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Negative Index Materials

October 2-4, 2006
Cosponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Organizers:
Maria-Carme T. Calderer Mathematics, University of Minnesota
Sharon C. Glotzer Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan
Charles Y-C Lee Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Chemistry and Life Sciences Directorate
Graeme Milton Mathematics, University of Utah
Arje Nachman Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Peter Palffy-Muhoray Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University

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Description:

Negative index materials (NIMs) are characterized by oppositely directed photon current and momentum. Such left-handed transport results in negative refraction and the growth of evanescent waves, which allow the possibility of imaging and lithography at subwavelength resolution. NIMs offer great potential for applications, as well as great challenges in fundamental understanding, mathematical description and materials development. This workshop will bring together engineers, materials scientists, mathematicians and physicists to consider the processes underlying left-handed transport, to discuss ways of modeling the material response, to consider ways of fabricating NIMs and to explore the possibilities and limitations of NIMs in imaging and optical device applications.

Schedule
Monday, October 2
8:30a-9:15a Registration and coffee   EE/CS 3-176
9:15a-9:30a Welcome to the IMA Douglas N. Arnold (University of Minnesota Twin Cities) EE/CS 3-180
9:30a-10:20a Conceptual foundations of metamaterials: from superlensing to negative index Gennady Shvets (University of Texas) EE/CS 3-180
10:20a-11:00a Discussion and coffee break   EE/CS 3-180
11:00a-11:50a Cloaking and opaque perfect lenses Graeme Milton (University of Utah) EE/CS 3-180
11:50a-1:30p Discussion and lunch break    
1:30p-2:20p Twisted material gains Akhlesh Lakhtakia (Pennsylvania State University) EE/CS 3-180
2:20p-3:00p Discussion and coffee break   EE/CS 3-180
3:00p-3:30p Second chances, a discussion period to revisit workshop topics and issues and look towards future directions.   EE/CS 3-180
3:30p-3:40p Group photos    
3:40p-6:00p Reception and poster session
Lind Hall 400
Radiation enhancement and radiation suppression by a left-handed metamaterial Allan Boardman (University of Salford)
Directed seeding of three-dimensional metal-semiconductor nanocomposites for negative index metamaterials Rachel S. Goldman (University of Michigan)
Novel metamaterial using Cubic high dielectric resonators Anand Gopinath (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
Jaewon Kim (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
Optical hyperlens : Far-field imaging beyond the diffraction limit Zubin Jacob (Princeton University)
Error analysis of mixed finite element methods for wave propagation in double negative metamaterials Jichun Li (University of Nevada)
A boundary integral method and adaptive treecode for the linear Poisson-Boltzmann equation Peijun Li (University of Michigan)
Optimization and control of energy transmission across photonic crystal slabs Robert P. Lipton (Louisiana State University)
Nonlinear transmission in layered structures containing thin film of negative index material Natalia Litchinitser (University of Michigan)
Nanoparticle susceptibilities and the bianisotropic formalism Jeremy Neal (Kent State University)
Observation of increased transmission in sol-gel nanocomposites Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Kent State University)
"Negative" nanophotonics: controlling diffraction limit and group velocity in anisotropy-based NIMs Viktor Podolskiy (Oregon State University)
Maximization of the quality factor of an optical resonator Fadil Santosa (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
A homogenization-based study of the scattering resonances of a microstructured slab Haiping Shen (New York University)
Homogenization theory of negative index materials in the optical range Gennady Shvets (University of Texas)
Tuesday, October 3
9:00a-9:30a Coffee   EE/CS 3-176
9:30a-10:20a Empowering Optical Metamaterials with Gain and Nonlinearities Vladimir Shalaev (Purdue University) EE/CS 3-180
10:20a-11:00a Discussion and coffee break   EE/CS 3-180
11:00a-11:50a Multifunctional composites with negative refractive index Sia Nemat-Nasser (University of California, San Diego) EE/CS 3-180
11:50a-1:30p Discussion and lunch break    
1:30p-2:20p Plane-wave solutions to frequency-domain and time-domain scattering from negative permittivity and permeability slabs Arthur Yaghjian (US Air Force Research Laboratory) EE/CS 3-180
2:20p-3:00p Discussion and coffee break    
3:00p-3:50p Simulation environments for electromagnetic scattering Leslie F. Greengard (New York University) EE/CS 3-180
4:00p-4:30p Second chances, a discussion period to revisit workshop topics and issues and look towards future directions.   EE/CS 3-180
Wednesday, October 4
9:00a-9:30a Coffee   EE/CS 3-176
9:30a-10:20a Metamaterials, plasmonics and optical nanocircuits Nader Engheta (University of Pennsylvania) EE/CS 3-180
10:20a-11:00a Disussion and coffee break    
11:00a-11:50a "Optical Hyperspace": Negative refractive index and sub-wavelength imaging in strongly anisotropic media Evgenii Narimanov (Princeton University) EE/CS 3-180
11:50a-1:30p Discussion and lunch break    
1:30p-2:20p Negative refractive index metamaterials based on transmission lines Anthony Grbic (University of Michigan) EE/CS 3-180
2:20p-3:00p Discussion and coffee break   EE/CS 3-180
3:00p-3:50p Abnormal refraction of EM waves in periodic metamaterials Alexander Figotin (University of California) EE/CS 3-180
3:50p-4:30p Closing discussion    

LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

Name Department Affiliation
Douglas N. Arnold Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Donald G. Aronson Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Gang Bao Department of Mathematics Michigan State University
Allan Boardman Institute for Materials Research University of Salford
Yassine Boubendir Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Oscar Bruno Applied and Computational Mathematics California Institute of Technology
Maria-Carme T. Calderer School of Mathematics University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Andrew Christlieb Department of Mathematics University of Michigan
David C. Dobson Department of Mathematics University of Utah
Kenneth R. Driessel Mathematics Department Iowa State University
David Eklund Matematiska Institutionen Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Nader Engheta Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering/6314 University of Pennsylvania
Alexander Figotin Department of Mathematics University of California
Irene Fonseca Depatment of Mathematics Carnegie-Mellon University
Jake Fontana Liquid Crystal Institute Kent State University
Carlos Garcia-Cervera Department of Mathematics University of California
Rachel S. Goldman Department of Materials Science & Engineering University of Michigan
Dmitry Golovaty Department of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics University of Akron
Anand Gopinath Department of Electrical and Computer Engr. University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Anthony Grbic Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science University of Michigan
Leslie F. Greengard Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
Zhaoran Rena Huang Department of Electrical, computer & System Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Zubin Jacob Department of Electrical Engineering Princeton University
Farhad Jafari Department of Mathematics University of Wyoming
Clayton Kerce GTRI / Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Lab Georgia Institute of Technology
Mercedeh Khajavikhan Department of Electrical Engineering University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Jaewon Kim   University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Robert V. Kohn Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
Thomas Koschny Department of Physics and Astronomy Iowa State University
Akhlesh Lakhtakia Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics Pennsylvania State University
Charles Y-C Lee   US Air Force Research Laboratory
Jim Leger Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Jichun Li Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Nevada
Peijun Li Department of Mathematics University of Michigan
Robert P. Lipton Department of Mathematics Louisiana State University
Natalia Litchinitser Department of Electrical Engr & Computer Sciences University of Michigan
Di Liu Department of Mathematics Michigan State University
Arash Mafi Modeling and Simulation, Science and Technology Corning
Roberto D. Merlin Department of Physics University of Michigan
Graeme Milton Department of Mathematics University of Utah
Arje Nachman   US Air Force Research Laboratory
Evgenii Narimanov Department of Electrical Engineering Princeton University
Jeremy Neal Liquid Crystal Institute Kent State University
Sia Nemat-Nasser Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, San Diego
Sang- Hyun Oh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Peter Palffy-Muhoray Liquid Crystal Institute Kent State University
Viktor Podolskiy Department of Physics Oregon State University
Jianliang Qian Department of Mathematics and Statistics Wichita State University
Gregory J. Reid Department of Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario
Fernando Reitich School of Mathematics University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Kui Ren Department of Applied Physics and Apllied Mathematics Columbia University
Jacob Rubinstein Department of Mathematics Indiana University
Fadil Santosa School of Mathematics University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Arnd Scheel Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Pierre Seppecher U.F.R. des Sciences et Techniques Université de Toulon et du Var
Chehrzad Shakiban Institute of Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Vladimir Shalaev School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University
Haiping Shen Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
Stephen Shipman Department of Mathematics Louisiana State University
Gennady Shvets Department of Physics University of Texas
Lyubima Simeonova Department of Mathematics University of Utah
Igor Tsukerman Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Akron
Catalin Turc Department of Applied & Computational Mathematics California Institute of Technology
Bogdan M. Vernescu Department of Mathematical Sciences Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Michael Vogelius Department of Mathematics Rutgers University
Darko Volkov Department of Mathematical Sciences Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Tairan Wang   University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Gershon Wolansky Department of Mathematics Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Wenyuan Wu Department of Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario
Arthur Yaghjian Air Force Research Laboratory US Air Force Research Laboratory

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