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12 May, 2015
ETOPIM 10 ― tentative program
Sunday 21 June 2015
Arrival at the conference hotel from 12:00 (noon)
19:00 Reception and buffet dinner; perhaps some opening remarks
Monday 22 June 2015
07:00 Breakfast
08:30—10:00 Morning session I
08:3009:00 Welcome and opening remarks
09:0009:50 Mathias Fink, “Manipulating spatial boundaries or time boundaries? An alternative to time-reversal
mirror” (invited)
10:00—10:20 Coffee and cold drinks
10:20—13.00 Morning session II
10:20-11:10 Alexandra Boltasseva, “Plasmonic Ceramics for Practical Nanophotonic Devices” (invited)
11:1012:00 Allard Mosk , “Shaped wavefronts and speckle correlations: A window into opaque media” (invited)
12:00-12:30 Andrej Cherkaev, “Amazing structures of Multicompoment optimal composites”
12:30-13:00 Elena Cherkaev, “Spectral function of composites and eigenvalues of random matrices”
13:00 Light lunch and rest and informal discussions
15:00—17:40 Afternoon session I
15.00-15.50 Ad Lagendijk, “Finite-size scaling of the density of states in a 3D photonic band gap” (invited)
15:50-16:10 François Willot, “The effective conductivity of some 2D random media with strongly nonlinear laws
and dilute concentration of inclusions”
16:10-16.30 Alexander Baryshev, “Plasmonic photonic-crystal slab as an ultarasensitive and robust optical
biosensor”
16:30-16:50 Hong Cheng, “Transport Properties of Disordered Photonic Crystals around Dirac and Dirac-like
Points”
16:50- 17:10 Adrian Girchik, “New Insights on coherent wave transmission through disordered systems”
17:10—17:40 Half hour intermission with coffee and cake/cookies
17:40—18:40 Afternoon session II
17:40- 18:20 Valentin Freilikher, “Dark Modes in Open Disordered Media: Analytical, Numerical and Experimental
Results” (invited)
18:20-19:00 David McLachlan, “The Complex Permeability of a Binary Paramagnetic and Diamagnetic Composite
System” (invited)
19:00- 19:20 Alexander Figotin, “On Selective Overdamping Phenomena in Gyroscopic-Dissipative Composites”
19:30 Dinner
21:00 Talk about history and archaeology of the Holy Land
Tuesday 23 June 2015
07:00 Breakfast
08:30—10.20 Morning session I
08:30-09:20 Ulf Leonhardt, “Transformation Optics”. (invited)
09:20-09:40 Amos Sharoni, “High Resolution Hall Measurement across the Phase Separated Metal-Insulator
Transition in VO2“
09:40-10:00 Yakov Strelniker, “Surface Plasmon Driven Strong Angular Anisotropy of Voigt and Kerr Effects in
Periodic Metal-dielectric Metamaterials”
10:00-10:20 Michael Danziger, “Interdependent resistor network with process-driven dependency”
10.20—10.40 Coffee and cold drinks available
10:40—13.00 Morning session II
10:40-11:30 Richard Berkovits, “Entanglement Properties and Quantum Phase Transitions in Interacting Disordered
One Dimensional Systems” (invited)
11:30-12:10 David Bergman, “Eigenstates of the full Maxwell equations” (invited)
12:10-12:30 Parry Chen, “Retrieving the Polarizability Tensor of Wire Media”
12:30-13:00 Konstantin Simovski, “Unusual eigenmodes in arrays of metal nanoantennas and their application in
photovoltaics”
13:00 Light lunch and rest and informal discussions
15:00—18:00 Afternoon session
15:00 -15:50 Alexandre Aubry, Invited 50 min “Full transmission, reflection and trapping of waves through a maze
of disorder” (invited)
15:50 -16:30 Patrick Sebah, “Random Lasers under Control?” (invited)
16:30—17:00 Half hour intermission with coffee and cake/cookies
17:00-17:20 George Kopidakis, “Localization and Propagation in Nonlinear Disordered Systems”
17:20 -17:40 Yuri Godin, “Transport properties of periodic nanostructures”
17:40-18:00 Alexander Merzlikin, “Propagation of light polarization through randomly anisotropic layered system”
18:00- 18:30 Business meeting of the International ETOPIM Society
18:30 Poster session and 3-minutes mini-talks by poster authors
1. Itay Griniasty, Ulf Leonhardt, “Casimir forces in inhomogeneous media: towards a workable regularization”
2. Anatoly V. Khomenko, C.I. García-Gil, R. Salas-Montiel, V.A. Verdugo-Gutiérrez, and M.A. García-Zárate, “Second
order nonlinear response of gold nanorods on surface-relief silicon diffraction gratings”
3. Galina Kraftmakher, Valery Butylkin, and Yuri Kazantsev, “Metastructures ferrite plate/varactor loaded
conductive resonant elements to achieving magnetic and fast electric control of microwave nonreciprocal
transmission”
4. Ohad Levy, Elena Cherkaev, “Effective medium approximations for anisotropic composites with arbitrary
component orientation”
5. Aaron Welters, Alex Figotin, “On Selective Overdamping Phenomena in Gyroscopic-Dissipative Composites:
additional aspects”
6. Gregory Samelsohn, “Straightening the Lines:Transmission Tomography of Scattering Structures”
7. Abdallah Bassam, Francois Willot, and Dominique Jeulin, “Stokes flow through a Boolean model of spheres;
