THE RAYMOND and BEVERLY SACKLER PRIZE in the PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Nano-Photonics and Nano-Plasmonics

Workshop Program

Honoring the Recipients of the
2010 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences

Date: May 10, 2010
Location: Melamed Auditorium (No. 6), Shenkar Physics Bldg, Tel Aviv University

Time Schedule:

9:00 Coffee (Gathering with light refreshments)
9:45 Opening Remarks, David Bergman

Morning Session

Ori Cheshnovsky: Chair (Tel Aviv University, School of Chemistry)

10:00 – 11:00
Michael Rosenbluh: "Plasmonics: Applications to Nano-Optics"
Bar Ilan University, Department of Physics

11:00 – 12:00
Dan Oron: "Nanoparticle-based Nonlinear Microscopy"
Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Physics

12:00 – 1:00
Jacob Scheuer: "Tight Confinement of Light in Circular Bragg Nanocavities" Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Engineering

1:00 - 2:30
Lunch buffet: "Gan Hadekalim"

Afternoon Session

David Bergman, Chair (Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy)

2:30 – 3:00
Prize Ceremony, presiding with: Joseph Klafter, President, Tel Aviv University

3:00 – 4:00
Stefan Maier: "Nano-Plasmonics: Classical Oscillator Physics at the Nano-Scale"
Imperial College London, Department of Physics

4:00 – 5:00
Mark Brongersma: " Active Plasmonic Devices Employing Extreme Light Concentration"
Stanford University, Materials Science Department

5:00 – 6:00
Mordechai Segev: "Anderson Localization of Light"
Technion, Faculty of Physics

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