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  • Monday, 7 February 2005
    • 08:30 - 09:30 Registration
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
      • 08:30 Registration 1h0'
    • 09:30 - 10:00 Opening
      • 09:30 Opening 30'
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Optical Spectroscopy at the Nanoscale
      • 10:00 Optical Spectroscopy at the Nanoscale 1h0'
        Speaker: Fritz Keilmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemice, Martinsried, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Optical Spectroscopy at the Nanoscale
      • 11:30 Optical Spectroscopy at the Nanoscale 1h0'
        Speaker: Fritz Keilmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemice, Martinsried, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering
      • 14:30 Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering 1h0'
        Speaker: Martin Moskovits (University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering
      • 15:30 Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering 1h0'
        Speaker: Martin Moskovits (University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:30 - 17:30 Introduction to the ICTP Computer System and Organization of LAMP Seminars
      • 16:30 Introduction to the ICTP Computer System and Organization of LAMP Seminars 1h0'
        Speaker: Scientific Computer Section
  • Tuesday, 8 February 2005
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Optical Spectroscopy at the Nanoscale
      • 09:00 Optical Spectroscopy at the Nanoscale 1h0'
        Speaker: Fritz Keilmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Nanotechnology in Optics and Photonics
      • 10:00 Nanotechnology in Optics and Photonics 1h0'
        Speaker: Enzo Di Fabrizio (Laboratorio TASC, INFM, Trieste, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Nanotechnology in Optics and Photonics
      • 11:30 Nanotechnology in Optics and Photonics 1h0'
        Speaker: Enzo Di Fabrizio (Laboratorio TASC, INFM, Trieste, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering
      • 14:30 Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering 1h0'
        Speaker: Martin Moskovits (University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Nanotechnology in Optics and Photonics
      • 15:30 Nanotechnology in Optics and Photonics 1h0'
        Speaker: Enzo Di Fabrizio (Laboratorio TASC, INFM, Trieste, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Wednesday, 9 February 2005
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Near-Field Optical Spectroscopy
      • 09:00 Near-Field Optical Spectroscopy 1h0'
        Speaker: Vahid Sandoghdar (Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Near-Field Optical Spectroscopy
      • 10:00 Near-Field Optical Spectroscopy 1h0'
        Speaker: Vahid Sandoghdar (Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Near-Field Optical Spectroscopy
      • 11:30 Near-Field Optical Spectroscopy 1h0'
        Speaker: Vahid Sandoghdar (Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 Biophotonics at the Nanoscale
      • 14:30 Biophotonics at the Nanoscale 1h0'
        Speaker: Lukas Novotny (The Institute of Optics, Rochester, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Biophotonics at the Nanoscale
      • 15:30 Biophotonics at the Nanoscale 1h0'
        Speaker: Lukas Novotny (The Institute of Optics, Rochester, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 17:00 - 18:00 ICO-ICTP Prize Award and Seminar
      • 17:00 ICO-ICTP Prize Award and Seminar 1h0'
    • 18:30 - 18:30 ICO Reception
      Location: Main Building Cafeteria
      • 18:30 ICO Reception
    • 20:30 - 21:00 Performance by the Choir "Cappella Tergestina"
      • 20:30 Performance by the Choir "Cappella Tergestina" 30'
  • Thursday, 10 February 2005
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Nonlinear Optical Waveguides
      • 09:00 Nonlinear Optical Waveguides 1h0'
        Speaker: Martin Fejer (E.L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Nonlinear Optical Waveguides
      • 10:00 Nonlinear Optical Waveguides 1h0'
        Speaker: Martin Fejer (E.L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Biophotonics at the Nanoscale
      • 11:30 Biophotonics at the Nanoscale 1h0'
        Speaker: Lukas Novotny (The Institute of Optics, Rochester, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 Optical Properties of Plasmonic Nanosystems
      • 14:30 Optical Properties of Plasmonic Nanosystems 1h0'
        Speaker: Mark Stockman (Georgia State University, Atlanta, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Optical Properties of Plasmonic Nanosystems
      • 15:30 Optical Properties of Plasmonic Nanosystems 1h0'
        Speaker: Mark Stockman (Georgia State University, Atlanta, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 17:00 - 18:00 SNOM Tips: Tiny, Tricky Objects to Play With and to Master
      • 17:00 SNOM Tips: Tiny, Tricky Objects to Play With and to Master 1h0'
        Speaker: Maria Allegrini (Università di Pisa, Italy)
  • Friday, 11 February 2005
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Nonlinear Optical Waveguides
      • 09:00 Nonlinear Optical Waveguides 1h0'
        Speaker: Martin Fejer (E.L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Microstructured Optical Fibers
      • 10:00 Microstructured Optical Fibers 1h0'
        Speaker: Vittorio Degiorgio (Università di Pavia, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Microstructured Optical Fibers
      • 11:30 Microstructured Optical Fibers 1h0'
        Speaker: Vittorio Degiorgio (Università di Pavia, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 Optical Properties of Plasmonic Nanosystems
      • 14:30 Optical Properties of Plasmonic Nanosystems 1h0'
        Speaker: Mark Stockman (Georgia State University, Atlanta, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 15:50 Scanning is Light Work
      • 15:30 Scanning is Light Work 20'
        Speaker: Nabeel A. Riza (CREOL - University of Central Florida, Orlando, U.S.A.)
