January 6: Get-together tonight at 7 PM in Break Sokos Hotel Levi, venue room Kelo at Loimu building.
January 5: OIE’25 symposium proceedings have been uploaded here below at the front page.
Welcome to the OIE’25 at Levi / Lapland, January 6 – 9, 2025!
The OIE’25 event will be organized in Lapland at Sokos Hotel Levi in January 6-9, 2025.
Venue and Accommodation
The symposium will be held at the Break Sokos Hotel Levi.
We have reserved a quota of rooms from the Break Sokos Hotel Levi. Details, how to reserve your room, can be found from here.
Proceedings
The symposium proceedings are provided in electronic form that can be viewed from the link below:
Program
The program will start on Monday evening on January 6, 2025 followed by the academic and networking program for the next three days from Tuesday until Thursday.
Detailed program can be found from here.
How to get to Levi?
Good connections are available from Japan to Kittilä via Helsinki connection. Details for the travel arrangements can be found from here.
Information about Levi and Lapland
Levi is a popular ski resort located in the municipality of Kittilä, in Finnish Lapland. It is one of the largest and most well-known ski resorts in Finland.
Lapland is the northernmost region of Finland, and it is known for its stunning natural beauty, unique culture, and a variety of outdoor activities. Some highlights include indigenous Sami peeople and culture,
nature and wildlife with vast wilderness areas, and northern lights (Aurora Borealis) in the winter. Lapland also offers plenty of outdoor activities such as snowmobiling, ice fishing, and reindeer safaris in the winter.
Levi and Lapland provide a unique blend of outdoor adventure, cultural experiences, and natural beauty. Whether you are looking to ski on well-groomed slopes, witness the magical Northern Lights, or immerse yourself in the rich traditions of the Sami people, this region of Finland offers something for everyone.
About the OIE Symposium Series
OIE’25 is the fifteenth international joint meeting between the Japanese and Finnish optical societies that follows up the line of the fourteen symposia held so far as follows:
Lappeenranta 1995, Tsukuba 1997, Kajaani 1999, Suita 2001, Saariselkä 2003, Sapporo 2005, Tampere 2007, Tokyo 2009, Turku 2011, Utsunomiya 2013, Joensuu 2015, Niigata/Sado 2017, Espoo/Tallinn 2019, and Hamamatsu 2023.
The aim of the symposium series is to provide a timely forum for presenting latest novel and innovative works on new photonics, technologies and device applications, and to promote the interaction between Finnish and Japanese scientists who are working in the fields of pure and applied optics and photonics.
Scope
The symposium covers, but is not restricted to, the following topics:
- Biologcal optics
- Holography, digital holography, 3D imaging, and display
- Imaging and image processing
- Laser science and engineering fundamentals, measurements, design, and applications
- Metamaterials
- Micro-optics, integrated and guided-wave optics, and optical MEMS
- Nano-optics including near-field optics in biology and chemistry
- Nonlinear optics
- Novel optics including photonic crystals
- Optical data storage
- Optical interferometry
- Optical material and fabrication techniques
- Optical switching, computing, and information processing
- Quantum optics, laser spectroscopy, and their applications
- Semiconductor lasers and related devices
OIE’25 Program Committee
General Chair
Jarkko J. Saarinen (University of Eastern Finland)
Co-chairs
Jyrki Saarinen (University of Eastern Finland)
Yoshio Hayasaki (Utsunomiya University)
International Organizing Committee
Tapio Fabritius (University of Oulu)
Pekka Hänninen (University of Turku)
Erkki Ikonen (Aalto University)
Katsuhiro Ishii (GPI)
Yusuke Ogura (Osaka Unversity)
Kai-Erik Peiponen (University of Eastern Finland)
Shin-ichi Satake (Tokyo University of Science)
Takamasa Suzuki (Niigata University)
Shuji Taue (Kochi Institute of Technology)
Haruyoshi Toyoda (Hamamatsu Photonics)
Erik Vartiainen (Lappeenranta University of Technology)
Steering Committee
Jarkko J. Saarinen (University of Eastern Finland)
Jyrki Saarinen (University of Eastern Finland)
Organizers
University of Eastern Finland
