DDA-Workshop

IWT, Bremen, 23. March 2007

Travel and Hotel information (3.1.2007)

Light scattering programs based on methods related to the Discrete Dipole Approximation (DDA) are widely used because a number of programs is freely available and scattering by particles of almost any shape or composition can easily be computed.
With this workshop we would like to invite young researchers to discuss various topics of practical interest which arise in the application or adoption of the programs for specific scattering problems.

It is intended to have talks, discussions and practical information on the Discrete Dipole Approximation (DDA) especially on the following topics.
 

Topics

• Available programs
• Accuracy of computational results
• Parallelization
• Validation
• Particle shape input
• Large permittivity

If you are interested to participate or even like to present a talk or present some input for discussion please send a two page abstract (PDF) to one of the organizers by 31.Jan. 2007. Word template

Preliminary list of talks

• Maxim Yurkin: The Amsterdam DDA (tutorial).
  (Participants should bring a windows laptop to run the sample problems.)
   
• Maxim Yurkin: Current capabilities of DDA for very large particles: speed, accuracy, and computational tricks.
• Roman Schuh: Arbitrary particle shape modelling in DDA and validation of simulation results.
• Kari Lumme and Antti Penttilä   Comparison between the DDA  and Beckmann - Kirchhoff light scattering results for a large cylindrical flat and rough slabs.
• Antti Penttilä and Kari Lumme: Specular reflection from cylindrical slabs with small-scale roughness.
• Yasuhiko Okada: Reduction of iteration in DDA calculation based on the shape similarity between compact sphere and the sphere with a small porosity variation
• Vincent L. Y. Loke, Timo A. Nieminen, Norman R. Heckenberg, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop: Exploiting Symmetry and Incorporating the T-matrix in the Discrete Dipole Approximation (DDA) Method
• Baptiste Auguié, Bill Barnes: Plasmonic response of gold nanoparticles arrays made by nanosphere lithography and electron beam lithography.
• Franz Teschl, Walter L. Randeu: The DDA for modeling scattering of radar waves by liquid and frozen precipitation particles.
• Vitezslav Karasek, Pavel Zemanek: Optical binding — application of DDA.

Photos

Photos of the workshop (24.5.2007)

Fee