    • 15:50 - 16:10 Size/Morphology Effects & Plasmon Tunability in Nanophotonics
      • 15:50 Size/Morphology Effects & Plasmon Tunability in Nanophotonics 20'
        Speaker: Malek Maaza (Ithemba Labs, National Research Foundation, South Africa)
    • 16:10 - 16:30 Micromanipulation with Optical Tweezers for Pharmacentical Applications
      • 16:10 Micromanipulation with Optical Tweezers for Pharmacentical Applications 20'
        Speaker: Valeria Garbin (Laboratorio TASC, INFM, Trieste, Italy)
    • 16:30 - 16:50 Towards Stable Nonlinear Mirror Mode-Locking
      • 16:30 Towards Stable Nonlinear Mirror Mode-Locking 20'
        Speaker: Sourabh Mukhopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)
    • 16:50 - 17:10 Analysis of Microstructure Fibres Propagation Charactersistics
      • 16:50 Analysis of Microstructure Fibres Propagation Charactersistics 20'
        Speaker: Mourad Zghal (École Supérieure des Communications de Tunis, Sup'Com)
  • Monday, 14 February 2005
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Electrons in Semiconductor Nanostructures
      • 09:00 Electrons in Semiconductor Nanostructures 1h0'
        Speaker: Kailash C. Rustagi (Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Electrons in Semiconductor Nanostructures
      • 10:00 Electrons in Semiconductor Nanostructures 1h0'
        Speaker: Kailash C. Rustagi (Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Optical Response of Semiconductor Quantum Dots
      • 11:30 Optical Response of Semiconductor Quantum Dots 1h0'
        Speaker: Guillaume Cassabois (Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Paris, France)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 Optical Response of Semiconductor Quantum Dots
      • 14:30 Optical Response of Semiconductor Quantum Dots 1h0'
        Speaker: Guillaume Cassabois (Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Paris, France)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 15:50 Study of Modifications in the Silver-Ions-Doped Glasses, during the Interaction with an Ar+ Laser Beam, by means of Induced Fluorescence
      • 15:30 Study of Modifications in the Silver-Ions-Doped Glasses, during the Interaction with an Ar+ Laser Beam, by means of Induced Fluorescence 20'
        Speaker: Arashmid Nahal (University of Tehran, Iran & Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran)
    • 15:50 - 16:10 Study of Laser Induced Damage Threshold and Effect of Impurities in ß-BaB204 (BBO) Crystals
      • 15:50 Study of Laser Induced Damage Threshold and Effect of Impurities in ß-BaB204 (BBO) Crystals 20'
        Speaker: Anil K. Chaudhary (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)
    • 16:10 - 16:30 Ultrafast Generation of Optical & Acoustic Phonons in Nanocrystallites
      • 16:10 Ultrafast Generation of Optical & Acoustic Phonons in Nanocrystallites 20'
        Speaker: Andrea Bragas (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  • Tuesday, 15 February 2005
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Photonic Crystals
      • 09:00 Photonic Crystals 1h0'
        Speaker: Richard De La Rue (University of Glasgow, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Photonic Crystals
      • 10:00 Photonic Crystals 1h0'
        Speaker: Richard De La Rue (University of Glasgow, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Electrons in Semiconductor Nanostructures
      • 11:30 Electrons in Semiconductor Nanostructures 1h0'
        Speaker: Kailash C. Rustagi (Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 14:30 Discussion on Projects with CEI Countries
      • 14:00 Discussion on Projects with CEI Countries 30'
        Speaker: Gallieno Denardo (the Abdus Salam ICTP)
    • 14:30 - 15:30 Optical Response of Semiconductor Quantum Dots
      • 14:30 Optical Response of Semiconductor Quantum Dots 1h0'
        Speaker: Guillaume Cassabois (Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Paris, France)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 15:50 Optical Spectra, Light Propagation, and Negative Refraction in Oligothiophene Crystals
      • 15:30 Optical Spectra, Light Propagation, and Negative Refraction in Oligothiophene Crystals 20'
        Speaker: Silvia Tavazzi (Universitá degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy)
    • 15:50 - 16:10 Optical Properties and Structure of Ion Implanted Thin Ni and Pd Films on Lithium Niobate
      • 15:50 Optical Properties and Structure of Ion Implanted Thin Ni and Pd Films on Lithium Niobate 20'
        Speaker: Viktor O. Lysiuk (Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Ukraine)
    • 16:10 - 16:30 Nanometer-Sized Visible-Light TiO2-xNx Photocatalyst
      • 16:10 Nanometer-Sized Visible-Light TiO2-xNx Photocatalyst 20'
        Speaker: Ngoc Tran Bich (Institute of Physics & Electronics, Center for Quantum Electronics, VAST, Hanoi, Vietnam)
    • 16:30 - 16:50 Quasi Real-Time Imaging through Fog with Two-Wave Mixing in a Photorefractive Crystal
      • 16:30 Quasi Real-Time Imaging through Fog with Two-Wave Mixing in a Photorefractive Crystal 20'
        Speaker: Giovanni Piredda (The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, U.S.A.)
