Last update: Tue Jun 4 12:49:44 2002
Authors are urged to proofread their abstracts carefully, and to report any errors noted. Because abstracts were communicated via e-mail, and in many cases, had to be converted from word processor formats, there are very likely transcription errors lurking, particularly in mathematical text.
Here are the preliminary abstracts of the minisymposia presentations, contributed talks and posters, ordered alphabetically according to the surname of the presenter. The abstracts of the Invited Speakers have not yet been inserted into these files, although we plan to include them shortly. Those abstracts can be found by clicking on the titles in the invited speaker list.
Special thanks go to Nelson Beebe and Eleen Collins for their considerable help in processing these abstracts.
Some Tools from Homogenization and Applications in
Electromagnetism
Radjesvarane Alexandre
Directional Emission from a Microdisk Resonator with a
Linear Defect
V. M. Apalkov
Random Lasing and Random Resonators in Disordered
Dielectric Films
V. M. Apalkov
Asymptotic Methods and Electromagnetism
Michel Artola
Nonlinear Interactions of Wavepackets in a Periodic
Media
A. Babin
Propagation in Multiscale Media
Alexander M. Balk
Micromechanics-based Determination of Effective Elastic
Properties of Polymer Bonded Explosives
Biswajit Banerjee
Critical Behaviour of Thermal Relaxation in Composites
K. K. Bardhan
Is There an Effective Medium for the Coherent
Reflectance from a System of Random Mie Spheres?
Rubén G. Barrera
Critical points in the macroscopic magnetotransport of
normal conductor/perfect insulator/perfect conductor
disordered composites
David J. Bergman
Exact relations between critical exponents for elastic
stiffness and electrical conductivity of percolating
networks
David J. Bergman
Electrokinetic effects and fluid permeability
James G. Berryman
Modeling intrinsically complex matter: nonlinear,
nonadiabatic, nonequilibrium
Alan Bishop
Large Nonlinear Optical Response of Photonic Microcavity
Arrays
Steve Blair
Dipole-Dipole Interaction Effect on the Optical Response
of Quantum DOT Ensembles
V. I. Boev
Local Oxidation-Reduction and Current-Voltage
Spectroscopy on V2O5 Cathode of the Li Ion Battery by
UHV STM/AFM
I. N. Borodina
Wave scattering by inhomogeneous media: efficient
algorithms and applications
Oscar P. Bruno
Understanding and Control of Random Lasing
Alexander L. Burin
Lasing with resonant feedback in random media
Hui Cao
To what extent is the structure of a random composite
compatible with a percolation model?
François Carmona
Dynamics of Structures Bi-Modal Elements
Andrej Cherkaev
Reconstruction of the Microstructure of a Random Mixture
Elena Cherkaev
Effect of Boundary Layers on Transmittance of Defect
Mode in One-Dimensional Photonic Band Structures
Il-Sug Chung
From opals to optics: Building photonic band gaps in
nanostructured materials
Vicki Colvin
Multiple Light Scattering in Multistratified Media:
