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Detailed Scientific Program of the I-CAMP School is now available

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 several poster sessions and best poster person award for each of the poster session sponsored by SPIE.

The planned representative tutorial lecture topics will include:

• Week 1 (Montevideo, Uruguay): Emergent Phenomena in Light-Matter Interactions: from Optical Imaging and Manipulation to Solar Energy Conversion

• Confocal, Multiphoton Fluorescence, and CARS Microscopy
• Laser Trapping and Manipulation
• Nano-Scale Optical Imaging
• Materials and Techniques for Shaping and Structuring of Laser Beams
• Organic Photovoltaics
• Solid-State Photovoltaics
• Image Processing
• Emergent Phenomena in Renewable Energy Materials
• Solar Fuel Cells

• Week 2 (Buenos Aires, Argentina): Self-assembly in Soft Matter, Optoelectronic Materials, and Nanocomposites

• Self-Assembled Materials for Photonic Applications
• Light-Induced Phase Transitions
• Light-Controlled Polymers and Elastomers
• Hybrid materials
• Colloidal Self-assembly in Liquid Crystals
• Nanocomposites and Nanostructured Materials
• Bio-derived and Bio-inspired Materials and Composites
• Optics of Colloidal and Nanostructured Systems
• Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Displays

• Week 3 (Corrientes - Iguazu Falls, Argentina): Emergent Phenomena in Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals, and Nano-scale Optoelectronic Materials

• Artificial and Naturally-Occurring Photonic Crystals
• Tunable and Frequency-Selective Negative-Index Media
• Metamaterials
• Plasmonics
• Extraordinary Transmission
• Effective Media/Homogenization Techniques
• Electrical Transport Phenomena in Nano-Structures
• Electrical Induced Transparency

List of I-CAMP Lecturers

• Aranguren, Mirta, Institute of Materials Science and Technology (INTEMA), Argentina
• Azzaroni, Omar, Research Institute of Theoretical and Applied Physical Chemistry (INIFTA), Argentina
• Bolognini, Néstor, Optical Research Center (CIOp), Argentina
• Brener, Igal, Sandia National Laboratory, United States
• Broer, Dick, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
• César, Carlos Lenz, State University of Campinas, Brazil
• Chien, Liang-Chy, Kent State University, United States
• Dalchiele, Enrique, University of the Republic, Uruguay
• de Pablo, Juan, University of Wisconsin, United States
• Depine, Ricardo A., University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Durán, Julio, National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA), Argentina
• Figueiredo Neto, Antonio Martins, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Galante, Maria José, Institute of Materials Science and Technology (INTEMA), Argentina
• Goyanes, Silvia, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Koropecki, Roberto, Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC), Argentina
• Lapointe, Clayton, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States
• Llois, Ana María, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Marotti, Ricardo, University of the Republic, Uruguay
• Mendoza, Bernardo S., Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, Mexico
• Musé, Pablo, University of the Republic, Uruguay
• Piestun, Rafael, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States
• Pietrasanta, Lía, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Pine, David J., New York University, United States
• Preza, Chrysanthe, University of Memphis, United States
• Raskar, Ramesh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
• Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, University of Queensland, Australia
• San Román, Enrique , Institute of Chemical Physics of Materials, Environment and Energy (INQUIMAE), Argentina
• Sajeev, John, University of Toronto, Canada
• Shaheen, Sean, University of Denver, United States
• Shen, Ron, University of California at Berkeley, United States
• Skigin, Diana, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Smalyukh, Ivan, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States
• Soler-Illia, Galo, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Stefani, Fernando, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Steren, Laura, National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA), Argentina
• van de Lagemaat, Jao, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States
• Villar, Marcelo A. Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Quimica (PLAPIQUI), Argentina
• Walsoe de Reca, Noemí, CONICET and CITEDEF, Argentina
• Williams, Roberto J. J., Institute of Materials Science and Technology (INTEMA), Argentina
• Won, Rachel, Nature Photonics, Nature Publishing Group, Japan