Thursday, May 19
(sessions in lecture hall of Optical Museum, downtown)
12:30 Registration/museum visit
13:00 The Ultramicroscope and Related Techniques (Wolfgang Fritzsche)
	Timo Mappes (KIT) Ultramicroscopy of colloids: equipment of the beginning Kai Wicker (IPHT) Structured illumination in a light sheet for the purpose of high resolution imaging Ernst Stelzer (EMBL) From the Ultramikroskop to Theta Microscopy to Tetrahedral Microscopy to Light sheet-based fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) Hans-Ulrich Dodt (TU Wien) Visualization Of Neuronal Networks In The Mouse Brain And Mouse Embryos By Ultramicroscopy
= coffee break & museum visit =
15:30 Plasmons - Visualization and Applications (Ondrej Stranik)
	Claire Deeb (LNIO Troyes) Metal Nanoparticles Illuminated Out of their Resonance: Direct Visualization of the Surface Charge Spatial Distribution Jiri Homola (Prague) Affinity Biosensors Based On Spectroscopy Of Surface Plasmons Patrick Englebienne (Pharmadiagnostics) Application of Molecular Plasmonics in Life Siences: From Clinical Diagnostics to Drug Discovery Itamar Willner (Jerusalem) Sensors or "Sponges" Using Imprinted Au NPs Composites and the Apllication of Chemiluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer Processes Yuan Fong Chau (Taipeh) Plasmonic hot spots for photo-catalytic chemical reactors
19:30 Come-together "Scala" restaurant (downtown)
Friday, May 20
(Fri and Sat sessions at IPHT, Beutenberg campus)
9:00 Plasmonic effects for sensing and labelling (Jiri Homola)
	Ondrej Stranik (IPHT) Plasmonic effects for sensing and labelling Joseph R. Lakowicz (Baltimore) Plasmon-Controlled Fluorescence: Applications to Biophysics and Biotechnologyg
coffe break
	10:30 Davy Gerard (LNIO Troyes) Hybrid plasmonic nanoantenna for biochemical detection Kristjan Leosson (Reykjavik) Polymer-metal structures for integrated sensing and plasmon loss Rachel Grange (Lausanne/Jena) Plasmonic nanoshells enhancing nonlinear optical effects
lunch
13:00 Nanoparticle SERS (Joseph R. Lakowicz)
	Frank Hubenthal (Kassel) Obtaining background free SERS spectra using tailored noble metal nanoparticles Lamy de la Chapelle (Paris) A highly reproducible SERS detection of biomolecules using lithographied Nanoparticles: application to biosensor Virginia Joseph (HU Berlin) Development and characterisation of new planar SERS sensors for detection of catalytic activity and other applications Pierre-Michel Adam (LNIO Troyes) NanoPlasmonics: surface enhanced spectroscopies
coffee break & posters
17:00 Excursion (starts at IPHT, ends at hotel IBIS)
19:30 Dinner "Café Einstein" (downtown)
Saturday, May 21
08:20 Pickup at hotel
09:00 DNA-Nanoparticle constructs// Photothermal effects & Theory(Frank Hubenthal)
	Alexander Kotlyar (Tel Aviv) Distance-Dependent Plasmon Resonant Coupling In G4-DNA Nanoparticle Conjugates Dominik Hühn (Marburg) Light-triggered Heating of Gold Clusters in a Polyelectrolyte Film for Remote Release of Molecules Viktor Pustovalov (Minsk) Comparative thermo-optical analysis of the properties of plasmonic nanoparticles and their efficacy for laser and optical applications Mai Dinh (Tolouse) Surface plasmon resonance in small sodium clusters: a real-time and real-space TDDFT study
= coffee break =
11:00 Nanoparticle and Fluorescence (Itamar Willner)
	Jerome Wenger (Marseille) Enhanced and directional fluorescence emission from molecules in a nanoaperture antenna Shin-ichi Tanaka (Osaka) A Highly Fluorescent Platinum Nanocluster as a Bioimaging Probe Arkadi Chipouline (IAP Jena) Analytical modeling of optical properties of metamaterials coupled with quantum system
Ca. 12:15 End of Scientific Program, Lunch

Nicholas Guillot (Paris)
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering of gold nanostructures: Role of dipolar and multipolar localized surface plasmons

Andrea Csaki (IPHT)
Plasmonically tuned microstructured optical fibers by nanoparticle layer deposition (NLD) technique for bioanalytical sensing

Thomas Schneider (IPHT)
Noble metal nanoparticles as optical biosensor in DNA analytics

J. Wirth (IPHT)
Long-range excitation transfer via DNA nanowire by fs laser pulse excitation of silver nanoparticles

Linda Zedler (IPHT)
Synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of photoactive Ru-complexes immobilized on catalytic active gold nanoparticles

Felix Rohde (Barcelona)
A localized surface plasmon sensor for early cancer detection (SPEDOC)

Norbert Jahr (IPHT)
Nanoholes as novel sensors for bioanalytic applications

Marina Gühlke (HU Berlin)
New Nanoparticulate SERS-Substrates with Magnetic Properties

Christian Pfeiffer (Marburg)
Synthesis of water dispersible silver nanoparticles with an organic solvent based method

Yuan-Fong Chau (Jung-Li, Taiwan)
Plasmonics effects of a nanodimer arising from different interfaces

Nadia Djaker (Paris)
SERS detection of biomolecules on a Single Nanometric Aperture

Daniela Drescher (HU Berlin)
Biological multiplex applications of optical nanoprobes in live cells

Ana-Maria Gabudean (Cluj-Napoca)
Silica-coated gold nanorods: synthesis, characterization and assessment of their multiple functionalities toward bioplasmonic applications

Nicholas Guillot (Paris)
SERS optimization of gold nanocylinder arrays: Influence of the Surrounding medium and application to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons detection

Jaqueline Jatschka (IPHT/Wien)
Spectroscopy of plasmonic gap-modes in a single gold nanoparticle-gold substrate system

Christian Leiterer (IPHT/Erlangen)
Optical method to precisely determine diameters of semiconductor nanowires

Markus Ochs (Marburg)
Microcapsules functionalized with Nanoparticle-Clusters for efficient cargo-release in biological systems

Brice Rolly (Marseille)
Strong influence of the emitter/particle distance on nanoantenna directivity