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2009 - CRETE...

Reserve the dates for the 8th International ETOPIM, in Crete ~ June 7-12, 2009.

Convenor: Costas Soukoulis

Co-convenor: Maria Kafesaki

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ETOPIM6 Program

Sunday, July 14th
4.00-5.00pm	Preregistration	Wasatch Room, Cliff Lodge
5.00pm-7.00pm	Hors'd'oeuvres and cash bar	Wasatch Room, Cliff Lodge

Monday, July 15th
7.30-8.05	Coffee, Pastries and Registration	Outside Ballroom 3
8.05-8.10	Welcome by Graeme Milton and Ken Golden Conference Chair and Co-chair
8.10-8.20	Welcome by J. Bernard Machen, President of the University of Utah	Ballroom 3, Cliff Lodge
8.20-8.50	Sajeev John (opening talk) Chair, Graeme Milton Photonic band gap materials: semiconductors of light

SEA ICE: Chair, Ken Golden
8.50-9.20	Donald Perovich Complex yet translucent: The optical properties of sea ice
9.20-9.50	Hajo Eicken Microstructural controls on transport phenomena in sea ice
9.50-10.10	Bonnie Light Structural, optical, and structural-optical properties in first-year arctic sea ice

10.10-10.40	BREAK and Registration

BIOCOMPOSITES: Chair, Ross McPhedran
10.40-11.10	Jim Keener The importance of microstructure in defibrillation
11.10-11.40	Toshiyuki Nakagaki Design of transportation network by an amoeba-like organism

NUMERICAL: Chair, Oscar Bruno
11.40-12.00	Chris Johnson Inverse bioelectric field problems: modeling, simulation, and visualization
12.00-12.20	Herve Moulinec Comparison of FFT-based methods for computing the response of composites with highly contrasted mechanical properties
12.20-12.40	McKay Hyde Fast, high-order methods in computational scattering

12.40-1.40	LUNCH

INVITED TALKS AFFILIATED WITH MINISYMPOSIA: Chair, David Smith		Ballroom 3
1.40-2.10	John Pendry Refining the perfect lens

2.10-3.30	First 4 talks of Monday's two minisymposia:
LEFT HANDED MATERIALS (organized by Steve Blair): Chair, John Pendry		Ballroom 3
2.10-2.30	David Smith Negative refractive composite media
2.30-2.50	Alexei Efros Diffraction in left-handed materials and theory of Veselago lens
2.50-3.10	Gennady Shvets Novel left-handed material based on a network of plasma channels
3.10-3.30	Andrey Sarychev Plasmons in nano-wires and left-handed plasmonic materials

In parallel with PERCOLATION AND POROUS MEDIA (organized by Robert Ewing): Chair, Robert Ewing		Wasatch Room
2.10-2.30	Peter King Predicting oil recovery using percolation theory
2.30-2.50	Mike Sukop Single component, multiphase lattice Boltzmann models (LBM) in invasion percolation
2.50-3.10	Robert Ewing Correlation structure effects on edge-accessible porosity and chemical distance near the percolation threshold
3.10-3.30	Ken Golden Percolation in sea ice

3.30-4.00	BREAK

INVITED TALKS AFFILIATED WITH MINISYMPOSIA: Chair, Alan Hunt		Ballroom 3
4.00-4.30	Jim Berryman Electrokinetic effects and fluid permeability
4.30-5.00	Dani Or Time domain reflectometry measurement of bulk permittivity of porous mixtures containing bound water

5.00-6.20 Last talks of Monday's two minisymposia:
METALLIC PHOTONIC CRYSTAL (organized by Steve Blair): Chair, Steve Blair		Ballroom 3
5.00-5.20	Alexander Pletzer Stimulating photons and plasmons in a three dimensional metallic lattice
5.20-5.40	Sung Yong Park Theory of the optical properties of DNA-modified gold nanoparticle composites
5.40-6.00	Vladimir Kozhevnikov Physical properties of gallium infiltrated into opal photonic crystals
6.00-6.20	Hae-Yong Park Improved transmittance in one-dimensional metallic photonic crystals

In parallel with PERCOLATION AND POROUS MEDIA (organized by Toby Ewing): Chair, Toby Ewing		Wasatch Room
5.00-5.20	Gennady Margolin Generalized conductivity scaling and transport in random networks
5.20-5.40	Todd Skaggs Fluid permeability and DC conductivity of networks with a broad distribution of bond resistances: comparison of the critical path approximation with 3-D Monte Carlo simulations

