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COST MP0702 Training School on Nonlinear Nanophotonics
March 23-25, 2009
 
SUPELEC is pleased to welcome the Training School on Nonlinear Nanophotonics in the frame of the European Action COST MP0702 “Towards Functional Sub-Wavelength Photonic Structures”.
 
Motivation and goals
 
The first aim of the training school is to provide early stage researchers (ESR) advanced knowledge on both fundamental issues and recent scientific and industrial breakthroughs in the emerging field of nonlinear nanophotonics. The recent developments of metamaterials, 2D and 3D photonic crystal waveguides, plasmonics, quantum dot lasers and amplifiers have called for contributions to new physical modelling, advanced mathematical and numerical simulation tools, multidisciplinary technological skills to which most of master, PhD students and early stage researchers are yet not familiar. The applications to optical communications, data storage, laser spectroscopy, THz generation are numerous and the tremendous efforts in European networking, including COST actions, will make possible the transition from research lab demonstrators to industrial products in the coming years. A common aspect of all modern active and passive photonic components is their intrinsically strong nonlinear light properties which lead to nonlinear propagation, nonlinear dynamics, slow light buffering properties and light localization (soliton) effects. Time has come to coordinate our pedagogical efforts and knowledge of future, emerging technologies and market needs towards the education of next generation photonic makers taking advantage of these modern scientific breakthroughs.
 
Scientific Committee
 
Delphine Wolfersberger, co-chair & organizer (SUPELEC, France)
Marc Sciamanna, co-chair & organizer (SUPELEC, France)
Marian Marciniak, COST MP0702 chair (Univ. Warsaw, Poland)
Concita Sibilia, COST MP0702 co-chair (Univ. La Sapienza, Italy)
Trevor Benson (University of Nottingham, UK)
Maurizio Ferrari (Univ. degli studi di Trento, Italy)
Nigel Johnson (Univ. Glasgow, UK)
Tomasz Szoplik (Univ. Warsaw, Poland)
Bozena Jaskorzynska (KTH, Sweden)
Bjorn Maes (Univ. Gent, Belgium)
Stefano Taccheo (Swansea University, UK)
Krassimir Panajotov (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
John McInerney (Univ. Cork, Ireland)
Ramon Vilaseca (UPC, Spain)
Yuri Kivshar (ANU, Australia)
 
List of lecturers
 

Kanna Aoki, Universita del Salento, Italy
Progresses in 3D photonic crystal research

Jean-Pierre Huignard, THALES, France
Nonlinear and adaptive Optics - Applications to laser beam control

Martin Wegener, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Photonic Metamaterials: Optics Starts Walking on Two Feet

Roberto Macovez, ICFO - Barcelona, Spain
Quadratic nonlinear light generation in micro- and nano-structured systems

Bouchta Sahraoui, University of Angers, France
Molecular nonlinear optics : basic aspects & applications

John McInerney, University College Cork, Ireland
NL dynamics quantum dot lasers

Ady Arie, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Beam transformation & control using NL photonic crystals

Mauro Perreira, Sheffield Hallam University, U.K.
Intersubband semiconductor optics

Oksana Shramkova, Institute for Radiophysics & Electronics, Ukraine
Nonlinear processes of the dielectric and semiconductor layered periodic structures

Pavel Ivanov, University of Bristol, U.K.
High performance computing for photonics science

 
Agenda
 
The training school program will start on Monday March 23 at 9h00 and will end on Wednesday March 25 at 18h00. The final training school program is now available online. The training school will be followed by the conference A Future in Light, on March 26-27 (separate registration).
 
Registration
 
Thanks to a support from COST, the registration fee is limited to the payment of the grouped meal expenses (buffet lunch), i.e. 60 € in total for the three-day school program.

Registration will be opened until March 13, 2009! Payment or proof that the payment has been processed must be sent to us by that deadline.

To register, please:

1/ fill the registration form and fax it back to us at 0033-387-374700. The registration form includes instructions for payment of the 60 € registration fees (by bank transfer or credit card)

2/ if you wish to be reimbursed by COST for your travel and stay expenses, according to the COST rules for reimbursement, please then send a request for COST reimbursement to Marian Marciniak, COST MP0702 action chair, at the email address M.Marciniak@itl.waw.pl with cc to the organizers Delphine.Wolfersberger@supelec.fr and Marc.Sciamanna@supelec.fr. Reimbursement is limited to 50 training school participants (additional to the list of lecturers).