Symposium I: Hybrid Photonic and Plasmonic Materials for Sensing, Energy conversion and Imaging Applications

Symposium Co-Chairs

Xing Yi Ling Nanyang Technological University Singapore	Jérôme Plain Technological University of Troyes France	Alexander Govorov Ohio University, USA & University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

This Special Symposium focuses on both experimental and theoretical studies on optically active hybrid nanomaterials, such as semiconductors, metals, dielectrics, polymers, biomolecules, etc. The Symposium is dedicated to a wide range of fundamental investigations and applications of the optically active materials, including the bottom-up syntheses, top-down nanofabrication, chemical and physical examinations of new properties of such new hybrid optically active nanomaterials.  

The central issues to be addressed in the Symposium are new physical and chemical functionalities arising from novel nanostructure and/or interactions between nanoscale building blocks. Examples of functional nanomaterials include colloidal quantum dots, metal nanocrystals, layered structures, nanocrystal complexes, lithographic metastructures and metasurfaces, hybrid nanostructures, bio-assemblies of nanocrystals and dye molecules, bio-conjugates, etc. In addition, the studies on the applications of these novel hybrid nanomaterials in the field of biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering are welcomed.

Topics:

1. Plasmonic nanocrystal assemblies and metastructures with novel optical properties and applications;    
2. Chiral nanocrystals and metamaterials;    
3. Hybrid structures with exciton and plasmon resonances; quantum and classical regimes of interactions;    
4. New materials for optically active nanostructures, including Al and TiN;    
5. Hot plasmonic electrons in nanostructures;    
6. Time-resolved studies for fast and ultra-fast dynamics in plasmonic and excitonic systems, involving hot electrons, phonons and excitons;    
7. Quantum effects in plasmonic systems;       
8. Using nanocrystals to design and assemble optical meta-materials, meta-devices and meta-surfaces;    
9. Thermoplasmonics and photogeneration of heat in nanostructures;    
10. Hybrid nanomaterials for catalysis, solar energy conversion, photovoltaics, photochemistry and photocatalysis, CO2 and CO-related reactions;    
11. Hybrid nanomaterials for phototherapy, biophysics, biological sensing, bioimaging, and other biological applications;    
12. Hybrid nanomaterials for spectroscopic applications, including surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), Infrared, THz, super-resolution microscopy, and etc;    
13. Bio-assemblies of excitonic and plasmonic nanocrystals.
14. Photonic and plasmonic materials and arrays for structural colors;
15. Photonics and plasmonics with 2D materials.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

1. Pierre Michel Adam, University of Technology of Troyes, France
2. Ramon Alvarez-Puebla, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
3. Guillaume Bachelier, Neel Institute, France
4. Jean François Bardeau,  Le Mans Université, France
5. Alessandro Belardini, Università di Roma, Italy
6. Lucas Besteiro, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and INRS-Énergie, China/Canada
7. Vladimir Bochenkov, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
8. Anastasia Bochenkova, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
9. Sven Burger (Keynote Speaker), Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany
10. Sophie Camelio, PPrime institute, France
11. Roberto Caputo, University of Calabria, Italy
12. Gérard Colas des francs, Université Bourgogne-Franche Comté, France
13. Giulio Cerullo (Keynote Speaker), Politecnico di Milano, Italy
14. Huanjun Chen, Sun Yat-sen University, China
15. Jerome Claverie, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada
16. Miguel Correa-Duarte, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
17. Brendan G. DeLacy, U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, USA
18. Aurélien Drezet, Neel Insitute, France
19. Laura Fabris, Rutgers University, USA
20. Andrea Fratalocchi, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KSA
21. Davy Gérard, L2N - Technological University of Troyes, France
22.  Stephen Gray, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
23. Zhiqiang Guan, Wuhan University, China
24. Luca Guerrini, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
25. Yurii Gun'ko, Trinity College Dublin, reland
26. Amanda Haes, University of Iowa, USA
27. Hayk Harutyunyan, Emory University, USA
28. Pedro Hernandez Martinez, NTU, Singapore
29. Alexander Holleitner, Technical University of Munich, Germany
30. Tamitake Itoh, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
31. Safi Jradi, Technological University of Troyes, France
32. Affar Karimullah, University of Glasgow, UK
33. Manabu Kiguchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
34. Jae-Seung Lee, Korea University, Korea
35. Marina Leite, University of Maryland, USA
36. Shuzhou Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
37. Wei Li, Stanford University, USA
38. Johannes Lischner, Imperial College London, UK
39. Euclydes Marega Jr., University San Paulo, Brazil
40. Gil Markovich, Tel Aviv University, Israel
41. Egor Muljarov, Cardiff University, UK
42. Kei Murakoshi, Hokkaido University, Japan
43. Alberto Naldoni, Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Republic
44. Hiromi Okamoto, Institute for Molecular Science - Okazaki, Japan
45. Vincent Paillard, CEMES, France
46. Nicolas Pazos-Perez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
47. Yu Qiuming, University of Washington, USA
48. Luca Razzari, INRS-Énergie, Canada
    
49. Olivier Soppera, PHOTON / IS2M - CNRS UMR 7361, France
50. Gilles Tessier, Sorbonne Université, France
51. Kosei Ueno, Hokkaido University, Japan
52. Ventsislav Valev, University of Bath, UK
53. Pan Wang, King's College London, UK
54. Gary Wiederrecht, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
55. Rachel Won (Keynote Speaker), Nature Photonics, UK
56. Jiang Wu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
57. Wei Xie, Nankai University, China
58. Jianlin Yao, Soochow University, China
59. Sangwoon Yoon, Chung-Ang University, South Korea
60. Peng Yu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
61. Joel Yuen-Zhou, University of California San Diego, USA
62. Yu Zhang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Symposium II: New trends in nanophotonics and advanced materials

Symposium Chairs

Junsuk Rho POSTECH, Korea	Hakjoo Lee CAMM, Korea	Namkyoo Park Seoul National University Korea

This symposium will address the current trends in nanophotonics, metamaterials and metasurfaces, as well as their materials challenges and the best approaches for addressing them. It will also focus on novel applications and manufacturing techniques.

Topics:

1. Quantum nano-optics & optical antennas;
2. Nanophotonics for bio- and chemo-sensing applications;
3. Active and tunable optical metamaterials;
4. Nonlinear optics in nanostructures and metamaterials;
5. Metasurfaces & applications;
6. New plasmonic materials;
7. Nanomanipulation with light, optical trapping;
8. Nanophotonics for energy applications;
9. Theory and modelling for nanophotonics and metamaterials;
10. Topological photonics;
11. Graphene based metamaterials;
12. Elastic, Acoustic, and Seismic Metamaterials;
13. Novel nanofabrication and nanomanufacturing techniques;
14. Emeging applications and techniques.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

1. Ali Adibi, Georgia Tech, USA
2. Imad Agha, University of Dayton, USA
3. Amit Agrawal, NIST, USA
4. Nika Akopian, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
5. Mauro Antezza, Univerté Montpellier 2, France
6. Serkan Ates, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey
7. Mohamed Bakr, McMaster University, Canada
8. Paul Barclay, University of Calgary, Canada
9. Ali Belarouci, Nanotechnologies and Nanosystems Lab - CNRS, Canada
10. Henri Benisty, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, France
11. Fang Bo, Nankai University, China
12. Andrey Bogdanov, ITMO University, Russia
13. Patrick Bouchon, ONERA, France
14. Jean Sébastien Bouillard, University of Hull, UK
15. Alistair Brash, University of Sheffield, UK
16. Alberto Bramati, Pierre et Marie Curie University, France
17. Paul Braun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
18. Jorge Bravo-Abad, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
19. Pierre-Francois Brevet, University of Lyon, France
20. Daniele Brida, The University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
21. Lucia Caspani, University of Strathclyde, UK
22. David Castelló Lurbe, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
23. Debashis Chanda, University of Central Florida, USA
24. Nicolas Chauvet, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
25. Pavel Cheben, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada
26. Michele Celebrano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
27. Houtong Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
28. Shuqi Chen, Nankai University, China
29. Xuewen Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
30. Zhigang Chen, Nankai University, China & San Francisco State University, USA
31. Dmitry Chigrin, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
32. Yong-Hoon Cho, KAIST, Korea
33. Hyunyong Choi, Yonsei University, USA
34. Joonie Choi, Samsung, Korea
35. Young Chul Jun, UNIST, Korea
36. Matteo Clerici, University of Glasgow, UK
37. Andrea Colombi, Imperial College of London, UK
38. Aurelien Cuche, CEMES - CNRS, France
39. Angela Demetriadou, Imperial College London, UK
40. Hilmi Volkan Demir, NTU Singapore & Bilkent University UNAM, Turkey
41. Alfredo De Rossi, Thales Research and Technology, France
42. Nathalie Destouches, Université de Saint Etienne, France 
43. Andrea Di Falco, SUPA, Univ. of St Andrews, UK
44. Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, Université de Lille 1, France   
    
45. Péter Dombi, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungary
46. Glenna Drisko, ICMCB - Bordeaux, France
47. Mady Elbahri, Aalto University, Finland
48. Abdulhakem Elezzabi, Univeristy of Alberta, Canada
49. Cubukcu Ertugrul, University of California, San Diego, USA
50. Shaya Fainman, UCSD, USA
51. Andrea Fiore, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherland
52. Monika Fleischer, University of Tübingen, Germany
53. Kin Hung Fung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
54. Braulio García-Cámara, UC3M, Spain
    
55. Denis Garoli, IIT, Italy   
    
56. Dentcho Genov, Louisiana Tech University, USA
57. Daniel Gomez, RMIT University, Australia
58. Mayte Gomez Castano, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal - CNRS, France
59. Juan Sebastian Gomez-Diaz, University of California - Davis, USA
60. Thierry Grosjean, Femto-ST, France
61. Durdu Guney, Michigan Technological University, USA
62. Junpeng Guo, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
63.  Stephan Guy, Institut Lumière Matière, France
64. Trevor Hall, University of Ottawa,Canada
65. Qiong He, Fudan University, China
66. Richard Hobbs, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
    
67. Han Htoon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
68. Xiao Hu, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
69. Xinhua Hu, Fudan University, China
70. Diana Huffaker, Cardiff University, UK
71. Seong Chan Jun, Yonsei University, Korea
72. Kotaro Kajikawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
73. Andrei Kalish, Moscow State University, Russia
74.  Yukio Kawano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
75. Pieter Kik, CREOL, University of Central Florida, USA
76. Vasili Klimov, Lebedev's General Physics Institute, Russia
77. Alexey Kondratov, Institute of Crystallography, Russian Acad. Sci., Russia
78. Thomas Krauss (Keynote Speaker), York University, UK
79. Alexey Kuzmenko, University of Geneve, Switzerland
80. Byoungho Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
81. Jung-Yong Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
82. Geoffroy Lerosey, ESPCI, Fance
83. Tiefu Li, Tsinghua University, China
84. Xiaowei Li, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
85. Ziyuan Li, The Australian National University, Australia
86. Qiang Lin, University of Rochester, USA
87. Fang Liu, Tsinghua University, China
88. Haitao Liu, Nankai University, China
89. Hui Liu, Nanjing University, China
90. Shaoding Liu, Taiyuan University of Technology, China
91. Theobald Lohmüller, LMU Munich, Germany
92. Monica Lorenzon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
    
93. Geoffroy Lerosey, ESPCI, Fance
94. Marko Loncar, Harvard University, USA
95. Yungui Ma, Zhejiang University, China
96. Nicolo Maccaferri, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
97. Konstantinos Makris, University of Crete, Greece
98. Manuel Marques, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain   
    
99. Ferran Martin, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
100. Sadahiro Masuo, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
101. Tatsunosuke Matsui, Mie University, Japan
102. Agustin Mihi, ICMAB, Spain
103. Bumki Min, KAIST, Korea
104. Hiro Minamimoto, Hokkaido University, Japan
105. Khaled Mnaymneh, National Research Council, Canada
106. Roberto Morandotti, INRS-EMT, Canada
107. Yuto Moritake, Tokyo Tech, Japan
108. Dmitry Morozov, University of Glasgow, UK
109. Rajesh Nair,  IIT Ropar, India
110. Miguel Navarro-Cia, University of Birmingham, UK
111. Petr Nemec, Charles Uni Prague, Czech Republic
112. Yoshiaki Nishijima, Yokohama National University, Japan
113. Takashige Omatsu, Chiba University, Japan
114. Taiichi Otsuji, Tohoku University, Japan
115. Ekmel Ozbay, Bilkent University, Turkey
116. Roberto Paiella, Boston University, USA
117. Nam-Gyu Park (Keynote Speaker), Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
118. Namkyoo Park, Seoul National University, Korea
119. Yeonsang Park, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea
120. Isabel Pastoriza-Santos, University of Vigo, Spain
121. Dorota Pawlak, ITME, Poland
122. Mauricio Pilo-Pais, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
123. Alberto Pique, Naval Research Laboratory, USA   
     
124. Virginie Ponsinet, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal - CNRS, France
125. Alexander Poshakinskiy, Ioffe Institute, Russia
126. Marco Rahm, MMT Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
127. Carlos A. Ramos, University Paris Sud - CNRS, France
128. Ilya Razdolski, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany   
     
