At the closing ceremony of #PlasmonicaSchool2026, best poster prizes 🥇 have been awarded to (from left) Fabrizio Conti (#PoliMi 🇮🇹), Marion Lavignac (Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon 🇫🇷), Ann Céline Zimmermann (Umeå Univ. 🇸🇪): all of them lucky winner of the traditional Italian #plasmon biscuits!
What an awesome group of students! It was our pleasure to welcome you #PlasmonicaSchool2026. Safe trip back to those of you leaving soon and those staying longer: enjoy Florence and Italy!
Fond memories of the social dinner 🍝🍷 at #Plasmonica2026! Restaurant Omero, just in front of the last residence of Galileo. Our Steering Committee almost in full with the School speakers (from left) Monika Fleischer, @jacopobertolotti.com , Francesco Monticone.
More insightful 💡 lectures today at #PlasmonicaSchool2026 from Monika Fleischer (University of Tübingen) and Marian Florescu (University of Southampton) teaching us about (nano)plasmonic sensing 🟡🦠 and why disordered is very different from random!🟩🟩🟧🟩
Tough questions being asked and sad truths being revealed by @jacopobertolotti.com at #PlasmonicaSchool2026 👹
Fabrizio Conti (front) and Zhifan Dai (back) valently representing our sNOm group @vynisle.bsky.social #PoliMi at the #Poster session #PlasmonicaSchool2026.
Time for the attendees to showcase their research and interact with their peers at the first poster session of #PlasmonicaSchool2026.
Fresh start of a third day of lectures and seminars at #PlasmonicaSchool2026 with clear skies and an attentive audience.
Today #PlasmonicaSchool2023 took some time off from classes to enjoy #Florence and some art at the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo.
@jacopobertolotti.com decided it is time to justify our presence at the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics! Flexing classical field theory with Feynman diagrams 😵💫 at #PlasmonicaSchool2026!
Awesome team from ETH Zurich 🇨🇭 at #PlasmonicaSchool2026!
Topics 👇
Nanoantennas and metasurfaces
Nonlinear and ultrafast nanophotonics
Thermo- and magneto-plasmonics
Nanoscale photocatalysis
Quantum plasmonics
Surface-enhanced spectroscopies and biosensing
Strong coupling in nanoscale systems
Semiconductor and THz plasmonics
Novel optical nanomaterials
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What a day today 😅: we are also announcing the call for abstracts 📥 for our yearly workshop of #Plasmonics and #Nano-Optics💡 #PLASMONICA2026 is open! 📅 8-10 July, 2026 in Pisa #UniPi #CNR-NANO @sns.it + free entry for junior researchers. All details at 🌐https://www.plasmonica.it/2026/ 🧵/1
@jacopobertolotti.com looks like something we might try hands-on here at #PlasmonicaSchool2026 😉
Glad to have brought you back @jacopobertolotti.com and to have you here as a teacher of our #PlasmonicaSchool2026! (not sure about the "summer" part of the school though 🥶)
#PLASMONICAschool2026 has started today in Arcetri! This morning we had 👨🏫 Francesco Monticone (@cornelluniversity.bsky.social) delving deep into the subtleties of light-matter interaction fundamentals and @jacopobertolotti.com (@exeter.ac.uk) guiding us through the intricacies of optical scattering.
Topics 👇:
- Nanoantennas and metasurfaces
- Nonlinear and ultrafast nanophotonics
- Thermo- and magneto-plasmonics
- Nanoscale photocatalysis
- Quantum plasmonics
- Surface-enhanced (bio)sensing
- Strong coupling in nanoscale systems
- Semiconductor and THz plasmonics
- Novel optical nanomaterials
All I want for Xmas is... 🎁 a Workshop of #Plasmonics and #Nano-Optics💡! For its 12th edition, #PLASMONICA2026 will finally reach #Pisa. It will be hosted by the Univ. of Pisa #UniPi and supported by #CNR-NANO, @sns.it, SIOF, and EOS @europeanoptics.bsky.social. #SaveTheDate 📅 8-10 July, 2026. 🧵/1
The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, that will host the 5th edition of the PLASMONICA International School on Plasmonics and Nano-optics.
