Program at a Glance


December 3
8:00-8:45 Breakfast
8:45-9:00 Welcome Address
Session 1
9:00-10:00

Bill Barnes
United Kingdom

Plenary Talk: Modelling Experiments:
What's the Problem?
10:00-10:45 Nader Engheta,
USA
Invited Talk: Circuits with Light at the Nanoscale: Metananocircuits and Metactronics
10:45-11:05

Christophe Sauvan,
France

Solid-state Single Photon Sources: the Nanowire Antenna
11:05-11:30 Coffee Break
Session 2
11:30-12:15 Nikolay Zheludev,
United Kingdom
Invited Talk: Meta-Materials as a Platform for Modelling in Physics
12:15-12:35 Evgeny Popov,
France
Total Light Absorption by Nanostructured Surfaces

12:35-12:55

Jens Niegemann,
Germany
Simulation of Optical Resonators using DGTD and FDTD
13:00-14:30 Lunch
Session 3
14:30-15:15 Costas Soukoulis,
USA
Invited Talk: Bending Back Light: The Science of Negative Index Materials
15:15-16:00 Thomas Philbin,
United Kingdom
Invited Talk: Casimir Forces for Moving Media
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
Session 4
16:30-17:15 Rolf Schuhmann,
Germany
Invited Talk: Some Challenges in Electromagnetic Field Simulation in Nanostructures
17:15-18:00 Colm Dineen,
USA
Invited Talk: Time Domain Simulation and Visualization of the Near-Field Electromagnetic Distribution Around Dielectric and Metal Nano-Structures
18:00-18:20 Salah Obayya,
United Kingdom
Multiresolution Time Domain Scheme for Dispersive Second Harmonic Generation Integrated Devices
18:20-18:40 Ivan Richter,
Czech Republic
Advanced Modeling of Subwavelength Photonic Structures
18:40-20:00 Dinner
20:00-22:00 Poster Session

December 4
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
Session 5
9:00-10:00 Martin Wegener
Germany
Plenary Talk: Photonic Metamaterials: Optics Starts Walking on Two Feet
10:00-10:45 Falk Lederer,
Germany
Invited Talk: Image Formation with Metamaterial Lenses
10:45-11:05 Andrei Lavrinenko,
Denmark
3D Isotropic Double Negative Material Design for Infrared
11:05-11:30 Coffee Break

Session 6

11:30-12:15 Javier Garcia de Abajo,
Spain
Invited Talk: Simulating Plasmons in Nanostructured Materials
12:15-12:35 Hung-Chun Chang,
Taiwan

Electromagnetic Simulations of Nanophotonic Problems Using the Legendre Pseudospectral Time-Domain Method

12:35-12:55 Andreas Kern,
Switzerland
Surface integral formulation for simulating plasmonic nanostructures
13:00-14:30 Lunch

Session
7

14:30-15:15 John Sipe,

Canada

Invited Talk: QED in Nanostructures
15:15-16:00 Shanhui Fan,
USA
Invited Talk: Theoretical and Computational Study of Strongly-Correlated Photons
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
Session 8
16:30-17:15 Olivier Martin,

Switzerland

Invited Talk: Some Challenges in the Modelling of Plasmonic Nanostructures
17:15-18:00 Marian Florescu,
USA
Invited Talk: Thermal Radiation in Microstructured Photonic Systems
18:00-18:20 Kestutis Staliunas,
Spain

Spatial Filtering of Light Beams in Chirped Photonic Crystals

18:20-18:40 Andrey Gorbach,
United Kingdom
Nonlinear Guided Modes in Silicon Photonic Nano-Structures

18:40-19:00

Poster Award

19:00-22:00 Workshop Dinner

December 5
8:00-9:00 Breakfast

Session 9

9:00-9:45 Remi Carminati,
France
Invited Talk: Single-molecule Fluorescence in Nanoscopic Environments
9:45-10:05 Igor Lyubchanskii,
Ukraine

One-Dimensional Photonic Crystal with Superconducting Defect Layer

10:05-10:25 Sven Burger,
Germany
Accurate Simulations of Nano-Optical Devices
10:25-10:45 Wolfram Pernice,
USA
Silicon Nitride Membrane Photonics
10:45-11:05 Marine Laroche,
France
Optical Resonances in Dielectric Nanoparticle Arrays
11:05-11:30 Coffee Break
Session 10
11:30-11:50 Celestino Creatore,
Italy
Quantum Theory of Spontaneous Emission in Multilayer Dielectric Structures
11:50-12:10 Regine Frank,
Germany
Anderson Localization and Correlation Length in Random Lasers
12:10-12:30 Sangwoo Ha,
Australia
Slow-light Dynamics in Coupled Periodic Waveguides: Theory and Experiment
12:30-12:50 Alexander Petrov,
Germany
Slow Light Reflection at Structural Steps and Disorder
13:00-14:30 Lunch
Session 11
14:30-14:50 Felix Lawrence,
Australia
Impedance of Photonic Crystals: A Rigorous, Semi-Analytic Definition Based on Bloch Modes
14:50-15:10 Thomas Weiss,
Germany
Adaptive Spatial Resolution and Factorization Rules in a Fourier Modal Method for the Calculation of 2D Metallic Nanostructures
15:10-15:30 Holger Schmitz,
United Kingdom
Full Maxwell Simulations of fs Laser Pulses for Inscription of Photonic Structures
15:30-15:45 Closing Remarks
Departure