Meta-Materials:

- Negative index materials;
- Nano-structured metallic and dielectric surfaces;
- Microwave, millimeter, terahertz and optical applications of metamaterials;
- 2d and 3d photonic bandgap structures;
- Cloaking and "invisible" materials;
- Tunable and reconfigurable multifunctional metamaterials;
- Nano-transmission lines and nano-antennas;
- Chiral structures;
- Random structures, fractals and quasi-crystals;
- Computational modeling of metamaterials.

Nano-Photonics:

-Surface plasmon-polariton optics;
- Near-field probing and nano-imaging;
- Nano-lensing and nano-harvesting and nano-lithography;
- Extraordinary transmission of metallic nanostructures;
- Single molecule and single nanoparticle photonics;
- Quantum and coherent effects in nanophotonics;
- Nonlinear and ultrafast nanophotonics;
- Interaction of electron beams with nanophotonic structures and
metamaterials;
- Random lasers and nanostructured light sources;
nano-bio-photonics;
- Optical atom trapping and manipulation in nanostructures;
- Light in confined geometries and nano-cavities.