Committees

Program Committee

Steering Committee

• Efraín SOLARTE, RIAO President
• Pedro ANDRÉS, RIAO Past President
• Eric ROSAS, RIAO Secretary & RIAO Appointed VP to the International Commission for Optics
• Yezid TORRES, Colombia Counselor,
• Juan G. DARÍAS, Cuba Counselor,
• César COSTA, Ecuador Counselor,
• Josué ÁLVAREZ-BORREGO, Mexico Counselor,
• Manuel F. COSTA, Portugal Counselor,
• Jesús LANCÍS, Spain Counselor,
• José L. PAZ, Venezuela Counselor.

Local Organizing Committee

• Víctor Manuel Coello Cárdenas, Unidad Monterrey CICESE, México.
• Baldemar Ibarra-Escamilla, AMO President, 2017-2018, INAOE. México
• Diana Tentori Santa Cruz, CICESE, México.
• J. Oracio C. Barbosa-García, CIO, México.
• Gabriel Martínez Niconoff, INAOE, México.
• Ponciano Rodriguez Montero, INAOE, México.
• Selene Solorza-Calderón, UABC, México.
• Francisco Javier Cuevas de la Rosa, CIO, México.
• Manuel Iván Ocegueda Miramontes, UABC, México.

Technical Committee

• Paulina Segovia Olvera, CICESE, México.
• Norberto Arzate Plata, CIO, México.
• Miguel Camacho, UAEMex, México.
• Santiago Camacho, CICESE, México.

Logistics Committee

• Annette Torres-Toledo, Technical Secretary
• Francisco Javier Omedes-Alrich, Web Page
• Lucero Alvarado-Ramírez, Design
• José Ignacio Diego-Manrique, Video Conferences

Scientific Subcommittees Per Topic

• Atmospheric and ocean optics
  Rubén Lara-Lara, CICESE, México. Co-Chair
  Sandra Isabel Pinto-Mogo, Universidade de Beira Interior, Portugal. Co-Chair
  Bóris Barja, Laboratorio de Investigaciones Atmosféricas, Universidad de Magallanes, Chile
  Pablo Ristori, Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas para la Defensa, Argentina
  René Estevan, Instituto Geofísico del Perú, Lima, Perú
  Edith Rodrigues, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
• Atomic and molecular physics
  Alvaro Posadas-Amarillas, UNISON, México. Co-Chair
  Alessandro Fortunelli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council, CNR), Italia. Co-Chair
  Octavio JUárez-Sánchez, UNISON, México
  José Luis Cabellos-Quiroz, UNISON, México
  Faustino Aguilera-Granja, Instituto de Física, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosi, México
  José Oscar Carlos Jiménez-Halla, Departamento de Química, Universidad de Guanajuato, México
• Bio photonics and biomedical applications
  Rubén Ramos-Garcia, INAOE, México. Co-Chair
  Martín Rafael Pedroza-Montero, Universidad de Sonora, México. Co-Chair
  Jürgen Czarske, Institute of Circuits and Systems at TU Dresden, Germany
  Invited Speakers of topic:
  Prof. Kishan Dholakia, Saint Andrews University, Scotland
  Prof. Caroline Boudoux, Montreal University, Canada
• Coherence and statistical optics
  Javier Sánchez-Mondragón, INAOE, México. Co-Chair
  
• Diffraction and gratings
  Ponciano Rodríguez Montero, INAOE, México. Co-Chair
  Víctor Manuel Arrizon Peña, INAOE, México. Co-Chair
• Fiber optics, sensors and optical communications
  Diana Tentori Santa Cruz, CICESE, México. Co-Chair
  Miguel Andrés Bou, Universidad de Valencia, España. Co-Chair
  Cristiano M. B. Cordeiro, UNICAMP, Brazil.
  Pedro Torres, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia.
  Christian Cuadrado-Laborde, CONICET-UNR, Argentina.
  José Manuel Baptista, University of Madeira, Portugal.
  Beatriz Ortega, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, España.
  Invited Speakers of topic:
  Miguel Bello-Jiménez, Instituto de Investigación en Comunicación Óptica, UASLP, México.
  Title: "Noise-like pulses from a figure-eight fiber laser and its applications for supercontinuum generation".
  Miguel Ginzález-Herraez, Escuela Politécnica, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
  Title: "High-fidelity distributed acoustic sensing using optical fibers: a new tool in Geophysics".
• Fourier optics and signal processing
  Luis Raúl Berriel Valdos, INAOE, México. Co-Chair
  Félix Aguilar Valdez, INAOE, México. Co-Chair
  Enrique Landgrave Manjarrez, CIO, México
  Silvia Ledesma, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
  George Stanciu, Universidad de Rumania, Rumania.
• Geometric optics
  José Zacarías Malacara-Hernández, CIO, México. Co-Chair
  Daniel Malacara Doblado, CIO, México. Co-Chair
  Enrique Landgrave Manjarrez, CIO, México
  Armando Gómez Vieyra, Universidad Metropolitana Atzcapozalco, México
  Jorge Luis García Márquez, OLEDCOMM SAS, Francia
  Juan Camilo Valencia, OLEDCOMM SAS, Francia
  Josep Arasa Martí, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, España
• Digital Holography
  Rosario Guadalupe Porras Aguilar, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. Co-Chair
  Konstantinos Falaggis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. Co-Chair
  Percival Almoro, University of the Philippines, Philippines
  Fabian Cruz Menses, BUAP, Mexico
  Tomasz Kozacki, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
  Nikolay Petrov, ITMO University, Russia
  Ulises Ruiz Corona, INAOE, Mexico
  Guohai Situ, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS, China.
• Image processing, vision and artificial intelligence
  Eduardo Cabal Yepez, Universidad de Guanajuato, México. Co-Chair
  Marcelo Trivi, CONICET La Plata-CIC, Argentina. Co-Chair
  Guillermo Botella-Juan, Department of Computer Architecture and Automation, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
  Amir Hooshang Mazinan, Electrical Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Iran.
  Igor V. Guryev, Multidisciplinary Studies Department, Engineering Division, Campus Irapuato-Salamanca, University of Guanajuato, México.
  Juan Manuel Ramos-Arreguin, Faculty of Informatics, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, México.
  Luis Manuel Ledesma-Carrillo, Multidisciplinary Studies Department, Engineering Division, Campus Irapuato-Salamanca, University of Guanajuato, México.
  Carlos Rodríguez-Donate, Multidisciplinary Studies Department, Engineering Division, Campus Irapuato-Salamanca, University of Guanajuato, México.
  Geovanni Hernández-Gómez, Multidisciplinary Studies Department, Engineering Division, Campus Irapuato-Salamanca, University of Guanajuato, México.
  Misael López-Ramírez, Tecnológico Nacional de México/I. T. de Aguascalientes, México.
  Sebastián Salazar-Colores, Faculty of Informatics, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, México.
• Imaging systems
  Jorge Ojeda-Castañeda, Universidad de Guanajuato, México. Co-Chair
  Cristina Margarita Gómez-Sarabia, Universidad de Guanajuato, México. Co-Chair
