School of Physics, 
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Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD)
Speakers...
Toshihiko Baba - Control of slow light in photonic crystals
Yokohama National University, Japan Website
Che Ting Chan - Phononic metamaterials
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Shanhui Fan - Dynamic and non-reciprocal effects in photonic crystals
Stanford University, USA Website
Javier Garcia de Abajo - Plasmons in periodic metallic structures Instituto de Optica - CSIC, Spain
Harald Giessen - Optical properties of 3D metamaterials
Stuttgart University, Germany Website
Christian Grillet - Chalcogenide photonic crystals
The University of Sydney
Min Gu - Engineering 3D photonic crystals for emission control
Swinburne University, Australia Website
Sajeev John - Photonic Band Gap Materials: Engineering the Fundamental Properties of Light
University of Toronto, Canada Website
Thomas Krauss - Slow light in photonic crystals
St Andrews, UK Website
Kobus Kuipers - Light in and around photonic crystal structures -singularities and slow light losses
FOM, Amsterdam, Netherlands Website
Yong-Hee Lee - Reconfigurability and nano-tuning of photonic crystal resonators
KAIST, Korea Website
Susumu Noda - Recent Progress in Photonic Crystals - From Dynamic Control to Blue-Violet Lasers
Kyoto University, Japan Website
Masaya Notomi - Strong light confinement with and without periodicity
NTT, Japan Website
Oskar Painter - Cavity-Optomechanics in Nanophotonic Structures
Caltech, USA Website
John Pendry - Metamaterials and plasmonics: the challenge of nonlinearity
Imperial College London, UK Website
Philip Russell - Nanoscale devices in fibre form
Erlangen University, Germany Website
Christian Seassal - Slow light in active photonic crystals: light emission and photovoltaics
Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France Website
David Smith - Gain in optical metamaterials
Duke University, USA Website
Costas Soukoulis - On the beaming and enhanced transmission of photonic crystals
Ames Lab-Iowa State University, USA and FORTH, Crete, Greece Website
Ekmel Ozbay - Experimental observation of defect formation, and subwavelength focusing in negative index metamaterials
Bilkent University, Turkey Website
Yurii Vlasov - Photonic nanostructures for optical interconnects
IBM Watson, New York, USA Website
Jelena Vukovic - Cavity QED in photonic crystals: from quantum information processing to single photon nonlinear optics
Stanford University, USA Website
Martin Wegener - Photonic Metamaterials: Recent Progress
University of Karlsruhe, Germany Website
Eli Yablonovitch - Applications of Photonic Crystals
Berkeley, California, USA Website
Martin Green - Plasmonic Photovoltaics
University of New South Wales, Australia