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Dear colleagues and friends,

We are pleased to announce that The Fifth International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics (SPP5) will be held in Busan, Korea in May 15-20, 2011.

Submission deadline for SPP5 is one-year away from now: December 15, 2010.

This conference follows the SPP conference series that were held in Obernai France (2001), Granada Spain (2003) , Graz Austria (2005), Dijon France (2007), and Amsterdam Netherland (2009).

SPP5 is already promising to be an exciting one, bringing hundreds of world experts together to discuss latest developments in ever-expanding research area of plasmonics.
We are also happy to announce that Dr. Rufus Ritchie, the discoverer of surface plasmon, will be the opening plenary speaker for SPP5.

While this reminder may seem a bit early, we believe that 365 days might be just enough time to form exciting new ideas, develop them, and make them into fruition resulting in abstract submission!
We hope that you would join us to discuss new results on (but not excluding others):

Active plasmonic components: diodes, optical transistors, switches,
Extraordinary transmission through subwavelength apertures
Metamaterials, negative index materials
Nanoantennas, plasmonic nanoparticles & nanowires, plasmonic crystals
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering
Terahertz plasmonics
Optical Magnetism
Nanofabrication
Nonlinear plasmonics
Optical data storage
Passive plasmonic components: waveguides, filters, ...
Plasmonics for energy
Plasmonics in biology
Theory and Modelling
Ultrafast plasmonics
Other exciting areas

Please visit our website: www.spp5.org

Last, but not least, happy holidays!

Hanjo Lim (Honorary Chair)
Seong-Soo Choi, Gun-Sik Park, Jung-Il Lee (Domestic Advisory Committee Chair)
Dai-Sik Kim (General Chair)
Q-Han Park (Program Chair)
Byoungho Lee (Local Organizing Committee Chair)
Tae-In Jeon (Local Organizing Committee Cochair)
Yung Doug Suh (KRICT), Zee Hwan Kim (Korea Univ.), Kyoung-Sik Kim (Yonsei Univ.) (General Secretary)