  Nestor Bolognini, CIOp, Argentina
  Martha Molina-Prado, Universidad de Pamplona, Colombia
  Tatiana Alieva, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  Ángel Sauceda Carvajal, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, México.
  Omar López Cruz, INAOE, México.
  Gilberto Gámez Rosas, CUCEI, Universidad de Guadalajara, México.
  David J. Brady, Duke University, USA.
  Jurgen Jahns, Fernuniversitaet, Germany
  Lia Zerbino, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina
• Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology
  Amalia Martínez-García, CIO, México. Co-Chair
  Katia Genovese, University of Basilicata, Italia. Co-Chair
  Darío Gabriel Pérez Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
  Myrian Tebaldi Centro de Investigaciones Ópticas, Universidad de La Plata, Argentina
  Matias Roberto Viotti, Univ. Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil
  José Antonio Ferrari Damiano, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
  Joanna Schmit, 4D Technology, USA
  José Xavier, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
  María Josefa Yzuel Giménez, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
  Fabian Mosso, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile
  Miguel Asmad, Pontificia Universidad Católica De Perú
  Invited Speakers of topic:
  Jérôme Molimard, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines Saint-Etienne, France
  Jörg Bischoff, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
• Integrated optics
  Gloria Verónica Vázquez, CIO, México. Co-Chair
  Heriberto Márquez Becerra, CICESE, México. Co-Chair
  Gustavo Torchia, CIOp, Argentina. Co-Chair
  Ginés Lifante Pedrola, UAM, España
  Javier Rodríguez Vazquez de Aldana, Universidad de Salamanca, España
  Rebeca Martínez Vázquez, Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies IFN, Italian National Research Council, Italia.
  Invited Speakers of topic:
  Laurent Vivien, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Francia.
  Rafael Salas-Montiel, LNIO - Laboratory of Nanotechnology, Instrumentation and Optics, Francia.
• Laser and laser optics
  Roger Sean Cudney-Bueno, CICESE, México. Co-Chair
• Machine vision
  Horacio Rostro-González, Universidad de Guanajuato, México. Co-Chair
  Gustavo Olague, Cicese, México. Co-Chair
  Raúl E. Sánchez Yáñez, Universidad de Guanajuato, México
  Mario A. Ibarra Manzano, Universidad de Guanajuato, México
  José H. Barrón Zambrano, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaluipas, México
  Invited Speakers of topic:
  Juan Humberto Sossa Azuela, Centro de Investigación en Computación, IPN, México
• Materials Processing with Lasers
  Citlali Sánchez-Aké, ICAT-UNAM, México. Co-Chair
  Esther Rebollar, Instituto de Química Fisica, Rocasolano, CSIC, España. Co-Chair
  Carlos Rinaldi, Universidad de San Martín, Argentina
  Oscar Bomati-Miguel, Universidad de Cádiz, España
  Pablo Moreno, Universidad de Salamanca, España
  Peter Gregorcic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  Santiago Camacho López, CICESE, México
  Invited Speakers of topic:
  Javier Vázquez de Aldana, Universidad de Salamanca, España.
• Medical optics and biotechnology
  Guillermo García Torales, Universidad de Guadalajara, México. Co-Chair.
  Gabriel Ramos Ortíz, CIO, México. Co-Chair
  Hilda Josefina Mercado Uribe, CINVESTAV Monterrey, México
  Jorge Luis Flores Núñez, Universidad de Guadalajara, México
  Gerardo Gutiérrez Juárez, Universidad de Guanajuato, México.
  Gabriel Alejandro Galaviz Mosqueda, CICESE Unidad Monterrey, México.
  Invited Speakers of topic:
  Habil Virgil-Florin Duma, Universidad de Arad, Rumania.
  Emérita Marija Strojnik, CIO, México.
  
• Microscopy
  Chris Wood, UNAM, México. Co-Chair
  Israel Rocha-Mendoza, CICESE, México. Co-Chair
  Invited Speakers of topic:
  Pablo Loza Álvares, ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, barcelona, Spain.
  Title: Light sheet microscopy for 3D imaging of fast dynamics occurring in biological samples.
• Nano photonics and metamaterials
  Jorge Alberto Gaspar-Armenta, Universidad de Sonora, México. Co-Chair
  Víctor Manuel Coello Cárdenas, Unidad Monterrey CICESE, México. Co-Chair
  Paulina Segovia Olvera, CICESE, México. Co-Chair
  Rodolfo Cortes Martinez, CICESE, Unidad Monterrey, México
  Cesar Garcia Ortiz, CICESE, Unidad Monterrey, México
  Ricardo Tellez Limon. CICESE, Unidad Monterrey, México
  Jesus Gómez Correa. CICESE, Unidad Monterrey, México
  Manuel García Méndez. FCFM, UANL, México
  Eduardo Pisano Chavez. CIO, México
  Mary Peña-Gomar, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, México
  Sergey Novikov, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Rusia
• Nonlinear optics
  Raúl Rangel-Rojo, CICESE, México. Co-Chair
  María Teresa Flores-Arias, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, España. Co-Chair
  Diego Grosz, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica CNEA, Argentina
  Jorge Alejandro Reyes Esqueda, Instituto de Física, UNAM, México
  Humberto Michinel, Universidad de Vigo, España.
  Antonio Diez Cremades. Universidad de Valencia, España.
  Invited Speakers of topic:
  Justo Arines, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, España
  Cid B. de Araujo, Departamento de Física, Universidad Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil
• Novel optical materials and 3D printing
  Edén Morales-Narváez, CIO, México. Co-Chair
  Israel de León Arizpe, ITESM, México. Co-Chair
  Arturo Hernández-Serrano, University of Warwick, UK.
  Hamed Golmohammadi, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Research Center of Iran.
  Héctor Alán Aguirre Soto, Tecnológico de Monterrey, México.
  Alejandro Reyes Coronado, UNAM, México.
  Invited Speakers of topic:
  Cecilia Noguez, Instituto de Física, Universidad Autónoma de México
  Yunuen Montelongo, Universidad de la Salle Bajío
  C. Allan Guymon, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa, USA
• Optics in computing
  John Fredy Barrera Ramírez, Universidad de Antioquia , Medellín - Colombia Co-Chair
  Ricardo A. Depine, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Co-Chair
• Optical data storage
  Jorge Alejandro Reyes Esqueda, Instituto de Física, UNAM. México. Co-Chair
• Optical design and fabrication
  Daniel Malacara Hernández, CIO, México. Co-Chair
  Maximino Avendaño Alejo, ICAT-UNAM, México. Co-Chair
  Rufino Diaz-Uribe, CCADET, UNAM, México. Co-Chair
  Alejandro Cornejo Rodríguez, INAOE, México. Co-Chair
  Guillermo Baldwin-Olguín, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú.
  Yobani Mejia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia.
  Juan Carlos Miñano, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, España.
  Miguel A. Alonso González, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, USA
• Optical devices
  Jorge Enrique Rueda Parada, Universidad de Pamplona, Colombia. Co-Chair
  Edgar Rueda, Universidad de Antioquía, Colombia. Co-Chair
  Carlos Rios, MIT, USA.
  Álvaro Bastidas, UNAL, Colombia.
  Jorge Gómez, Politécnico Jaime Isaza Cadavid, Colombia.
  Miguel Ángel Suárez, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Francia.
• Optical micro and nano manipulation including optofluidics and microfluidics
  Víctor Ruíz-Cortés, CICESE, México. Co-Chair
  Karen Volke-Sepúlveda, IFUNAM, México. Co-Chair
  Salomón Elieser Márquez Villalobos, CIO, México
  Raúl Josué Hernández Hernández, UNAM-ICN, México
  Julio César Ramírez San Juan, INAOE, México
  José Luis Hernández Pozos, UAM-I, México
  Invited Speakers of topic:
  Giovanni Volpe, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
  Kishan Dholakia, St Andrews University, Scotland, UK
• Optics at surfaces
  Manuel Filipe-Costa, Universidade do Minho, Portugal. Co-Chair
  Anatoly Khomenko, CICESE, México. Co-Chair
  Alfonso Lastras Martínez, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México. Co-Chair
  José Benito Vazquez-Dorrio, University of Vigo, España.
  Rogério Nogueira, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
  Orlando Frazão, University of Porto, Portugal.
  Joaquim Carneiro, Department of Physics, University of Minho, Portugal.
• Optics and photonics in the industry
