Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Fundamentals of Nanoscale Light-Matter Interactions
Discussion Leader: Qitong Li (Stanford University, USA)
3:45 pm - 3:55 pm
Thomas Bauer (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
"Flexible Reconfiguration of Plasmonic Singularity Networks"
3:55 pm - 4:00 pm
Discussion
4:00 pm - 4:10 pm
Nicholas Rivera (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Nanoplasmonic Control over Light Emission from THz to Gamma Ray Energies"
4:10 pm - 4:15 pm
Discussion
4:15 pm - 4:25 pm
Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"Flat Optics: Ultra-Compact Optical Devices Enabled by Dielectric Metasurfaces"
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Nanoscale Antennas, Resonators and Metasurfaces for Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions
Discussion Leaders: Mark Lawrence (Stanford University, USA) and Zhaxylyk Kudyshev (Purdue University, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Clayton DeVault (Purdue University, USA)
"Strong Coupling Between Plasmonic Antennas and Epsilon-Near-Zero Films"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Sophie Meuret (AMOLF, The Netherlands)
"Nanoscale Relative Emission Efficiency Mapping Using Cathodoluminescence g(2) Imaging"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Christian Haffner (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"How Resonators Can Mitigate Ohmic Losses in Plasmonic Modulators"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
Nikita Butakov (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
"Electrically Switchable Meta-Structures with Metal-Insulator Phase Transitions in VO2"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Janine Keller (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
"Critical Mode Softening in Ultra-Strong Coupling of THz Metamaterials with sGe QWs Beyond the Hopfield Model"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Jorik van de Groep (Stanford University, USA)
"Metasurface Back Reflectors for External Control over Semiconductor Nanowire Resonances"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Fariah Hayee (Stanford University, USA)
"Toward Direct Structural Imaging of Emission Centers in Two-Dimensional Materials"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Michael Semmlinger (Rice University, USA)
"Two-Dimensional Active Tuning of an Aluminum Plasmonic Array for Full-Spectrum Response"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Plasmonics and Nanophotonics: Towards Applications in Energy and Biology
Discussion Leaders: Sander Mann (University of Texas at Austin, USA) and Filiz Yesilkoy (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Kelly Mauser (California Institute of Technology, USA)
"Thermal Energy of Nanophotonic Structures Probed with Noise Thermometry and the Thermoelectric Effect"
9:10 am - 9:15 am
Discussion
9:15 am - 9:25 am
Julian Karst (4th Physics Institute / SCoPE, University of Stuttgart, Germany)
"Single Plasmonic Oligomer Chiral Spectroscopy"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Amr Saleh (Stanford University, USA)
"Towards Nanoscale Molecular Mapping with Electron-Beam Stimulated Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Harsha Reddy (Purdue University, USA)
" Temperature Evolution of Optical Properties in Plasmonic Metals"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Matteo Parente (Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER), The Netherlands)
"Probing Charge Equilibration with Plasmonic Core@Shell Metal@Semiconductor Nanoparticles"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am
Souvik Ghosh (Indian Institute of Science, India)
"Remotely Steerable Nanotweezers for Active Colloidal Manipulation"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Pratiksha Dongare (Rice University, USA)
"Efficient Nanophotonics-Enabled Solar Membrane Distillation for Off-the-Grid Water Treatment"
10:40 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 am - 10:55 am
Pankaj Jha (California Institute of Technology, USA)
"DNA Origami: A Modular and Scalable Route to Quantum Technologies"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Science and Society: How Can We Shape the Future?
Discussion Leader: Giulia Tagliabue (California Institute of Technology, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
The Societal Impact of Science
Romain Quidant (ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain)
Christy Landes (Rice University, USA)
Prineha Narang (Harvard University, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes