NSF-SIAM Optics and Photonics Workshop

首席研究员将组织“NSF-SIAM光学和光子学研讨会”，该研讨会将作为工业与应用数学学会（SIAM）年会的一部分，于2016年7月11日至15日在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行。我们对光的行为的理解的进步对于改进现有技术和实现新的和设想的技术都是必要的。这些技术直接影响着我们社会的各个部门，包括通信、国防和国家安全、能源和医药。由于最近在计算工具、材料科学和纳米结构制造方面的进步，数学家在这个领域的作用比以往任何时候都要大。本次研讨会将允许领先的应用数学家将他们对光学和光子学数学未来的看法带给广大数学观众。会议将鼓励来自不同科学背景的研究人员在这一领域进行合作，大部分资金将用于支持来自代表性不足群体的早期职业研究人员和应用数学家的参与。研讨会将在SIAM年会的第一天（2016年7月11日星期一）举行，届时将有几位在光学和光子学领域有成就的应用数学家参加。讲座将为更广泛的应用数学界调查该领域及其开放问题。将涵盖的主题包括：(1)光物质相互作用的研究，包括低损耗超材料、等离子体和量子现象；(2)经典电磁与量子力学现象之间的多物理场耦合；(3)光在散射、色散和湍流介质中的传播和成像科学，包括辐射输运理论、统计逆理论、数值反演方法、模拟模型和混合成像模型等方面的进展；(4)非线性光子学及非线性与随机性的相互作用。来自美国国家科学基金会数学科学部的代表将出席会议，讨论并回答有关美国国家科学基金会光学和光子学新项目的问题。会议将通过SIAM年会网站http://www.siam.org/meetings/an16/workshops.php进行宣传

The Principal Investigator will organize the "NSF-SIAM Optics and Photonics Workshop" which will be held as part of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in Boston, MA, July 11-15, 2016. Advances in our understanding of the behavior of light are necessary both for improvements on current technologies and for the realization of new and envisioned technologies. These technologies influence directly a variety of sectors in our society, including communications, defense and national security, energy, and medicine. Due to recent advances in computational tools, materials science, and nanostructure fabrication, mathematicians have a larger role than ever to play in this field. This workshop will allow leading applied mathematicians to bring their vision of the future of mathematics in optics and photonics to a large mathematical audience. The meeting will encourage collaborations among researchers in this field from a diverse set of scientific backgrounds, and the majority of the funding will be devoted to supporting the participation of early career researchers and applied mathematicians from underrepresented groups. The workshop will take place completely on the first day of the SIAM Annual Meeting, Monday, July 11, 2016, and will feature several accomplished applied mathematicians in the field of optics and photonics. The talks will survey the field and its open problems for the broader applied mathematics community. Topics that will be covered include (1) research on light-matter interaction, including low-loss metamaterials, plasmonics, and quantum phenomena; (2) multiphysics coupling between classical electromagnetic and quantum mechanical phenomena; (3) the science of light propagation and imaging through scattering, dispersive, and turbulent media, which encompasses advances in radiative transport theory, statistical inverse theory, numerical inversion methods, simulation models, and hybrid imaging models; (4) nonlinear photonics and the interplay between nonlinearity and randomness. Representatives from the NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences will be present to discuss and answer questions about the new NSF program in Optics and Photonics. The conference will be advertised through the SIAM annual meeting website at http://www.siam.org/meetings/an16/workshops.php