The third International Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Nano-Photonics (TaCoNa-Photonics 2010) took place in the "Physikzentrum Bad Honnef", Bad Honnef, Germany on November 3-5 2010.

71 participants from 17 countries have contributed to the workshop. Topics of the workshop were covered in 2 plenary, 13 invited, 21 contributed oral and 21 poster presentations.

Workshop proceeding has been published as a separate volume of the AIP Conference Proceedings series.

14 selected papers which were submitted by the authors of invited and contributed oral presentations have been published in the Special Issue of the Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications (Elsevier). This Special Issue also includes paper of one of the winners of the Best Poster Awards.

Best Poster Awards

• Jeong Eun Kim, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Lasing dynamics of quantum-dot vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers using microscopically calculated Maxwell-Bloch equations
• Xuewen Chen, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, A directional optical antenna for efficient coherent coupling of photons and emitters

Sponsors

• Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics (KSOP) (Germany)
• The European Office of Aerospace Research & Development (EOARD) (USA)
• Office of Naval Research Global (USA)
• CST-Computer Simulation Technology AG (Germany)
• Lumerical Solutions Inc. (Canada)
• Wiley-VCH (Germany)

The workshop has been organized in cooperation with the International Department of the Universität Karlsruhe GmbH (Germany).