Invited Speakers (partial list)
1. Prof. S. I. Bozhevolnyi, University of Aalborg, Denmark, “Channeling surface plasmons”
2. Prof. B. Chichkov, Laser Zentrum Hannover, Germany, "Rapid laser prototyping of plasmonic components"
3. Prof. A. Kavokin, Univ. of Southampton, UK, “New discoveries in physics of exciton polaritons”
4. Prof. E. Mazur, Harvard University, USA, "Wrapping light around a hair"
5. Dr. A. Sarychev, Ethertronics Inc., San Diego, California, USA, “Metal Nanoantennas and Left Handed Materials in Optics”
6. Prof. V. Shalaev, Purdue University, USA , “Negative-Index Metamaterials: Going Optical”
7. Dr. L.P. Shi, DSI, Singapore , “Surface plasmon in super resolution near field optical recording”
8. Dr. M. Shneyder, Princeton University, USA, “Neutral Molecular Ensembles In Optical Lattices”
9. Prof. X. F. Xu, Purdue University, USA , “Nano-lithography using Ridged Apertures”
10. Prof. E. A. Vinogradov, Institute of Spectroscopy, Troizk, Russia , "Ultrafast Photoinduced Response on Semiconductor Microcavity Modes Frequencies"
11. Prof. A. V. Zayats, Queen`s University Belfast, UK , “Surface Plasmon Polaritonic Crystals and their Application”
12. Prof. Adela Ben-Yakar, University of Texas at Austin, USA, "Plasmonic-assisted femtosecond laser ablation and surgery at the nanoscale."
13. Prof. F. J. Garcia-Vidal, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, “How light emerges from an illuminated array of subwavelength holes”
14. Prof. H. X. Xu, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, China , "Single molecule surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy on complex metal nanostructures"
15. Prof. J. Krenn, Institute of Physics Karl Franzens University Graz, Austria, "'Surface plasmon waveguides and resonators'”
16. Prof. M. I. Stockman, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA , “Nanoplasmonics: Generation and Control of Nanoscale Optical Fields”
17. Prof. D. P. Tsai, Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, “Plasmonic Nanophotonics: from nano imaging to storage and lithography"
18. Prof. N. Zheludev, University of Southampton, UK , "Photonic Flatland"
19. Prof. O. J. F. Martin, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, "Plasmonics: controlling light propagation and enhancement at the nanoscale"
20. Prof. A. Zakhidov, UTD NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, USA, "Transparent Carbon Nanotube Sheets Coated by Metals: Plasmonic and Electrical Properties"
21. Dr. R. Quidant, Institute of Photonic Science, Barcelona, Spain , “Plasmon nano-optics: manipulating spatially and spectrally the optical near-field"
22. Prof. H. Heinzelmann, Cente Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique, Switzerland, "Plasmonics for next generation optical components"
23. Prof. L. Martin-Moreno, University of Zaragoza, Spain , "Scattering of surface plasmon polaritons by indentations"
24. Prof. H. Atwater, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, "Plasmonics: A Route to Nanoscale Optical Devices"
25. Prof. V. V. Klimov, P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia , “Controlling the optical properties of atoms and molecules with plasmonic nanobodies”
26.Prof. M. Käll, Centre for Biophysical Imaging Department of Applied Physics Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, "Combining optical forces with nanoplasmonics"
27.Dr. C. Genet, ISIS, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg France, "Optical properties of metallic nanohole arrays"
28. Prof. D. Bäuerle, Institut für Angewandte Physik, Johannes-Kepler-Universität, Linz, Austria, "Laser processing and optical properties of coated 2d-colloidal monolayers"
29. Prof. U. Fischer, Physikalisches Institut Universität Münster, Münster, Germany, "The role of surface plasmons in near field microscopy"
30 Dr. Bruce Terris, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies San Jose Research Center, USA "Plasmonic devices for high density data storage"
31. Prof. Mitsuteru Inoue, Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Eng., Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan ,"Magneto-optic spatial light modulator with magnetophotonic crystals for collinear holography"
32. Dr W. Marine, Faculte des Sciences de Luminy, Marseille, France, "Nanohybrid Materials for Biophotonics"
33. Prof. Dr. Lukas M. Eng, Institute of Applied Photophysics (IAPP), University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, "Stimulated Plasmon Amplification and electrical Plasmon generation in smart metal nanostructures"
34 Prof. V.Veselago, General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia, "Light pressure in negative refraction materials"
35. Prof. Ildar Gabitov, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona,Tucson, USA, "Ultrashort optical pulse dynamics in double resonance nanostructured materials"
36. Prof. M. Brongersma, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials,Stanford University, USA, "Plasmonics: The missing Link between Nano-electronics and Micro-photonics".
37. Prof. Ignacy Gryczynski, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, USA, "Plasmon Enhanced Fluorescence near Metallic Nanostructures:Biochemical Applications of Plasmon Enhanced Fluoresce".
38. Prof Ai-Qun Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, " Light tuning by light via surface mode of photonic bandgap (PBG) cavity structures".
39. Dr. Xiaodi Su, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore, " Surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy for studying bimolecular interactions."
40. Prof. J. Tominaga, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, " Localized light focusing by chalcogenide films".
41. Prof. A. Polman, Center for Nanophotonics, FOM-Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, "Surface plasmon generation, propagation and detection".