Ecole Doctorale des Sciences

French – German summer school
NanoPhotonics in Nature and Art
Ile d’Oléron, France, September 7 – 14, 2009
http://www.insp.upmc.fr
Email: serge.berthier@insp.jussieu.fr
The rapid development in the fundamental study of structural coloration in the biological or
artistic world and applications in biomimetics increasingly demands to transmit the knowledge
and methodologies to newcomers, Ph.D. students, postdocs, young scientists, to encourage
young researchers from physics, chemistry, biology, modeling .. for interdisciplinary work and
collaboration in these new fields which are expected to rapidly grow further.
The school will cover fundamental problems and questions around color and the underlying
structures as well as the various spectroscopic techniques in lectures as well as in practical
courses (with numerical simulations and small experiments on portable instruments).