23 June, 2015
ETOPIM 10 ― Final Program
Sunday 21 June 2015
Arrival at the conference hotel starting 12:00 (noon); a dairy bar will be available with payment.
16:00-19:00 Informal mixing reception with light refreshments
19:30 Dinner and some opening remarks
Monday 22 June 2015
07:00 Breakfast
08:30—10:00 Morning session I; Chair: David Bergman
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; Chair: Graeme Milton
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; Chair: Andrej Cherkaev
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 cookies
17:40—18:40 Afternoon session II; Chair: Elena Cherkaev
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 Aaron Welters, “On Selective Overdamping Phenomena in Gyroscopic-Dissipative Composites”
19:30 Dinner
21:00 Talk about history and archaeology of the Holy Land by Reuven Kalifon, “Invention of
the alphabet, authorship of the Old Testament, modern revival of the Hebrew language”
Tuesday 23 June 2015
07:00 Breakfast
08:30—10.20 Morning session I; Chair: Valentin Freilikher
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; Chair: Alexander Merzlikin
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—18:20 Afternoon session; Chair: Yakov Strelniker
15:00 -15:50 Alexandre Aubry, “Full transmission, reflection and trapping of waves through a maze of disorder”
(invited)
15:50 -16:30 Patrick Sebbah, “Random Lasers under Control?” (invited)
16:30—17:00 Half hour intermission with coffee and 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”
18:00-18:20 Haim Suchowski, “Predicting nonlinear properties of metamaterials from the linear response”
18:20- 18:50 Business meeting of the International ETOPIM Society; all conference
participants may participate
18:50 Poster session and 3-minutes mini-talks by poster authors; Chair: özgür Selsil
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. 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”
9. Jane O'Neill, Ö. Selsil, R. C. McPhedran, A. B. Movchan, N. V. Movchan, and C. Henderson Mogach, "Active
Cloaking of Clamped Voids and Coated Inclusions in Membranes and Kirchhoff Plates"
20:00 Dinner
Wednesday 24 June 2015
07:00 Breakfast
08:30—10:30 Morning session I; Chair: Alexander Schuchinsky
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 George Kenanakis, “THz wave control through chiral metamaterials”
10.30—10.50 Coffee and cold drinks
10:50—13:00 Morning session II; Chair: Ross McPhedran
10:50-11:40 Costas Soukoulis, “Broadband terahertz Generation from Metamaterials” (invited)
11:40-12:30 Vladimir Shalaev, “Bringing Metamaterials to Real-Life Applications: New Approaches& material
Platforms” (invited)
12:30—13:00 Landauer Medals awarded by the ETOPIM Society to Costas Soukoulis and
Vladimir Shalaev
13:00 Light lunch
14:00 Afternoon half day tour of Jerusalem: About a four hours walk in Old Jerusalem. Dinner
at the conference hotel.
Thursday 25 June 2015
07:00 Breakfast
08:30—10:40 Morning session I; Chair: Ruben Barrera
08:30-09:20: Sebastien Guenneau, “From platonics to seismic metamaterials” (invited)
09:20-10:00 Andrey Sarychev, “Thermal instability in quantum plasmonics” (invited)
10:00-10:20 Alexander Schuchinsky, “Interwoven conductor arrays for metasurfaces and high impedance
surfaces”
10:20-10:40 Dominique Jeulin, “Modeling the Porous Nanostructure and Transport Properties of Electrodes from
3D Full Field FFT Calculation”
10:40—11:00 Coffee and cold drinks
11:00—13:00 Morning session II; Chair: Andrey Sarychev
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 Eugenio Mendez, “Second harmonic generation by metallic nanowires”
12:40-13:00 Valeri Lozovski, “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; Chair: Dominique Jeulin
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”
16:20-16:50 Yonatan Sivan, “Nanoparticle-assisted STED, theory and experimental demonstration”
16:50—17:20 Half hour intermission with coffee and cookies
17:20—19:00 Afternoon session II; Chair: Pavel Ginzburg
17:20-18:00 Andrej Stashkevich, “Arrays of ultra-thin Co nanowires: negative refraction magneto-optical
metamaterial” (invited)
18:00-18:20 Igor Lyubchanskii, “One-dimensional photonic-magnonic structures”
18:20-18:40 Vladimir Mityushev, “Effective properties of 2D random composites”
18:40-19:00 Ping Sheng, "Strong electronic Anderson localization and 2D mobility edge in antidot graphene"
20:00 Festive dinner; some after dinner talks and some remarks by Mnolis Antonoyiannakisassociate editor of Physical Review B
Friday 26 June 2015
07:00 Breakfast
08:30—10:00 Morning session I; Chair: Konstantin Simovski
08:30-09:20 Ross McPhedran, “Cloaking and Dirac Cones with Flexural Waves” (invited)
09:20-09:40 Özgür Selsil, “Active Cloaking of Coated inclusions in Resonant regimes for Membrane and Flexural
Waves”
09:40-10:00 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”
10:00—10:20 Coffee and cold drinks
10:20—12:30 Morning session II; Chair: Ad Lagendijk
10:20-11:10 Ping Sheng, “Hybrid resonances and the perfect absorption of low frequency sound” (invited)
11:10-11:30 Felix Izrailev, “Spectral and Transport Properties of PT-Symmetric Quarter Stacks”
11:30-11:50 Francesco Utel, “Monte Carlo modeling of chitin random network in ultrawhite beetle scales”.
11:50-12:30 Ruben Barrera, “Extended-Fresnel Formulas for Turbid Colloids: Theory and Experiment” (invited)
12:30 Conference closing ceremony and light lunch
Friday early afternoon 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.