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和应用数学学会(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当前的技术和实现新的和设想的技术都是必要的。这些技术直接影响到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，数学家在这一领域发挥着比以往任何时候都更大的作用。这个工作坊将允许领先的应用数学家将他们对光学和光子学中数学的未来的展望带给广大的数学观众。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2016年7月11日(星期一)SIAM年会的第一天举行，届时将有几位在光学和光子学领域取得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公开问题。课程内容包括：(1)光与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)经典电磁和量子力学现象之间的多物理耦合；(3)光在散射、色散和湍流介质中的传输和成像的科学，包括辐射传输理论、统计逆理论、数值反演方法、模拟模型和混合成像模型的进展；(4)非线性光子学以及非线性和随机性之间的相互作用。来自NSF数学科学分部的代表将出席讨论并回答有关NSF光学和光子学新计划的问题。该会议将通过SIAM年会网站http://www.siam.org/meetings/an16/workshops.php进行广告宣传

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