129. Fang-Fang Ren, Australian National University, Australian
130. Xifeng Ren, University of Science and Technology of China, China
131. Anna Ritcey, Université de Laval, Canada
132. Carlo Rizza, CNR-SPIN (L'Aquila), Italy
133. Ovidio Rodríguez-Peña, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
134. Carste Ronning, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität (FSU) Jena, Germany
135. Sergey Rudin, US Army Research Laboratory, USA
136. Viktoriia Rutckaia, Martin Luther University of Halle Wittenberg, Germany
137. Mikhail Rybin, ITMO University, Russia
138. Kazuaki Sakoda, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
139. Anton Samusev, ITMO University, Russia
140. Luca Sapienza, University of Southampton, UK
141. Christophe Sauvan, Institut d’Optique Palaiseau, France
142. Ivan Savenko, Institute for Basic Science, South Korea
     
143. Vincenzo Savona, EPFL, Switzerland
144. Peter Schmelcher, Hamburg University, Germany
145. Kaushik Sengupta, Princeton University, USA
146. Tigran Shahbazyan, Jackson State University, USA
147. Lei Shao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
148. Matthew Sheldon, Texas A&M, USA
149. Jonghwa Shin, KAIST, Korea
150. Christophe Silien, University of Limerick, Ireland
151. David R. Smith (Keynote Speaker), Duke University, USA
152. Alessio Stefani, University of Sydney, Australia
153. Andrzej Stupakiewicz, University of Bialystok, Poland
154. Fang-Wen Sun, University of Science and Technology of China, China
155. Jae-Yong Suh, Michigan Technological University, USA
156. Clementine Symonds, Université de Lyon, France
157. Junichi Takahara, Osaka University, Japan
158. Takasumi Tanabe, Keio University, Japan
159. Sébastien Tanzilli, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
160. Motonobu Tomoda, Hokkaido University, Japan
161. Johann Toudert, ICFO, Spain
     
162. Costas Valagiannopoulos, Nazarbaev University, Kazakhstan
163. Thierry Verbiest, KU Leuven, Belgium
164. Sorger Volker, George Washington University, USA
165. Frank Vollmer, University of Exeter, UK
166. Jian Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
167. Rongyao Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
168. Hong Wei, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
169. Jeong Weon Wu, Ewha Womens University, Korea
170. Esther Wertz, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
171. William Whelan-Curtin, University of St Andrews, UK
172. Thomas T. Y. Wong, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
173. Zi Jing Wong, Texas A&M, USA
174. Jun Jun Xiao, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
175. Qing-Hua Xu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
176. Xianfan Xu, Purdue University, USA
177. Taka-aki Yano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
178. Ta-Jen Yen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
179. Luo Yu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
180. Alexey Yulin, National Research University - ITMO, Russia
181. Weili Zhang, Oklahoma State University, USA
182. Lin Zhou, Nanjing University, China
183. Linjie Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
184. Wei Zhou, Virginia Tech, USA
185. Jie Zhu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
186. Val Zwiller, KTH, Sweden

Symposium III: Advanced passive and active metasurfaces

Symposium Co-Chairs

Howard Lee Baylor University and Texas A&M USA	Din Ping Tsai Academia Sinica Taiwan and National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Metasurfaces are arrays of subwavelength anisotropic light scatters (optical antennas) that can produce abrupt changes in the phase, amplitude, or polarization of light. Within last few years significant progress, design of metasurfaces that refract and focus light, enabling many unique properties and applications such as holograms, optical vortex generation/detection, ultrathin focusing lens, perfect absorber, etc.

This symposium will cover the fundamental principles and technological applications of metasurfaces, and particularly aim to explore on new materials, structures, and advanced optical science/functionality of metasurfaces for applications spanning from imaging system, bio/chemical sensing, energy harvesting devices, communication system, and data storage.

Topics:

1. Active metasurfaces (via electrical, thermal, optomechanical, optical controls, etc);
2. Nonlinear metasurfaces;
3. Quantum metasurfaces;
4. New materials for metasurfaces (e.g., 2D materials, oxides/nitrides, phase-change materials, high-index dielectrics);
5. Passive metasurfaces with advanced optical properties and functionalities;
6. Deep-learning design for metasurfaces;
7. Metasurfaces for advanced optical imaging;
8. New applications of metasurfaces.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

1. Koray Aydin, Northwestern University, USA
2. Viktoriia Babicheva, University of Arizona, USA
3. Mark Brongersma (Keynote Speaker), Stanford University, USA
4. Artur Davoyan, UCLA, USA
5. Matthew Escarra, Tulane University, USA
6. Andrei Faraon, California Institute of Technology, USA
   
