Plenary & Keynote Talks

Plenary Speakers

		The Two Conflicting Narratives of Metal-Optics Eli Yablonovitch, University of California, Berkeley, USA
		From Metamaterials to Metasystems to Metafunctions Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania, USA
		Applications of complex plasmonic structures in sensing and nonlinear optics Harald Giessen, University of Stuttgart, Germany
		Frontiers of Plasmonics: enabling new applications Naomi Halas, Rice University, USA

Keynote Speakers

		Close encounters between nanoantennas: Bridging quantum and classical plasmonics Javier Aizpurua, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Spain
		Controlling light propagation in plasmonic and metamaterial structures Yuri Kivshar, The Australian National University, Australia
		Plasmonic nanocavities: Validity of the classical description and non-local effects on the nm-scale, and new applications as plasmonic sinks Stefan Maier, Imperial College London, UK
		Spectral super-resolution in metamaterial composites Graeme Milton, University of Utah, USA
		Recent Progress in Photonic Crystals - From Dynamic Control to Solar Cells - Susumu Noda, Kyoto University, Japan
		Quantum plasmonics and plexcitonics Peter Nordlander, Rice University, USA
		fJ/bit nanophotonics for photonic network on chip Masaya Notomi, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan
		Inside the Wavelength: seeing really small objects with light John Pendry, Imperial College London, UK
		Advances in using EBG Structures in Antenna Engineering: From Fundamentals to Novel Recent Applications Yahya Rahmat-Samii, University of California Los Angeles, USA
		Negative Refraction and Light Bending with Plasmonic Nanoantennas Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue University, USA
		Boundary conditions for metasurfaces: idealization, materialization, realization Ari Sihvola, Aalto University, Finland
		Bringing gain in Metamaterials Costas M. Soukoulis, Ames Lab, Iowa State University, USA and IESL-FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
		From nano bumps to vertical U-shape three-dimensional gold nano-ring and toroidal metamaterials in optical region Din Ping Tsai, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
		Metamaterials for Defense Applications Augustine Urbas, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
		Recent Progress on Optical Metamaterials and Transformation Optics Martin Wegener, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany
		Exotic plasmonic crystals for nanophotonic applications Anatoly Zayats, King's College London, UK
		From Metamaterials to Metadevices Nikolay Zheludev, University of Southampton, UK

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