List of Confirmed Keynote Speakers
List of date/time of keynote talks

Aria Abubakar
Schlumberger Houston Formation Evaluation
Paper Title: Overview Advanced Answer Products for Triaxial Induction Logging
Organized by: Prof. Cheng-Gang Xie and Prof. Xudong Chen
Focus Session Title: Inverse Problems for Scientific, Industrial and Biomedical Applications

Geoffrey Stephen D. Beach
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paper Title: Spin Hall Current Induced Switching in Ferrimagnetic Insulators
Organized by: Hyunsoo Yang, Geoffrey Stephen D. Beach, Tobias Kampfrath
Focus Session Title: THz Spintronics with Ferrimagnets and Dirac/Weyl Materials

Kurt Busch
Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
Paper Title: Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Atom-Surface Interactions: Material Models and Computations
Organized by: Prof. Yidong Chong and Prof. Igor Tsukerman
Focus Session Title: Electromagnetic Waves in Complex Nanostructures

Che Ting Chan
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Paper Title: Metamaterials with a "twist".
Organized by: Prof. Yidong Chong and Prof. Igor Tsukerman
Focus Session Title: Electromagnetic Waves in Complex Nanostructures

Tommaso Isernia
Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria
Paper Title: Equivalence Principles and Virtual Focusing Techniques as a Way to Inverse Scattering
Organized by: Prof. Cheng-Gang Xie and Prof. Xudong Chen
Focus Session Title: Inverse Problems for Scientific, Industrial and Biomedical Applications

Sajeev John
University of Toronto
Paper Title: Solar Light-Trapping and Absorption in Thin-Film Photonic Crystals: Prospects for World-Record Solar-Cell Efficiency
Organized by: Prof. Yun Lai and Prof. Bo Hou
Focus Session Title: Novel Materials and Designs for Absorption of Wave Energy

Tobias Kampfrath
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Paper Title: Ultrafast Spincaloritronics Enables Efficient Emitters of Terahertz Radiation
Organized by: Hyunsoo Yang, Geoffrey Stephen D. Beach, Tobias Kampfrath
Focus Session Title: THz Spintronics with Ferrimagnets and Dirac/Weyl Materials

Iam-Choon Khoo
Pennsylvania State University
Paper Title: Laser Induced Lattice Distortion of Blue Phase Liquid Crystal for High Efficiency and High Resolution Real Time and Storage Holography
Organized by: Atsushi Shishido and Marina Grenzer
Focus Session Title: Advanced Materials and Devices for Optical and Mechanical Applications

Masaya Notomi
NTT Basic Research Lab
Paper Title: Hybrid nanomaterial-nanophotonics platforms for enhancing light-matter interactions
Organized by: Prof. Chia Chen Hsu and Prof. Ngoc Diep Lai
Focus Session Title: Photonic Nanostructures for Enhancing Light-Matter Interaction

Teruo Ono
Kyoto University
Paper Title: Spin Dynamics in Antiferromagnets and Ferrimagnets
Organized by: Dr. Hyunsoo Yang, Dr. Geoffrey Stephen D. Beach, and Prof. Tobias Kampfrath
Focus Session Title: THz Spintronics with Ferrimagnets and Dirac/Weyl Materials

Philip St. J. Russell
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Paper Title: Gas, Glass & Light: The Remarkable Applications of Photonic Crystal Fibre
Organized by: Dr. Amir Abdolvand, Dr. Federico Belli, Dr. John C. Travers, Dr.Francesco Tani
Session Title: Light-Matter Interaction in Hybrid Waveguides: Fundamentals & High-Field

Wuqiang Yang
University of Manchester
Paper Title: Electrical Capacitance Tomography and Its Inverse Problem
Organized by: Prof. Cheng-Gang Xie and Prof. Xudong Chen
Focus Session Title: Inverse Problems for Scientific, Industrial and Biomedical Applications

Nikolay I. Zheludev
University of Southampton
Paper Title: Metamaterials, Anapoles and Flying Donuts
Organized by: Prof. Yu Luo and Prof. Hongsheng Chen
Focus Session Title: Metamaterials and Transformation Optics