Tuesday, July 16th
NON-LINEAR I: Chair, Alan Bishop		Ballroom 3
8.20-8.50	John Sipe An effective field perspective on the nonlinear optical properties of artificially structured materials
8.50-9.20	Al Sievers Probing the spontaneous generation of nanoscale energy localization

9.20-11.20 POSTER SESSION + Coffee + Registration Posters can be set up in advance in the Wasatch Room, either 8pm-9pm on Monday Evening, or after 7.30am Tuesday Morning. Posters should be taken down by 1.30pm Tuesday.		Wasatch Room
The following people will be presenting posters:
Ivan Alvarado-Rodriguez:	2D Photonic Crystal Defect Cavities: Fabrication and Characterization
Vadym Apalkov:	Directional emission from a microdisk resonator with a linear defect
Biswajit Banerjee:	Micromechanics-based determination of effective elastic properties of polymer bonded explosives
Sergey Barabash:	Superfluid Inhomogeneity and Microwave Absorption in Model High-T_c Superconductors
Sergey Barabash:	Effective macroscopic response of an almost periodic composite: application to the linear and non-linear properties of a colloidal crystal
David Bergman:	Critical points in the macroscopic magnetotransport of normal conductor/perfect insulator/perfect conductor disordered composites
Yan Chen:	Towards a better nonlinear phase shifting element
Il-Sug Chung:	Effect of boundary layers on transmittance of defect mode in one-dimensional photonic band structures
Gagik Demirjian:	Binding energy of hydrogen-type impurities in quantum well wires of InSb/GaAs
Lev Deych:	Dichotomic random processes and scaling properties of one-dimensional Anderson model with diagonal disorder
Bahruz Gadjiev:	On the crystal optics of ferroelectric-semiconductors
Dentcho Genov:	Metal-dielectric composites: Local-field distribution function and high-order field moments
Ilarie Gontia:	Photophysics of pristine and C60 doped disubstituted polyacetylene
Matthias Kretschmann:	Surface plasmon polariton band structures for two-dimensional periodic surfaces
Ismail Kucuk:	Analysis of stress fields in optimal structures: Two-dimensional and three-dimensional cases
Yongdong Liu:	Fluorescence excitation in a periodic array of sub-wavelength metal apertures
Arthur McGurn:	Photonic crystal slab
David McLachlan:	Fitting the dc conductivity and first order ac conductivity results of continuum percolation media, using percolation theory and a single phenomenological equation.
David McLachlan:	3-D DC conductivity of polymer--carbon fibre composites
Graeme Milton:	Exact solutions for the dispersion relation in a wide class of periodic media with complex moduli
Guillermo Ortiz:	Bulk response of composites from finite samples
Sergey Serkov:	Statistical modeling of light propagating through a semi-transparent cone
Asya Skal:	Vector percolation model for flow of fluid and diffusion of air through a porous medium
Brian Stout:	Absorption in multiple scattering systems of coated spheres
Alexei Vinogradov:	The frequency dependence of the localization length in one-dimensional systems
Cungeng Yang:	Photoinduced electronic interaction between a poly(p-phenylene vinylene)-derivative and single wall carbon nanotubes
Dali Zhang:	Estimation of the permeability of a porous medium using the geometric structural function

NONLINEAR II: Chair, Al Sievers		Ballroom 3
11.20-11.50	Alan Bishop Modeling intrinsically complex matter: nonlinear, nonadiabatic, nonequilibrium
11.50-12.10	Andrej Cherkaev Dynamics of structures of bi-modal elements

12.10-1.10	LUNCH

INVITED TALKS AFFILIATED WITH MINISYMPOSIA: Chair, Elena Cherkaev		Ballroom 3
1.10-1.40	George Papanicolaou Time reversal, imaging and communications in random media
1.40-2.10	Hui Cao Lasing with resonant feedback in random media

2.10-3.30 First 4 talks of Tuesday's two minisymposia:
MATHEMATICAL METHODS (organized by Niklas Wellander): Chair, Niklas Wellander		Ballroom 3
2.10-2.30	Carlos Garcia-Cervera New advances in numerical micromagnetics simulations
2.30-2.50	Anatoli Babin Nonlinear interactions of wavepackets in a periodic media
2.50-3.10	Sebastien Guenneau Properties of conically propagating electromagnetic and elastodynamic waves in periodic media
3.10-3.30	Alexandre Pokrovsky Electrodynamics of metallic photonic crystals and problem of left-handed materials

in parallel with RANDOM LASING (organized by Valy Vardeny): Chair, Misha Raikh		Wasatch Room
2.10-2.30	Diederik Wiersma Liquid crystal infiltrated random media: From the optical NTC-resistor to temperature tunable random lasers
2.30-2.50	Randy Polson Random lasing in Pi-conjugated polymer films
2.50-3.10	Alexander Burin Understanding and control of random lasing
3.10-3.30	Vadym Apalkov Random lasing and random resonators in disordered dielectric films

3.30-4.00	BREAK

INVITED TALKS AFFILIATED WITH MINISYMPOSIA: Chair, Jim Berryman		Ballroom 3
4.00-4.30	Oscar Bruno Wave scattering by inhomogeneous media: efficient algorithms and applications
4.30-5.00	Vladimir Prigodin Quantum hopping in doped conducting polymers

5.00-6.00 Last 3 talks of Tuesday's two minisymposia:
MATHEMATICAL METHODS (organized by Niklas Wellander): Chair, Carlos Garcia-Cervera
5.00-5.20	Jeffrey Picka Estimating conductance in small samples of heterogeneous materials by random walks
5.20-5.40	Niklas Wellander Homogenization of Maxwell's equations
5.40-6.00	Radjesvarane Alexandre Some tools from homogenization and applications in electromagnetism

in parallel with CONDUCTING POLYMERS (organized by Valy Vardeny): Chair, Valy Vardeny
5.00-5.20	Oleg Korovyanko Photoexcitations in trans-polyacetylenes: Long-living story about short-living species
5.20-5.40	Wei Jiang Morphology-dependent optical properties of substituted poly (p-phenylene-ethynylene)
5.40-6.00	Markus Wohlgennant Measurements of spin-dependent exciton formation cross-sections in pi-conjugated oligomers and polymers

Wednesday, July 17th
PHOTONIC BAND GAP I: Chair, David Dobson
8.30-9.00	Ping Sheng Locally resonant sonic materials
9.00-9.30	Vicky Colvin From opals to optics: Building photonic band gaps in nanostructured materials
9.30-9.50	Hanjo Lim Tuning of anisotropic optical properties of two-dimensional dielectric photonic crystals
9.50-10.10	Michael Weinstein Homogenization study of resonances in photonic structures

10.10-10.40	BREAK + Registration

PHOTONIC BAND GAP II: Chair, Vicky Colvin
	10.40-11.10 Ross McPhedran Structural colours through photonic crystals
	11.10-11.30 David Dobson Optimal mode localization in heterogeneous media
	11.30-11.50 Jean Pol Vigneron Bistable behavior of a photonic crystal non-linear cavity

DESIGN OF MICROSTRUCTURES: Chair, Andrej Cherkaev
11.50-12.10	Susan Weekes Numerical computation of wave motion through dynamic materials
12.10-12.30	Robert Lipton Design of functionally graded dielectrics using prescribed microstructures
12.30-12.50	Liya Zhornitskaya Dynamics of damage in two-dimensional structures with waiting elements

12.50-1.50	LUNCH

2.15 pm	Buses leave for AFTERNOON/EVENING tour. The tour will first visit Bingham Canyon Copper Mine, which is the largest manmade excavation on earth, go on to Provo Canyon, Bridal Veil Falls, then Sundance Resort, proceeding to Park City where tour participants can visit the many interesting shops and have dinner (not included) at various restaurants. We expect that the buses will arrive back at Snowbird at around 11.20pm. Bring a sweater since Park City can be cold at night. The tickets cost $20. There are a limited number left. Contact us Monday at the latest if you want to go on the bus tour and do not already have tickets.

Thursday, July 18th
PHOTONIC BAND GAP III:Chair, John Sipe		Ballroom 3
8.30-9.00	Steven Johnson High-Q cavities without a complete photonic band gap
9.00-9.20	Steven Blair Large nonlinear optical response of photonic microcavity arrays
9.20-9.40	Anabelle Da Silva Multiple light scattering in multistratified media: Model, experiment

LOCALIZATION AND SCATTERING I: Chair, Ping Sheng
9.40-10.10	Ad Lagendijk Light scattering and fluctuations under extreme conditions

10.10-10.40	BREAK + Registration

10.40-11.10	David Wilkowski Light transport in cold atoms : The fate of coherent backscattering in the weak localization regime

