Speakers Keynote Speaker Ranjan Singh University of Notre Dame, USA Plenary Speakers Andreas ErdmannFraunhofer IISB, Erlangen, Germany G. Ravindra Kumar TIFR, Mumbai, India Osamu Matoba Kobe University, Japan Roberto Morandotti INRS, Quebec, Canada Invited Speakers A K Chaudhary University of Hyderabad A R Ganesan IIT Madras A. Raja Bayanna PRL-USO Udaipur Akhilesh Kumar Mishra IIT Roorkee Amarendra K. Sarma IIT Guwahati Amit Agarwal University of Cambridge Anand Kumar Jha IIT Kanpur Anirban Dhar CSIR-CGCRI Anirban Pathak JIIT Noida Anshuman Kumar IIT Bombay Arup Lal Chakraborty IIT Gandhinagar Ashok KumarIIST, Thiruvananthapuram B.N. Upadhyaya RRCAT Balaji Srinivasan IIT Madras Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia UiT, Tromso, Norway Bosanta R. Boruah IIT Guwahati C.M. Chandrashekhar IISc Bangalore C.S. Narayanamurthy IIST Thiruvananthapuram Chaitanya Kumar Suddapalli TIFR Hyderabad Deepa Venkitesh IIT Madras Dhanvir Singh Rana IISER Bhopal Dinesh N Naik IIST, Thiruvananthapuram Goutam K. Samanta PRL Ahmedabad Jagannath Nayak DRDO Hyderabad Kanik Palodhi University of Calcutta Krish Pandian Covesion Ltd, UK L.N. Hazra University of Calcutta Moumita Dutta SAC Ahmadabad M. Senthil Kumar SAC Ahmadabad Natesan Yogesh NIT Calicut Nimish Dixit DRDO-IRDE Dehradun Nirmalya Ghosh IISER Kolkata Nithyanandan Kanagaraj IIT Hyderabad Partha Roy Chaudhuri IIT Kharagpur Pavan Kumar G.V. IISER Pune Prem B. Bisht IIT Madras R. Horisaki The University of Tokyo, Japan R.P. Singh PRL Ahmedabad Rajesh Kumar IIT Roorkee Raj Kumar CSIR-CSIO Rajan Jha IIT Bhubaneswar Rajeesh V. Nair IIT Ropar Rajib Chakraborty University of Calcutta Rakesh K. Singh IIT BHU Varanasi Ravi Pant IISER Thiruvananthapuram Renu John IIT Hyderabad S. Prabhu TIFR S.K. Varshney IIT Kharagpur S R K Chaitanya Indukuri IIT Jammu Sachin K. Srivastava IIT Roorkee Sanjay Kumar Mishra DRDO-IRDE Dehradun Sanjay Mittal LEOS, Bengalore Sebabrata Mukherjee IISc Bangalore Sergey Babin SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia Shanti Bhattacharya IIT Madras Sivarama Krishnan IIT Madras Somnath Ghosh Mahindra Univ, Hyderabad Subhasish Dutta Gupta TIFR Hyderabad Sudhir Khare IRDE, Dehradun Supradeepa V.R. IISc Bangalore T. Sasaki Tokyo University of Science, Japan Tapajyoti Das Gupta IISc Bangalore Vijay Kumar NIT Warangal Vipul Rastogi IIT Roorkee Vishwa Pal IIT Ropar Vyas Akondi IISER Behrampur Yasuhiro Awatsuji Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan Yoko Miyamoto University of Electro-Communications, Japan 49th Edition of the Optical Society of India Symposium 2 Premier Host Institutions – IIT Delhi & CSIR-NPL 500+ Delegates from Academia, R&D & Industry