7. Jesse Frantz, Naval Research Lab, USA
8. Shangjr (Felix) Gwo, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan
9. Ortwin Hess, Imperial College London, UK
10. Chen-Bin (Robin) Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
11. Min Seok Jang, KAIST, Korea
12.  Yongmin Liu, Northeastern University, USA
13. Zhaowei Liu, University of California San Diego, USA
14. Stefan Maier (Keynote Speaker), Imperial College London, UK
15. Andrea Marini, University of L'Aquila and Institute for Complex Systems (ISC-CNR), Italy
16. Peinan Ni, CNRS, France
17. Diane Roth, King's College London, UK
18. Qijie Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
19. Shiyi Xiao, Shanghai Univerisity, China
20. Jingyi Yang, Baylor University, USA
21. Yuanmu Yang, Tsinghua University, China
22. Nanfang Yu, Columbia University, USA
23. Zongfu Yu, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA

Symposium IV: Chirality, magnetism, and magnetoelectricity: Separate phenomena and joint effects in metamaterial structures Symposium Co-Chairs Eugene Kamenetskii Ben Gurion University of the Negev Israel Tetsuya Ueda Kyoto Institute of Technology Japan Andrey Miroshnichenko UNSW Canberra @ ADFA Australia Chirality, magnetism, magnetoelectricity – three types of different phenomena. Whether they can be exhibited as joint effects, both in optics and microwaves? The goal of this session is to discuss such joint effects in metamaterial structures in a view of different aspects of the field-matter interaction. An incomplete list of topics suggested for discussions is the following: Topics: Chiral dichroism and magnetism; Chirality and magnetoelectricity; Chirality, magnetism, and topology; Time-reversal and space-inversion symmetry breakings and non-reciprocity; Magneto-plasmonic and magnonic metamaterial structures; Matter interaction with twisted EM fields; Magnetoelectric structures and magnetoelectric fields. Confirmed Invited Speakers: Lech Tomasz Baczewski, Institute of Physics Polish Acad. Sci., Poland Peter Banzer, Max Planck Institute Science of Light, Germany Gerrit Bauer, Tohoku University, Japan Jamal Berakdar, Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Konstantin Bliokh (Keynote Speaker), Theoretical Quantum Physics Laboratory - Riken, Japan Stefan Blügel, Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-1), Germany Stefano Bonetti, Stockholm University, Sweden Lykourgos Bougas, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany Mojtaba Dehmollaian, University of Tehran, Iran Alexandre Dmitriev, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Shuai Dong, Southeast University, Nanjing, China Kathrin Dörr, Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Vladimir Drachev, University of North Texas, USA and Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia. Manfred Fiebig (Keynote Speaker), ETH Zurich, Switzerland Marco Finazzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Yuri Gorodetski, Ariel University, Israel Alexander Govorov, Ohio University, USA Kun Huang, University of Sci. & Technol - USTC, China Hajime Ishihara, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan Malcolm Kadodwala, University of Glasgow, UK Eugene Kamenetskii, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel István Kézsmárki, University of Augsburg, Germany Jaroslaw Klos, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland Harish Krishnaswamy, Columbia University, USA Pedro Landeros, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile Martin McCall, Imperial College London, UK Masahito Mochizuki, Waseda University, Japan Yuriy Mokrousov, Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-1), Germany Maxim Mostovoy, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Shuichi Murakami, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Alto Osada, The University of Tokyo, Japan Yossi Paltiel, The Hebrew University, Israel Deng Pan, The Barcelona Inst. of Sci. and Techn., Spain Felipe Pérez-Rodríguez, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico Alessandro Pitanti, NEST - Istituto Nanoscienze, Italy Jérôme Plain, Université de technologie de Troyes, France Igor Proskurin, University of Manitoba, Canada Alexander Pyatakov, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia Jingbo Qi, Univ. of Electronic Sci. and Technol. of China, China Ilie Radu, Max-Born Inst. Nonlinear Opt., Germany Björn Reinhard, Boston University, USA Junsuk Rho (Keynote Speaker), POSTECH, Korea Nir Rotenberg, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Barry Sanders, University of Calgary, Canada Masahiro Sato, Ibaraki University, Japan Ryuichi Shindou, Peking University, China Youtarou Takahashi, The University of Tokyo, Japan Akihito Takeuchi, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan Takuo Tanaka, RIKEN - Metamaterials Laboratory, Japan Satoshi Tomita, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Juan Enrique Vázquez-Lozano, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Ewold Verhagen, AMOLF, The Netherlands Xiang Rong Wang, Hong Kong Univ. Sci. & Technol., China Zuojia Wang, Shandong University, China Peng Yan, Univ. of Electronic Sci. and Technol. of China, China Youichi Yanase, Kyoto University, Japan