Representative Volume Element”
8. Sergey Moiseev, Vladimir Ostatochnikov,“Resonance Splitting Effect in One-Dimensional Photonic Crystal with
Nanocomposite Layer”
9. Patrick Sebbah, G. Lefebvre, M. Dubois, R. Beauvais, Y. Achaoui, R. K. Ing, E. Bossy, S. Enoch, and S. Guenneau,
“Focusing Lamb Waves in Structured Plates”
20:00 Dinner
Wednesday 24 June 2015
07:00 Breakfast
08:30—10:30 Morning session I
08:30-09:20 Moti Segev, “Emulation of General Relativistic Effect in Optical Settings” (invited)
09:20-10:10 Graeme Milton, “Bounds on the transient response of two-component composites” (invited)
10:10-10:30 Maria Kafesaki, “THz wave control through chiral metamaterials”
10.30—10.50 Coffee and cold drinks
10:50—12:50 Morning session II
10:50-11:30 Costas Soukoulis, “Broadband terahertz Generation from Metamaterials” (invited)
11:30-12:20 Vladimir Shalaev, “Bringing Metamaterials to Real-Life Applications: New Approaches& material
Platforms” (invited)
12:20—12:50 Landauer Medals awarded by the ETOPIM Society to Costas Soukoulis and Vladimir Shalaev
13:00 Light lunch
14:00 Afternoon half day tour of Old Jerusalem; dinner at a restaurant in Old Jerusalem
Thursday 25 June 2015
07:00 Breakfast
08:30—10:40 Morning session I
08:30-09:20: Sebastien Guenneau, “Seismic Meta-materials” (invited)
09:20-10:00 Andrey Sarychev, “Thermal instability in quantum plasmonics” (invited)
10:00-10:40 Ruben Barrera Invited, “Extended-Fresnel Formulas for Turbid Colloids: Theory and Experiment”
(invited)
10:40—11:00 Coffee and cold drinks
11:00—13:00 Morning session II
11:00-11:40 Pavel Belov, “Nonlocality in metamaterials” (invited)
11:40-12:00 Nireekshan Kothakapu Reddy, “Nonlinear Wave Mixing in Plasmonic Structures: A Transformation
Optics Approach”
12:00-12:20 Carlos Pecharroman, “Magnetically Tunable Composites Exhibiting a Pseudo Plasmonic Resonance”
12:20-12:40 Roland Tarkhanyan, “Enhancement of thermoelectric figure of merit ZT in nano- to micro-scale porous
composites”
12:40-13:00 Valery Losovski, “The self-consistent approach to study optical properties of nanocomposite films”
13:00 Light lunch and rest and informal discussions
15:00—17:00 Afternoon session I
15:00-15:40 Pavel Ginzburg, “Near-field Interference for Signal Routing on Nanoscale” (invited)
15:40-16:00 Michael Golosovsky, “Surface plasmon and guided wave propagation in live cell monolayer”
16:00-16:20 Elena Chaikina, “Optical platform for the study of the interaction of surface plasmon-polaritons with
surface feature”
16:20-16:40 Eugenio Mendez, “Second harmonic generation by metallic nanowires”
16:40-17:00 Alexander Shushinsky, “Interwoven conductor arrays for metasurfaces and light impedance surfaces”
17:00—17:30 Half hour intermission with coffee and cake/cookies
17:30—19:10 Afternoon session II
17:30-18:10 Andrej Stashkevich, “Arrays of ultra-thin Co nanowires: negative refraction magneto-optical
metamaterial” (invited)
18:10-18:30 Igor Lubchanskii, “One-dimensional photonic-magnonic structures”
18:30-18:50 Vladimir Mityushev, “Effective properties of 2D random composites”
18:50-19:20 Yonatan Sivan, “Nanoparticle-assisted STED, theory and experimental demonstration”
20:00 Festive dinner; some after dinner talks
Friday 26 June 2015
07:00 Breakfast
08:30—10:10 Morning session I
08:30-09:20 Ross McPhedran, “Cloaking and Dirac Cones with Flexural Waves” (invited)
09:20-10:10 Ping Sheng, “Hybrid resonances and the perfect absorption of low frequency sound” (invited)
10:10—10:30 Coffee and cold drinks
10:30—11:40 Morning session II
10:30-10:10 Alexander Popov, “Coherent Nonlinear Optics and Frequency Conversion in Spatially negativelydispersive metamaterials: Extraordinary and Counterintuitive” (invited)
10:10-10:30 Felix Izrailev, “Spectral and Transport Properties of PT-Symmetric Quarter Stacks”
10:30-11:00 Dominique Jeulin, “Modeling the Porous Nanostructure and Transport Properties of Electrodes from
3D Full Field FFT Calculation”
11:00-11:20 Francesco Utel, “Monte Carlo modeling of chitin random network in ultrawhite beetle scales”.
11:20-11:40 Özgür Selsil, “Active Cloaking of Coated inclusions in Resonant regimes for Membrane and Flexural
Waves”
11:40-12:00 Asaf Farhi, “Non-quasi-static eigenstates of Maxwell’s equations in a two-constituent composite
medium and their application to a calculation of the local electric field of a time dependent point charge”
12:00 Conference closing ceremony and light lunch
Friday noon until sometime Monday 29 June — Post conference tour of Galilee for participants
who enrolled previously. Interested participants should indicate their interest without delay on
the registration link in the conference home page so as to enable a detailed tour program
including prices to be formulated. This tour will leave from the conference hotel and end in Tel
Aviv and/or Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV) sometime Monday 29 June.