Follow ETOPIM on FlickrProgram oultine ETOPIM 8, CRETE, JUNE 7-12, 2009
This program was one which expanded upon the major themes of past ETOPIMs, but which also leapt off into the exciting new emerging research areas of our field.
The updated Poster program is located here
Sunday 7th June, 2009
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Registration & Poster set-up |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Welcome Reception |
Monday 8th June, 2009
| 7:00 - 8:00 | Breakfast (for those accommodated in Aquila Rithymna Beach Hotel) |
| 8:00 - 8:50 | Registration & Poster set-up |
| 8:50 - 9:00 | Opening remarks |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Plenary Session ~ Chair: Costas Soukoulis |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Martin Wegener, Photonic Metamaterials: Quo Vadis |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Ad Lagendijk, Light propagation in disordered media |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Concurrent Sessions 1-2 | |
| 11:00 - 13:00 | Concurrent Symposium 1: Metamaterials I Chair: Vladimir Shalaev |
| 11:00-11:25 | Victor Veselago, About Energy, Linear Momentum and Mass Transfer by Electromagnetic Wave in Negative Refraction Media |
| 11:25-11:50 | Andrey Lagarkov, Losses in Metamaterials: Restrictions and Benefits |
| 11:50-12:05 | Lei Zhou, Manipulate light propagations and polarizations through meta-materials |
| 12:05-12:20 | Alex Shuchinsky, Metamaterials Made of Patterned Planar Metallic Pairs |
| 12:20-12:45 | Ricardo Marques, Extraordinary transmission and fish-net metamaterials from a unified perspective |
| 12:45-13:00 | Alexandre Aubry, Mimicking a negative-refractive slab by combining two phase-conjugators |
| 11:00 - 13:00 | Concurrent Symposium 2: Random-media / Transport Properties I Chair: David Bergman |
| 11:00-11:25 | Bart Von Tiggelen, Three dimensional Anderson loalization of elastic waves |
| 11:25-11:50 | Valentin Freiliker, Total disorder as an alternative to perfect periodicity |
| 11:50-12:05 | Alexey Yamilov, Criterion for light localization in random amplifying media |
| 12:05-12:20 | Nykolay Makarov, Anderson Localization in Correlated Random Structures: Photonic Crystals, Metamaterials and Electron Superlattices |
| 12:20-12:45 | Allard Mosk, Control of Light Propagation in Disordered Photonic Materials |
| 12:45-13:00 | Peter Markos, Electron transport in strongly disordered structures |
| 13:00-17:00 | Lunch break |
| 17:00-18:30 | Poster session & Coffee break |
| Concurrent Sessions 3-4 | |
| 18:30-20:00 | Concurrent Symposium 3: Metamaterials II Chair: Andrey Lagarkov |
| 18:30-18:55 | Willie Padilla, Tailoring the Blackbody with Metamaterials |
| 18:55-19:20 | Richard Ziolkowski, Passive and Active Metamaterial-based Electrically Small Radiating and Scattering Systems and Their Applications |
| 19:20-19:35 | Steven Cummer, Active and Tunable RF Metamaterials |
| 19:35-19:50 | Radu Malureanu, Design and Fabrication Activity Towards 3D Negative Refractive Index Materials in the IR Region |
| 18:30-20:00 | Concurrent Symposium 4: Random-Media II Chair: Bart van Tiggelen |
| 18:30-18:55 | Diederik Wiersma, A Levy flight of photons |
| 18:55-19:20 | Philippe Bouyer, Transport properties and anderson localisation of coherent matter waves in optical disorder |
| 19:20-19:35 | Stephan Smolka, Spatial Quantum Correlations Generated by Multiple Scattering of Squeezed Light |
| 19:35-19:50 | Elena Chaikina, Competition between lasing modes in random fiber lasers |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
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Tuesday 9th June, 2009
| 7:00 - 8:50 | Breakfast (for those accommodated in Aquila Rithymna Beach Hotel) |
| 8:50 - 9:00 | Housekeeping |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Plenary Session: Chair: Eleftherios Economou |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Min Qiu,Transformation optics and its perspectives |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Satoshi Kawata, Plasmonics nano-imaging with nano-tip and nano-rods |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Concurrent Sessions 5-6 | |
