Scientific Program
Detailed Scientific Program of the I-CAMP School is now available
The I-CAMP’10 schedule can be downloaded as a pdf-file or viewed in a new window.
The I-CAMP school will take the form of a summit, bringing together prominent scientists as well as students and postdoctoral fellows. The meeting will explore current state and emerging new frontiers at the interface of materials science, nanoscience, and optics/photonics, whereas the Outreach Forum held in conjunction with it will allow the researchers to share their experience and advances in conducting outreach and disseminating scientific knowledge. Summer school organization will adhere to the Fraunfelder rules; we will assure that there will be enough time for discussion, and the speakers will be specifically asked to emphasize the open/emerging questions and unsolved problems. The focus will be on recent advances at the interface between materials physics and optics that promise to open up conceptually novel directions of research. The I-CAMP will enable researchers working at the forefronts of materials science, nanoscience, and optics to discuss the emerging uses of light for control and study of materials as well as the advances in the use of materials to control light. Being at the nexus of materials science, soft condensed matter physics, chemistry, optics, and photonics, the workshop theme is inherently interdisciplinary.
Summer School Topics
There will be 3 poster sessions (1 poster session per week) and best poster person award for each of the poster session sponsored by SPIE.
The planned representative tutorial lecture topics will include:
* Tunable and frequency-selective negative-index media;
* Optical cloaking and superlenses;
* Self-assembly-based metamaterials;
* Light-induced phase transitions;
* New Developments in Nonlinear optics;
* Confocal, multiphoton fluorescence, and CARS microscopy;
* Light-controlled polymers and elastomers;
* Optics of colloidal and nanostructured systems;
* Sensors and wavefront control devices;
* Laser trapping and manipulation;
* Nano-scale optical imaging;
* Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Displays.
