XIV INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL “NICOLÁS CABRERA”

FRONTIERS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:

NANO-PHOTONICS AND OPTICS

Miraflores de la Sierra, Residencia La Cristalera, 17-21 September 2007

SPONSORED BY:

Fundación BBVA

Instituto Madrileno de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 

DIRECTORS:

J.J. Sáenz (INC, MOLE Group, UAM)

F.J. García-Vidal, (INC, UAM)

Secretary: Silvia Albaladejo ( MOLE Group, UAM)

OBJECTIVES

The aim of this school is to introduce some relevants topics in nanophotonics to young physics and graduate students.

PROGRAM

Nanophotonics using channel plasmon polaritons

Light in Tiny Holes: Fundamentals and Applications

Scattering of light and surface plasmons by surface corrugations

Mastering optical near fields in nanostructured materials

Magneto-optical effects in plasmonic nanostructures

Bending Back Light: The Science of Negative Index Materials

General Relativity in Electrical Engineering (Metamaterials)

Single molecule fluorescence in nanoscopic environments

Optical Spectroscopy of Hybrid Nanocrystal Systems

Semiconductor nanostructures as components for quantum optics

Optical antennas for field enhanced microscopy and spectroscopy

Controlling single photon emitters in space and time

Transport and fluctuations in strongly scattering colloidal assemblies

Near Field Optical Nanoscopic 

Photonic Forces in the Near Field 

Photonic nanostructures based on Coloids

Single Quantum Dot Spectroscopy

Surface Plasmon Resonances in Metal Nanoparticle Colloids

Molecular chemosensors based on nanostructured metal surfaces: SERS (raman), SEIRA (infrared) and SEF (fluorescence)

Surface waves generated by subwavelength slits

Surface plasmon optics on metal nano-structures

Photonic crystals and glasses by self assembly

Solar Cells Coupled to Photonic Crystals

Photonic crystals: fabrication and applications of ordered micro and nanostructures by electrochemical etching

Optical anysotropic, light scattering and birrefringenceof nanowires and nanorods

Nano and micro quadratic nonlinear optics

Plasmon Nano-Optics: from the manipulation of light at the nanoscale to the manipulation with light of nanoobjects

Optical tools in Molecular Imaging

LECTURERS

Sajeev John(Univ. of Toronto, Canada) 
 
Sergey Bozhevolnyi(Univ. Aallborg, Denmark)

Thomas Ebbesen (Univ. Louis Pasteur, France)

Luis Martin-Moreno (Univ.de Zaragoza, Spain) 

Javier Garcia de Abajo (IO-CSIC, Spain)

Gaspar Armelles (IMM-CSIC,Spain)

Costas Soukoulis (Iowa State University, USA)

Ulf Leonhardt(Univ. of St Andrews, UK)

Remi Carminati(Ecole Centrale Paris, France)

Jochen Feldmann (Univ. Munchen, Germany)

Carlos Tejedor (Univ. Autonoma Madrid, Spain)

Javier Aizpurua (D.I.P.C, Spain)

Niek F. Van Hulst (ICFO, Spain)

Frank Scheffold (Univ.Fribourg, Switzerland)

Rainer Hillenbrand (Max-Planck Inst., Germany

Manuel Nieto Vesperinas (ICMM-CSIC, Spain)

Francisco Meseguer (ICMM-CSIC/UPV, Spain)

Paul Mulvaney (Univ. Melbourne, Australia)

Luis Liz-Marzan(Univ. de Vigo, Spain)

Concha Domingo(IEM- CSIC, Spain)

Philippe Lalanne (CNRS, France)

Jose A. Sanchez-Gil (IEM- CSIC, Spain)

Cefe Lopez ((ICMM-CSIC, Spain)

Hernan Miguez (ICMSE , Spain)

Lluis Marsal (Univ. Rovira i Virgili, Spain)

Jaime Gomez Rivas (AMOLF,The Netherlands)

Jordi Martorell (ICFO, Spain)

Maria Ujue (ICFO, Spain)

Jorge Ripoll (FORTH, Greece)