Model, Experiment
A. Da Silva
A spectral representation for the dielectric
properties of layered materials
Anthony Roy Day
Binding Energy of Hydrogen-Type Impurities in Quantum
Well Wires of InSb/GaAs
G. H. Demirjian
The Peculiarities of Hydrogen-Type Systems in Thin
Semiconductor Films (QWS) in Presence of Transverse
Magnetic Field
G. H. Demirjian
Optimal Mode Localization in Heterogeneous Media
David C. Dobson
Diffraction in Left-Handed Materials and Theory of
Veselago Lens
A. L. Efros
Microstructural controls on transport phenomena in sea
ice
Hajo Eicken
Localization and Diffusion of Transient Waves in Random
Media
V. Freilikher
On the Crystal Optics of Ferroelectric-Semiconductors
B. R. Gadjiev
Deterministic Computations for Acoustical-Optical-Phonon
Collision Boltzmann-Poisson Systems
Irene M. Gamba
New Advances in Numerical Micromagnetics Simulations
Carlos J. Garcia-Cervera
Photophysics of Pristine and C60 Doped Disubstituted
Polyacetylene
I. I. Gontia
Magnetic nanocomposites close to the percolation
threshold: Magnetotransport and magnetooptics
Alexander B. Granovsky
Scattering of Radiation in a Heterogeneous Medium Near
the Percolation Threshold
P. S. Grinchuk
Properties of Conically Propagating Electromagnetic and
Elastodynamic Waves in Periodic Media
Sebastien Guenneau
The manipulation of light: One nanoparticle at a time
Naomi Halas
Phonons and thermal transport in nanoscale devices and nanomaterials
James C. Hone
Fast, High-Order Methods in Computational Scattering
E. McKay Hyde
Electroluminescence from Eu-doped GaN MIS Structure
W. M. Jadwisienczak, E. Kowalczyk, A. E. Kowalczyk, and H.
J. Lozykowski
Morphology-dependent Optical Properties of Substituted
Poly(p-phenylene-ethynylene)
X. M. Jiang
Photonic band gap materials: Semiconductors of light
Sajeev John
High-Q cavities without a complete photonic band gap
Steven G. Johnson
The impedance boundary conditions and effective
surface impedance of inhomogeneous metals
Inna Kaganova
The importance of microstructure in defibrillation
James P. Keener
Photoexcitations in Trans-Polyacetylenes: Long-Living
Story about Short-Living Species
O. J. Korovyanko
Physical Properties of Gallium Infiltrated into Opal
Photonic Crystals
Vladimir F. Kozhevnikov
Influence of Concentration Fluctuation on mv Properties
of Composites
A. N. Lagarkov
Light scattering and fluctuations under extreme conditions
Ad Lagendijk
Dynamic Effective Medium Theory of Nanosphere Materials
Anne A. Lazarides
Dielectric and Electro-Optical Properties of Dilute
Suspensions
Ohad Levy
Structural, Optical, and Structural-Optical Properties
in First-Year Arctic Sea Ice
Bonnie Light
Tuning of Anisotropic Optical Properties of
Two-Dimensional Dielectric Photonic Crystals
Hanjo Lim
Design of Functionally Graded Dielectrics Using
Prescribed Microstructures
Robert Lipton
Structural colours through photonic crystals
Ross C. McPhedran
Photonic Crystal Slab
Arthur McGurn
3-D DC Conductivity of Polymer--Carbon Fibre Composites
D. S. McLachlan
Spin Glass Behavior in Metalloporphyrin-based Magnets
Joel S. Miller
Exact Solutions for the Dispersion Relation in a Wide
Class of Periodic Media with Complex Moduli
Graeme W. Milton
Using Terahertz Pulses to Study Light Scattering
Daniel Mittleman
Numerical Study on Localized Defect Modes in
Two-Dimensional Lattices: A High -Resonant Cavity
R. Moussa
Design of transportation network by an amoeba-like
organism
Toshiyuki Nakagaki
Time domain reflectometry measurement of bulk
permittivity of porous mixtures containing bound water
Dani Or
Scaling Conditions for Multiple Scattering in Fractal
Aggregates
Guillermo P. Ortiz
Bulk Response of Composites from Finite Samples
Guillermo P. Ortiz
Resistance Switching and Memory in a Metal-Dielectric
Nanocomposite System
A. B. Pakhomov
Time reversal, imaging and communications in random
media
George C. Papanicolaou
Improved Transmittance in One-Dimensional Metallic
Photonic Crystals
Hae-Yong Park
Theory of the Optical Properties of DNA-Modified Gold
Nanoparticle Composites
Sung Yong Park
Refining the perfect lens
John B. Pendry
Complex yet translucent: The optical properties of sea
ice
Donald K. Perovich
Estimating Conductance in Small Samples of Heterogeneous
Materials by Random Walks
Jeffrey D. Picka
Simulating Photons and Plasmons in a Three Dimensional
Metallic Lattice
Alexander Pletzer
Electrodynamics of Metallic Photonic Crystals and
Problem of Left-Handed Materials
A. L. Pokrovsky
Random Lasing in Pi-conjugated Polymer Films
Randall Polson
Quantum hopping in doped conducting polymers
Vladimir Prigodin
Transport of fluid mixtures in nanoporous materials
Muhammad Sahimi
Plasmons in Nano-wires and Left-handed Plasmonic
Materials
Andrey K. Sarychev
Resistance of Size-Quantized Inhomogeneous Films
A. M. Satanin
Dispersion and Localization of Excitations in Disordered
A. M. Satanin
Electrical Transport in 2-Naphthylacetylene Anode of Li
Ion Battery in Strong Inhomogeneous Electric Field by
UHV STM/AFM
A. E. Semenov
Far from Equilibrium Dynamics in Nonlinear Percolative
Composites
Asok Kumar Sen
Statistical Modeling of Light Propagating Through a
Semi-Transparent Cone
Sergey Serkov
Plasmonic nanophotonics: Manipulating light and
sensing molecules
Vladimir Shalaev
Coarse-grained models of the visual cortex
Michael Shelley
Locally resonant sonic materials
Ping Sheng
Novel Left-Handed Material Based on a Network of Plasma
Channels
Gennady Shvets
Probing the spontaneous generation of nanoscale energy
localization
Albert J. Sievers
Heaviside Analytical Solutions of Nonlocal Wave
Equations in Inhomogeneous, Dispersive Media
Valentino A. Simpao
Negative Refractive Composite Media
D. R. Smith
Femtosecond Energy Concentration in Nanosystems:
Coherent Control
M. I. Stockman
Control of nano- and micro-scale inhomogenities using
surfactants in III/V alloys
Gerald Stringfellow
Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Properties and Electrical
Transport in Porous III--V Materials
I. M. Tiginyanu
Bistable Behavior of a Photonic Crystal Non-Linear
Cavity
Jean Pol Vigneron
A New Method of Homogenization of the Maxwell Equations
A. P. Vinogradov
The Frequency Dependence of the Localization Length in
One-Dimensional System
A. P. Vinogradov
Nonlinear Polaritons of Antiferromagnetic Superlattices
Xuan-Zhang Wang
Numerical Computation of Wave Motion through Dynamic
Materials
Suzanne L. Weekes
Homogenization Study of Resonances in Photonic
Structures
Michael I. Weinstein
Homogenization of Maxwell's Equations
Niklas Wellander
Two and Three Dimensional Ordered Structures in
Electro-magneto-rheological Fluid
Weijia Wen
Liquid Crystal Infiltrated Random Media: From the
Optical NTC-Resistor to Temperature Tunable Random
Lasers
Diederik S. Wiersma
Light transport in cold atoms : The fate of coherent
backscattering in the weak localization regime
David Wilkowski
Measurements of Spin-Dependent Exciton Formation
Cross-Sections in pi-Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers
M. Wohlgenannt
Estimation of the Permeability of a Porous Medium Using
the Geometric Structural Function
Dali Zhang
Dynamics of Damage in Two-Dimensional Structures with
Waiting Elements
Liya Zhornitskaya
The Study of 5CB Absorbed On Nano-Roughened Ag and Au
Electrodes by Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering
Hai-Guang Zhou
Role of the Orbital Ordering on Molecular Magnet MnAc
Liang-Jian Zou