| SATURDAY |
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by Ashkan Vakil and Alok Vasudev (GRS Conference Chair & Co-chair) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote Address |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Mark W. Knight (Rice University)
"Hot Electron Plasmonics" |
| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Sensing and Detection |
| Discussion Leader: Esther Wertz (University of Michigan) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:48 pm | Toon Coenen (FOM Institute AMOLF)
"Probing plasmonic field components at the nanoscale" |
| 7:48 pm - 7:54 pm | Discussion |
| 7:54 pm - 8:12 pm | Edward Barnard (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
"Plasmonic near-field antenna probing of defects in thin film photovoltaic materials" |
| 8:12 pm - 8:18 pm | Discussion |
| 8:18 pm - 8:36 pm | Faustin Carter (Yale University)
"Plasmonic antennas for superconducting near-IR single-photon detectors" |
| 8:36 pm - 8:42 pm | Discussion |
| 8:42 pm - 8:50 pm | Aftab Ahmed (University of Victoria)
"Single Molecule Detection by Nanoantennas using Bi-Analyte Raman Scattering Experiments" |
| 8:50 pm - 8:56 pm | Discussion |
| 8:56 pm - 9:24 pm | Zheyu Fang (Rice University)
"Plasmon-Heated Steam Generation: Direct Characterization of Nano and Micro-bubble Formation" |
| 9:24 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Metamaterials and Metasurfaces |
| Discussion Leader: Pengyu Fan (Stanford University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:18 am | Ashwin Atre (Stanford University)
"A three-dimensional negative index metamaterial designed via transformation optics" |
| 9:18 am - 9:24 am | Discussion |
| 9:24 am - 9:42 am | Xingjie Ni (Purdue University)
"Broadband Light Bending with a Plasmonic Meta-Surface" |
| 9:42 am - 9:48 am | Discussion |
| 9:48 am - 10:06 am | Yang Zhao (University of Texas at Austin)
"Plasmonic Metasurfaces: Route to Manipulate Light Polarization at the Nanoscale" |
| 10:06 am - 10:12 am | Discussion |
| 10:12 am - 10:30 am | Aaswath Raman (Stanford University)
"A Complete Photonic Band Structure Formalism for Plasmonics: Understanding Optical Loss, Sensing, Modulators & Solar Cells" |
| 10:30 am - 10:36 am | Discussion |
| 10:36 am - 10:54 am | Sean Murphy (University of Notre Dame)
"Charge-Transfer and Surface Interactions: Metal Nanoparticle-Porphyrin and Graphene-Metal Nanoparticle-Porphyrin Composites" |
| 10:54 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Career opportunities in the field of Plasmonics |
| Discussion Leader: Jonathan Scholl (Stanford University) |
| Panel Members: Andrea Alu (University of Texas at Austin), Henri Lezec (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and Michelle Povinelli (University of Southern California) |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |
