Thursday 25 March

Session Th1 - Imaging and Sensing 1
Chair: Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, University of Queensland

09:00	(Invited) Spiral Phase Contrast Microscopy: Optical Vortices as Fourier Filters in Microscopy Ritsch-Marte, Monika Innsbruck Medical University
09:30	(Invited) Helico-conical beams for generating optical twisters ¹Glückstad, Jesper; ¹Palima, Darwin Z; ²Daria, Vincent R ¹Technical University of Denmark ² Australian National University
10:00	(Invited) Extracting the spiral information: Why and how? Molina-Terriza, Gabriel ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques
10:30	Coffee

Session Th2 - Imaging and Sensing (B)
Chair: Enrique Galvez, Colgate University

11:00	(Invited) Photon Orbital Angular Momentum at Radio Frequencies: Challenges and Possibilities Thidé, Bo Uppsala, Sweden
11:30	Focusing properties of vector vortex beams ¹Sakai, Kyosuke; ²Takayama, Naoki; ²Kitamura, Kyoko; ²Iwahashi, Seita; ²Kurosaka, Yoshitaka; ²Noda, Susumu ¹Kyoto University Pioneering Unit for Next Generation ²Kyoto University Depertment of Electric Science and Engineering
11:45	Spin-Orbit coupling in a Fabry-Perot resonator via Berry's geometric phase ¹Pinkse, Pepijn; ²Koch, Markus; ²Hagemann, Borys; ²Motsch, Michael; ²Zeppenfeld, Martin; ²Rempe, Gerhard ¹Mesa+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente ²Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
12:00	Phase retrieval of an optical vortex Henderson, Clare; Williams, Garth; Peele, Andrew; Quiney, Harry; Nugent, Keith The University of Melbourne
12:15	Concluding remarks Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow
12.30	End of Conference
12.45	Lunch and Depart