Co-Organized by: Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics(SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), Shanghai East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai International organizing committee Chairs: Zhizhan Xu (SIOM, CAS, China) Ruxin Li (SIOM,CAS, China) Past Chairs: See Leang Chin (Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada) (2006) Andre Mysyrowicz (ENSTA, Palaiseau, France) (2008) Stelios Tzortzakis (IESL-FORTH, Heraklion, Greece) (2010) Jerome V. Moloney (University of Arizona,Tucson, AZ, USA) (2012) Scientific Committee See Leang Chin, University Laval, Quebec, Canada Demetrios Christodoulides, CREOL, University of Central Florida, Florida, USA Jean-Claude Diels, The University of New Mexico, New Mexico, USA Alexander Gaeta, Cornell University, New York, USA Kazuyoshi Itoh, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan Olga Kosareva, University of Moscow, Russia Robert Levis, Temple University, Pennsylvania, USA Ruxin Li, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Shanghai, China Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA Jerome V. Moloney, University of Arizona,Tucson, AZ, USA Andre Mysyrowicz, ENSTA, Palaiseau, France Martin Richardson, CREOL, University of Central Florida, Florida, USA William P. Roach, AFRL/RDLA, New Mexico, USA Stelios Tzortzakis, IESL-FORTH, Heraklion, Greece Jean-Pierre Wolf, Universite de Geneve, Switzerland Xi-Cheng Zhang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China & University of Rochester, USA Arie Zigler, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Zhizhan Xu, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Shanghai, China Jie Zhang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China Qihuang Gong, Peking University, Beijing, China Local Organization committee: Co-chairs: Heping Zeng (ECNU, China) Ya Cheng (SIOM, CAS, China) Members: Zhengming Sheng (SJTU, China) Zhiyi Wei (IOP, CAS, China) Peixiang Lu(HUST, China) Yunquan Liu (PKU, China) Xiaojun Liu (WIPM, CAS, China) Weiwei Liu (NKU, China) Huailiang Xu (JLU, China) Jiansheng Liu (SIOM, CAS, China) Tiejun Wang (SIOM, CAS, China) Yimin Zhu (SUST, China) Xin Lu (IOP, CAS, China) Jingquan Lin (CUST, China) Jian Wu( (ECNU, China) Foreword On behalf of the 5th International Symposium on Filamentation (COFIL 2014), it is our great pleasure to invite you to attend COFIL 2014, which will be held on September 18-24, 2014 in Shanghai, China. We look forward to welcoming our friends and colleagues both from abroad and China. COFIL2014 is the fifth of a very successful series of conferences organized every 2 years. The previous editions took place in Quebec (Canada) in 2006, Paris (France) in 2008, Crete (Greece) in 2010 and Tucson (USA) in 2012. COFIL2014 aims at bringing together scientists working in the field of femtosecond laser filamentation in transparent optical media and applications, as well as scientists from other fields interested in this research field to discuss present status and future perspectives. Join us and we would like to share with you the new achievements on femtosecond laser filamentation and its applications. We are sure you will enjoy not only the exchange of laser scientific and technical information but also the memorable experience in China. We are looking forward to your contribution and participation. Date and venue Sept. 18, registration and reception Sept.19-23, regular sessions Sept.24, Scientific free discussion Venue: Conference Hall, SIOM, China Secretariat Post address: Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS P.O. Box 800-211, Shanghai 201800, China Tel: 86-21-52130594 86-21-69918005 Fax: 86-21-69918006 Email: cofil2014@siom.ac.cn Website: http://cofil2014.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1