Akhlesh Lakhtakia, distinguished professor of engineering science and mechanics, chaired a three-day conference entitled Nanomodeling II, at the Annual Meeting of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, held at San Diego, CA, August 13-17, 2006. He co-authored three presentations, with Professor Sergey A. Maksimenko (Belarus State University), Dr. Tom G. Mackay (University of Edinburgh), and Dr. Joseph B. Geddes III (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). He also delivered a Key Lecture entitled "Bragging electrically" at Complex Photonic Media, a conference held concurrently.