Novel nanomaterials have emerged not only as interesting new scientific curiosities but also as promising new platforms for the development of new technologies, expanding the research fields of clean and renewable energy, biosensing and medical applications. The scope of the symposium is based on recent advances on design, synthesis, characterization and application of nanocomposites for photonics and plasmonics. Topics of interest are: linear and nonlinear optics, new concepts and fabrication methods for applications related to colloidal and vitreous nanocomposites, development of new plasmon characterization techniques, magnetic, structural and electronic properties using novel probing tools and engineering of new nanostructures.

• Anderson Stevens Leonidas Gomes
  (Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco) [Confirmed]
• Carlos Jacinto
  (Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Alagoas) [Confirmed]
• Isabel Cristina dos Santos Carvalho
  (Departamento de Fisica, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro) [Confirmed]
• Danilo Manzani
  (Departamento de Quimica, Universidade Estadual de Londrina) [Confirmed]
• Marcelo Nalin
  (Instituto de Quimica, Universidade Estadual Paulista) [Confirmed]
• Marina S Leite
  (Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland) [Confirmed]
• Raul Rangel-Rojo
  (Department of Optics, Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada ) [Confirmed]
• Pierre Francois Brevet
  (Institut Lumiere Matiere, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1) [Confirmed]
• Oliver Benson
  (Institut fur Physik, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin) [Confirmed]
• Oscar Loureiro Malta
  (Departamento de Quimica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco) [Confirmed]

• Luciana Reyes Pires Kassab (Faculdade de Tecnologia de Sao Paulo-CEETEPS)
• Cid Bartolomeu de Araujo (Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
• Younes Messaddeq ( Centre d`Optique, Photonique et Laser , Universite Laval)
• Andrea S. S. de Camargo (Instituto de Fisica de Sao Carlos -Departamento de Fisica e Ciencia Interdisciplinar, Universidade de Sao Paulo)