LOCALIZATION AND SCATTERING II: Chair, Ad Lagendijk
11.10-11.30	Valentin Freilikher Localization and diffusion of transient waves in random media
11.30-11.50	Ruben Barrera Is there an effective medium for the coherent reflectance from a system of random Mie spheres?
11.50-12.10	Daniel Mittleman Using terahertz pulses to study light scattering
12.10-12.30	Guillermo Ortiz Scaling conditions for multiple scattering in fractal aggregates

12.30-1.30	LUNCH

INVITED TALKS AFFILIATED WITH MINISYMPOSIA: Chair, A. Lagarkov		Ballroom 3
1.30-2.00	Inna Kaganova The impedance boundary conditions and effective surface impedance of inhomogeneous metals
2.00-2.30	David Bergman Exact relations between critical exponents for elastic stiffness and electrical conductivity of percolating networks
2.30-3.00	Alexander Granovsky Magnetic nanocomposites close to the percolation threshold: Magnetotransport and magnetooptics
3.00-3.30	Muhammad Sahimi Transport of fluid mixtures in nanoporous materials

3.30-4.00	BREAK

4.00-5.20 Thursday's two minisymposia:
MAGNETIC SYSTEMS: Chair, Jing Shi		Wasatch Room
4.00-4.20	Weijia Wen Two and three dimensional ordered structures in electro-magneto-rheological fluids
4.20-4.40	Joel Miller Spin glass behavior in metalloporphyrin-based magnets
4.40-5.00	Gagik Demirjian The peculiarities of hydrogen-type systems in thin semiconductor films (QWS) in the presence of a transverse magnetic field
5.00-5.20	Xuan-Zhang Wang Nonlinear polaritons of antiferromagnetic superlattices

in parallel with PERCOLATION AND CRITICAL BEHAVIOR: Chair, David Bergman		Ballroom 3
4.00-4.20	Andrey Lagarkov Influence of concentration fluctuation on mv properties of composites
4.20-4.40	David McLachlan The correct modeling of the second order terms of the complex ac conductivity results for continuum percolation media, using a single phenomenological equation
4.40-5.00	Francois Carmona To what extent is the structure of a random composite compatible with a percolation model?

6.30	Buses leave for BANQUET at Red Butte Garden. One banquet ticket is included in the regular registration fee. Students and postdocs and additional guests can purchase tickets for $60, but let us know Monday at the latest if you do not already have one. There are a limited number of tickets left.

Friday, July 19th
EFFECTIVE PROPERTIES: Chair, Ruben Barrera		Ballroom 3
8.40-9.10	Roy Day A spectral representation for the dielectric properties of layered materials
9.10-9.30	Elena Cherkaev Reconstruction of the microstructure of a random mixture
9.30-9.50	Ohad Levy Dielectric and electro-optical properties of dilute suspensions
9.50-10.10	Alexei Vinogradov A new method of homogenization of the maxwell equations
10.00-10.30	Alexander Balk Propagation in multiscale media

10.30-11.00 BREAK +Registration

NANOSTRUCTURES SESSION I: Chair, Jerry Stringfellow		Ballroom 3
11.00-11.30	Naomi Halas The manipulation of light: One nanoparticle at a time
11.30-12.00	Vladimir Shalaev Plasmonic nanophotonics: Manipulating light and sensing molecules

12.00-1.00 Lunch

NANOSTRUCTURES SESSION II: Chair, Naomi Halas		Ballroom 3
1.00-1.30	James Hone Phonons and thermal transport in nanoscale devices and nanomaterials
1.30-2.00	Jerry Stringfellow Control of nano- and micro-scale inhomogenities using surfactants in III/V alloys

NANOSTRUCTURES SESSION III: Chair, James Hone		Ballroom 3
2.00-2.20	Mark Stockman Femtosecond energy concentration in nanosystems: coherent control
2.20-2.40	Anne Lazarides Dynamic effective medium theory of nanosphere materials

2.40-3.00	BREAK

3.00-3.20 A.B.	Pakhomov Resistance switching and memory in a metal-dielectric nanocomposite system
3.20-3.40	Victor Boev Dipole-dipole interaction effect on the optical response of quantum dot ensembles
3.40-4.00	Hai-Guang Zhou The study of 5CB absorbed on nano-roughened Ag and Au electrodes by surface-enhanced raman scattering

5pm	Cars to BARBEQUE. At the barbeque site there will be the opportunity for a fairly easy, and optional, hike to the beautiful Cecret Lake (1.5 miles roundtrip, 360 feet elevation gain). Part of the trail is rocky, with loose sharp stones, so sneakers or similar footware is recommended. The barbeque is free to all conference participants.