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Metamaterials Workshop Schedule


Wednesday May 27th

8.30  Welcome and Introductory remarks  Mike Fiddy, UNC Charlotte
     
9.00 Transforming light with metamaterials Vladimir Shalaev,
Purdue University
     
10.00 Materials and integration technologies for metamaterial structures  Nan Jokerst,
Duke University
     
11.00 Metamaterials for RF, Photonic and RF/Photonic Applications Dennis Prather,
University of Delaware
     
12.00 Lunch and Tour of Grigg Hall  
     
2.00 Low refractive index materials; a new class of optical thin film materials E. Fred Schubert, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.
     
3.00   Fabrication of nanostructures using the Imprio100 step&repeat nanoimprint system Lou Deguzman & Alec Martin, UNC Charlotte
     
4.00  Frozen mode regime in bounded photonic crystals Alex Figotin, University of California in Irvine
     
4.45  Absorption suppression in periodic composite structures Ilya Vitebskiy, University of California in Irvine
     
6.30 Dinner in Witherspoon  


Thursday May 28th

8.30 New horizons of nanoplasmonics Mark Stockman, Georgia State U
     
9.30   The road to quantum level NIM metamaterials, Clifford Krowne, Naval Research Laboratory
     
10.30  New propagation effects in semiconductors in the uv range Michael Scalora, AMRDEC, US Army
     
11.30 Fundamentals of Superlattices and Photonic Crystals: Technical Issues in Implementation Ray Tsu, UNC Charlotte
     
12.00 Lunch  
     
1.30    Waves in graded index and nonlinear metamaterials Natalia M. Litchinitser, SUNY at Buffalo
     
2.30   Highly anisotropic form-birefringent structures and measurements. Bill Yang, Western Carolina University
     
3.30 Total disorder as an alternative to perfect periodicity Valentin Freilikher,
Bar-Ilan U., Israel
     
4.30 Asymptotic theory of wave process in networks of thin fibers Stas Molchanov & Boris Vainberg, UNC Charlotte
     
6.00 Dinner in Witherspoon  


Friday May 29th

8.30 Optical Metamaterials Guy Bartal, UC Berkeley
     
9.30  Polarization properties of plasmonic/photonic hybrid crystals and applications David Crouse, CUNY  
     
10.30 Optical Mesomaterials: Coupled Microresonator Arrays Vasily Astratov, UNC Charlotte
     
11.30 Demonstrating Cloaking at Optical Frequencies Jaime Cardenas, Cornell University
     
12.30 Lunch and custom tours of Grigg and Duke Centennial Hall laboratories  
     
2.00 Plasmon coupling in 2D arrays John Heckel, Clemson University
     
2.45 Propagation of waves in randomly perturbed periodic media Yuri Godin, UNC Charlotte
     
3.30 Two-dimensional acoustic metamaterials based on Mie resonances Xianyu Ao, UNC Charlotte
     
4.00 Materials growth and fabrication Ian Ferguson,
Georgia Tech / UNCC   
     
6.00 Dinner in Witherspoon  


Saturday May 30th

9.00 Federal funding and industry collaboration session  




Additional Participants:

     
  Richard Hammond, ARO Program Manager  
     
  Roger Lang, George Washington University  
     
  Robert Hudgins, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Kenneth Gonsalves, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Tsinghua Her, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Mark Martich, Tyco Electronics  
     
  Balakishore Yellampalle, Athary Photonics  
     
  Serguei Maximenko, Naval Research Laboratory  
     
  Yigit Yilmaz, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Jordan Poler, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Mehrdad Abolbashari, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Shahab Chitchian, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Kasra Daneshvar, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Serhat Tozburun, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Viktor Smolski, UNC Charlotte  
     
  David Witter, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Oleg Smolski, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Sharonda Johnson, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Robert Ingel, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Shane Ritter, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Thomas DuBois, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Phil Williams, Independent Industry Consultant  
     
  Richard Dudley, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Mona Mayeh, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Yi-Chen Chuang, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Haitao Zhang, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Aaron Cannistra, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Kushal Bhattacharjee, RF Micro Devices  
     
  Zachary Roth, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Menelaos Poutous, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Pradeep Srinivasan, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Ed Stokes, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Aaron Pung, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Iftekhar Mirza, University of Delaware  
     
  Lee W. Casperson, UNC Charlotte  
     
  John Schenk, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Phillip Sanger, Western Carolina University  
     
  Nicolas Kudsieh, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Arash Darafsheh, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Kenneth Allen, UNC Charlotte  
     
  M. A. Hasan, UNC Charlotte  
     
  Jianguo Xin, UNC Charlotte  





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