The call for papers is available at the event website http://www.myeos.org/events/do2012.

Location: Conference Centre of Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Timeframe: 27 February - 1 March 2012

This meeting will be the eighth in a series. Previous meetings took place in Savonlinna (1997), Jena (1999), Budapest (2001), Oxford (2003), Warsaw (2005), Barcelona (2007) and Koli (2010).

Topics include, but are not limited to

· Novel optical materials including metamaterials
· Modelling of diffractive optics
· Optical beam shaping
· Polarization
· Scattering
· Diffractive Optics for Solid State Lighting and solar
· Photonic crystals
· Adaptive and switchable diffractive optics
· Diffractive Optics for Life Sciences and sensing
· Inverse problems in diffraction optics
· Fabrication and characterization
· Measurements and inspection

Chairs:
· Jani Tervo, University of Joensuu (FI)
· Paul Urbach, Delft University of Technology (NL)