The workshop consists of invited talks in the area of optical communications and a poster session.

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

Local Organization: Alex Alvarado, Chigo Okonkwo, Bin Chen, Vinicius Oliari Couto Dias
Scientific Advisors: Ton Koonen and Frans Willems