Workshop: Complex Nanophotonics at the Interface

在过去的十年里，复杂光子学领域发展迅速，产生了具有高技术潜力的新的令人兴奋的科学，从用于生物组织光学成像的波前整形到用于集成光子学或光伏的无序工程。我们认为，同相邻领域讨论如何利用新出现的基本概念以及如何将这些概念转化为现实世界的应用，将使该领域及其进展受益。拟议的讲习班“界面上的复杂纳米光子学”旨在引发这种讨论，以便确定新的方向，并围绕这一主题建立一个青年研究人员社区。该研讨会实际上是针对处于职业生涯早期阶段的研究人员，通常是在获得博士资格后的12年内。主要目标是汇集光子学、纳米技术、生物传感器、成像和波物理方面的多学科专业知识。参加者将限于维持研讨会的小规模性质。除了由知名研究人员进行主旨演讲和著名海报会议的科学方案外，研讨会还将包括与科学编辑、外联专家和实业家进行的一些晚间小组辩论。这种非常规的研讨会形式希望激发批判性思维，催化创造力，并围绕复杂纳米光子学的共同兴趣，促进不同背景和领域的初级研究人员之间的活跃互动。

The field of complex photonics has grown rapidly in the last decade, generating new exciting science with high technological potential, from wavefront shaping for optical imaging in biological tissue to disorder engineering for integrated photonics or photovoltaics. We think that the field and its progress will benefit from a discussion with contiguous fields on how to capitalize on emerging fundamental concepts and on how to convert them into real-world applications. The proposed workshop, "Complex Nanophotonics at the Interface", aims at generating such discussion in order to identify novel directions and to establish a community of young researchers around this theme. The workshop is indeed aimed at researchers in the early stages of their career, typically within 12 years after obtaining their Ph.D. qualification. The main objective is to bring together multidisciplinary expertise in photonics, nanotechnology, biosensors, imaging and wave physics. Participants will be limited to maintain the small-scale nature of the workshop. Beyond a scientific programme that comprises keynote talks by established researchers and a prominent poster session, the workshop will include a number of evening panel debates with science editors, outreach experts and industrialists. This unconventional format for the workshop wants to stimulate critical thinking, catalyse creativity and foster lively interactions between junior researchers of different backgrounds and fields around the shared interest in complex nanophotonics.