  • Wednesday, 16 February 2005
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Photonic Crystals
      • 09:00 Photonic Crystals 1h0'
        Speaker: Richard De La Rue (University of Glasgow, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Metamaterials
      • 10:00 Metamaterials 1h0'
        Speaker: John B. Pendry (Imperial College London, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Metamaterials
      • 11:30 Metamaterials 1h0'
        Speaker: John B. Pendry (Imperial College London, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 Fabrication and Properties of Metal Nanoparticles
      • 14:30 Fabrication and Properties of Metal Nanoparticles 1h0'
        Speaker: Frank Hubenthal (Universität Kassel, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Nonlinear Optics in Photonic Crystals
      • 15:30 Nonlinear Optics in Photonic Crystals 1h0'
        Speaker: Lucio C. Andreani (Università di Pavia, Italy)
    • 16:30 - 16:50 Adaptive Silver Film for Biological Applications
      • 16:30 Adaptive Silver Film for Biological Applications 20'
        Speaker: Eldar Khaliullin (School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, West Lafayette, U.S.A.)
    • 16:50 - 17:10 Preparation & Characterization of Ceramic Thin Films, Structures, and Nancrystals using CO2 Laser Annealing Treatment
      • 16:50 Preparation & Characterization of Ceramic Thin Films, Structures, and Nancrystals using CO2 Laser Annealing Treatment 20'
        Speaker: Clara E. Goyes Lopez (Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali, Colombia)
  • Thursday, 17 February 2005
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Metamaterials
      • 09:00 Metamaterials 1h0'
        Speaker: John B. Pendry (Imperial College London, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Fabrication and Properties of Metal Nanoparticles
      • 10:00 Fabrication and Properties of Metal Nanoparticles 1h0'
        Speaker: Frank Hubenthal (Universität Kassel, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Fabrication and Properties of Metal Nanoparticles
      • 11:30 Fabrication and Properties of Metal Nanoparticles 1h0'
        Speaker: Frank Hubenthal (Universität Kassel, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 14:30 Discussion on Projects with CEI Countries
      • 14:00 Discussion on Projects with CEI Countries 30'
        Speaker: Gallieno Denardo (the Abdus Salam ICTP)
    • 14:30 - 15:30 Organic Light-Emitting Nano-Patterned Devices
      • 14:30 Organic Light-Emitting Nano-Patterned Devices 1h0'
        Speaker: Dario Pisignano (Università di Lecce, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:50 - 16:10 Characterization of Biological Tissue by Optical Coherence Tomography
      • 15:50 Characterization of Biological Tissue by Optical Coherence Tomography 20'
        Speaker: Anderson Z. De Freitas (Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares, São Paulo, Brazil)
    • 15:50 - 16:10 Scalable, Multi-Frequency Generation in Optical Fibers
      • 15:50 Scalable, Multi-Frequency Generation in Optical Fibers 20'
        Speaker: Ramarao Vijaya (Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India)
    • 16:10 - 16:30 All-Optical Switching with Metalloporhyrins
      • 16:10 All-Optical Switching with Metalloporhyrins 20'
        Speaker: Chandra Pal Singh (Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore, India)
    • 16:30 - 16:50 Comparison of Fast Fourier Transform Based Algorithms for Free Space Propagation
      • 16:30 Comparison of Fast Fourier Transform Based Algorithms for Free Space Propagation 20'
        Speaker: Ali-Reza Moradi (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran)
  • Friday, 18 February 2005
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Organic Light-Emitting Nano-Patterned Devices
      • 09:00 Organic Light-Emitting Nano-Patterned Devices 1h0'
        Speaker: Dario Pisignano (Università di Lecce, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Organic Light-Emitting Nano-Patterned Devices
      • 10:00 Organic Light-Emitting Nano-Patterned Devices 1h0'
        Speaker: Dario Pisignano (Università di Lecce, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 12:00 Conclusions
      • 11:00 Conclusions 1h0'