2nd International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics Pamplona, Spain, September 22-26, 2008

Metamaterials-2008 Special Sessions

Plenary Speakers

Ricardo Marques , Universidad de Sevilla , Spain (Microwaves)
Peter de Maagt, ESA-ESTEC , Noordwijk, the Netherlands (MMW-THz)
Martin Wegener , University of Karlsruhe , Germany (Optics)

List of Special Sessions

Organizer:	Rick Ziolkowski
Keynote:	Steve Best, Mitre Corp, USA
Invited:	1. Rick Ziolkowski, University of Arizona, USA 2. Peter Hall, University of Birmingham, UK 3. Hiroyuki Arai, Yokohama National University , Japan

2. Planar metamaterials I

Organizer:	Ferran Martin
Keynote:	George Eleftheriades , University of Toronto , Canada
Invited:	1. Shau-Gang Mao , National Taipei University of Technology , Taiwan 2. Silvio Hrabar , Zagreb University , Croatia 3. Karu P. Esselle , Macquarie University , Sydney, Australia

3. Planar metamaterials II

Organizer:	Silvio Hrabar
Keynote:	Rolf Jakoby, Darmstadt University , Germany
Invited:	1. Juan Mosig , EPFL , Lausanne, Switzerland 2. Dimitry Kholodnyak, ETU , Saint Petersburg, Russia 3. Ferran Martin , Univ. Autònoma Barcelona , Spain

4. Tunable/reconfigurable/active metamaterials

Organizer:	Spartak Gevorgian
Keynote:	Willie Padilla , Boston College , USA
Invited:	1. Spartak Gevorgian , Chalmers University and Ericsson AB, Sweden 2. Anatoli Deleniv , Chalmers University , Sweden 3. Petr Kužel , Institute of Physics , Czech Acad. Sci., Czech Republic

5. 3D and bulk metamaterials

Organizer:	Ricardo Marques
Keynote:	Sergei Tretyakov , Helsinki University of Technology , Finland
Invited:	1. Anthony Grbic , University of Michigan , USA 2. Mike Wiltshire , Imperial College , London, UK 3. Irina Vendik, ETU, Saint Petersburg, Russia

6. Millimeter waves

Organizer:	Didier Lippens
Keynote:	Ekmel Ozbay , Bilkent University , Turkey
Invited:	1. Steve Franson, Motorola, Chandler, AZ, USA 2. Mario Sorolla , University of Navarra , Spain 3. Ji Zhou , Tsinghua University , Beijing, China

7. THz waves

Organizer:	Willie Padilla
Keynote:	Didier Lippens , University of Lille , France
Invited:	1. Stefan Maier , Imperial College , London, UK 2. Richard Averitt , Boston University , USA 3. Ajay Nahata , University of Utah , USA

8. Nano-antennas

Organizer:	Bert Hecht
Keynote:	Niek Van Hulst , ICFO , Catalonia, Spain
Invited:	1. Vahid Sandoghdar , ETH, Switzerland 2. Rudolf Bratschitsch , University of Konstanz , Germany 3. Bert Hecht, University of Würzburg , Germany

9. Optical metamaterials

Organizer:	Gennady Shvets
Keynote:	Harald Giessen , University of Stuttgart , Germany
Invited:	1. Hui Cao , Yale University , USA 2. Stefan Linden , Karlsruhe University , Germany 3. Nikolay Zheludev, University of Southampton , UK

10. Superlenses, hyperlenses, other optical near-field imaging devices

Organizer:	Roberto Merlin
Keynote:	Gennady Shvets , UT Austin , USA
Invited:	1. Xiang Zhang , UC Berkeley , USA 2. Evgenii Narimanov , Purdue University , USA 3. Roberto Merlin , University of Michigan , USA

11. Plasmonics

Organizers:	Gennady Shvets and Rick Ziolkowski
Keynote:	Mark Stockman, Georgia State University , USA
Invited:	1. Harry Atwater , CalTech , USA 2. Katrin Kneipp , Harvard-MIT , USA 3. Anatoly Zayats , Queens University of Belfast , UK

12. Extraordinary transmission

Organizer:	Javier Garcia de Abajo
Keynote:	Thomas Ebbesen , University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
Invited:	1. Vitaliy Lomakin , UC San Diego , USA 2. Kobus Kuipers , AMOLF , Amsterdam, the Netherlands 3. Alex Schuchinsky , Queens University, Belfast, UK

13. Cloaking

Organizer:	Nader Engheta
Keynote:	Vlad Shalaev , Purdue University, USA
Invited:	1. Andrea Alu , University of Pennsylvania , USA 2. Tomas Tyc, Masaryk University, Czech Republic 3. Ross McPhedran , University of Sydney , Australia

14. Extreme metamaterials

Organizer:	Vlad Shalaev
Keynote:	Nader Engheta , University of Pennsylvania , USA
Invited:	1. Javier Garcia de Abajo , Instituto de Optica-CSIC , Madrid, Spain 2. Natalia M. Litchinitser , University of Michigan , USA 3. Alex Kildishev , Purdue University , USA

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