| 11:00 - 13:00 | Concurrent Symposium 5: Transformation Optics /Acoustics – Cloaking - Chair: Sir John Pendry |
| 11:00-11:25 | Vlad Shalaev, Transforming Light with Photonics Metamaterials |
| 11:25-11:50 | Sergei Tretyakov, Metamaterials as field-transforming media |
| 11:50-12:05 | Sebastien Guennau, Harmonic and biharmonic cloaks |
| 12:05-12:20 | Andrey Serebryannikov, Non-Ideal Multifrequency Cloaking Using Strongly Dispersive Materials |
| 12:20-12:35 | André Nicolet, Generalized Cloaking and Optical Polyjuice |
| 12:35-13:00 | Steven Cummer, Transformation Acoustics |
| 11:00 - 12:50 | Concurrent Symposium 6: Nanocomposites/Biocomposites Chair: Ken Golden |
| 11:00-11:25 | Ping Sheng; Superconductivity in Carbon Nanotubes: An Update* |
| 11:25-11:50 | Ruben Barrera; Optical properties of turbid colloids |
| 11:50-12:05 | David McKenzie; Ellipsometry for Investigating Structure in Adherent Biocomposite Layers-a Comparison of Propagating and Non Propagating Fields |
| 12:05-12:20 | Alexander Baryshev; Photonic Tamm structures utilizing gold sponges |
| 12:20-12:35 | Merel Leistikow; Size dependent emission properties of colloidal CdSe quantum dots for applications in metamaterials |
| 12:35-12:50 | Polina Kuzhir; Multi-wall carbon nanotubes in microwaves: response properties and applications |
| 13:00-17:00 | Lunch break |
| Concurrent Sessions 7-8 | |
| 17:00-18:05 | Concurrent Symposium 7: Metamaterials – Cloaking Chair: Graeme Milton |
| 17:00-17:25 | Ross McPhedran; Cloaking by anomalous localized resonance: principles, problems and possibilities |
| 17:25-17:40 | Robert Kohn; Near-cloaking by change of variables for Helmholtz |
| 17:40-18:05 | Igor Nefedov; Periodic array of finite-length carbon nanotubes as a planar metamaterial |
| 17:00-18:05 | Concurrent Symposium 8: Plasmonics Chair: Dmitry Chigrin |
| 17:00-17:25 | Sergey Bozhevolnyi; Plasmonic nano-circuitry |
| 17:25-17:40 | Nikolaos Stefanou; Complex Plasmonic Nanostructures and Optical Metamaterials:Studies by the Layer-Multiple-Scattering Method |
| 17:40-18:05 | Alejandro Reyes-Corronado; Can fast electron beams move plasmonic nanoparticles? |
| 18:05-18:35 | Coffee Break |
| Concurrent Sessions 9-10 | |
| 18:35-20:10 | Concurrent Symposium 9: Metamaterials Chair: Lei Zhou |
| 18:35-19:00 | Gennady Shvets; Non-reciprocal chiral fibers as optical isolator |
| 19:00-19:15 | Constantin Simovski; Metamaterials with nearly zero permittivity for cavity-and-surface enhanced Raman scattering |
| 19:15-19:30 | Nicola Bowler; Non-Periodic Isotropic Dielectric Double-Negative (DNG) Metamaterials |
| 19:30-19:45 | Pavel Belov; Hyperlenses Based on Tapered Arrays of Wires |
| 19:45-20:10 | Dorota Pawlak; Self-organization and Metamaterials |
| 20:10 | (END OF SESSION) |
| 18:35-20:00 | Concurrent Symposium 10: Photonic Crystals Chair: Masaya Notomi |
| 18:35-19:00 | Clivia Sotomayor-Torres; Coupling of Excitons and Plasmons in nanoimprinted 2D polymer-based Photonic Crystals |
| 19:00-19:15 | Andrey Kalish; Slow Light Phenomenon and Enhancement of Magnetooptical Effects in Photonic Crystals |
| 19:15-19:30 | Alexander Merzlikin; Degeneracy of Bragg reflection upon magnetization in magneto-photonic crystals |
| 19:30-19:45 | Ian Povey; Interface modes in colloidal photonic hetero-crystals |
| 19:45-20:00 | Mikael Rechtsman; Upper bounds on photonic bandgaps |
| 20:00-20:15 | Irina Khromova; Resonance Frequency of 3D EBG Cavities. Effective EBG Resonant Transmission Scheme |
| 20:30 | Conference Dinner ~ a special Grecian event! |
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Wednesday 10th June, 2009
| 7:00 - 8:50 | Breakfast (for those accommodated in Aquila Rithymna Beach Hotel) |
| 8:50 - 9:00 | Housekeeping |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Plenary Session ~ Chair: Alexei Maradudin |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Mark Brongersma; Plasmonics: The Next Wave of Chipscale Technologies |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Concita Sibilia; Non-linear photonic systems |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Concurrent Sessions 11-12 | |
