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10:00 – 10:15 WelcomeLluis Torner, ICFO DirectorMaria J. Yzuel, SPIE 2009 President

10:15 – 11:15 “Is this the rise of Green Photonics?”Michael Lebby, OIDA President and CEO, W

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11:15 – 11:45 COFFEE BREAK

11:45 – 12:45 “IBM Research & Technology Strategy”Dario Gil, TA to TC Chen, IBM Fellow and VP Science & Technology, IBM Research, NY, USA

12:45 – 13:45 “Optics & Photonics at ESA for SpaceCommunications”Josep Maria Perdigues, Optical Engineer, ESA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

14:00 – 15:30 NETWORKING LUNCH

15:30 – 17:00 LAB TOUR

ICFO Corporate Liaison DayMonday, December 14, 2009

Maria J. YzuelSPIE 2009 President Maria Yzuel is at the Department of Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain, since 1983. Formerly she was a Professor of Optics at the Universities of Zaragoza and Granada, Spain. She is a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona, Spain. She earned her Physics degree and Ph. D. Degree from the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She has worked in diffraction image theory, image quality evaluation, apodization, applications to photolithography, optical pattern recognition, color information in correlators, design of filters. She also worked in medical optics and, recently, she is working in liquid crystal pannels applied in diffractive optics. She has published more than 250 papers and she has supervised 20 Ph. D. Thesis. She is Fellow member of the SPIE (The International Society for Optics and Photonics), the Institute of Physics (IOP), the OSA (Optical Society of America), the EOS (European Optical Society), and Socio de Honor of the Spanish Optical Society (SEDOPTICA). She served as President of SEDOPTICA from 1993 to 1996. She received the SPIE Board of Directors Award in 2005 and the Medal of the University of Warsaw. She is Vice President of the Royal Spanish Physical Society. She served in the SPIE Board of Directors from 2001 to 2003 and in several SPIE Committees. Dr. Yzuel is the SPIE 2009 President.

Michael S. LebbyOIDA President and CEO Michael Lebby joined OIDA as Executive Director in 2005 and became its president and CEO in February, 2006. Lebby is driving new directions at OIDA in optoelectronics and photonics that include areas such as green photonics, plastic photonics, terabit photonics, display photonics, bio-photonics, and sensing photonics. In 1985, Lebby’s research took him to AT&T Bell Laboratories, followed in 1989 by a move to Motorola’s Phoenix Corporate Research Laboratory in Phoenix, Arizona. In August 1998, Lebby joined AMP as a member of the Global Optoelectronics Division's management team. In 1999, Lebby joined Intel as a corporate investor and served as Intel’s board observer on a number of photonics based start-ups. In 2001, Lebby founded a new fiber optics company, Ignis Optics, where he served as the CEO. Ignis Optics was acquired by Bookham Technology (now Oclaro) in October 2003 and Lebby became responsible for corporate and technical strategy at Bookham Technology.With more than 175 U.S. patents issued in the field of optoelectronics, Lebby has been cited by the USPTO to be in the most prolific 75 inventors in the country from 1988-1997.

Dario GilTA to the Vice-President of Science & Technology in IBM ResearchDr. Dario Gil is a member of the office of the Vice President of Science and Technology in IBM Research, where he is responsible for working with executives to develop the Science and Technology Strategy for IBM’s worldwide research laboratories. Prior to his current position, Dr. Gil was a Senior Manager at the Semiconductor Research and Development Center (SRDC), with the responsibility of leading IBM’s worldwide efforts in the area of Computational Lithography. During his tenure, he launched a strategy to pioneer the intersection of mathematical optimization, predictive modeling and high-performance computing to enable the continued functional scaling of semiconductors. A technical expert in the field of lithography and nanofabrication, he was a leader in the team that built the world's first microprocessor with immersion lithography in 2004. Dr. Gil’s research results have appeared in over 20 international journals and conferences and he has numerous patents in the field of lithography and nanofabrication. He has given invited talks and lectures in a variety of academic institutions including Harvard University, MIT, ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona and the European University in Madrid. Dr. Gil serves as the IBM Research Program Coordinator of the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), as well as a member of the Blue Gene Watson Technical Board and the Deep Computing Institute at the T.J. Watson Research Center. Dr. Gil received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Josep Maria Perdigues ArmengolEuropean Space AgencyJosep Maria Perdigues Armengol is a Telecommunications (BSc) and Electrical (MSc) engineer from the Ramon Llull University in Barcelona, in 1995 and 1997 respectively. Since 2001 he is working at ESA/ESTEC in the Optics Section in the Directorate of Technical and Quality Management. He is involved in the definition and development on new optical technologies in different areas like Telecommunications, Science and Earth Observation. Currently his major area of work is the engineering and development of optical technologies and optical payloads for free space laser communications and on-board optical processing.

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