Programme

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Wednesday, April 8
8:00 Registration
9:00 Workshop opening
Numerical methods 1
Chair: Carsten Rockstuhl
9:15 Metasurface modelling using GSTC method
Karim Achouri, Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
9:45 Computational nanophotonics with the boundary elements method and mesoscopic boundary conditions
Ulrich Hohenester, University of Graz, Austria
10:15 Group photo, coffee & posters
Numerical methods 2
Chair: Felix Binkowski
11:15 Modelling Photonic Crystal Surface-Emitting Lasers Using the Time-Domain Unstructured Transmission Line Method
Ana Vukovic, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
11:45 Finite element method based frameworks for efficient simulations and optimizations in nano-photonics
Sven Burger, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany
12:15 Lunch & posters
Quantum nanophotonics
Chair: Stefan Rotter
13:30 Quantum Dynamics in Nanoplasmonic Cavities
Ortwin Hess, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
14:00 Fully atomistic modelling of plasmonic nanostructures
Chiara Cappelli, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
14:30 Nonreciprocal plasmons in one-dimensional carbon nanostructures
Álvaro Rodriguez Echarri, AMOLF, The Netherlands
15:00 Coffee & posters
Electromagnetism fundamentals
Chair: Alain Dereux
15:45 The flow of Fisher information in electromagnetism
Stefan Rotter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
16:15 Multipole analysis of the resonant electromagnetic response of particle clusters and metasurfaces
Andrey Evlyukhin, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
16:45 Bias-free optical nonreciprocity and directional dichroism
Viktar Asadchyi, Aalto University, Finland
17:15 Posters, beers & nibbles
21:00 End of day 1
Thursday, April 9
Device design and optimization 1
Chair: Ulrich Hohenester
9:00 Inverse design of free-form metadevices
Carsten Rockstuhl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
9:30 Simulation and Optimization of Large-Scale Metasurfaces
Jens Niegemann, Synopsis, Inc., Vancouver, Canada
10:00 Coffee & posters
Device design and optimization 2
Chair: Pavel Peterka
11:00 Modelling high-NA EUV lithography
Peter Evanschitzky, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology, Germany
11:30 Future directions and needs for the modelling of optical structures in research and industry
Round-table discussion
12:15 Lunch & posters
Applied numerical modelling in nanophotonics
Chair: Ana Vukovic
13:30 Cavity-resonator-integrated grating filters for second harmonic generation
Anne-Laure Fehrembach, Fresnel Institute, France
14:00 Nanoparticles Identification from Scattering Data
Alexander A. Iskandar, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
14:30 Numerical modelling of fiber lasers based on active fibers with structured cores
Pavel Peterka, Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia
15:00 Semi-analytical modeling of feedback trapping in optical nanocavities
Martijn Wubs, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
15:45 Coffee & posters
16:15 Excursion & conference dinner & best poster awards
22:00 End of day 2
Friday, April 10
Numerical methods 3
Chair: Anne-Laure Fehrembach
9:00 Optimized Principal Volume in the Green Dyadic Method
Alain Dereux, University of Burgundy Europe, France
9:30 Computing resonance modes and resonance expansions using AAA rational approximation
Felix Binkowski, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany
10:00 Coffee & posters
ML and AI for nanophotonics
Chair: Karim Achouri
10:45 Numerical modelling and shaping of nanoscale light-matter interactions with Discontinuous Galerkin methods and machine learning algorithms
Stéphane Lanteri, Côte d’Azur University, France
11:15 Photonic reservoir computing on a system with hysteresis
Sendy Phangl, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
11:45 Final remarks
12:00 Lab tour (optional)