| 11:00 - 13:00 | Concurrent Symposium 11: Plasmonics Chair: Alex Schuchinsky |
| 11:00-11:25 | Mark Stockman; Ultrafast, Nonlinear, and Quantum Nanoplasmonics |
| 11:25-11:40 | Alex Schuchinsky; Dispersion and Losses of Surface Plasmons in Au Films |
| 11:40-12:05 | Pavel Belov; Effects of Strong Spatial Dispersion in Nanostructured Multilayered Metal-Dielectric Optical Metamaterials |
| 12:05-12:20 | Tao Li; Efficient control of optical polarization by hybrid plasmonic excitations |
| 12:20-12:35 | Ping Bai; Integration of Plasmonics into Nanoelectronic Circuits |
| 12:35-13:00 | Martyn Pemble; Colloidal Assemblies that Include Metals |
| 11:00 - 13:00 | Concurrent Symposium 12: Non-linear systems ~ Chair: Sebastien Guennau |
| 11:00-11:25 | Yuri Kivshar; Nonlinear physics in periodic photonic structures |
| 11:25-11:40 | Alexander Popov; Coherent Nonlinear-optical Energy Transfer and Backward-wave Optical Parametric Generation in Negative-index Metamaterials |
| 11:40-12:05 | Wiesiek Krolikowski; Managing Light in Nonlinear Disordered Media |
| 12:05-12:20 | Ilya Shadrivov; Bistability of Anderson modes in nonlinear 1D structures |
| 12:20-12:35 | Nikos Lazaridis; Bulk and Surface Breathers in Binary Metamaterials |
| 12:35-13:00 | Eugenio Mendez; Coherent effects in the sum frequency generation at randomly rough surfaces |
| 13:00-16:30 | Lunch break |
| Concurrent Sessions 13-14 | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Concurrent Symposium 13: Plasmonics Chair: Sailing He |
| 16:30-16:55 | Alexei Maradudin; Transformation of surface plasmon polaritons by surface structures |
| 16:55-17:20 | Alexandra Boltasseva; Metal-dielectric structures for plasmonics and metamaterials |
| 17:20-17:45 | Boris Chichkov; Towards passive and active plasmonic components and metamaterials |
| 17:45-18:00 | Sheng Chung Chen: A Research of Plasmonic Energy in Regular and Irregular Gap between Silver Nanowires |
| 16:30-17:55 | Concurrent Symposium 14: Photonic Crystals Chair: Ilya Shadrivov |
| 16:30-16:55 | Masaya Notomi; Adiabatic Frequency Tuning of Ultrahigh-Q Nanocavities |
| 16:55-17:10 | Dmitry Chigrin; Non-Markovian Emission Dynamics in Finite-Size Photonic Crystals |
| 17:10-17:25 | Alexander Baryshev; Magnetophotonic crystals with various designs: enhanced and reverse Faraday rotation |
| 17:25-17:40 | Stefan Declair; Normal Mode Coupling in Photonic Crystal Nanocavities |
| (END OF SESSION) | |
| 18:00-18:30 | Coffee Break |
| 18:30-20:15 | ETOPIM Medal Chair: Ross McPhedran |
| 18:30-18:45 | Ross McPhedran; ETOPIM association and ETOPIM medal |
| 18:45-19:30 | Bertrand Halperin; Ralf Landauer and the physics of inhomogeneous media |
| 19:30-20:15 | Medal ceremony |
| 20:15 | Dinner |
Thursday 11th June, 2009
| 7:00 - 8:50 | Breakfast (for those accommodated in Aquila Rithymna Beach Hotel) |
| 8:50 - 9:00 | Housekeeping |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Plenary Session ~ Chair: T. Gavrielides |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Nikolay Zheludev; Twisting the Double-Helix of Light with Metamaterials |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Nader Engheta; What to do with Extreme Metamaterials |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Concurrent Sessions 15-16 | |
| 11:00 - 13:05 | Concurrent Symposium : Metamaterials IV Chair: Ruben Barrera |
| 11:00-11:25 | Sir John Pendry; Time Reversal and Negative Refraction |
| 11:25-11:50 | Mathias Fink; A time-reversal approach to super-resolution |
| 11:50-12:15 | Ortwin Hess; The Trapped Rainbow Effect: Slow Broadband Waves Through Negative Interfacial Phase Shifts |
| 12:15-12:40 | Graeme Milton; Electromagnetic circuits |
| 12:40-13:05 | Vadim Markel; On impossibility of negative refraction |
| 11:00 - 13:10 | Concurrent Symposium 16: Random and percolated media Chair: David McKenzie |
| 11:00-11:25 | Alexey Vinogradov; Band Theory of Light Localization in 1D Disordered Systems |
| 11:25-11:50 | Kenneth Golden; Climate Change and the Thermal Evolution of Transport and Microstructure in Sea Ice |
| 11:50-12:15 | Matteo Zaccanti; Transport and localization of ultracold atoms in disordered optical media |
| 12:15-12:40 | Augusto Garcia Valenzuela; Particle sizing from the effective refractive index of colloids |
| 12:40-12:55 | Alexander Myroshnychenko; Effective complex permittivity and continuum percolation analysis of two-phase composite media |
| 12:55-13:10 | Gregory Samelsohn; Diffuse Time Tomography of Random Media |
| 13:10-16:30 | Lunch break |
| 16:30-18:00 | Poster session & Coffee break |
| Concurrent Sessions 17-18 | |
| 18:00-19:45 | Concurrent Symposium 17: Metamaterials Chair: Constantin Simovski |
| 18:00-18:25 | Sailing He; Transmission enhancement and harvesting of light with nano-antennas and metamaterials |
| 18:25-18:40 | Philippe Tassin: Slow Light with Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Metamaterials |
| 18:40-19:05 | Andrey Sarychev; Collective Phenomena in Active Metamaterials |
| 19:05-19:30 | Yakov Strelniker; Manipulating the Transparency and other Optical Properties of Metamaterials by Applying a Magnetic Field |
| 19:30-19:45 | Cumali Sabah; Transmission Measurement of a New Metamaterial Sample with Negative Refraction Index |
| 18:00-19:40 | Concurrent Symposium 18: Electric, magnetic, electronic properties Chair: Ping Sheng |
| 18:00-18:25 | David Bergman; Composite Media under the Influence of a Strong dc Magnetic Field |
| 18:25-18:40 | Sergey Skipetrov; Nonuniversal dynamic conductance fluctuations |
| 18:40-18:55 | Ali Soltani Vala;Tunable Defect Modes in 2D Photonic Crystals by Means of External Magnetic Fields |
| 18:55-19:10 | David McLachlan; The Role of the Non Universal Static Dielectric Constant in the Scaling of AC Conductivity Results |
| 19:10-19:25 | David Tanner; Evidence for inhomogeneous electronic properties in the infrared spectra of manganites |
| 19:25-19:40 | Fritz Keilmann; Infrared Near-Field Microscopy of Insulator-Metal Transition |
| (END OF SESSION) | |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
Friday 12th June
| 7:00 - 8:50 | Breakfast (for those accommodated in Aquila Rithymna Beach Hotel) |
| 8:50 - 9:00 | Opening remarks |
| Concurrent Sessions 19-20 | |
| 9:00 - 10:25 | Concurrent Symposium 19: Metamaterials & plasmonics Chair: Pavel Belov |
| 9:00-9:25 | Jason Yang; Membrane Type Acoustic Meta-materials |
| 9:25-9:40 | Roland Tarkhanian; Plasmon-Polaritons in Negative Index Gyromagnetic Media |
| 9:40-9:55 | Viktor Myroshnychenko; Modelling the Optical Response of Metal Nanoparticles |
| 9:55-10:10 | Brian Stout; Modelling of coupled resonant structures - Applications to Plasmonic and morphologic resonances |
| 10:10-10:25 | Alexander Dorofeenko; Filtering Evanescent waves and related phenomena |
| 9:00 - 10:25 | Concurrent Symposium 20: Non-linear and active media Chair: Alexander Popov |
| 9:00-9:25 | Georgios Kopidakis; Nonlinear Wave Propagation in Disordered Systems |
| 9:25-9:40 | Julian Sweet; Nonlinear Reflectivity of Fibonacci Quantum Wells |
| 9:40-9:55 | Andrey Sukhorukov; Slow-Light Dynamics in Nonlinear Periodic Waveguide Couplers |
| 9:55-10:10 | Vladimir Belotelov; Giant Transversal Kerr Effect in the Plasmonic Systems |
| 10:10-10:25 | Igor Nefedov; Amplification Characteristics of 2D Photonic Crystal Structure With Active Medium |
| 10:25 -10:55 | Coffee break |
| 10:55-11:25 | Concurrent Symposium 21: Nanomaterials & Plasmonics Chair: Peter Markos |
| 10:55-11:10 | Joachim Hermann; Supercontinuum generation in colloids containing silver nanoparticles |
| 11:10-11:25 | Ilya Ryzhikov; The role of nanopores in photoconductivity of CdSe-CdS granular films |
| 10:55-11:25 | Concurrent Symposium 22: POF Chair: George Tsironis |
| 10:55-11:10 | Vassilios Kovanis; Ultrafast Diode Lasers Via Strong Optical Injection |
| 11:10-11:25 | Andrew Docherty; Increased numerical aperture in air-clad microstructured polymer optical fiber using a split bridge cladding |
| 11:25-12:25 | Closing discussion |
| 14:00-16:00 | Session 1: Metamaterials School |
Saturday 13th June.
Metamaterials School continues
Tours - local and around the Islands