PLENARY AND INVITED SPEAKERS: Plenary Speakers Antonella Bogoni, CNIT and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy Photonics for microwave systems Marko Loncar, Harvard University, USA Integrated Lithium Niobate photonics and applications Hiroshi Murata, Mie University, Japan Millimeter-wave-band electro-optic modulators for MWP applications Invited Speakers Jose Azana, INRS, Canada Photonics-based real-time 2D (time-frequency) analysis and processing of broadband waveforms Daniel Perez, iTEAM, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Photonic FPGA for RF photonics Maria Morant, Centro de Tecnologia Nanofotonica, Universitat Politecnica de Valenace, Spain Smart antenna systems using photonic beamformers and multi-core fibers Mable Fok, University of Georgia, USA Hybrid analog/digital optical processing of signals based on neuromorphic algorithms Stojan Radic, University of California San Diego, USA Comb-based subnoise RF signal detection and wideband signal analysis Peter Rakich, Yale University, USA Silicon photonics, nonlinearities, Brillouin processing Chester Shu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Programmable fiber-optics temporal signal processors Daniel Yap, HRL Laboratories, USA Photonics for improving the jamming tolerance of wideband RF communications Ghaya Baili, Thales Research and Technology, France Photonics-assisted analog to digital conversion Lukas Chrostowski, University of British Columbia, Canada Bragg gratings in SiP for microwave signal processing Tutorial Speakers Shilong Pan, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China What can photonics bring to radars?