Program information
Thursday, May 10
19:30 Come-together & dinner bufet (Scala Restaurant, Intershop Tower, downtown)
Friday, May 11
09:00 Beginn of scientific program (IPHT at Campus Beutenberg)
Plasmonics
Stefan A. Maier (Bath) Plasmonics: Controlled sub-wavelength confinement of electromagnetic radiation for enhanced spectroscopy and sensing
Maria Dienerowitz (St. Andrews) Blue-detuned trap for resonant confinement of metal nanoparticles
Mikael Käll (Göteborg) Novel functionalities from nanoplasmonic interactions
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee break / posters
Fluorescence
Vahid Sandoghdar (ETH Zurich) Efficient coherent coupling of light with a single emitter using plasmonic nanoantennas
Alfred Leitner (Graz) Tuning fluorescence decay rates with gold nanoparticles
Metal Nanostructures
Andrea Csaki (IPHT Jena) Nanoparticle-based molecular plasmonics
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch / posters
Carsten Sönnichsen (Univ. Mainz) Plasmons for single molecule photonics
Chin Ping Yu (Taipei) Plasmonic optical properties of a single gold nano-particles
Gil Markovich (Tel Aviv) Merging Plasmonics with Chiral Bio-molecules
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break / posters
Michael J. Heller (San Diego) Nanoscale DNA Probe Optoentropic and Plasmonic Transduction Mechanisms
Adriana Rueda (MPI Mainz) Sphere-on-plane resonators: Experimental steps towards a quantitative understanding
Jim V. Coe (Ohio State) Surface-Plasmon-Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy of Molecular Assemblies on Metal Arrays of Subwavelength Holes
16:30 Bus departure, exkursion, dinner
Saturday, May 12
8:30 Beginn of scientific program
SERS
Katrin Kneipp (Harvard) Two-Photon Vibrational Spectroscopy Using Surface Enhanced Hyper Raman Scattering
Frank Hubenthal (Kassel) Preparation of highly reproducible and stable SERS substrates
Katrin R. Strehle (Univ. Jena) Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) as a quantitative tool in a Segmented Flow System
Moritz Ringler (LMU Munich) Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) in single gold nanoparticle dimers
10:10 - 10:30 Coffee break / posters
Applications
Victor K. Pustovalov (Minsk) Gold nanoparticles for the thermal mechanisms of selective nanophotothermolysis of cells
Vincent Cunningham (UC3M Madrid) Gold Nanoparticles as a Contrast Agent in Photoacoustic Imaging for Cancer Detection
Laura M. Lechuga (IMM Madrid) Applications of plasmonic biosensing for early detection of diseases and pollutants in real samples
Gerd Behme (JPK Berlin) A novel approach to the combination of AFM with optical Spectroscopy
about 12:15 End of scientific program, lunch
Posters
Katharina Hering (Univ. Jena)
A new method for detection of dye labelled DNA by Surface Enhanced Resonance Raman Scattering (SERRS)

Nadine Holzapfel (Techn. Univ. Munich)
Plasmonic and structural properties of silver nanoparticles fabricated by the metallisation of DNA

Feng Zhang (Marburg)
Polymer-coated inorganic nanocrystals with a defined number of functional groups

Dana Cialla (Univ. Jena)
On the way to reproducible SERS substrates

Noelia Bocchio (MPI Mainz)
Crescent-shaped nanoparticles: optical properties and applications

Andrea Steinbrück (IPHT Jena)
Synthesis of designer core-shell metal nanoparticles for sensoric applications

Grit Festag (IPHT Jena)
Correlation of optical properties with nanostructure dimensions on a single metal particle level

David Sorin (Bucharest)
Assessment of interfacial changes due to bioaffinity interactions using a combined, multichannel SPR-Impedance Measurement System

Alexander Gaiduk (Düsseldorf)
Simultaneous atomic-force and fluorescence spectroscopy (SFFS) for single macromolecule studies

Mihaela Gheorghiu (JPK Berlin)
Biosensing via structured interfaces at nanoscale

Henrik Schneidewind (IPHT Jena)
Micromachined metallic SERS substrates