MAOP2024 program includes:

• Hands-on laboratory training
• Technical lectures
• Plenary talks
• Invited talks
• Contributed talks
• Student presentations
• Poster presentations
• Industrial talks
• Career Discussion Panels
• Presentations on soft skills
• Optics and Photonics outreach training
• Social and networking events

19.08.2024	Yerevan State University
8.30-9.00	Registration
9.00-9.15	Opening remarks by MAOP2024’s chairs
Presider	Mushegh Rafayelyan
9.15-10.15	Ulrike Fuchs | asphericon, Germany Benefits from Higher Order Surfaces
10.15-11.00	Yunfeng Nie | Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Freeform optical system design methods and applications
11.00-11.15	Coffee break
11.15-11.45	Armen Baghdasaryan | American University of the Middle East, Kuwait Discrete-time replicator equations and evolutionary dynamics of learning in neural networks
11.45-12.30	Ali-Reza Moradi | Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences; Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran 3D imaging: digital holography
12.30-14.00	Lunch
Presider	Tatevik Chalyan
14.00-14.40	Ali-Reza Moradi | Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences; Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran 3D imaging: integral imaging
14.40-15.00	Yunfeng Nie | Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Advances in deep learning-enabled optical system design
15.00-15.15	Coffee break
15.15-16.00	Ursula Keller | ETH Zurich, Switzerland Part 1: Ultrafast diode-pumped solid-state and semiconductor lasers
16.00-16.15	Group photo
16.15-17.00	Ursula Keller | ETH Zurich, Switzerland Part 2: Ultrafast diode-pumped solid-state and semiconductor lasers
17.00-17.15	Coffee break
17.15-18.00	Ursula Keller | ETH Zurich, Switzerland Part 3: Ultrafast diode-pumped solid-state and semiconductor lasers
18.00-20.00	Yerevan City Tour
20.08.2024	Yerevan State University
Presider	Tatevik Chalyan
9.00-9.15	Shant Sargsyan | Yerevan State University YSO Student Chapter
9.15-10.15	Ursula Keller | ETH Zurich, Switzerland Recent advances in ultrafast solid-state lasers
10.15-10.45	Pablo Marin Palomo | Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium On-Chip Multi-Wavelength Lasers and Frequency Combs for Next Generation Optical and THz Communications
10.45-11.00	Coffee break
Presider	Gor Chalyan
11.00-11.30	Anahit Gogyan | Institute for Physical Research of NAS of RA, Armenia Generation and control of single photon entangled states
11.30-12.00	Mikayel Khanbekyan | Institute for Physical Research of NAS of RA, Armenia The role of exceptional points in field resonances
12.00-12.30	Rodrigo Benevides | ETH Zurich, Switzerland Quantum transducers: toward a quantum computer network
12.30-14.00	Lunch
14.00-14.30	Vahagn Abgaryan | A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory, Armenia On quantum mechanics of finite dimensional quantum systems over phase space
14.30-14.50	Vahram Voskerchyan | University of Twente, The Netherlands Next possibilities for grating couplers
14.50-15.05	Coffee break
15.05-15.25	Minas Sukiasyan | Yerevan State University; CANDLE, Armenia Spectronic Method as the Pulse Duration Measurement Technique
15.25-16.05	Rodrigo Benevides | ETH Zurich, Switzerland Prepare your presentation for a conference talk
16.05-16.35	Tatevik Chalyan | Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Submitting a conference paper
21.08.2024	Yerevan State University
Presider	Shant Sargsyan
9.00-9.30	Mateusz Szatkowski | Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Fundamentals of the laser beam shaping
9.30-10.00	Vahram Grigoryan | Yerevan State University, Armenia Broadband geometric phase modulation
10.00-10.15	Aram Sargsyan | Yerevan State University, Armenia Arbitrary Transmission Matrix Engineering with Physics-Informed Neural Network with Real-Time Feedback
10.15-10.30	Nikita Marinin | Yerevan State University, Armenia Optical Reservoir Computing With Reconfigurable Scattering Media
10.30-10.45	Elaheh Nazari | Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran Speckle illumination for resolution enhancement in self-referencing digital holographic microscopy
10.45-11.00	Coffee break
11.00-11.30	Edvard Kokanyan | Armenian State Pedagogical University; Institute for Physical Research of NAS of RA, Armenia Ho-doped Lithium Niobate: Growth and properties
11.30-11.50	Hakob Avetisyan | A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory, Armenia Some inverse problems in quantum optics
11.50-12.05	Gor Chalyan | Yerevan State University Radiation of surface polaritons by annular beams in cylindrical waveguides
12.05-12.20	Darina Darmoroz | Yerevan State University Optical generation and evolution of localized chiral structures in dye-doped dual-frequency cholesteric films
12.20-14.00	Lunch
Presider	Edvard Grigoryan
14.00-14.30	Aram Papoyan | Institute for Physical Research of NAS of RA, Armenia Scanning technique for direct optical transmission imaging of highly-scattering objects
14.30-14.50	Sergey Shvetsov | Yerevan State University Light-controllable microparticle oscillations and transport in liquid crystals
14.50-15.05	Njteh Kourian | Yerevan State University Optical Waveguide Tapers: Utilizing FDTD Simulations and Optimization Algorithms for Design, 3D Printing with Two-Photon Polymerization
15.05-16.00	Mateusz Szatkowski | Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Lifting Your Academic Career: Lessons from Olympic Weightlifting
16.00-17.30	Poster Session
17.30-18.30	Edvard Grigoryan | Yerevan State University, Armenia Optics & Photonics Outreach
22.08.2024	Yerevan State University
Presider	Shant Sargsyan
9.00-9.30	Ulrike Fuchs | asphericon, Germany asphericon
9.30-10.00	Tatevik Chalyan | Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Spectroscopy combined with machine learning to study oak barrels’ reusability in the wine industry
10.00-10.15	Negin Mohammadzadeh | Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran Bacterial ratchet motors in a speckle field
10.15-10.30	Mahkame Abolfathi | Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran Surface plasmon resonance sensors for detection of Methylene blue in water
10.30-10.45	Naira Grigoryan | Institute of Fundamental Technological Research PAS, Poland Low Energy Field Electron Emission from Nanostructures: Theoretical Framework
10.45-11.00	Coffee break
11.00-11.30	Artur Ishkhanyan | National Academy of Sciences of Armenia; Institute for Physical Research of NAS of RA, Armenia Reverse-engineered exact control of population transfer in lossy nonlinear three-state systems
11.30-11.50	Ali Bayat | University of Zanjan, Iran Investigation of physical and optical properties of atmospheric aerosols in Lahore region of Pakistan and Jaipur, India using AERONET network level 3 data
11.50-13.30	Lunch
13.30-22.00	Excursion to Haghartsin monastery complex and Sevan Lake | MAOP2024 dinner
23.08.2024	Yerevan State University
Presider	Gor Chalyan
9.00-9.40	Panel discussion Applications of photonics in medicine
9.40-10.10	Hayk Sarkisyan | Institute of Applied Problems of Physics NAS RA, Armenia Few-particle optics of quantum dots
10.10-10.40	Aram Saharyan | Yerevan State University 2D materials, topology, gravity and quantum field theory
10.40-11.10	Artak Sayunts | Yerevan State University, Armenia Nanostructured sensors
11.10-11.25	Coffee break
11.25-11.55	Arik Avagyan | A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory, Armenia; University of Colorado Boulder, USA State characterization in quantum optics with homodyne measurement and related schemes
11.55-12.15	Harutyun Dashtoyan | National Polytechnic University of Armenia Wide-range wavelength light scattering from black silicon
12.15-14.00	Lunch
Presider	Edvard Grigoryan
14.00-14.15	Group 1 presentation
14.15-14.30	Group 2 presentation
14.30-14.45	Group 3 presentation
14.45-15.00	Group 4 presentation
15.00-15.15	Group 5 presentation
15.15-15.30	Group 6 presentation
15.30-16.00	Closing Ceremony by MAOP2024’s chairs

Poster presentations

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