Invited Talks at the Conferences (12)

1. International Conference ICTON 2007 Special session on Microresonators and Photonic Molecules: trapping, harnessing and releasing light, Rome, Italy, July 1-5, 2007

“Optical transport phenomena in coupled spherical cavities”

2. Int. Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium, PIERS-2007, to be held in Beijing, China, March 26-30, 2007.

“Optical Properties of Mesoscopic Systems of Coupled Microspheres”

3. Int. Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium, PIERS-2007, to be held in Beijing, China, March 26-30, 2007.

Observation of Whispering Gallery Resonances in Circular and Elliptical Semiconductor Pillar Microcavities

4. International Conference ICTON 2006 Special session on: Microresonators and Photonic Molecules: trapping, harnessing and releasing light, Nottingham, UK, June 19-20, 2006

“Integrated complex networks of coupled microspheres for optoelectronics applications”

5. Major National OSA Meeting: Frontiers in Optics, 89^th OSA Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, October 16-20, 2005

“Circuits of Microspheres for Applications in Integrated Optoelectronics and Controllable Delay Lines”, conference program p. 78.

6. Optics in the Southeast 2004 OSA Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, November 4-5, 2004

“Coupled Resonator Optical Waveguides Formed by Dielectric Microspheres”, Abstracts p.32.

7. 2004 Inaugural Charlotte Research Institute Conf. “Slow Light”, Charlotte, July11-12, 2004, “Optical Transport in Disordered CROWs: Coupled Microsphere Waveguides”, Abstracts, p.8.

8. Optics in the Southeast 2003 OSA Meeting, Orlando, Florida, November 12-13 2003

“Periodic Defect States in Al_xGa_1-xAs Photonic Crystal Waveguides Studied by Variable Angle Surface Coupling Techniques”, Abstracts, SE 02-A1.

9. International Alaska Meeting on Fundamental Optical Processes in Semiconductors (AMFOPS), Girdwood, Alaska, 5-10 August 2001

“Stimulated Scattering in Semiconductor Microcavities”, Abstracts, ThC2.

10. 1^st UK Meeting on Waveguide Based Photonic Crystal Structures (organised by G. Parry and R.M. De La Rue), Imperial College, Dep. of Physics, London 23^rd May 2000

“Electromagnetic Properties, Band Structure &Light-Matter Interactions in Semiconductor Photonic Crystals”.

11. European Research Conference on Photonic and Electromagnetic Crystal Structures (PECS-3), St. Andrews, Scotland, UK, 9-14 June 2001

“External Coupling Properties of Photonic Crystal Waveguides”, Abstracts, Session II: Photonic Crystal Components and Systems II.

12. 3^rd Biennial Russian Semiconductor Physics Conference, Moscow, Russia, 1-5 December 1997

“Photonic Crystals at Optical Wavelengths”, Abstracts of the 3^rd Russian CPS, p.336, 1997.