In the, relatively, recent fields of nanophotonics and especially plasmonics and metamaterials the theoretical approaches and their related numerical techniques (mainly based on the solution of Maxwell's equations) play an extremely important role. Indeed, a major part of published papers focuses on the numerical simulations when exploring plasmonic/metamaterials/metasurfaces configurations, which is a key step towards design and experimental fulfillment.
The objective of this session is to gather specialists in computational electromagnetics to delve into the latest developments and challenges in simulating nanophotonics, particularly within the areas of plasmonics and metamaterials/metasurfaces. We will focus on innovative, specialized, and efficient methodologies that can act as alternatives to conventional techniques. The session is open to all modeling approaches in nanophotonics across various spectral ranges.
We believe that such a session could be of great interest not only to theoreticians/numericians working on specific computational methods in electromagnetism but also to those (experimentalists/designers) who are interested by applying them to nanophotonics.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

1. Ali Adibi, Georgia Tech, USA
2. Mauro Antezza, University of Montpellier, France
3. Tian Gu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
4. Jens Niegemann, Ansys, Canada
5. Brahim Guizal, University of Montpellier, France
6. Zin Lin, Virginia Tech, USA
7. Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University, USA (Keynote)
8. Alejandro Rodriguez, Princeton University, USA
9. Zongfu Yu, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
10. Sebastian Volz, LIMMS- University of Tokyo, Japan
11. Thomas Christensen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
12. Joel Cox, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
13. Che Ting Chan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
14. Alejandro Manjavacas, CSIC, Spain
15. Philippe Ben-Abdallah, Institute d’Optique-CNRS, France
16. Jamal Berakdar, Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
17. Takasumi Tanabe, Keio University, Japan
18. Tobias Kippenberg, EPFL, Switzerland (Keynote)
19. Jun Shibayama, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Hosei University, Japan
20. Luca Razzari, INRS-EMT, Canada
21. Jon Schuller,  UC Santa Barbara, USA
22. Yun Lai, Nanjing University, China
23. Alessandro Tredicucci,  Università di Pisa, Italy
24. Svend-Age Biehs, Carl von Ossietzky Universitat, Germany
25. Ann Roberts, University of Melbourne, Canada
26. Cedric Blanchard, CEMHTI - UPR3079 CNRS, France
27. Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez,  Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy
28. Vivian Ferry, University of Minnesota, USA
29. F. Javier García de Abajo, ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotonique, Spain (Keynote)
30. Karim Achouri, EPFL, Switzerland
31. Charles Roques-Carmes, Stanford University, USA
32. Xiao Lin, Zhejiang University, China
33. Alberto G. Curto, Ghent University and IMEC, Belgium
34. Stefano Corni, University of Padova, Italy
35. Nikolay I. Zheludev, University of Southampton & Nanyang Technological University, UK (Keynote)
36. Giuseppe Strangi, Case Western Reserve University, USA
37. Søren Raza, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
38. Kaveh Delfanazari, University of Glasgow, UK
39. Paul André Dias Gonçalves, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
40. Yi Yang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
41. Junichi Takahara, Osaka University, Japan
42. Shun-Jen Cheng, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University,  Hsinchu, Taiwan
43. Qiwen Zhan, The University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
44. Kosuke Murate, Nagoya University, Japan
45. Viktor Myroshnychenko, Paderborn University, Germany
46. Elyes Nefzaoui, Gustave Eiffel University, France
47. Pierre Berini, University of Ottawa, Canada
48. Arash Rahimi-Iman, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
49. Carlo Forestiere, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
50. Andrea Fratalocchi, KAUST University, Saudi Arabia
51. Haejun Chung, Hanyang University, South Korea
52. Andrey Evlyukhin, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
53. Mathias PERRIN, Université Bordeaux , France