Dear Colleague

We are delighted to announce that oral submission for Nanoplasmonics: Faraday Discussion 178 is now open. Recent advances in nanofabrication and subwavelength optical characterisation have led to significant new advances in plasmonics. Take part in this discussion and present your own work in the challenging multidisciplinary field of nanoplasmonics - submit your oral abstract now.

Discussion themes:

•  Plasmonic nanoparticles and metamaterials with designed optical properties

•  Surface plasmon enhanced spectroscopies

•  Quantum plasmonics, gain and spasers

•  Biosensing and biomedical applications of plasmonics

Speakers include:

•  Mark Brongersma (Introductory) - Stanford University         

•  Thomas Ebbesen - University of Strasbourg

•  Niek van Hulst (Closing) - ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences               

•  Nader Engheta - University of Pennsylvania

•  Javier Aizpurua - Donostia International Physics Center    

•  Javier Garcia de Abajo - ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences

•  Sergey Bozhevolnyi - University of Southern Denmark

•  Martin Moskovits - University of California, Santa Barbara

•  Frederico Capasso - Harvard University          

•  Vlad Shalaev - Purdue University

This meeting will focus on areas where progress is expected to have a most significant impact on the whole field of nanoplasmonics and on commercial exploitation. Visit the event website for more details: http://rsc.li/fd178

We look forward to welcoming you to London in February 2015.

Kind regards

Stefan Maier - Imperial College London (Co-Chair)          

Anatoly Zayats - Kings College London (Co-Chair)

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