The Nano-optics group hosted their third workshop in the Adirondacks to discuss the current state, latest accomplishments, and future directions of nano-optics. The workshop featured several international speakers and entailed excellent presentations by all participants and some heated, but productive discussions.

Invited speakers
Dr. Alexandre Bouhelier, Laboratoire de Physique de l'Université de Bourgogne, France

Dr. Matthias Danckwerts, Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH, Germany

Dr. Jeroen Schoenmaker, Instituto de Fisica Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil, currently NIST

Featured talks
Lukas Novotny - Introduction
Alexandre Bouhelier - Plasmonics Research at the Universite de Boulogne
Christiane Hoeppener - Near-Field Optical Imaging of Biological Samples
Matthias Danckwerts - Non-Linear Nano-Optics
Graham Marsh - CVD Growth of Carbon Nanotubes
Ryan Beams - Future Prospects of Low Temperature Near-Field Optics
Jeroen Schoenmaker - Imaging Stress and Fracture in Si by Confocal Raman Microscopy
Anirban Mitra - Interferometric Detection of Small Particles
John Lesoine - Relating Single-Molecule Measurements to Thermodynamics
Palash Bharadwaj - Keldysh Theory and/or Landau-Zener Effect
Suzanne Leslie - Effects of LaGuerre-Gaussian beam on BEC
Bradley Deutsch - Homodyne and Heterodyne AFM