Keynote Addresses: Enhancing Light-matter Interactions using Micro-structured Glass Fibres.- Silicon Photonics.- Plenary Talks: Specialty Optical Fibers for Mid-IR Photonics.- Einstein's Photoemission, Magnetic Quantization and Heavily Doped III-V Quantum Well Superlattices with Graded Interfaces.- Optical Cryptography and Watermarking using some Fractional Canonical Transforms, and Structured Masks.- Nonlinear Fibre Optics: Application to Supercontinuum Generation.- Light Propagation in micro-structured Optical Fibers and Designing High Gain Fiber Amplifier.- Design and Development of Plasmonic Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fiber for Sensing Applications.- Determination of Refractive Index in-homogeneity of Transparent, Isotropic Optical Materials.- Real Time Amplification of Moving Light Signals by Photorefractive Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Mixtures.- Is Higher Order Aberration Associated with reduced Visual Acuity in Children?.- Design and Optimization of Silicon Photonic Devices.- Global Synthesis of Optical Lens Systems.- Design and Analysis of Memristor based Non-volatile Memories.- Application of Solar Energy: Recording and Optimization of Holographic Solar Concentrator in Ultra-Fine Grain Visible Wavelength Sensitive Silver Halide Emulsion.- Solar Energy Potential of Silchar, Assam India - A Resource Assessment.- Design and Analysis of Thin Film based Silicon Solar Cells for Efficient Light Trapping.- A Review Report on Solar Cell: Past Scenario, Recent Quantum Dot Solar Cell and Future Trends.- Development of a Window Holographic Lens to Utilize Solar Energy.- Diffraction Tomography: A New Approach to Diffraction Tomography using Born Approximation.- E.M. Radiation Theory and Antenna: Design and Analysis of Dual Band, DGS Integrated Compact Microstrip Antenna.- Fibre optics and Devices: Design and Analysis of Chemically Etched and Biconically Tapered Fiber for Chemical Sensing Application.- Fluid Evaporation Monitoring of Volatile Organic Compound using D-shaped Fiber.- Tellurite Glass Microstructured Optical Fibers: An Analytical Approach.- Design and Simulation of Octagonal Photonic Crystal Fiber for Super-continuum Generation.- Highly Birefringent Fluoride Photonic Crystal Fiber with Low Confinement Loss.- Splicing Hetero-core Fibers in Perspective of Different Material Compositions.- Photonics for Space Applications: Design and Concept Validation of Next Generation 3D Range Gated CMOS Image Sensor.- Demonstration of Active Laser Beam Stabilization in Closed Loop for Free Space Optical Receiver.- Micro-electronics and VLSI: Power Effective Design of 10T D-FF using MTCMOS Technique.- High Performance FinFET based D Flip Flop including Parameter Variation.- Memristive Power Optimization of Non-Volatile Seven Transistors Static Random Access Memory Cell.- Modeling and Analysis of FinFET based Schmitt Trigger with Stability Response and Gain-bandwidth Product.- Comparison of 6T and 8T SRAM Cell with Parameters at 45nm Technology.- Calculation of Power Delay Product and Energy Delay Product in 4-bit FinFET based Priority Encoder.- A Relative Investigation of TIQ Comparator and Dynamic Latched Comparator.- Design of Low Power Shift Register in Nano Scale Domain using FinFET.- Optimized Area and Low Power Consumption Braun Multiplier based on GDI Technique at 45nm Technology.- Nano-Photonics, Bio-Photonics and Bio-Medical Optics: A Method for Estimating the Wave Front Aberrations with Missing Spot Data in a Hartmann-Shack Aberrometer.- Automated Detection of Optic Disc in Fundus images.- Diagnosing Heterogeneous Dynamics for CT Scan Images of Human Brain in Wavelet and MFDFA domain.- Growth of Blue Luminescent Cu Doped ZnO Nanowires by Modified Sol-gel.- Growth of Green and Blue Luminescent Cu Doped CdS Nanorods and their Optical Structural Characterization.- Light Absorption in Nano-film of
About the Author:

V. Lakshminarayanan (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley) is currently a professor of vision science, physics and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Waterloo. He has held visiting and faculty appointments at the Universities of California at Berkeley, at Irvine, University of Missouri and the University of Michigan. He has had numerous honors, including Fellow of OSA, SPIE, AAAS, APS, IoP, etc. and the recipient of many awards including most recently the Esther Hoffman Beller medal of OSA, and the Optics Educator award of SPIE. He has been a KITP Scholar at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He was a AAAS science and technology policy fellow finalist and serves on the optics advisory board of the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. Research interests range from optics to neuroscience, bioengineering, applied math and ophthalmology/optometry.

Ms. Indrani Bhattacharya obtained her B.Sc (Honours) in Physics and M.Sc (Tech) in Applied Physics (with Specialization in Optics and Opto-Eletronics) degrees in 1984 and 1988, respectively, from Serampore College and the Department of Applied Physics, University of Calcutta. After obtaining her Maters degree, she joined in M/s. Hindustan Cables Limited, HCL, A Govt. of India Undertaking as Fibre Optic System Development Engineer in Company's Fibre Optics Project, Naini, Allahabad and worked there for two years. During those days, she was actively involved in the development of Fused Fibre Optics Taper Biconical Couplers, Optical Fibre Joint Boxes including manufacturing and testing of slotted core, loose tube fibre optics cables supplied to Department of Telecommunications, DOT, Govt. of India. In the year 1992, she joined HCL, Corporate Office at Kolkata and actively involved as the Core Group Member for the Computerization of the Company. Ms. Bhattacharya was trained in UNIX, SYBASE, ORACLE with Developer 2000 required in the computerization process.

After serving 19 years 6 months in HCL, she planned to join academics and accordingly, she left HCL on 31st March 2010 and enrolled in Ph.D (Tech) program as a part-time research scholar in the Department of Applied Optics and Photonics, Calcutta University, under the guidance of Emeritus Professor Lakshminarayan Hazra. She had joined as Head of the Department, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Camellia College of Engineering and Technology, Burdwan and taught there for two years.

On 16th July, 2012, she joined Institute of Engineering and Management, IEM, Salt Lake, Kolkata as Assistant Professor (Sr. Grade) where she is working till date. In IEM, she has motivated students to be involved in research and development activities and opened SPIE and OSA approved IEM Student Chapters, Brahmatejas and Alokadhyaya. Prof. Bhattacharya is the core group member of the Research Council of IEM for promoting research and development activities among the faculty members and students of the Institute.

Prof. Bhattacharya is also the Co-coordinator of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, sponsored INSPIRE (INnovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research) Science Camp organized in IEM, "The Enchanting World of Science", to motivate the top 1% board students to be involved in research and development activities in Science.