAN OPTICAL SOCIETY

INVITED SPEAKERS

• Dr Jim Gardner (CSIRO)
  How well can we measure colour?

• Prof. Min Gu (Swinburne Univ. of Technology)
  Three dimensional bit optical storage in polymers

• Assoc. Prof. Deb Kane (Macquarie Univ.)
  The effects of optical feedback on semiconductor lasers

• Ramin Lalezari (Research Electro-optics Inc, Boulder Colorado)
  Ion Beam Sputter Deposition of Optical Interference Coatings

• Prof. Gerd Leuchs (Univ. of Erlangen)
  Quantum communication with bright pulsed light

• Dr. Andre Luiten (Univ. of Western Australia)
  Linking the Microwave and Optical Frequency Domains with a Phase-Coherent Bridge

• Prof. Jesper Munch (Univ. of Adelaide)
  Precision interferometry: from Michelson to gravitational waves

• Dr Richard Powell (Univ of Arizona and Optical Soc. of America)
  Overview of Solid State Lasers With Applications as LIDAR Transmitters and Optical Image Amplifiers

• Dr Harry Quiney (Univ of Melbourne)
  Quantum electrodynamics, time-reversal & parity violation: a relativistic QED approach to atomic and molecular theory

• Prof. Colin Sheppard (Univ. of Sydney)
  Characterization of beam propagation by moments, or Scattering and the theory of imaging

• Prof. Josh Silver (Univ of Oxford)
  What does the spectroscopy of highly ionised atoms tell us?

• Dr B Varcoe (M.P.I. for Quantum Optics)
  The Creation Of Photon Number States, The Ultimate Quantum State Of Light

• Dr. Jose Varghese (Biomolecular Research Institute, Melbourne)
  Using glass monocapillary optics to obtain X-ray diffraction data from weekly diffracting protein crystals

• Dr. A. Wilson (Univ. of Otago)
  Atom Laser Output Coupling and Phase Encoding of Bose-Einstein Condensates