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- Stefan Rotter (Vienna University of Technology) – The concept of time in scattering through complex media
- Alexander Szameit (University of Jena) – Integrated laser-written quantum photonics
- Silvia Vignolini (Cambridge University) – Cellulose Photonics: from nature to applications
- Laura Waller (Berkeley University) – Computational imaging for real-time gigapixel microscopy
- Thomas Wellens (University of Freiburg) – Scattering laser light on cold atoms: multiple scattering signals from single-atom responses
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