Conference Venue The Conference will be held at the Creta Maris Conference Center, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece. The Creta Maris Hotel and Conference Center is located in the seaside resort of Hersonissos, Heraklion Prefecture, which is considered one of the finest holiday spots on the island of Crete. The Creta Maris Hotel and Conference Center's facilities and services are extraordinary, from the restaurants and sports facilities to ultra-modern conference halls and spa facilities. Creta Maris is renowned for its efficiency and many years of experience in conference and reception coordination. It is the ultimate conference hotel, with 68 function rooms that can accommodate up to a total of 5,500 delegates or participants. The Creta Maris Hotel has hosted a wide variety of Panhellenic, Paneuropean and International Conventions, conferences, symposia, meetings, workshops, seminars, exhibitions, product launches, and more. It also has much experience in hosting social functions like fashion shows, weddings, receptions, galas, parties, etc. Please, visit the following websites for more information about the venue: Creta Maris Conference Center: Hersonissos: City of Herakleion: PLMCN th Conference on Physics of Light-Matter Coupling in Nanostructures May 2013 Hersonissos Crete, Greece Invited Speakers Y. Yamamoto, keynote Japan A. Immamoglou, Switzerland L. Levitov, US V. Pellegrinni, Italy G. La Rocca, Italy F. Dubin, Spain Important dates 2nd announcement and call for papers: Thursday 20 December 2012 Deadline for abstract submission: Friday 15 February 2013 Notifications of abstract acceptance: Monday 18 March 2013 Deadline for early registration: Monday 1 April 2013 Deadline for submission of proceeding papers: Friday 7 June 2013 Conference begins: Mon 27 May 2013 Conference ends: Friday 31 May 2013 Click the right arrow for the next page

Conference Scope The 14th PLMCN will be devoted to the fundamental and technological issues relevant to the realization of a new generation of opto- electronic devices based on advanced low- dimensional and photonic structures, such as low threshold polariton lasers, new optical switches, single photon emitters, photonic band-gap structures, etc. It should review recent achievements in the fundamental understanding of strong light-matter coupling, as well as follow progress in the development of epitaxial and processing technologies of wide gap semiconductor and organic nanostructures and microcavities providing the basis for advanced optical studies. The conference will be open to new emerging field as carbon nanotubes and quantum information. The idea of this conference is to bring together scientists active in the fields of semiconductor optics and material science dealing with modern technologies of wide-band semiconductor and organic materials, both in academia and industry. This combination should be very fruitful in preparation for future breakthroughs in these areas of physics. The scope of the Conference covers both physics and application of a variety of phenomena related to light-matter coupling in solids. Topics to be discussed include, but are not limited to: Light-matter coupling in microcavities and photonic crystals Bose-Einstein condensation Spin related phenomena Indirect excitons Transport of excitons and exciton- polaritons, polariton quantum fluids Physics and application of quantum dots Plasmons and near-field optics in light matter coupling Opto-mechanical cavities Growth and characterization of advanced wide bandgap semiconductors (GaN, ZnSe, ZnO, organic materials) Exciton-Polaritons in organic solids Novel optical devices (polariton lasers, single-photon emitters, entangled-photon pair generators, optical switches...) Quantum information and processing Committees Organizing Committee: Chairman: Pavlos Savvidis (Greece) Co-Chairman: Jacqueline Bloch (France) Scientific secretary: (to be announced) Financial secretary: Giuseppe Eramo (Italy) Program Committee : Jeremy Baumberg (UK) - Chair of the Program Committee Alexey Kavokin (UK) Nicolas Grandjean (Switzerland) Bernard Gil (France) Yoshihisa Yamamoto (USA) David Lidzey (UK) Yasuhiko Arakawa (Japan) Eugenius Invchenko (Russia) Axel Hoffmann (Germany) Rainer F. Mahrt (Switzerland) Massimo Rontani (Modena) Francois Dubin (Spain) Leonid Butov (USA) Pascale Senellart (France) Mete Attature (UK) Eva Maria Weig (Germany) Local Organizing Committee: Pavlos Savvidis (Greece) Simeon Tsintzos (Greece) Eleftherios Iliopoulos (Greece) Click the left arrow for the first page Click Escape to go out