Contemporary Trends in Optics 2017

Contemporary Trends in Optics 2017 (CoOpt-2017) is a two-day conference being organized from 18-19 December, 2017 at the Mohanpur campus of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata (IISER-K). The conference is being jointly organized by the SPIE Student Chapter IISER-K, OSA Student Chapter IISER-K, along with the Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI), with support from IISER-K. There will be four technical sessions: (a) Classical optics (b) Biophotonics (c) Quantum optics and (d) Space optics. The lectures in these sessions will be delivered by distinguished researchers from India and abroad. Besides, there will also be sessions for student talks and poster presentations. Prizes will be awarded in both categories.
December is among the best months to visit IISER-K since we have excellent weather. Hope to see you in CoOpt 2017!

Invited Speakers

		Giovanni Volpe University of Gothenburg Sweden				Subhasish Dutta Gupta University of Hyderabad India
		Fabien Bretenecker French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris France				Bimalendu Deb Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata India
		Basudev Roy IIT Madras India				Saikat Ghosh IIT Kanpur India
		A.N. Ramaprakash IUCAA, Pune India				Shourya Dutta Gupta IIT Hyderabad India
		Sushil Mujumdar Tata Institute of Fundamental Research India				Renu John IIT Hyderabad India
		Shibu K Mathew Udaipur Solar Observatory, PRL India				Prashanth C Upadhya LEOS, ISRO India
		Lakshmi Bala, S IIT Madras , India India

Programme Schedule

Registration

Registration is closed.

SOC and LOC

Scientific Organizing Committee
Ayan Banerjee
Nirmalya Ghosh
Dibyendu Nandi


Local Organizing Committee
Subhrokoli Ghosh
Sudipta Saha
Shuvojit Paul
Amar Deo Chandra
Souvik Sil
Subir Kumar Ray
Shubham Chandel
Ankit Kumar Singh
Athira B. S.
Avijit Kundu
Rohan Eugene Louis
Prosenjit Lahiri
Nabamita Das
Debapriya Pal
Vinay Pareek
Mandira Pal
Antariksha Das
Rajib dey
Aneeth K Arun
Randhir Kumar
Roshan Tiwari

Contact

Email: coopt17@iiserkol.ac.in

Mobile:

Sudipta (+91 9062194553)
Shubham (+91 9564683615)
Subhrokoli (+91 9563045866)
Rohan Eugene Louis (+91 7003913459)

How to reach IISER Kolkata:

IISER Kolkata is located near Haringhata in Nadia district. The nearest local station, Kalyani, is located on the Sealdah-Kalyani main line. One may take a local train from Sealdah or Dumdum station in Kolkata to Kalyani. From there, bus or auto services are available to Gate no. 7 stop towards Bara Jaguli where IISER-K main gate is located. Alternatively, one may take prepaid taxi from airport to Haringhata via National Highway 34. The distance is about 50 km. More details are available here.

Please refer to IISER Kolkata in Google maps here.