Tuesday 23 March

Session T1: Orbital Angular Momentum and Vortices (A)
Chair: Mohamed Babiker, University of York

11:00	(invited) What do we still need to know about optical angular momentum Allen, Les - Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde
11:30	(Invited) Vortices, singularities and OAM induced by mode twisting Nienhuis, Gerard; Habraken, Steven J M Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
12:00	(Invited) The optical Dirac equation and the angular momentum of light Barnett, Stephen University of Strathclyde
12:30	Polarisation gradients in phase-bearing light ¹Lembessis, Vassilis; ²Babiker, Mohamed ¹New York College of Athens ²University of York
12:45	Lunch

Session T2 - Orbital Angular Momentum and Vortices (B)
Chair: Mark Dennis, Bristol University

14:00	(Invited) Optical energy flow Berry, Michael - Bristol University
14:30	(Invited) Orbital Angular Momentum Reveals the Quantum in Ghost Imaging Padgett, Miles; Barry, Jack; Leach, Jonathan; Romero, Jaqueline; Franke-Arnold, Sonja; Ritsch-Marte, Monika; Barnett, Stephen University of Glasgow
15:00	High efficiency manipulation of OAM of light for quantum and classical applications using a birefringent plate with unit topological charge Piccirillo, Bruno; Karimi, Ebrahim; Slussarenko, Sergei; Marrucci, Lorenzo; Santamato, Enrico Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche Università degli Studi di Napoli
15:15	Position-sensitive angular momentum conversion of light via nano-particles ¹Bliokh, Kostiantyn; ¹Rodriguez, Oscar; ²Lara, David; ³Ostrovskaya, Elena; ¹Dainty, Chris ¹Applied Optics Group, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland ²The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom ³Nonlinear Physics Centre, National University of Australia, Canberra, Australia
15:30	Coffee

Session T3 - Orbital Angular Momentum and Vortices (C)
Chair: Stephen Barnett, University of Strathclyde

16:00	(Invited) Understanding the Optical Vortex Coronagraph Swartzlander, Grover Rochester Institute of Technology
16:30	(Invited) Optical orbital angular momentum in nonlinear media: spiraling solitons and suppression of collapse Desyatnikov, Anton The Australian National University
17:00	(Invited) Knotted optical fields ¹Dennis, Mark; ¹King, Robert; ²Jack, Barry; ²O’Holleran, Kevin; ²Padgett, Miles ¹University of Bristol ²University of Glasgow
17:30	Orbital angular momentum of light in astronomy ¹Tamburini, Fabrizio; ²Mari, Elettra; ¹Barbieri, Cesare; ¹Bianchini, Antonio; ³Romanato, Filippo ¹Dept. of Astronomy, University of Padova ²Cisas - University of Padova ³Dept. of Physics, University of Padova
17:45	Transport of OAM entanglement through a turbulent atmosphere ¹Pors, Bart-Jan; ²Monken, Carlos; ¹Woerdman, Han; ¹Eliel, Eric ¹Leiden University ²Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
18:00	Poster Session and reception