Dr. Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Charles Godfrey Binder Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, delivered an invited lecture entitled "Sculptured-thin-film Plasmonic-Polaritonics" at MIEL 2008, the 26th International Conference on Microelectronics in Nis, Serbia.

The IEEE-sponsored event was held May 11 to 14. Dr. Lakhtakia's co-authors are Dr. John A. Polo, Jr. (Department of Physics, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania) and ESM graduate student Michael A. Motyka. Dr. Lakhtakia also co-chaired a plenary session. For more information on MIEL 28, please visit this website.

Dr. Bernhard R. Tittmann, Schell Professor of Engineering in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, will be presenting an invited paper at the 10th School on Acousto-Optics and Applications in Gdańsk-Sopot, Poland, from May 12 to May 15, 2008. The paper, “Confocal Laser, Acoustic and Atomic Force Microscopy to Image Composite and Biological Materials on a Microscale,” reports on research done by Dr. Tittmann and his students in the Engineering Nanocharacterization Center.

The 10th School on Acousto-Optics and Applications has been organized by the Institute of Experimental Physics of the University of Gdańsk in cooperation with the Polish Acoustical Society and the Polish Academy of Sciences and focuses on all physical aspects of light and sound interaction. More information on this event is available at http://univ.gda.pl/~school/index.htm.