17.08.2026	Yerevan State University
10.00-10.30	Registration & refreshments
10.30-10.50	Opening remarks by MAOP2026’s chairs
Presider	Tatevik Chalyan
10.50-11.30	Martino Bernard \| Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy How is it made? A photonic chip
11.30-11.40	Break
11.40-12.20	Samuel Serna Otalvaro \| Bridgewater State University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Advanced Integrated Couplers and Nonlinear Waveguide Design for Next-Generation Photonic Packaging and Sensing Applications
12.20-12.40	Sevag Abadian \| A. B. Nalbandyan Chemical Physics Institute, Armenia Design of Directional Coupler-Based Magneto-Optic Non-Reciprocal Components
12.40-14.00	Lunch
14.00-14.40	Fernando Ramiro Manzano \| Instituto de Tecnología Química UPV-CSIC, Spain Mid-IR emission of Si-based microspheres: From vibrational emission to resonant mediated superplankian emission
14.40-14.50	Break
14.50-15.05	Gor Chalyan \| ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain Thermal vacuum friction of objects with different dimensionality
15.05-15.20	Razmik Aramyan \| Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany Shielded inner-shell transitions in atomic samarium
15.20-15.30	Break
15.30-16.10	Panel discussion: Samuel Serna Otalvaro & Alessandra Carmichael-Martins Hows and Whys of navigating academia internationally
16.10-16.30	Coffee break
16.30-18.30	Lab work
18.30-20.00	Welcome Reception

*18.08.2026*	Yerevan State University
Presider	Mushegh Rafayelyan
8.50-9.00	Announcements & logistics of the day
9.00-9.40	Heidi Ottevaere \| Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Lab-on-Chip Platforms for Biosensing and Environmental Analysis
9.40-9.50	Break
9.50-10.20	Sara Abbasi \| Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Photonics-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for the Identification of Hemoglobin Fractions
10.20-10.40	Coffee break
10.40-11.20	Tatevik Sarukhanyan \| Yerevan State University, Armenia Two-Photon Polymerization for Fabrication of Complex 3D Micro-Objects
11.20-11.35	Tsuyoshi Shimada \| Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Towards Lab-on-Fiber SERS: Evaluating planar 2PP SERS substrates through the lens of on-fiber application
11.35-11.50	Martina Grandi \| Yerevan State University, Armenia & ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain Not so smooth: Mapping the hidden landscape of Plasma Membrane Tension with FLIM
11.50-13.30	Lunch
13.30-14.10	Alessandra Carmichael-Martins \| European Southern Observatory, Germany From the origins of adaptive optics to ‘ The Biggest Eye on the Sky’
14.10-14.20	Break
14.20-15.00	Salihah Qaysi \| Jazan University, Saudi Arabia Adaptive Optics for Vision Science: Seeing Beyond the Eye
15.00-15.20	Coffee break
15.20-16.00	Mikayel Khanbekyan \| Institute for Physical Research, Armenia Light and Matter in Quantum Photonics: Coherence, Nonlinearity, and Sensing
15.50-16.00	Break
16.00-16.40	Juan Rafael Alvarez \| LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Multi-dimensional Frequency-Bin Entanglement-Based Quantum Key Distribution Networks
16.40-17.00	Break
17.00-18.30	Lab work

*19.08.2026*	Yerevan State University
Presider	Sergey Shvetsov
8.50-9.00	Announcements and logistics of the day
9.00-9.40	David Hayrapetyan \| A. B. Nalbandyan Chemical Physics Institute, Armenia Enhanced dipole moment and absorption spectrum in CdSe nanoboomerang under external electric field
9.40-9.50	Break
9.50-10.30	Ivo Tanghe \| Ghent University – imec, Belgium Ultrafast Spectroscopy on Solution-Processible Semiconductor Gain Materials and Integrated Devices
10.30-10.50	Coffee break
10.50-11.30	Paytsar Mantashyan \| A. B. Nalbandyan Chemical Physics Institute, Armenia Photoluminescence of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots in 5CB liquid crystals: from optical characterization to data-driven spectral modeling
11.30-11.40	Break
11.40-11.55	Grigor Mantashian \| A. B. Nalbandyan Chemical Physics Institute, Armenia Voxel-scale quantum state control in nanorod ensembles using reconfigurable needle beams
11.55-12.10	Anna Melkonyan \| A. B. Nalbandyan Chemical Physics Institute, Armenia Charge Transport Modeling of CdSe/ZnS Core/Shell Quantum Nanorod Light-Emitting Diodes
12.10-13.30	Lunch & Group Photo
13.30-22.00	Excursion to Dilijan Dinner at Hamadam restaurant

