PLEASE DISPLAY Last Call for Papers New Abstracts Submission Deadline: March 31st, 2010 The organizing committee calls you to submit papers, special technical sessions, and posters to: The VII Ibero-American Conference on Optics (RIAO) & The X Latin-American Meeting on Optics, Laser and Applications (OPTILAS) to be held in the campus of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) Lima, Peru September 20-24, 2010
TOPICS Astronomical Instrumentation Color, Vision and Radiometry Didactics of Optics and Photonics Diffractive Optics Electro-Optics Environmental Optics Fiber Optics and Communications Holography and Interferometry Lasers Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Light-Matter Interaction Non-Linear Optics Optical Aeronomy Optical and Digital Image Processing Optical Applications in Industry, Engineering and Medicine Optical Entrepreneurship Optical Industry Optical Metrology Optical Systems, Instruments and Optical Design Optical Spectroscopy, LIBS Optical traps Optoelectronics Devices Optoelectronics Materials Opto-Mechatronics and Opto-Mechanical Design Photonic Crystals Physical Optics Quantum Optics Thin Films Others
INVITED SPEAKEARS (confirmed) Javier Alda Univ. Complutense de Madrid (Spain) Mario Bertolotti Jimmy Castillo Aristide Dogariu Wolfgang Dultz María Teresa Flores-Arias Alex Grishin Mitsuteru Inoue Zbigniew Jaroszewicz Gerd Leuchs Daniel Malacara John Meriwether, Carlos Monken Duncan Moore Luis Orozco José Luis Paz Juan Perez Torres Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop Patrick Sandoz Sune Svanberg Maxim Tomilin James Wyant Università di Roma I (Italy) Universidad Central de Venezuela (Venezuela) CREOL, University of Central Florida (USA) Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität (Germany) Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain) Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) Technical University of Toyohashi (Japan) Institute of Applied Optics, Warsaw (Poland) Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (Germany) Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica (México) Clemson University (USA) Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brasil) The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester (USA) Maryland University (USA) Universidad Simón Bolívar (Venezuela) The Institute of Photonic Sciences (Spain) The University of Queensland (Australia) Université de Franche-Comté (France) Lund Laser Centre, Lund University (Sweden) St. Petersburg Univ. of Information Tech, Mechanics and Optics (Russia) College of Optical Sciences Center, Univ. of Arizona (USA)
THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CALLS YOU TO SUBMIT YOUR PAPERS, SPECIAL TECHNICAL SESSIONS, AND POSTERS. RIAO/OPTILAS foster diffusion of research and development in the optical fields among Ibero-American specialists and welcomes the participation of members of the optics community from outside the Ibero-American region. ABSTRACTS Languages (2): English and Spanish or Portuguese Formats (2): Abstract and Corresponding author information (see RIAO-OPTILAS web page: www.pucp.edu.pe/conferencia/riao-optilas) IMPORTANT DATES New abstracts submission deadline: March 31, 2010 Notification of papers acceptance: May 30, 2010 Manuscripts due: June 30, 2010 Reduced cost due: August 15, 2010 RIAO-OPTILAS dates: September 20-24, 2010 Andean School on Optics and Photonics September 13-17, 2010 FEES Pre-registration fee, regular rate: Nuevos soles S/. 750 Pre-registration fee, student rate: Nuevos soles S/. 450 Late-registration fee, regular rate: Nuevos soles S/. 1050 Late-registration fee, student rate: Nuevos soles S/. 600 Region students fee, general rate: Nuevos soles S/. 300 Reduced cost deadline: August 15, 2010 Aprox. change: 1 US dollar ($) ~ 3 nuevos soles (S/.)
INFORMATION / CONTACT phone: +51 (1) 6262000 ext. 4111 www: www.pucp.edu.pe/conferencia/riao-optilas e-mail: riao-optilas@pucp.edu.pe VENUE The conference venue will be the campus of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) that offers all standard academic facilities. It is situated near shopping and business locations that are scattered throughout a large city like Lima, which is the capital city of Peru. Lima is a Roma type city offering a series of cultural and touristic attractions. In Lima itself 1 and in its surrounding countryside 2 it is possible to visit pre-hispanic archeological sites, colonial buildings, museums, etc., as well as to enjoy very good restaurants 3a and events 3b offering international and Peruvian cuisine. PERU From Lima one can easily reach, by plane or by car, other well known Peruvian locations 4 like Cusco, Machu Picchu, the Titicaca Sea, or else visit archeological sites in North and South of Peru, such as the Moche Route 5, Nazca, Caral - the oldest civilization in America 6, etc. Additionally, it will be possible to organize other activities, like visiting the natural reserves Pacaya-Samiria, Manu, etc., where one can watch exotic birds and animals in their natural environment, or visit ancient rests in the jungle, like Kuelap 7. 1 http://pucllana.perucultural.org.pe/prese.htm 2 http://www.perutoptours.com/index14lipachacamac.html, http://www.pachacamac.net/ 3a http://www.perumuchogusto.com/indexing.asp 3b http://mistura.pe/index.html 4 http://www.peru.info/default.asp 5 http://www.huacadelaluna.org.pe/en/rutamoche.asp 6 http://www.caralperu.gob.pe/ 7 http://images.google.com.pe/images?um=1&hl=es&tbs=isch:1&q=kuelap&sa=n&start=20&ndsp=20