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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Feb 25, 2025
Extended Early Bird Ends: Jan 28, 2025

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Waclaw Gudowski
The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden
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Professor dr hab. Wacław Gudowski, Professor in Reactor Physics at the National Center of Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Swierk, Poland

Professor in Neutron and Reactor Physics at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH) - The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

Advisor to the Board of Orlen Synthos Green Energy (OSGE) Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences – IVA

Till 2006 - Director of the Nuclear Energy Technology Centre (CEKERT) at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden

2006-2011 Deputy Executive Director, International Science and Technology Center (ISTC), Moscow

Formal degrees:

MSc in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Nuclear Technology at the University of Mining and Metallurgy in Krakow (AGH)

PhD in 1983 at the University of Mining and Metallurgy in Krakow (AGH) based on the work done on design of the fast pulsed research reactor IBR-2 Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, (then Soviet Union, now Russia). This reactor is still in operation and serves well neutron scattering communities.

Habilitation and Docent degree at the Royal Institute of Technology – KTH in Stockholm in 1990

Professorship in Neutron and Reactor Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology – KTH in Stockholm in 2000

Professorship in Reactor Physics at the National Center for Nuclear Research - NCBJ, Swierk, Poland – 2019.

In mid 70’s an active research in High Temperature Gas Gooled Reactors (HTGR), few papers published on this subject in 70s including a very imaginative paper presented at the conference in Bristol, UK: “On the control of HTR numerical models using Artificial Intelligence methods”

From 1976 to 1978 researcher at the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna, a memebr of the team designing and putting into operation research, sodium cooled pulsed reactor IBR-2.

In 1980’s active in basic research using neutron scattering technique at international facilities at Institute Laue Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble and at ISIS facility at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

One of the European pioneers of research in accelerator driven transmutation of nuclear waste, or so alled Accelerator Driven Systems - ADS.

Coordinator of the first European research project on ADS - Impact of the Accelerator Based Technologies on Nuclear Fission Safety (IABAT).

Till 2006 Coordinator of the European project “Impact of Transmutation and Reduction of Waste on Geological Waste Repository – RED-IMPACT.

In 2005 started and coordinated a European project in an education area: “EU-China Campus for Energy and Environment”.

In early 2000s conducted research projects on High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors with focus on deep/burnup concepts and on modularity of HTGRs

One of the initiators in 1995 of the Fredric Joliot–Otto Hahn Summer School on Nuclear Reactors. For many years Scientific Board Member of this School and its lecturer. Organizer of the Fall Session of FJOH in Forsmark, Sweden – in 2000.

Lecturer and Mentor of the First World Nuclear University (WNU) in Idaho, USA, in 2005. World Nuclear University is today a recognized institution organizing annually summer educational sessions for the best students and young professionals in the nuclear science and technology.
Expert in non-proliferation of the weapon of mass destruction.