The frontal lectures ☝️ at #PLASMONICAschool2026 will be complemented by:
💡 seminars on the latest trends in the field
👩💻 hands-on tutorials
📝 active learning tasks
🎈 social events
DO check out the full program on our website (www.plasmonica.it/2026school)
DON'T forget to apply by 📅 Sunday 16/11
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Have you been living under a rock and never heard about #PLASMONICAschool2026? No worries: it's not too late to join our School on Plasmonics & Nano-Optics 💡: there is still one week left to apply ⌛. Check all the info in the 🧵 below 👇 and at 🌐 www.plasmonica.it/2026school/.
The last lecturer of #PLASMONICAschool2026 is Francesco Monticone from Cornell University (US 🇺🇸). Francesco is an expert on exotic and innovative electromagnetic phenomena in nanophotonics 🔬 and we will learn from him the “Fundamentals of light interaction with complex media and metamaterials”. 🧵/5
The third lecturer of #PLASMONICAschool2026 is Monika Fleischer from the University of Tübingen (DE 🇩🇪), where she leads the Plasmonic nanostructures research group. She will teach us to understand and exploit the interaction between single nanoantennas 📡 and emitters, e.g. for optical sensing 🦠. 🧵/4
The second lecturer in the lineup of #PLASMONICAschool2026 is Marian Florescu from the University of Southampton (UK). He is an expert in ordered and disordered nanophotonic materials 💠💠. His lectures will focus on Hyperuniformity and local self-uniformity in photonic 💡 systems. 🧵/3
Nonlinear plasmonic sensing, but monitoring changes in the wavevector ↙️↘️ rather than wavelength domain. Kudos 🙌 to the perseverance of A. Verneuil, joint Ph.D. of @uttroyes.bsky.social (A.-L. Baudrion) and #PoliMi (
@vynisle.bsky.social, M. Finazzi, myself). 📰 open access 🌐 doi.org/10.1002/adom....
The first lecturer of #PLASMONICAschool2026 will be @jacopobertolotti.com from University of Exeter (UK). He is an expert of imaging through scattering media 👓 and optical computing 💻 and will teach us the fundamentals of optical wave scattering from single particles and in diffusive media 🥛.
📢Applications are open for #PLASMONICAschool2026 — the 5th edition of our International School on Plasmonics & Nano-Optics! 👩🏫
📅 23–27 March 2026
📍 Arcetri, Florence (Italy)
⏳ Deadline for applications: Nov 7th
📝 Info and submission: www.plasmonica.it/2026school/
📩 Contact: school@plasmonica.it
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Just out our joint paper with UniBS and @ethz.ch on GHz speed modulation of linear and nonlinear light with a lithium niobate metasurface! Thanks @agostino.bsky.social @attilio-zilli.bsky.social @rachelgrange.bsky.social & the ETH team for this awesome collaboration.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
If you graduated during 2024 (M.Sc. or Ph.D.) in #optics or #photonics at an Italian institution, do not miss the chance to apply for a #thesis #award from the Italian optical society (SIOF). Info and calls 📃 on www.siof-ottica.it/categories/n.... ONE WEEK LEFT before the deadline of 31/07/2025! ⌛
Alessio Gabbani (standing, from left) and Francesco Pineider announcing the PLASMONICA 2026 workshop in Pisa at our annual Round Table in Modena.
The seat of the next edition of the workshop has been announced🥁🥁: beautiful Pisa will host #PLASMONICA2026! Kudos to all the organizers for stepping in: Francesco Pineider, Alessandro Tredicucci, Giuseppe Barillaro, Andrea Tomadin (#UniPi); Alessio Gabbani (#UniFi); Chiara Cappelli (@sns.it).