Eindhoven Workshop on Optical Communications
The workshop consists of invited talks in the area of optical communications and a poster session and will be held from April 8-10, 2018.
Feb 27, 2018

We look forward to seeing you in Eindhoven!

Local Organization: Alex Alvarado, Chigo Okonkwo, Bin Chen, Vinicius Oliari Couto Dias

Scientific Advisors: Ton Koonen and Frans Willems

CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS

  • Gerhard Kramer (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

  • Darko Zibar (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

  • Erik Agrell (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

  • Laurent Schmalen (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany)

  • Ben Puttnam (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)

  • Olga Vassilieva (Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc., USA)

CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

  • TU/e SPS: Alex Alvarado, Frans Willems, Bin Chen, Vinicius Oliari Couto Dias, Yi Lei, Rick Butler

  • TU/e ECO: Chigo Okonkwo, Ton Koonen, John van Weerdenburg, Sjoerd van der Heide, Simon Rommel

  • TU Delft: Sander Wahls, Shrinivas Chimmalgi

  • Chalmers University of Technology: Alireza Sheikh

  • Ben Gurion University of the Negev: Stanislav Derevyanko

  • University of Edinburgh: Majid Safari

  • CNIT: Luca Poti

  • Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna: Marco Secondini, Stella Civelli

TOPICS OF INTEREST

  • Information theory and the nonlinear fiber channel
  • Machine learning and optical communications
  • Multi-mode optical transmission systems
  • Modulation and FEC 

REGISTRATION

Registration is free, but the space is limited, giving priority to members of the Eurotech aliance (TU/e, TUM, DTU and EPFL). If you are interesting in joining, please follow this  link  to register online or send a mail to   ([email protected]) .

The deadline for registrations is March 16.

POSTER

There will be a poster session for PhD students and early career researchers. If you are interested in presenting a poster, please fill the form  here  or send an email to   ([email protected])  with a preliminary title before March 16.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Sunday, 8 April 2018

  • 19:00 – 22:00 Welcome dinner

Monday, 9 April 2018

  • 09:00 – 09:30 Welcome &Introduction

  • 09:30 – 12:30 Talks by academic speakers

  • 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch and poster session

  • 14:00 – 17:00 Talks by industrial speakers

  • 19:00 – 21:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 10 April 2018

  • 9:30 – 11:00 Lab visit and panel discussion