| April 5
| Dr. Tetsuro Nikuni | The University of Toronto, Canada
"Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensed gases at finite temperature" |
| June 25 | Prof. Kazumi Wada
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
"Si Micro-photonics"
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| Sept. 5 | Dr. G. Ravindra Kumar | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
"Femtosecond, intense laser interaction with solids - hot electrons and megagauss magnetic fields" |
| Oct. 9 | Prof. Wolfgang Husinsky | Vienna University of Technology, Austria
"The possible role of ballistic electrons in ultra-fast laser ablation of metals: studied by pump-probe experiments"
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| Oct. 12 | Prof. A. A. Andreev | Research Institute for Laser Physics, Russia
"Generation of superstrong laser fields and their applications"
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| Jan. 22 | Dr. Takashi Fujii | Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry
"Intense laser light propagation in the air using mobile TW-laser system" |
| Jan. 23 | Dr. Takeya Tsurumi | The University of Tokyo
"A Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a torus potential" |
| Jan. 30 | Dr. Paulo V. Santos | The Paul-Drude-Institute, Germany
"Dynamical modulation of quantum wells by high-frequency fields" |