Program at a Glance – 2nd Green Photonics Symposium 2015 TU Berlin, Eugen‐Wigner‐Building, Lecture Hall EW 201 th Monday, March 30 , 2015 Session I 9:30 am ‐ 11:00 am Opening Ceremony within the Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of German‐Israeli Diplomatic Relations 11:00 am ‐ 11:30 am Coffee Break Session II 11:30 am ‐ 11:40 am Gadi Eisenstein, Technion ‐ IIT and Introduction Dieter Bimberg, TU Berlin 11:40 am ‐ 12:25 pm Eicke Weber, Fraunhofer ISE "Novel Concepts for Highest‐Efficiency Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting" 12:25 pm ‐ 12:55 pm Karl Leo, TU Dresden "Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells" 12:55 pm ‐ 1:45 pm Lunch Break Session III 1:45 pm ‐ 2:30 pm Rodney Tucker, University of Melbourne "Towards a Green Internet" 2:30 pm ‐ 3:00 pm Chris Kocot, Finisar "Photonic Technologies for Efficient Datacom Modules" 3:00 pm ‐ 3:30 pm Bert Offrein, IBM Research Zürich "Photonics for Datacenters: How to Go Green" 3:30 pm ‐ 4:00 pm Carmel Rotschild, Technion ‐ IIT "On the Transition from Photoluminescence to Thermal Emission and its Implication on Solar Energy Conversion" 4:00 pm ‐ 4:30 pm Coffee Break Session IV 4:30 pm ‐ 5:00 pm Eby Friedman, University of Rochester "Distributed On‐Chip Power Delivery for Low Energy Nanoelectronic Systems" 5:00 pm ‐ 5:30 pm Alexander Fish, Bar‐Ilan University "Alternative Logic Families for Energy‐Efficient, Fast and Secured Chip Design" 5:30 pm ‐ 6:00 pm Yoav Etsion, Technion ‐ IIT "System‐on‐Chip or System of Chips?" 6:00 pm Closure and Departure Reichstag for invited speakers Tuesday, March 31st, 2015 Session V 9:30 am ‐ 10:15 am 10:15 am ‐ 10:45 am 10:45 am ‐ 11:15 am 11:15 am ‐ 11:45 am Session VI 11:45 am ‐ 12:15 pm 12:15 pm ‐ 12:45 pm 12:45 pm ‐ 1:45 pm Session VII 1:45 pm ‐ 2:15 pm 2:15 pm ‐ 2:45 pm 2:45 pm ‐ 3:15 pm 3:15 pm ‐ 3:45 pm Session VIII 3:45 pm ‐ 4:15 pm 4:15 pm ‐ 4:45 pm 4:45 pm ‐ 5:00 pm 5:00 pm Klaus Streubel, OSRAM GmbH "The Future of Lighting" Eli Yablonovitch, UC Berkeley "Regenerative Thermo‐Photovoltaics; a New Opportunity in Black‐Body Science" Eitan Zahavi, Mellanox Tec., Ltd., Yokneam "Green Data Centers" Coffee Break Holger Schmeckebier, TU Berlin "Quantum‐Dot Optical Amplifiers for Energy‐Efficient Optical Communication" Johann P. Reithmaier, Universität Kassel "Power Saving in Communication Applications by Nano‐Structured Optoelectronic Components" Lunch Break James Lott, TU Berlin "Energy Efficient VCSELs: How we will reach the performance limits" Mario Martinelli, Politecnico di Milano "Opportunity and Challenge Offered by the Photon Total Angular Momentum in the Context of Green Photonics" Markus Amann, TU München "High‐Speed Energy‐Efficient Long‐Wavelength VCSELs" Coffee Break Avinoam Kolodny, Technion ‐ IIT "Power Efficient System Architectures" John Cunningham, Oracle "Silicon Photonics for Scalable WDM Iinterchip Links for Systems" Gadi Eisenstein, Technion ‐ IIT and Concluding Remarks Dieter Bimberg, TU Berlin Closure and Departure Brandenburg Gate for invited speakers