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TIMETABLE

Tuesday 3th of July 2007
Arrival to ERICE.

Wednesday 4th of July 9.30 a.m.
Welcome to the participants.

a) Photonic crystals, quasi-crystals and amorphous photonics

• Sajeev John *
  "Disorder vs localization in amorphous photonics"
• Peter Kuchment
  "Low dimensional models for wave propagation in thin structures ."
• Paul M. Chaikin *
  "Photonic quasi-crystals: experimental results"
• Ruben Barrera
  "Use and abuse of the effective index of refraction  in colloidal systems"

Wednesday 4th of July 3.00 p.m.

b) Coherence in resonant polaritonic crystals: new perspectives

• Kikuo Cho
  "New aspects of microscopic nonlocal theory : resonant process in a structured matrix and derivation of new macroscopic Maxwell equations beyond e and m description"
• Eugene Ivchenko
  "Resonant photonic crystals"
• Laura Pilozzi
  "Lateral periodicity effects in disordered polaritonic crystals: Green function method"
• Peter Halevi
  "From photonic crystals to  photonic metamaterials: a general mean-field  theory."

Thursday 5th of July 9.30 a.m.

c) Complex coherent resonators

• Alexey Kavokin
  "Polariton lasing and superfluidity "
• Claudio Conti
  "Energy landscape and complexity in nonlinear optical processes"
• Stefano Lepri
  "Statistical regimes of random laser fluctuations"
• Monique Combescot
  "Composite bosons: Novel approach to their many-body physics"

Thursday 5th of July 3.00 p.m.

d) Cold atoms and complexity

• Robin Kaiser
  "Scattering and localization of light in dense media: experimental investigations in cold atoms"
• Massimo Inguscio 
  "Experiments with Disordered Bose Einstein Condensates"
• Julien Javaloyes
  " Cold Atoms in an electromagnetic mean field: Phase transitions, spontaneous ordering and instabilites"
• Bart Van Tiggelen,
  " Anderson localization in complex media "

Friday 6th of July 10,00 a.m.

• Federico Capasso ,
  "Surface plasmon nanophotonics"
• Fortunato Tito  Arecchi
  "Complexity , information loss and model building from neuro- to cognitive dynamics"
• Poster Session of participants

Friday 6th of July 3.00 p.m.

• Social sightseeing

Saturday 7th of July 9.30 a.m.

e) Nonlinear optics and spatio-temporal structures

• Gian-Luca Oppo
  "Localization in BEC and nonlinear optical devices with intra-cavity photonic crystals"
• Jorge R. Tredicce
  "Physics and Applications of Cavity Solitons"
• Pere Colet
  "Excitability mediated by localized structures in nonlinear optical cavities"
• Stefania Residori
  Complex pattern in a new optical oscillator driven by a giant photorefractive effect"

Saturday 7th of July 3.00 p.m.

f)  Transport properties in complex materials

• Juan Jose Saenz
  "Fluctuations and correlations in wave transport through disordered media"
• Frank Scheffold
  "Transport and fluctuations in strongly scattering colloidal assemblies"
• Andreas Buchleitner
  "Atomic current across an optical lattice"
• Arkady A. Krokin
  Anderson localization in systems with correlated potentials: Applications to DNA molecules

Sunday 8th of July 2007

• Departure from  ERICE