Program at a Glance
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October 28, 2009
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8:00-8:45
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Breakfast
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8:45-9:00
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Welcome Address
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Session 1 – Chair Person: Dmitry Chigrin
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9:00-10:00
Plenary Talk
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Light-Matter Interactions in Photonic Crystal Fibres • Philip Russell
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10:00-10:45
Invited Talk
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Broad Periodic Waveguides: Simultaneous Slow Light of Multiple Modes • Henri Benisty, Omer Khayam
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10:45-11:05
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Control of cavity modes in coupled periodic waveguides • Andrey Sukhorukov, Andrei Lavrinenko, Sangwoo Ha, Yuri Kivshar
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11:05-11:30
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Coffee Break
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Session 2 – Chair Person: Torsten Meier
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11:30-12:15
Invited Talk
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Cavity Exciton-Polaritons, Bose Einstein Condensation and Spin Dynamics • Guillaume Malpuech
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12:15-12:35
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Single molecule fluorescence quenching by metallic nanoparticles: crossover between macroscopic and microscopic interactions • Etienne Castanié, Matthieu Boffety, Rémi Carminati
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12:35-12:55
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Electromagnetic wave slowing down in graphene bilayer • Konstantin Batrakov, Polina Kuzhir, Sergey Maksimenko
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13:00-14:30
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Lunch
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Session 3 – Chair Person: Henri Benisty
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14:30-15:15
Invited Talk
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The pump-probe approach to coherent backscattering of intense laser light from cold atoms • Tobias Geiger, Thomas Wellens, Vyacheslav Shatokhin, Andreas Buchleitner
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15:15-15:35
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Disorder-Induced Multiple-Scattering In Photonic-Crystal Waveguides • Simon Mazoyer, Christophe Sauvan, Jean-Paul Hugonin, Philippe Lalanne
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15:35-15:55
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Path integrals for light propagation through dielectrics - a full vector version • Yair Dimant, Shimon Levit
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16:00-16:30
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Coffee Break
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Session 4 – Chair Person: Guillaume Malpuech
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16:30-17:15
Invited Talk
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Quantum and Nonlinear Optics in Complex Photonic Media • Hakan Türeci
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17:15-18:00
Invited Talk
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Determination of the Lasing Mode Structure in Finite 1D Optical Potentials: Inverse Problem Solution • Stephen O'Brien
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18:00-18:20
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Ultrafast wavelength switching in a bistable microlaser for optical memory applications • Sergei Zhukovsky, Dmitry Chigrin
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18:20-18:40
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Theory of few photon dynamics in light emitting quantum dot devices • Alexander Carmele, Marten Richter, Anna Sitek, Andreas Knorr
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18:40-20:00
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Dinner
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20:00-22:00
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Poster Session
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October 29, 2009
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8:00-9:00
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Breakfast
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Session 5 – Chair Person: Andrei Lavrinenko
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9:00-10:00
Plenary Talk
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Optical Cloaking and Plasmonic Lasers • Xiang Zhang
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10:00-10:45
Invited Talk
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Transmission enhancement, perfect absorption and field squeezing with nano-antennas and metamaterials • Sailing He, Yuqian Ye, Yi Jin, Yanxia Cui
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10:45-11:05
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Near Unity Conversion between Guided Photons and Surface Plasmon-Polaritons • Xuewen Chen, Vahid Sandoghdar, Mario Agio
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11:05-11:30
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Coffee Break
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Session 6 – Chair Person: Maria Kafesaki
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11:30-12:15
Invited Talk
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New Horizons of Nanoplasmonics: from SPASER to Attoseconds • Mark Stockman
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12:15-12:35
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Plasmonics in Thin Film Solar Cells • Stephan Fahr, Carsten Rockstuhl, Falk Lederer
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12:35-12:55
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Surface plasmon polaritons on arrays of nanostructures with three-fold symmetry • Stephan Schwieger, David Leipold, Brian Ashall, Michael Berndt, Dominic Zerulla, Erich Runge
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13:00-14:30
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Lunch
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Session 7 – Chair Person: Xiang Zhang
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14:30-15:15
Invited Talk
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Topology optimization in nano-photonics • Ole Sigmund
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15:15-15:35
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Semi-analytical models for resonant states near photonic crystal band edges • Christopher Poulton, Sahand Mahmoodian, Kokou Dossou, Ross McPhedran, Lindsay Botten, C. Martijn de Sterke
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15:35-15:55
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Slow Light Based on Material and Waveguide Dispersion • Torben Nielsen, Andrei Lavrinenko, Jesper Moerk
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16:00-16:30
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Coffee Break
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Session 8 – Chair Person: Mark Stockman
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16:30-17:15
Invited Talk
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Impedance of a nanoantenna • Jean-Jacques Greffet, Marine Laroche, François Marquier
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17:15-17:45
Invited Talk
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CST Workshop: Complete Technology for Optical Simulations • Marli Strydom
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17:45-18:05
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New Operator Marching Method for Analyzing Crossed Arrays of Circular Cylinders • Yumao Wu, Ya Yan Lu
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18:05-18:25
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Electromagnetic Scattering of Finite and Infinite 3D Lattices in Polarizable Backgrounds • Benjamin Gallinet, Olivier J. F. Martin
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18:25-18:40
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Poster Award
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18:40-22:00
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Workshop Dinner
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October 30, 2009
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8:00-9:00
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Breakfast
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Session 9 – Chair Person: Kurt Busch
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9:00-10:00
Plenary Talk
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Transformation Optics with Metamaterials: A New Paradigm for the Science of Light • Vladimir Shalaev
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10:00-10:45
Invited Talk
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Electromagnetic Characterization of Metamaterials: Activities of the ECONAM Project • Sergei Tretyakov, Constantin Simovski, Ari Sihvola
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10:45-11:05
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Wave Propagation Method as an Accurate Technique for Effective Refractive Index Retrieving • Andrei Andryieuski, Radu Malureanu, Andrei Lavrinenko
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11:05-11:30
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Coffee Break
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Session 10 – Chair Person: Andrey Sukhorukov
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11:30-12:15
Invited Talk
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Nonlinear Gyroelectric Waves In Magnetooptic Metamaterials • Allan Boardman, Peter Egan, Ortwin Hess, Rhiannon Mitchell-Thomas, Yuriy Rapoport
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12:15-12:35
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Bistability and Stationary Gap Solitons in Quasiperiodic Photonic Crystals Based on Thue-Morse Sequence • Victor Grigoriev, Fabio Biancalana
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12:35-12:55
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Manipulation of Interface Solitons in Quadratic Nonlinear Photonic Lattices • Zhiyong Xu, Yuri Kivshar
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12:55-14:30
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Lunch
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Session 11 – Chair Person: Sergei Tretyakov
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14:30-15:15
Invited Talk
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Singular system analysis in electromagnetic focusing problems • Matthew Foreman, Peter Török
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15:15-15:35
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Coupling Between Split-Ring Resonators • Michael König, Kai Stannigel, Jens Niegemann, Kurt Busch
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15:35-15:55
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Anticrossing of Whispering Gallery Modes in Microdisk Resonators Embedded in a Liquid Crystal • Jens Förstner, Stefan
Declair, Cedrik Meier, Torsten Meier
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15:55-16:15
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Numerical Investigation of Silicon-on-Insulator 1D Photonic Crystal Microcavities • Sven Burger, Lin Zschiedrich
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16:15-16:30
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Closing Remarks
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Departure
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