Our Mission

Plasmonica was kickstarted in 2013 by a collective of young Italian physicists to provide a forum for researchers in nano-plasmonics – back then still a pioneering endeavor within the Italian landscape. After a decade, this community has thrived and vastly expanded its reach also internationally; its scope has correspondingly broadened to cover many active areas of nanophotonics, including nanoresonators, meta-optics, thermo- and magneto-plasmonics, ultrafast and nonlinear processes, chiral properties, plasmon-enhanced spectroscopies and biological sensing.

Since 2015 Plasmonica is affiliated to the Italian Society of Optics and Photonics (SIOF) as the Plasmonics and Nano-Optics Working Group. Nonetheless, its core mission remains the same: gathering the nanophotonics community in Italy – which is naturally spread over different disciplines such as physics, engineering, chemistry, and biology – as well as facilitating scientific collaborations, personnel exchange, dissemination events (seminars and workshops), and outreach initiatives. Another distinctive feature of this group is its pledge to cater to early-stage researchers, by encouraging their scientific maturation and providing a platform to showcase their research.

These values shape the two principal activities of the group, namely the organization of a yearly workshop and a residential school every two years. These in-person events are conducted in English, to foster the engagement with the wider international community.


The Workshop

Plasmonica organizes every year a Workshop on Plasmonics and Nano-Optics, every time in a different location throughout Italy. It aims at bringing together the Italian nanophotonics community as well as expanding our collaboration network to foreign researchers (mostly Europeans). We make specific effort to provide a platform for showcasing their research to to young scientists, spanning from PhD students to early-stage group leaders.

The topics of the workshop typically include:

  • Nanoantennas and metasurfaces
  • Nonlinear and ultrafast nanophotonics
  • Thermo- and magneto-plasmonics
  • Quantum plasmonics
  • Surface- and tip- enhanced spectroscopies
  • Strong coupling in nanoscale systems
  • Plasmonic (bio)sensing
  • Optical forces at the nanoscale
  • Semiconductor and THz plasmonics
  • Novel optical nanomaterials


UPCOMING EDITION

2025: Modena - More info soon.


CNR NANO & University of Modena and Reggio Emilia



Past Editions

2024: Messina

CNR IPCF & University of Messina

July 10 - 12, 2024
Aula Magna V. Ricevuto, campus Papardo UniMe

2023: Milano

Politecnico di Milano

July 5 - 7, 2023
Edificio Trifoglio del Politecnico di Milano

2022: Torino

Politecnico di Torino

July 7 - 8, 2022
Cittadella Politecnica

2019: Napoli

University of Naples "Federico II"

June 19 - 21, 2019
Complesso dei SS. Marcellino e Festo

2018: Firenze

University of Florence

July 4 - 6, 2018
Palazzina de' Servi

2017: Lecce

Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)
CNR - Nanotec and IMM

September 14 - 16, 2017
Convitto Palmieri

2016: Genova

Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)

September 14 - 16, 2016
Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Architettura

2015: Padova

University of Padova

July 1 - 3, 2015
Archivio Antico, Palazzo Bo

2014: Roma

University of Rome "La Sapienza"

June 30 - July 2, 2014
Dipartimento di Fisica

2013: Milano

Politecnico di Milano

July 1 - 3, 2013
Auditorium Pascoli

PLASMONICA 2023 Special Issue



PLASMONICA has partnered with the European Optical Society (EOS) and the academic publisher EDP Sciences to provide with a dedicated publishing outlet the participants of the 2023 Workshop.
They were given the opportunity to submit a Short Communication or a longer Research Article to the PLASMONICA 2023 Topical issue of the Journal of the European Optical Society - Rapid Publications (JEOS:RP), which is the open-access, peer-reviewed outlet of the EOS.
Thanks to the generous support of the Italian Society of Optics and Photonics (SIOF) we were able to offer a hefty discount on the standard article processing charges of JEOS:RP. We conceived this editorial initiative to support factually a publishing model made by scientists and for scientist, and we hope with it to contribute fostering an alternative to the mainstream commercial publishers that presently cover most of the scientific publishing ecosystem. All articles are published free to read here:

PLASMONICA 2023 - Topical Issue.

Guest Editors:

The School

Besides the Workshop, The PLASMONICA group organizes also a School of Plasmonics and Nano-Optics to bring together early-career scientists in the field of photonics, interested in the study of light at the nanoscale to present and discuss the latest research and future directions of the field in an open atmosphere, and help developing the community of plasmonics and nano-optics.

2024: COMO


Lake Como School of Advanced Studies (LCSAS)

June 3 - 7, 2024

The school is organized by our Steering Committee with the Scientific Directors: Lucio Andreani (University of Pavia), Michele Celebrano (Politecnico di Milano) and Riccardo Sapienza (Imperial College London).


Application deadline March 10 - Form and information here

For enquiries about the scientific aspects of the school, please contact school@plasmonica.it or any other member of the Organizing Committee.

Past Editions

2022: Torino

July 4-7, 2022
Politecnico di Torino

2018: Cetraro

June 15 - 18, 2018
Grand Hotel San Michele, Cetraro (Cosenza)

2016: Cortona

July 10 - 14, 2016
"Palazzone", Cortona (Arezzo)

Contact us

For further info on the Plasmonica Group activities please e-mail us at:

info_at_plasmonica.it

 

Or follow us on social media:

LinkedIn - Plasmonica

X-Twitter - @Plasmonica

Instagram - @Plasmonica

You can also contact the Steering Committee of Plasmonica:

Antonino Foti
CNR-Institute for Chemical Physical Processes (IPCF), Messina

Nicoletta Granchi
Dept. of Physics, LENS, University of Florence

Chiara Novara
Dept. of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino

Emilija Petronijevic
Dept. Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering, "Sapienza" University of Rome

Attilio Zilli
Dept. of Physics, Politecnico di Milano

Finally, you can also contact the Working Group representatives in the SIOF Presidential Council:

Alessandro Belardini
Dept. Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering, "Sapienza" University of Rome

Paolo Biagioni
Dept. of Physics, Politecnico di Milano



Past Members of the Steering Committee:

  • Andrea Baldi, Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research, Eindhoven
  • Leonetta Baldassarre, Dept. of Physics, "Sapienza" University of Rome
  • Alessandro Belardini, Dept. Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering, "Sapienza" University of Rome
  • Paolo Biagioni, Dept. of Physics, Politecnico di Milano
  • Michele Celebrano, Dept. of Physics, Politecnico di Milano
  • Stefania D’Agostino, IIT - Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies
  • Carlo Forestiere, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Università Federico II di Napoli
  • Maria Caterina Giordano, Dept. of Physics, Università di Genova
  • Francesca Intonti, Dept. of Physics, LENS, University of Florence
  • Nicolò Maccaferri, Dept. of Physics, Umeå University, Sweden
  • Giovanni Mattei, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padua
  • Michele Ortolani, Dept. of Physics, "Sapienza" University of Rome
  • Riccardo Sapienza, Dept. of Physics, Imperial College London