  Alfredo Solís-Ventura, SolexVintel, México. Co-Chair
  Víctor Dolores-Calzadilla, Photonic Integration Technology Centre - TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Co-Chair
  Aura Higuera Rodríguez, Synopsis, The Netherlands.
  Alonso Millán Mejía, SMART Photonics, The Netherlands.
  Osslan Osiris Vergara Villegas, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, México.
  Luis Manuel Ledesma Carrillo, Universidad de Guanajuato, México.
  Rodolfo Iván Rodríguez Montoya, INAOE, México.
• Optoelectronics, Detectors and Sources
  Mario Enrique Rodríguez García, UNAM, México. Co-Chair
  Elena Tchaikina Kolesnikova, CICESE, México. Co-Chair
  Rafael García Gutiérrez, UNISON, México
  Patricia Puente Ramírez, UANL, México
  T. V. L'vova, Ioffe Institute, Rusia
  Yury Bliokh, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.
  Alfonso Lastras Martínez, UASLP, México.
• Organic and hybrid optoelectronics
  José Luis Maldonado Rivera, CIO, México. Co-Chair
  Gerko Oskam, CINVESTAV-Mérida, México. Co-Chair
  Bernardo A. Frontana-Uribe, CCIQS, UAEMex-UNAM, México
  Juan José Alvarado Gil, Cinvestav-Mérida, México
  Antonio E. Jiménez González, IER-UNAM, México
  Ignacio González Martínez, UAM-I, México
  Invited Speakers of topic:
  Carlos Silva, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
  J. Antonio Zapien, City University of Hong Kong, China.
• Physical optics
  Gabriel Martínez Niconoff, INAOE, México. Co-Chair
  Eduardo Tepichín Rodríguez, INAOE, México. Co-Chair
• Quantum optics
  Alfred U’Ren, UNAM, México. Co-Chair
  Héctor Manuel Moya Cessa, INAOE, México. Co-Chair
• Remote sensing and sensors
  Erna Frins, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay. Co-Chair
  Boris Escalante-Ramírez, UNAM, México. Co-Chair
  Alejandra López Caloca, Centro de Investigación en Ciencias de Información Geoespacial (Centro Geo), México
  Jimena Olveres, Facultad de Ingeniería, UNAM, México.
• Scattering
  Rafael Espinosa-Luna, CIO, México. Co-Chair
  Augusto García-Valenzuela, ICAT-UNAM, México. Co-Chair
  Gelacio Atondo Rubio, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, México
  Rubén Gerardo Barrera, Instituto de Física, UNAM, México
  Oscar Gabriel Rodríguez Herrera, Instituto de Ciencias Aplicadas a la Tecnología, ICAT, UNAM, México
  Héctor Pérez Aguilar, Facultad de Ciencias Físico-Matemáticas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, México
  Invited Speakers of topic:
  Niels C. Bruce, ICAT, UNAM, México
• Spectroscopy
  J. Oracio C. Barbosa-García, CIO, México. Co-Chair
  Víctor Ulises Contreras Loera, UNAM, México. Co-Chair
  Gabriel J. Vázquez-Torres, UNAM, México
  Horacio Martínez-Valencia, UNAM, México
  Marco Antonio Meneses, CIO, México
  Ignacio Rosas, CIO, México
• Thin films
  Roberto Machorro-Mejía, UNAM, México. Co-Chair
  Francisco Villa Villa, CIO, México. Co-Chair
  Gonzalo Gálvez, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• THz, microwaves and millimeter-waves photonics
  Mariana Alfaro Gómez, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, México. Co-Chair
  Carlos Treviño-Palacios, INAOE, México. Co-Chair
  Elodie Strupiechonski, CINVESTAV, México
  Francisco Javier González Contreras, UASLP, México
  Naser Qureshi, ICAT-UNAM, México
  Invited Speakers of topic:
  Maksim Skorobogatiy, Polytechnique Montreal Canada
  Naser Qureshi, ICAT-UNAM Mexico
• Ultrafast optics
  Ramón Carriles Jaimes, CIO, México. Co-Chair
  Jesús Garduño-Mejía, ICAT-UNAM, México. Co-Chair
  Gustavo Torchia, CIOp, Argentina
  Jorge Luis Domínguez Juárez, CFATA, UNAM, México.
  Invited Speakers of topic:
  Camilo Ruíz Méndez, Universidad de Salamanca, España.
  Pablo Loza Álvares, ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain.
  Title: Imaging selected SHG- active biological tissues
• Vision, color, and visual optics
  Walter D. Furlan, Universidad de Valencia, España. Co-Chair
  María Sagrario Millán, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, España. Co-Chair
  Esther Perales, Universidad de Alicante, España.
  Justo Arines, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, España.
• X-ray optics
  Mourad Idir, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, Co-Chair
  Daniele Cocco, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California. Co-Chair
  Bernd Meyer, LNLS, Brazil
  Hidekazu Mimura, The University of Tokyo, Japan
  Guillaume Dovillaire, Imagine Optic, France
  Josep Nicolas, Cells-Alba, España
  Makina Yabashi, Riken, Japan
  Amparo Vivo, ESRF, USA
• Other areas of optics.