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Santander - Península de la Magdalena

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Summary

Photonics is the science and technique of generating, controlling, propagating, storing and detecting light waves and photons, which are particles of light. Photonics is the field of Light Sciences and Technologies.

Light plays a vital role in our daily lives and is being an imperative cross-cutting discipline of science in the 21st century. It has revolutionized medicine, made possible international communication via the internet, enabled sustainable development and provided solutions to global challenges in education, energy, environment and agriculture. It continues to be a key discipline to link cultural, economic and political aspects of the global society. Today, it is widely accepted that the present century will depend as much on Photonics as the 20th century depended on electronics.

The United Nations Organization (UN) has recognized the key or essential role of Light Sciences and Technologies to raise global awareness and proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015). Aware of the key role of Photonics in the economies and in the societies of the XXI century, the UIMP has decided to create the “International School on light Sciences and Technologies (ISLIST)”.

This International school is envisioned to be a worldwide top International forum (fourth week of every June) on Light Sciences and Technologies in the framework of a “special top university” that is recognized as the “university of universities” and in a privileged environment “the Royal Magdalena Palace” in Santander, Cantabria, Spain. Each edition of this international school will have an intensification or main core in a specific application area and additional current hot topics. Light in communications, sensing and lighting is the core of this 2024 edition: VII-ISLIST.

It must be noticed that by changing the consecutive core, students and professional have the opportunity to receive and share knowledge, technique, visions, experience etc. several times from about 40 different top international lecturers, along their career. It is envisioned as a key value of ISLIST and it was, certainly, corroborated objectively from answers, of the previous edition attendee’s surveys as you can observe on the final reports. https://www.teisa.unican.es/ISLiST/index.php/final-report

ISLIST has been conceived as a great opportunity to review, actualize and improve the knowledge of scientists, professionals and technicians; to contribute to the education and to enhance the motivation of PhD students; to offer an ideal frame for networking and also to contribute to the education of the citizens. It is also a great opportunity to ensure that policymakers, entrepreneurs, and other key “actors” will be aware of the problem-solving potential of Photonics.

Nobel laureates such Andre Geim, Sujhi Nakamura, Donna Strickland have participated in the previous editions. Top worldwide Scientists such as Philip Russel, Miles Padgett, X. C. Zhang, Bruce J. Tromberg, José Capmany, Maria Yzuel, Maria Luisa Calvo, JA Martín Pereda, Luis Roso, Aydogan Ozcan, Brian Pogue, Susana Marcos, Jüergen Pop, Vasilis Ntziachristos, Luis Bañares, Antonio Luque, Eli Yablonovitch, Eric Mazur, David Payne, Pablo Artal, John Pendry, Miguel Gonzalez, Hugo Thienpont, Rod Taylor, Katarina Svanberg, Laura Lechuga, Kishan Dolakia, Harald Haas, Christian Bressler, Christian Sattler, Michael Campbell, Martin Wegener, Beat Neuenschwander, Carlos Molpeceres, Angelos Karlas, Michael Schmitt, , Paola Taroni, Valentina Emiliani, Turgut Durduran, Tayyaba Hasan, Alessandro Corsi, Mark Rea, Mariana Figueiro, among others. Also, most renowned professionals and directors of organizations such as Jam Denneman, Peter Winzer, Peter Andrekson, Nikolaus Schmitt, Jeroni Nadal, Robert Lieberman, Dra. Kutner Mikel Bengoa y Fabien Guillemot, Alexis Mendez, have participated in previous editions.

Seventeen (17) highly renowned professors and researchers from the most prestigious worldwide institutions and, as well, responsibles of most reputed international Photonic Scientific Organizations and some politicians will participate in this VII-ISLIST meeting.

The City Council of Santander will offer to ISLIST attendees a Reception at the Royal Palace of Magdalena. This Santander Happy Hour (with snacks and drinks) will be an optimum time to networking.

To be able to reach this ambitious program this International School of UIMP is sponsored by Gobierno de Cantabria covering a very relevant part of the organization costs of VII-ISLIST edition.

The international grants and other additional costs are covered by the very generous and key contribution of our collaborators: Gold (SPIE and Prysmian), Silver (Ambar Telecommunications, Acorde) and Bronze (OZ Optics, ERZIA, Aragon Photonics, Copsesa, Celestia TTI, Semicrol, Ayuntamiento de Santander, the Photonics Engineering Group of the University of Cantabria, Optica and hotel Santemar.

Without these Sponsor and Collaborators, this top-quality school and over 28 Student Grants (already allocated from over 17 different nationalities) would not have been possible. The UIMP, the direction of this event and the scientific community using Light are grateful with the generosity of all these Organizations and all the Invited Speakers. Thank you so much!

Goals

International School on light Sciences and Technologies (ISLiST), has been conceived as a great opportunity to: i) review, actualize and improve the knowledge of scientists, professionals and technicians; ii) contribute to the education and to enhance the motivation of students (specially of PhD students); iii) offer an ideal frame for networking and also to contribute to the education of the citizens; iv) ensure that policymakers, entrepreneurs, and other “key actors” will be aware of the problem-solving potential of Photonics.

Overview

The event will take place from Monday (June 17, 2024) to Friday (June 21, 2024). During the week along seventeen outstanding lectures a wide set of key topics on light and light sciences and technologies useful for optical communications, sensing and lighting communities will be presented and discussed. In addition to the invited talks in very hot topic, lectures, concerning the currents state of the art, trends and challenges to be faced, will be commented and discussed along the 17 invited talks and the two round tables.