Timetable

	Thursday, 16 June 2016
08:40-09:00	Welcome address and introduction
09:00-10:00	D. Christodoulides “Non-Hermitian photonics: PT symmetry and beyond”
10:00-11:00	M. Segev “Photonic Topological Insulators”
*11:00-11:30*	*Coffee break / registration*
11:30-12:30	C. Bender “PT symmetry and the taming of instabilities”
12:30-13:00	M. Rechtsman "PT-symmetric topological systems"
13:00-13:30	Z. Musslimani “Integrable nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation”.
*13.30-14:30*	*Lunch break / registration*
14:30-15:00	T. Kottos “Non-Hermitian Photonic Structures based on non-linear losses"
15:00-15:30	H. Schomerus “The role of charge conjugation symmetry in topological photonics”
17:00-18:00	BENDER’s Colloquium in Physics Department

	Friday, 17 June 2016
09:00-10:00	A.D. Stone "Non-linear perfect absorbers and Coherent Control of Absorption"
10:00-10:30	S. Rotter “Wave engineering with gain and loss: encircling exceptional points and fringe-free scattering through disorder”
10:30-11:00	G. Tsironis “Power control in parity-time symmetric lattices”
*11:00-11:30*	*Coffee break / registration*
11:30-12:00	H. Benisty “Multimode waveguide modal management with PT symmetry”
12:00-12:30	A. Lupu “PT-symmetric photonics: hidden reefs on the route toward practical applications”
12:30-13:00	H. Jones “Aspects of Invisibility"
13:00-13:30	D. Brody "Information loss at exceptional points"
13:30-14:00	E.M. Graefe “Semiclassical dynamics in the presence of loss and gain”
*14:00-15:00*	*Lunch break / registration*
15:00-15:30	A. Mostafazadeh “Transfer Matrix Formulation of Scattering Theory in Arbitrary Dimensions and Nonreciprocal Transmission”
15:30-16:00	Y. Kominis “Nonlinear wave dynamics in photonic structures with unbalanced gain and loss”
16:00-16:30	J. Wiersig “Asymmetric backscattering of light and exceptional points in optical microcavities”
16:30-17:00	M. Lukovic “Stability induced by PT-symmetry breaking in stochastic oscillators”
20:00	Dinner

	Saturday, 18 June 2016
09:00-09:30	R. El-Ganainy “Supersymmetric photonic structures”
09:30-10:00	L. Ge "Anomalous Parity-Time Symmetry Transition away from an Exceptional Point"
10:00-10:30	S. Ozdemir “Controlling light at exceptional points”
*10:30-11:00*	*Coffee break / registration*
11:00-11:30	O. Shramkova "Optical properties of non-hermitian dispersive heterostructures "
11:30-12:00	N. Lazarides "Parity-Time Symmetric Metamaterials"
12:00-12:30	K. Makris “Lossy power amplifiers in non-Hermitian optics”
*13:00-14:00*	*Lunch break*

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