The third SchooL on Advanced Light-Emitting and Optical Materials (SLALOM) will be held on June 29-30, 2020 online. Advanced light-emitting and optical materials, including metamaterials, is a platform for future breakthroughs in telecommunications, quantum computing, displays, photovoltaics, and biophotonics.
The world's best experts will give lectures grouped in 2-day course. The lectures will cover the fundamental and technological aspects, as well as the latest achievements in this field. The additional poster section for young participants will provide unique opportunity for exchanging their experience with the world leading experts.
Following the last year's successful experience the Poster session will be held again as an Electronic poster (ePoster) session.
We are going to select 3 (three) best E-posters and award them with Diplomas and memorable prizes.
The School is organized by the Department of Physics and Engineering of ITMO University together with Lomonosov Moscow State University with financial support of Russian Science Foundation (grant 19-73-30023).

The application for SLALOM 2020 is closed. The acceptance results will be announced by June 22, 2020.

You can choose the preferred type of presentation - Oral talk (15 minutes) or E-Poster, or participate without talk.
Please be aware, that due to the limited amount of slots for oral presentations the selection of the talks will be conducted by the Program Committee and you might be offered a different type of presentation after the review.
You need to submit a one-page abstract to apply. The book of abstracts will be uploaded to the website before the School starts.
Please find the template for abstracts via the link.

Full program by is available by clicking on the icon below. Program contains the schedule of the talks and Poster session.

Please read the Participant Guide carefully before the School - Download.

School Chair


Sergey Makarov


ITMO University (Russia)

Program Committee


Anvar Zakhidov


The Texas University at Dallas (USA)

Pavel Belov


ITMO University (Russia)

Andrey Fedyanin


Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)

Organizing Committee


Eduard Danilovsky


ITMO University (Russia)

Victoria Zheltova


ITMO University (Russia)

Anna Popkova


Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)

School Secretary


Anastasia Kaptsova


ITMO University (Russia)