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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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ETOPIM 7 Program

Sunday 9th July
6:00pm	*Welcome Reception*	The Terrace Function Room The Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour

Monday 10th July
8:00am	Coffee, Registration		Cockle Bay Rooms
8:45am	Welcome and Opening Remarks Ross McPhedran		Quay Rooms
9:00 am - 10:30am	Plenary Addresses	Quay Rooms
9:00am	John Pendry, Imperial College, London	Metamaterials: a New Design Paradigm for Electromagnetism
9:45am	Graeme Milton, University of Utah, USA	Cloaking: a new phenomenon in electromagnetism

10:30am - 11:00am	Morning tea and preparation of break-out rooms - please take your belongings with you		Cockle Bay Rooms

11:00am - 1:00pm	Concurrent Session 1: Metamaterials I		*Quay Room I*
11:00am	Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue University, USA (invited)	Metamaterials: Going Optical
11:30am	Maria Kafesaki, Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas, Greece (invited)	Electromagnetic behaviour of left-handed materials and related metamaterials
12:00pm	Zubin Jacob, Princeton University, USA	Optical Hyperlens : Far-field Imaging beyond the diffraction limit.
12:20pm	Sébastien Guenneau, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France	Homogenization of 3D finite chiral photonic crystals
12:40pm	Jensen Li, Imperial College London	Non-local aspect of metamaterials
11:00am - 12:50pm	Concurrent Session 2: Structure and transport I		Quay Room I
11:00am	Chris Ling, ANSTO & the University of Sydney, Australia (invited)	Opportunities for the Study of Composite Materials at Australia's New OPAL Research Reactor
11:30am	Zongwen Liu, EMU, the University of Sydney, Australia	High-Resolution TEM Study of Er Distribution in Er−Doped SiO2 Films Prepared by Laser Ablation
11:50am	Geoffrey Anstis, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia	Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy of Nanostructured Materials
12:10pm	Julie Cairney, University of Sydney, Australia	Atom Probe Tomography of Interfaces
12:30pm	Yee Yan Tay, University of New South Wales, Australia	Growth Mechanism of Spherical Nanostructural ZnO

1:00pm - 2:30pm	Lunch		Dockside Balcony & Cockle Bay Rooms

2:30pm - 3:50pm	Concurrent Session 3: Metamaterials II - practical aspects and fabrication		Quay Room I
2:30pm	Shannon Orbons, University of Melbourne, Australia	Optical Properties of Silver Composite Metamaterials
2:50pm	Ilya Ryzhikov, ITAE RAS, Russia	Fe-N films and composites: morphology, static and dynamic magnetic properties
3:10pm	Abbas Maaroof, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia	Mesoporous Gold Sponge as a Prototype 'Meta-material
3:30pm	Hongqiang Li, Tongji University, China	All-dimensional Subwavelength Metamaterial Cavity
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Concurrent Session 4: Random media		*Quay Room II*
2:30pm	Ping Sheng, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China (invited)	Can Effective Mass Density be Negative?
3:00pm	Ara Asatryan, University of Sydney, Australia	Evidence for a mobility edge for photons in two dimensions
3:20pm	Dentcho Genov, University of California at Berkeley	Chaotic Surface Plasmon States in Inhomogeneous Media (1096)
3:40pm	Jun Jun Xiao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Confined vibrational normal modes in graded elastic networks: gradons

4:00pm - 5:00pm	Tea		Cockle Bay Rooms

5:00pm - 6:10pm	Concurrent Session 5: Photonic crystals in nature		*Quay Rooms*
5:00pm	Stephen Hyde, Australian National University, Canberra (invited)	Ordered self-assembled sponges in vivo and in vitro: some observations and modelling
5:30pm	Jullie Boulenguez, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris	Simulations tools for natural photonic structures
5:50pm	Jean Pol Vigneron, Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Belgium	Computational study of photonic structures in metallic beetles: Chrysochroa vittata, Eupotosia mirifica and Chrysina replendens
5:00pm - 6:00pm	Concurrent Session 6: Computational methods I		Quay Room II
5:00pm	Lindsay Botten, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia	Semi-analytic approaches to the modelling of photonic crystal devices
5:30pm	Kokou Dossou, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia	Exact modelling of photonic crystal defect modes using the generalised fictitious source superposition method
5:50pm	Frederic Zolla, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France	Perfectly Matched Layer: A tool for obtaining Leaky Modes in MOFs

Explore the area - local dining is superb! Look for Sydney BYO restaurants (Bring Your Own bottled wine - corkage charge applies)			Cockle Bay Wharf/Darling Harbour

Tuesday 11th July
7:00am	Poster build		Cockle Bay Rooms
8:00am	Coffee & Poster set-up		Cockle Bay Rooms
9:00 am - 10:30am	Plenary Addresses		Quay Rooms
9:00am	Matthias Fink, ESPCI, Paris, France	Waves and Time reversal
9:45am	Andrey Lagarkov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia	Material Science Achievements in Stealth Technologies

10:30am - 11:00am	Morning tea & POSTERS Preparation of break-out rooms - please take your belongings with you		Cockle Bay Rooms

11:00am - 11:50am	Special plenary - Defence	Quay Rooms
11:00am	Alexander Ramm, Kansas State University, USA	Distribution of particles which produces a desired radiation pattern
11:50am - 1:00pm	Concurrent Session 7: Defence		Quay Room I
11:50am	Stuart Anderson, DSTO, South Australia (invited)	Multiple scattering of radar signals in stochastic media: Applications to surveillance and remote sensing
12:20pm	Ya-Qiu Jin, Fudan University, China	Bistatic Difference Scattering from a Dielectric Target above a Rough Surface
12:50pm	Session end
11:00am - 1:00pm	Concurrent Session 8: Plasmonics 1		Quay Room II
11:00am	Richard Blaikie, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (invited)	Silver Superlenses for Near-field Optical Lithography: Single-layer versus Double-layer Superlenses
11:30am	Michael Cortie, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (invited)	Plasmonic heating of gold nanoparticles and its exploitation
12:00pm	Reuben Bakker, Purdue University, USA	Implementation of Broadband Spectroscopy to Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy for Studying Plasmonic Responses of Novel Metallic Samples
12:20pm	Dmitri Gramotnev, Queensland University of Technology, Australia	Gap Plasmon Waveguides: A New Option for Sub-Wavelength Waveguiding and Nano-Optical Devices
12:40pm	Dmitri Gramotnev, Queensland University of Technology, Australia	Analyses of Adiabatic Nano-Focusing in Metal Tips in the Presence of Dissipation

1:00pm - 2:30pm	Lunch & POSTERS		Dockside Balcony & Cockle Bay Rooms

2:30pm - 4:00pm	Concurrent Session 9: Health and environmental applications of composites		Quay Room I
2:30pm	Patrice Rey, University of Sydney, Australia (invited)	TBA
3:00pm	Elizabeth Kyriakou, University of Sydney, Australia	Breathing as a low frequency wave propagation in a non linear elastic permeable medium
3:20pm	Anne Barnett, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia	Metal Particle Enhanced Fluorescent Immunoassays on Metal Mirrors
3:40pm	Hak-Kim Chan, University of Sydney, Australia	Inhalation Drug Delivery using Dry Powder Aerosol Systems
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Concurrent Session 10: Photonic Crystals I		Quay Room II
2:30pm	Shanhui Fan, Stanford University, USA (invited)	Manipulating Light with Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics
3:00pm	Ara Asatryan, University of Sydney, Australia	Lamb shift of sources embedded in two-dimensional photonic clusters
3:20pm	Vladimir Kamaev, University of Utah, USA	Optical Studies of Metal-Infiltrated Opals
3:40pm	Martyn Pemble, University College Cork, Ireland	The Preparation of Novel Photonic Crystal Thin Films using the Langmuir-Blodgett Approach

4:00pm - 5:00pm	Tea & POSTERS and preparation of plenary room - please take your belongings with you		Cockle Bay Rooms

5:00pm - 6:00pm	Concurrent Session 11: Computational methods II		Quay Room I
5:00pm	Ara Asatryan, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia	Extension of Pichard's formula for conductance to systems with different numbers of input channels
5:20pm	Chun Wing Choy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Local field distribution near corrugated interfaces: Green function formalism versus effective medium theory
5:40pm	André Nicolet, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France	High order asymptotic analysis of twisted electrostatic problems
5:00pm - 6:10pm	Concurrent Session 12: Percolation		Quay Room II
5:00pm	Ken Golden, University of Utah, USA (invited)	Fluid and Electrical Transport in Sea Ice
5:30pm	Yakov Strelniker, Bar-Ilan University, Israel	Superconductor-insulator Transition in Granular Films: Application of the Effective Medium Approximation and Resistor Network Simulations
5:50pm	Xiangting Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China	Critical Behavior in Anisotropic Normal Conductor/Perfect Insulator/Perfect Conductor Networks
6:10pm	Drinks and Nibbles		Cockle Bay Rooms

Wednesday 12th July
8:00am	Coffee		Cockle Bay Rooms
9:00 am - 10:30am	Plenary Addresses		*Quay Rooms*
9:00am	Valentinen Freilikher, Bar-Ilan University, Israel	Apologia of disorder: one-dimensional disorder at work
9:45am	David Bergman, Tel Aviv University, Israel	TBA

10:30am - 11:00am	Morning tea Preparation of break-out rooms - please take your belongings with you		Cockle Bay Rooms

11:00am - 12:50pm	Concurrent Session 13: Plasmonics II		Quay Room I
11:00am	Mark Stockman, Georgia State University, USA (invited)	Nanoplasmonics: Generation and Control of Nanoscale Optical Fields
11:30am	Richard Morrow, University of Sydney, Australia	Electric field effects on adsorption/desorption of proteins on a gold film observed using surface plasmon resonance
11:50am	Nicolae-Alexandru Nicorovici, University of Sydney, Australia	Optical Resonances of Sphere and Cylinder Clusters in the Quasistatic Limit
12:10pm	Kin Wah Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong	Coupled plasmon modes and their localization in graded plasmonic chains
12:30pm	Tom Oates, Institute for Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany	Observing silver nanoparticle growth in real time using spectroscopic ellipsometry
12:50pm	Session end
11:00am - 12:50pm	Concurrent Session 14: Magnetic and electric properties		Quay Room II
11:00am	David McKenzie, University of Sydney, Australia (invited)	Soft Ferromagnetic Materials based on Iron/Carbon Multilayers
11:30am	Winn Hutchcraft, University of MIssissippi, USA	Comparison of Permittivity Measurement Techniques for Polymeric Composites
11:50am	Alexey Vinogradov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia	Influence of defect and Tamm states on magneto-optical properties of 1D magneto-photonic crystals
12:10pm	Alexey Vinogradov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia	Magneto-optical properties of 2D photonic crystals
12:30pm	Alexander Baryshev, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan	Magnetic Material-based Photonic Crystals: Magnetophotonic Crystals
12:50pm	Session end

1:00pm - 2:30pm	Lunch		Dockside Balcony & Cockle Bay Rooms

2:30pm - 4:00pm	Concurrent Session 15: Optical properties I		Quay Room I
2:30pm	Martin Green, UNSW, Sydney, Australia (invited)	Advanced Solar Cells: Optical Approaches to Improved Performance
3:00pm	Reuben Barrera, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (invited)	On the non-local character of the effective optical response of colloidal systems
3:30pm	Alexander Granovsky, Moscow State University, Russia (invited)	Magneto-optical properties of inhomogeneous magnetic materials
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Concurrent Session 16: Mechanical properties		Quay Room II
2:30pm	Natasha Movchan, University of Liverpool, UK (invited)	Lattice approximations of thin-walled structures: standing waves and localised modes
3:00pm	Anthony Roberts, University of Queensland, Australia	Computational Elasticity, Plasticty & Fracture of Porous Materials
3:20pm	Michelle Rigozzi, University of Sydney, Australia	Exact Effective Elastic Moduli for Anisotropic Triple Periodic Frame Networks
3:40pm	Natasha Movchan, University of Liverpool, UK	Propagation of elastic waves in composite structures with coated inclusions

4:00pm - 5:00pm	Tea and Preparation of break-out rooms - please take your belongings with you		Cockle Bay Rooms

5:00pm - 6:00pm	Concurrent Session 17: Optical properties II		Quay Room I
5:00pm	Vincent Reillon, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris	Optical properties of lusters: a composite inhomogeneous medium of Middle Age reveals its beauty
5:20pm	Michael Fiddy, University of North Carolina, USA	Form-birefringent slow light material
5:40pm	Clemence Bordier, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France	Mie scattering by heterogeneous media: radiative transfer model (Nflux with polarization effects)

5:00pm - 6:10pm	Concurrent Session 18: Structure and transport II		Quay Room II
5:00pm	John Carlisle, Advanced Diamond Technologies, Inc., USA (invited)	Thermal Transport Properties of doped Ultrananocrystalline Diamond Thin Films
5:30pm	Marcela Bilek, University of Sydney, Australia	Formation of amorphous carbon inclusions as a function of ion fluence and depth in the sub-surface of polymers during plasma immersion ion implantation
5:50pm	Jan Herrmann, CSIRO Industrial Physics,Sydney, Australia	Tuning the Coulomb charging energy in cross-linked nanoparticle films

7:00pm	*Conference Dinner*	The Star Room, Cockle Bay Wharf


Thursday 13th July
8:00am	Coffee		Cockle Bay Rooms
9:00 am - 10:30am	Plenary Addresses		Quay Rooms
9:00am	Yuri Kivshar, Nonlinear Physics Centre, Canberra, Australia	Nonlinear effects in periodic photonic structures and metamaterials
9:45am	Maryanne Large, Optical Fibre Technology Centre, University of Sydney,* Australia*	Insights from Nature: optical biomimetics

10:30am - 10:00am	Morning tea and preparation of break-out rooms - please take your belongings with you		Cockle Bay Rooms

11:00am - 1:00pm	Concurrent Session 19: Non-linear properties and applications		Quay Room I
11:00am	Wieslaw Krolikowski, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia	Dipole solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media
11:20am	F Drouart, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France	A finite element analysis of spatial solitons in optical fibres
11:40am	Kristian Motzek, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia	Spectral transformations and self-focusing of polychromatic light in nonlinear photonic lattices
12:00pm	Christian Rosberg, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia	Nonlinear optical Tamm states in semi-infinite waveguide arrays
12:20pm	Yosia Yosia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	Double Optical Bistability in Phase-Shifted Chalcogenide-Fiber Bragg Gratings
12:40pm	Christian Grillet, CUDOS, University of Sydney, Australia	Evanescent probing of Chalcogenide photonic crystal cavities and waveguides
11:00am - 1:00pm	Concurrent Session 20: Metamaterials III		Quay Room II
11:00am	Sebastien Guenneau, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France	Localised bending modes in split ring resonators
11:20am	Alexander Khanikaev, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan	Reversal of the Faraday Effect in Negative Refraction Materials and Magnetophotonic Crystals
11:40am	Vladimir Kisel, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia	Metamaterials and Superresolution: From Homogenization to Rigorous Approach
12:00pm	Alexey Vinogradov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia	Energy transfer by evanescent waves and related phenomena
12:20pm	Alejandro Reyes-Coronado, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico	Calculation of the Effective Non-Local Optical Response Functions and Effective Index of Refraction of a Colloidal System
12:40pm	Ilya Shadrivov, Nonlinear Physics Centre, Canberra, Australia	Magnetoinductive waves in 1D arrays of split-ring resonators

1:00pm - 2:30pm	Lunch		Dockside Balcony & Cockle Bay Rooms

2:30pm - 4:00pm	Concurrent Session 21: Emerging areas		Quay Room I
2:30pm	Tatsunosuke Matsui, University of Utah, USA (invited)	Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy Studies of Plasmonic Lattices
3:00pm	Ken Atkinson, Textile Research and Development, CSIRO (invited)	Multifunctional carbon nanotube sheets
3:30pm	Peter Robinson, University of Sydney, Australia	Brainwaves: Modeling Electrical Activity in Homogeneous and Structured Neural Tissues
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Concurrent Session 22: Photonic crystals II		Quay Room II
2:30pm	Stefan Enoch, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France (invited)	Local Density of States and Photonic Quasicrystals
3:00pm	Steven Morrison, Nonlinear Physics Centre, Canberra, Australia	Surface Gap Modes on Diatomic Photonic Crystals
3:20am	Snjezana Tomljenovic-Hanic, University of Sydney, Australia	Design of Diamond-based Photonic Crystal Microcavities
3:40pm	Ross McPhedran, University of Sydney, Australia	Microstructured fibres with resonant inclusions

4:00pm - 4:30pm	Tea and preparation of plenary room - please take your belongings with you		Cockle Bay Rooms

4:30pm - 5:00pm	PANEL DISCUSSION - FUTURE DIRECTIONS CONFERENCE CLOSE and Announcement of ETOPIM 8		Quay Rooms

Friday 14th July - Mini Symposia and on-site Visits
Open to delegates registered for the meeting; included in full registration fee. An opportunity to visit local centres of research excellence, participate in symposia on a focussed topic in an intimate setting. The Nano-Plasmonics Course may also be attended for a fee, by those not registered for the meeting. Please see the registration page. MINI-SYMPOSIA PROGRAM Mini-Symposium A Applied Physics and CUDOS and EMU and NANO Network Location: The University of Sydney Hosts: Julie Cairney and Richard Tarrant Key Centre Tour Round Table Symposia Atom probe tomography - what can it do for you? David Saxbey Advanced transmission electron microspy: HAADF and electron tomography Zongwen Liu Application of DualBeam SEM/FIB: Focusssed ion beam EBSD tomography Julie Cairney Mini-Symposium B Photonic crystals in nature Location: Optical Fibre Technology Centre, National Innovation Centre, Australian Technology Park Host: Dr Maryanne Large Examples of 2 and 3 dimensional optical microstructures can be in for peacock feathers, the spines of a sea-mouse and butterfly scales. Such structures, which have evolved over millions of years, and represent a huge diversity of photonic crystal designs that can be "mined" for insights and studied experimentally without any fabrication costs. Some of the questions that will be raised in this symposium are: how do 2 and 3 dimensional microstrucures in nature form? how optically "optimal" are naturally evolved microstructures? what is the significance of their mechanical or thermal performance? The format of the symposium will involve short presentations, followed by discussions and a lab tour before retiring to a suitable restaurant or pub. Mini-Symposium C Special Course: Surface Plasmonics. Location: The University Technology, Sydney Presenter and Host: Mark Stockman, Michael Cortie The plasmonics satellite seminar will be a one-day meeting held at UTS. It will deal with the theory, modelling and applications of surface plasmons. A particular emphasis will be on the link between structure of the optical system and the resulting properties of the plasmons. The field concentrations, dispersion relations and propagation losses associated with plasmons will be discussed. Preparation techniques and characterization issues will also be of interest. COURSE OUTLINE Nanooptics deals with optical phenomena and spectroscopy on the nanoscale, i.e., in the regions of space whose size is much smaller than the light wavelength. While electromagnetic waves cannot be localized in the regions with sizes significantly less than half wavelength, nanooptics is based on electric fields oscillating at optical frequency. From the positions of the interaction with matter and spectroscopy, such local optical fields mostly produce the same type of responses as electromagnetic waves. Elementary excitations that are carriers of energy and coherence in nanooptics are surface plasmons (SPs). These local fields cause a wealth of gigantically enhanced optical phenomena of which the surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is the most studied and widely known. This one-day course will encompass the fundamental properties and applications of the surface plasmonics at the nanoscale. It will include coherent effects associated with phase memory of the SPs, in particular, coherent control of nanooptical phenomena. Nonlinear processes such as generation of harmonics and two-photon excitation by nanoscale fields will also be covered. Ultrafast (femtosecond and attosecond) phenomena are within the scope of this course. We will also include quantum phenomena associated with properties of surface plasmons as quantum quasiparticles such as quantum generation and fluctuations. Along with fundamental properties of SPs, we will consider many applications of nanoplasmonics, in particular, detection of ultrasmall amounts of chemical and biological compounds, scanning near-field optical microscopes or SNOMs, and nanolithography. Mini-Symposium D Waves in Random and Complex Media Location: The University Technology, Sydney Presenter and Host: Michael Fiddy, Lindsay Botten The goal of this symposium is to bring together colleagues interested in the direct and inverse problems associated with wave propagation through random and complex media such as metamaterials and composite materials. The theme for this meeting is to explore the underlying commonality that exists between different fields that study phenomena in inhomogeneous media. This includes electromagnetic wave propagation, scattering and imaging. This symposium welcomes contributions on theoretical developments, experimental results and analytical/numerical studies when linked to random or complex media. Topics include studies of waves in composite media such as tissue or metamaterials, nonlinear, chaotic or fractal media, as well as their associated inverse problems. Specific examples are: Propagation, diffraction of classical waves Quantum and nonlinear effects in complex media Scattering and inverse scattering, backscattering enhancement, multiple scattering, rough surface and volume scattering Surface waves and surface excitation including nanoplasmonics Statistical properties of waves Electromagnetics of metamaterials and photonic bandgap structures Examples of some applications include modelling the optical properties of photonic crystals, applications of microwaves to remote sensing (e.g. FOPEN), transport in geophysical media and medical imaging. We are hoping that this symposium will spawn another special issue for the journal Waves in Random and Complex Media, similar to that from the inverse scattering and imaging workshop held in Charlotte, USA last summer. A number of Waves in Random and Complex Media Board members will be attending. We might attempt a teleconference with others attending the IEEE APS meeting in Albuquerque, NM for a broader discussion on trends and developments in the field, despite the time difference!


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