*20.08.2026*	Yerevan State University
Presider	Lusine Tsarukyan
8.50-9.00	Announcements and logistics of the day
9.00-9.40	Tigran Baghdasaryan \| Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Femtosecond laser micromachining and optical fibers
9.40-9.50	Break
9.50-10.30	Sidney Goossens \| Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium The Invisible Nervous System: How Optical Fibers Sense Our World
10.30-10.50	Coffee break
10.50-11.30	Mushegh Rafayelyan \| Yerevan State University, Armenia From Speckles to Optical Computing: Exploiting Light Scattering for Next-Generation Information Processing
11.30-11.40	Break
11:40-12:00	Sergey Shvetsov \| Yerevan State University, Armenia Photosensitive Liquid Crystals: Fundamental Mechanisms and Photonic Applications
12.00-12.15	Karen Mamian \| Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria Collective cavity-QED enhanced photonic nuclear clock
12.15-12.30	Zahra Madankan \| Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran Fractional Combined Half-Integer Bessel-Like Vortex Beams
12.30-14.00	Lunch
14.00-14.30	Soft skills workshop: Juan Rafael Alvarez The Art of Saying Yes (and When to Say No)
14.30-16.30	Poster Session & Refreshments
16.30-18.00	Lab work

*21.08.2026*	Yerevan State University
Presider	Tatevik Chalyan
8.50-9.00	Announcements and logistics of the day
9.00-10.30	Lab work
10.30-10.50	Coffee break
10.50-11.30	Fernando Ramiro Manzano \| Instituto de Tecnología Química UPV-CSIC, Spain Wave Physics in motion, from photonic microspheres to Bachata Sensual
11.30-11.40	Break
11.40-12.10	Closing Remarks by MAOP2026’s chairs

Poster presentations

Alireza Alkasir Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran	Nanometer Displacement Measurement with Fresnel Diffraction from Phase Step
Mane Altunyan Yerevan State University, Armenia	DMD-driven generation of topologcal structures in liquid crystals with azobenzene chiral dopants
Arman Avetisyan Russian-Armenian University, Armenia	Impact of geometry on semiconductor quantum dots optical properties
Nune Badalyan Université Paris-Saclay, France	Entanglement and quantum logic operations with a spin-photon interface
Gita Beiranvand Malayer University, Iran	Simulation and computational validation of an optical cavity composed of point dipoles
Tatevik Brsoyan Yerevan State University, Armenia & Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium	Development of microfluidic chips for confining liquid crystals
Vigen Gareyan Alikhanyan National Laboratory, Armenia	Dirac-engineered Photonic Crystals for Energy-sensitive Transition Radiation at Brewster Angles
Fateme Gheibi Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran	A Broadband Spectroscopic Approach for Experimental Characterization of Surface Plasmon Resonance in Thin Silver Films
Edvard Grigoryan Yerevan State University, Armenia	Rectification of Light Polarization based on Photosensitive Liquid Crystals
Hayk Harutyunyan Yerevan State University, Armenia	Real-time optical control of geometric phase of reflected light due to cholesteric liquid crystal photoalignment
Meri Hayrapetyan Yerevan State University, Armenia	Broadband Dielectric Permittivity and Photonic Applications of van der Waals Muscovite
Mari Hayrapetyan Yerevan State University, Armenia	Structuring of Light Polarization with Photopatterned Twisted Nematics
Ani Khachatryan Yerevan State University, Armenia	Deep learning-assisted ellipsometry-informed thickness predictive capabilities of van der Waals crystals from conventional optical microscopy images
Maria Levonyan Yerevan State University, Armenia	Temperature-dependent optical response of van der Waals MoSSe and WSSe
Anna Mikayelyan Yerevan State University, Armenia	Optimization of Laser Power for Two-Photon Polymerization: Polymerization Threshold Study
Zahra Madankan Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran	Self-Healing Analysis of Combined Half-Integer Bessel-Like Vortex Beams and Comparative Evaluation with Radial Carpet, Laguerre–Gaussian, and Bessel–Gaussian Beams
Shant Sargsyan Université Paris-Saclay, France	Calculation and interpretation of the electronic structure of SrRuO3 in the framework of density functional theory
Kushal Kumar Tripathi Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India	Optimized Simultaneous Generation of Dual-Wavelength Phase and Polarization Singularities
Susanna Vardanyan Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany	Storage ring magnetic lattice configuration for high-brightness photon beams

Science popular poster presentations

Davit Hayrapetyan & Smbat Poghosyan Yerevan State University, Armenia	Optical tweezers
Maria Karapetyan & Harutyun Tadevosyan Yerevan State University, Armenia	Smith-Purcell radiation
Syuzanna Makaryan Yerevan State University, Armenia	Liquid crystal displays

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