ETOPIM 6 will include talks (please click on the titles to see the abstracts)
by the following distinguished scientists:
David J. Bergman (Tel-Aviv University)
Exact relations between critical exponents
for elastic stiffness and electrical conductivity of percolating networks
James G. Berryman
(Lawrence Livermore Laboratories and Stanford University)
Electrokinetic effects and fluid permeability
Alan Bishop (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Modeling intrinsically complex matter: nonlinear, nonadiabatic, nonequilibrium
Oscar P. Bruno
(Caltech)
Wave scattering by inhomogeneous media: efficient algorithms and
applications
Hui Cao (Northwestern University)
Lasing with resonant feedback in random media
Vicki Colvin (Rice University)
From opals to optics: Building photonic band gaps in nanostructured
materials
Anthony Roy Day (John Carroll University)
A spectral representation for the dielectric properties of layered materials
Hajo Eicken (University of Alaska)
Microstructural controls on transport phenomena in sea ice
Alexander B. Granovsky (Moscow State University)
Magnetic nanocomposites close to the percolation threshold: Magnetotransport
and magnetooptics
Naomi Halas (Rice University)
The manipulation of light: One nanoparticle at a time
James C. Hone(Caltech)
Phonons and thermal transport in nanoscale devices and nanomaterials
Sajeev John (University of Toronto)
Photonic band gap materials: Semiconductors of light
Steven G. Johnson
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
High-Q cavities without a complete photonic band gap
Inna Kaganova (Institute for High Pressure Physics, Russia)
The impedance boundary conditions and effective surface impedance of inhomogeneous metals
James P. Keener (University of Utah)
The importance of microstructure in defibrillation
Ad Lagendijk (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Light scattering and fluctuations under extreme conditions
Ross C. McPhedran
(Sydney University)
Structural colours through photonic crystals
Toshiyuki Nakagaki (Hokkaido University)
Design of transportation network by an amoeba-like organism
Dani Or
(Utah State University)
Time domain reflectometry measurement of bulk permittivity of porous mixtures containing bound water
George C. Papanicolaou (Stanford University)
Time reversal, imaging and communications in random media
John B. Pendry (Imperial College)
Refining the perfect lens
Donald K. Perovich(CRREL)
Complex yet translucent: The optical properties of sea ice
Vladimir Prigodin (Ohio State)
Quantum hopping in doped conducting polymers
Muhammad Sahimi (University of Southern California)
Transport of fluid mixtures in nanoporous materials
Vladimir Shalaev(Purdue University)
Plasmonic nanophotonics: Manipulating light and sensing molecules
Ping Sheng (Hong Kong Univ. Sci. Tech.)
Locally resonant sonic materials
Albert J. Sievers (Cornell University)
Probing the spontaneous generation of nanoscale energy localization
John Sipe (University of Toronto)
An effective field perspective on the nonlinear optical properties of
artificially structured materials
Gerald Stringfellow (University of Utah)
Control of nano- and micro-scale inhomogenities using surfactants in III/V alloys
David Wilkowski (Laboratoire Ondes et Désordre, Valbonne)
Light transport in cold atoms : The fate of
coherent backscattering in the weak localization
regime