Invited Presentations

Single molecule fluorescence in nanoscopic environments
Remi Carminati1, C. Vandenbem1, L. S. Froufe-Pérez2
1Laboratoire d'Optique Physique, ESPCI, CNRS 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
2Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales, CSIC, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain


Time domain simulation and visualization of the electromagnetic near-field around dielectric and metal nano-structures
Colm Dineen1
1Arizona Center for Mathematical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

Circuits with Light at the Nanoscale: Metananocircuits and Metactronics
Nader Engheta1
1University of Pennsylvania, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Philadelphia, USA

Theoretical and Computational Study of Strongly-Correlated Photons
Shanhui Fan1
1Stanford University, Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford, USA

Thermal Radiation in Microstructured Photonic Systems
Marian Florescu1, Kurt Busch2, Jonathan Dowling3
1Department of Physics, Princeton University, USA
2Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
3Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, USA


Simulating Plasmons in Nanostructured Materials
Javier Garcia de Abajo1
1Javier Garcia de Abajo Instituto de Optica, , Madrid, Spain

Image Formation with Metamaterial Lenses
Falk Lederer1
1University of Jena, nstitute of Condensed Matter Theory and Solid State Optics, Jena, Germany

Some Challenges in the Modelling of Plasmonic Nanostructures
Olivier J. F. Martin1
1Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Casimir Forces for Moving Media
Thomas Philbin1
1University of St Andrews, Research in the School of Physics and Astronomy, St Andrews, UK

Some Challenges in Electromagnetic Field Simulation in Nanostructures
Rolf Schuhmann1
1University of Paderborn, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, Paderborn, Germany

QED in Nanostructures
John Sipe1
1University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Totonto, Canada

Bending Back Light: The Science of Negative Index Materials
Costas Soukoulis1,2
1Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50011, USA
2Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser – FORTH and University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete Greece


Meta-Materials as a Platform for Modelling in Physics
Nikolay Zheludev1
1Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, United Kingdom