Sunday, September 19, h 10:00 - 13:30, Room A
WS1. Novelties in Distributed Sensing Measurement Techniques
Fabrizio Di Pasquale, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Kazuo Hotate, University of Tokyo, Japan
Luc Thévenaz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

Sunday, September 19, h 10:00 - 13:30, Room B
WS2. Petabit Routing: Electronic Optical or Hybrid? Where to Draw the Line?
Hercules Avramopoulos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Naoya Wada, National Institute of Information andCommunications Technology, Japan
Efstratios Kehayas, Constelex Technology Enablers

Sunday, September 19, h 10:00 - 13:30, Room C
WS3. All-Optical Processing of Advanced Modulation Format Signals
Peter Andrekson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Stojan Radic, University of California San Diego, USA

Sunday, September 19, h 10:00 - 13:30, Room D
WS4. Overcoming Capacity Limits of State-of-the-art Optical Fibres
Robert Lingle, OFS
Peter Winzer, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs

Sunday, September 19, h 10:00 - 13:30, Room G
WS5. Next Generation Optical Access Networks: Architectures Technology and Systems
Christoph Lange, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
Dirk Breuer, Deutsche Telekom, Germany

Sunday, September 19, h 14:30 - 18:00, Room A
WS6. Single and Multi-Carrier Techniques to Build Terabit/s per-Channel Optical Transmission Systems
Ronald Freund, Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute, Germany
Andrew Ellis, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland

Sunday, September 19, h 14:30 - 18:00, Room B
WS7. Next Generation Optical Access Networks: New Value Chains and Emerging Business Models
Dirk Breuer, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
Marco Forzati, Acreo, SwedenO

Sunday, September 19, h 14:30 - 18:00, Room C
WS8. Silicon Photonics: Challenges and Opportunities for the Next Decade
Laurent Fulbert, CEA-Leti, France
Roel Baets, Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium

Sunday, September 19, h 14:30 - 18:00, Room D
WS9. Slow and Fast Light - From Basic Principles to ICT Applications
Gadi Eisenstein, Technion, Israel
Marco Santagiustina, CNIT - University of Padova, Italy
Jacob B. Khurgin, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Sunday, September 19, h 14:30 - 18:00, Room F
WS10. Operationalizing Dynamic Transport Networks
Hans Martin Foisel, Deutsche Telecom, Germany
Vishnu S. Shukla, Verizon, USA

Sunday, September 19, h 14:30 - 18:00, Room G
WS11. Coding and Algorithms for Digital Coherent Transceivers
Ivan Djordjevic, University of Arizona, USA
Chris Fludger, CoreOptics, Germany
Seb Savory, University College London, United Kingdom