INVITED SPEAKERS

Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Active plasmonic structures and metamaterials

Filiberto Bilotti, University of Roma, Italy
Design of resonant magnetic inclusions for the realization of miniaturized samples of MNG metamaterials and magneto-dielectrics

Allan Boardman, University of Salford, United Kingdom
Negatively refracting uniaxial toroidal metamaterial

Sergei I. Bozhevolnyi, Aalborg University, Denmark
Subwavelength photonic components utilizing channel plasmon polaritons

Mark Brongersma, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford, CA, USA
Plasmonics: The missing link between nanoelectronics and microphotonics

Filippo Capolino, University of Siena, Italy
The beaming of radiation by using metamaterials and/or periodic structures

Ertugrul Cubukcu, Harvard University, Oxford St.Cambridge, MA, USA
"Plasmonic laser antennas"

Alain Dereux, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Surface plasmon routing observed by near-field optical microscopy

Stéphane Durant, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Super lens, from near-field to far-field imaging

Thomas Ebbesen, Université Pasteur, Laboratoire des Nanostructures, Strasbourg, France
Molecules - Surface plasmon interactions in subwavelength apertures: Fundamentals and applications

Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
ENZ nanometamaterials for optical nanocircuits, squeezing light, and rerouting energy

Shaya Y. Fainman, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Nanophotonics for information systems integration

James Flint, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Towards low frequency metamaterials for antenna applications

Alfred Forchel, University of Würzburg, Germany
Single quantum dot lasing: challenges and progress

F. Javier Garcia de Abajo, Instituto de Optica, Madrid, Spain
Advances towards surface-state nanoelectronics

Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
- Optical scattering by a finite array of holes in a metal film
- Spoof surface plasmon propagation in structured metal surfaces

Harald Giessen, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Disorder in metallic photonic crystals

Ramón Gonzalo, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona Navarra, Spain
Metamaterials technology for improving radiating performances at microwave and sub-mm wave frequencies

Sailing He, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
Studies of some Superlensing structures at optical frequencies

Alastair Hibbins, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Perfectly conducting plasmonic surfaces

Haruhiko Ito, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Deflecting, focusing, and detecting atoms using near-field light

Fredrik Jonsson, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Nanophotonics with the scanning electron microscope

Maria Kafesaki, Inst. of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Left-handed metamaterial designs in micro wave and infrared frequencies

Tadashi Kawazoe, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Machida, Tokyo, Japan
Nanophotonic devices using excitation energy transfers

Jacob Khurgin, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Plasmonic enhancement of radiation emission efficiency: Figures of merit

Thomas Klar, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany
Mutual manipulations of organic molecules and gold nanoparticles

Joachim Krenn, Karl-Franzens-University, Graz, Austria
Organic materials for surface plasmon devices

Ulf Leonhard, University of St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

General relativity inelectrical engineering

Gerd Leuchs, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Experimental investigation of magnetic and electric resonances of single nano structures in the optical domain

Didier Lippens, Université de Lille, France
Crossover of microwave and optical metamaterial technologies at Terahertz

Natalia Litchinitser, University of Michigan, USA
Non linear transmission of layered structures containing negative index materials: The effect of loss

Cefe Lopez, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Spain
Opal-templated structures for nanophotonics: Fabrication and optical properties

Boris Luk`yanchuk, Data Storage Institute, Singapore, Singapore
Peculiarities of light scattering by nanoparticles and nanowires

Greame Milton, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Cloaking: A new phenomenon in electromagnetism

Sushil Mujumdar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Near-field imaging and manipulation of high-Q resonances in photonic crystals

Evgenii Narimanov, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Optical "Hyperspace": Negative refractive index and sub-wavelength imaging in strongly anisotropic media

Ekmel Ozbay, University of Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey
Negative refraction and subwavelength focusing using left-handed 3D composite metamaterials

Willie Padilla, CINT, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Active and dynamic terahertz metamaterial devices

Christopher Phillips, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Artificial-atom nanostructures for coherent quantum optical experiments

Demetri Psaltis, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
Optofluidics

Romain Quidant, ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain
"Micro- and Nano-manipulation with plasmon light"

Sergei G. Romanov, University College, Cork, Ireland
Spectroscopy of light scattered in three-dimensional opal-based photonic crystals

Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Two-handed light in metamaterials empowered with gain and nonlinearities

Gennady Shvets, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Optics of nanostructured SiC membranes: from giant transmission to super-lensing

Concita Sibilia, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Nonclassical properties of nonlinear photonic structures

David Smith, Duke University, Durham, USA
Field mapping studies of metamaterials: from negative refraction to invisibility

Costas M. Soukoulis, Research Center of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Negative index materials: New frontiers in optics

Mark Stockman, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
Nanoplasmonics: Generation and control of nanoscale optical fields

Sergey A. Tretyakov, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland
Matched lossy negative-index slabs: Useful effect of bianisotropy

Niek van Hulst, ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
A Resonant 1/4-wavelength nano-antenna for high resolution single molecule probing

Yurii A. Vlasov, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Silicon integrated nanophotonics - advantages and challenges

Diederik S. Wiersma, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (Lens), France and INFM-MATIS, Sesto-Fiorentino (Florence), Italy
How to make a powder lase, in two directions only?

Yannick De Wilde, CNRS-UPR, Paris, France
Infrared scanning near-field probe of the local electromagnetic density of states

Gert Wrigge, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Strong light extinction by a single molecule

Nikolay Zheludev, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Focusing of light by a nano-hole array

Richard Ziolkowski, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Dispersion engineering: The impact of active metamaterials on resonant, electrically small scattering and radiating systems

Joseph Zyss, ENS Cachan, France
Advances in light induced manipulation of functional molecules