From 2022 an Advisor to the Board of the Orlen Synthos Green Energy (OSGE).
Prof. Jaw-Shen Tsai
Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Title: Superconducting Kerr Parametric Oscillators based Bosonic Qubit
Jaw-Shen Tsai was born in 1952 in Taipei. He graduated from department of physics of University of California at Berkeley in 1975 and subsequently received his Ph.D. in Physics from State University of New York at Stony Brook. His research life has been devoted to the study of macroscopic quantum effect in superconductors, especially which associated with Josephson junctions. He has contributed to the area of condensed matter physics in both fundamental physics and their technological potential. He led the Josephson-junction-based qubit project at NEC Tsukuba laboratory for many years. He is also the Team Leader of Macroscopic Quantum Simulation Team in RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing. Since 2015, he is professor of physics at Tokyo University of Science. He has been working on the experiments connected quantum coherence in the Josephson systems. In this direction, his group has been pioneering the science and technology of superconducting quantum computing by demonstrating the first solid-state based qubit (1999), the first solid state CNOT gate (2003), a universal quantum gate operation (2007). Moreover, many important results relating to the quantum optics with artificial superconducting atom were demonstrated. He received Nishina Memorial Prize in 2004, Simon Memorial Prize in 2008, Leo Esaki Prize in 2014, Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2018, Asahi Prize in 2021, Japan Academy Prize, Houko Prize, and C & C Prize in 2023. He is an academician of Academia Sinica, a fellow of American Physical Society, and a fellow of Japan Society of Applied Physics.
Prof. Jürgen Köhler
University of Bayreuth, Germany
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Jürgen Köhler has studied physics at the University of Düsseldorf (ph.D 1990) followed by a postdoc period at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) untill 1999. After a stay at the LMU Munich as associate professor he became a full professor at the University of Bayreuth in 2000. In 2003 he denied an offer to move to the University of Linz (Austria). His research interests cover the study of the electronic states of soft condensed matter, including (bio-)macromolecules and molecular aggregates, using optical (single-molecule) spectroscopy. From 2000 - 2007 he has served as a member of the Scientific-Technical-Advisory Board of the Bavarian State Government. He was the initiator and chairman of the international conference "Light-Harvesting Processes" which took place biannually from 2007 - 2017. From 2010 - 2019 he was the spokesman of the Research Training Group "Photophysics of Synthetic and Biological Multichromophoric Systems" at the University of Bayreuth. Currently Köhler serves as the Executive Director of the ‘Bayreuth Institute of Macromolecular Research’. For his research he received several awards among which the Gustav-Hertz-Prize of the German Physical Society and a Wilsmore Fellowship from the University of Melbourne.
Prof. Francis Chi-Chung Ling
The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong
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Prof Francis Chi-Chung Ling obtained the degrees of BSc, MPh and PhD from The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He was a Sir Edward Youde Fellow. He obtained the tenure as Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He was elected the Fellow of the Institute of Physics (F. Inst. Phys.). His current research focuses on tailoring materials electrical, optical, dielectric properties and optimizing devices performance via engineering the atomic scale defects and interface.
Dr. Carlo Andrea Rozzi
Istituto Nanoscienze CNR, Italy
Title: Ultrafast electron dynamics in molecules and crystals
Dr. Carlo Andrea Rozzi, researcher at the Nanoscience Institute of the National Research Council of Italy, has got extensive experience in theoretical and computational physics. He contributed to both the theoretical development and the numerical implementation of Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory. He is member of the developers team of the real-space real-time open source code OCTOPUS. His current scientific interests are mostly in the field of first-principles simulation of excited state dynamics of light-harvesting and photovoltaic nano-structured materials. His track record include highly cited works about ultrafast spectroscopies, linear and non-linear optics, time-domain description of excited states in nanostructured organic and hybrid materials, macromolecules, bulk solids, interfaces, low-dimensional systems.
Prof. Voichita Bucur
RMIT University, Australia
Title: Ultrasonic technique for imaging the state of urban trees
She has expertise in wood science; ultrasound, mechanical characterisation of materials, nondestructive testing of wood, wood products, wood – based composites, trees, materials for musical instruments. During last years, she was awarded numerous prizes: 2021 Medal RWB Stephens, Medal of the Institute of Acoustics UK for outstanding contributions to acoustics research or education; 2019 - Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science; 2007 - Distinguished Services Award for outstanding research contributions on acoustics and its application to non-destructive testing of wood -Forest Products Laboratory US; 2004 –Silver Medal – Société d’encouragement au progrès Paris, France.
Prof. Se-Young Jeong
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
Title: Oxygen in Single Crystal Cu Thin Film with an Ultraflat Surface and 2D oxygen crystal
Se-Young Jeong was born in 1958 in Korea. He graduated from department of physics of University of Pusan in 1981 and received his Ph.D. in Natural Science from Köln University, Germany. Since 1991, he has been a professor in the Department of Physics and the College of Nano Science and Technology at Pusan National University, conducting research on various single crystals, including those with ferroelectric and ferroelastic materials, wide bandgap semiconductor like GaN, and superconducting MgB₂. He has also pursued research in spintronics based on ZnCoO. Since the 2000s, his research has mainly focused on the electrical properties of pure metal single crystals such as copper. Notably, he successfully grew single-crystal copper thin films with atomically flat surface, leading to a new phase in his research. Recently, he has uncovered the oxidation-resistant mechanism of single-crystal copper thin films with ultra-flat surfaces that prevent oxidation at room temperature, and he has addressed various challenging issues related to oxidation. Currently, he is pioneering a new field called "metaltronics," exploring the possibility of realizing various device functionalities using metals alone, without semiconductors. He was awarded the Busan Science Award in 2005, the Pusan National University’s 1st Educator Award in 2013, the Korean Physical Society Meritorious Service Award in 2016, and the 2022 Yoon In-koo Academic Award. In 2022, his research was selected as one of Korea’s Top 10 Nanotechnology Breakthroughs, and in 2023, it was named one of the Top 100 National R&D Excellence Achievements, where it was further recognized as the Best Research Achievement. In 2024, he received the POSCO TJ Park Science Award. Since 2024, he has been serving as an invited professor at KAIST and Harvard University.
Prof. Qing-Bin Lu
University of Waterloo, Canada
Title: Quantitative understanding of global ozone depletion through the cosmic-ray driven electron reaction (CRE) theory
I am currently a full Professor of Physics, Biology and Chemistry in the University of Waterloo, Canada. I received a Senior Research Fellowship (2001-2005) and a New Investigator Award (2008-2013) of Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR), and a University Research Chair Award of the University of Waterloo (2014-2021). I am best known for my development of the cosmic-ray-driven electron reaction (CRE) and chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-warming theories that show excellent agreement with recent observations and for my discovery of the large ozone loss over the tropics. My research in biomedical sciences also led to the discoveries/inventions of a new molecular mechanism of reductive DNA damage, a plausible amplification mechanism in immune defense, and novel cancer targeted therapies.