Dr. Sebastien Guenneau
Institut Fresnel, CNRS, Marseilles, France
General Topic: Checkerboards of negative refractive index and plasmonic materials
Webpages: http://www.fresnel.fr/perso/guenneau/

Prof. Akhlesh Lakhtakia
Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics Penn State University, USA
General Topic: Optics of metamaterials and Sculptured thin films
Webpages: http://www.esm.psu.edu/~axl4

Prof. Olivier J.F. Martin
Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory (NAM)
Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Switzerland
General Topic: Photonic properties of nanostructured plasmonic materials
Webpages: http://nam.epfl.ch

Prof. J. Ramkumar
Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
General Topic: Laser Micromachining
Webpages: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~jrkumar

Prof. Harshawardhan Wanare
Physics Department, IIT Kanpur
General Topic: Anything interesting in classical and quantum optics
Webpages: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~hwanare

Prof. Sameer Khandekar
Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
General Topic: Evaporation and cooling on nanostructured surfaces
Webpages: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~samkhan

Prof. Yogesh Joshi
Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
General Topic: Optical properties of soft matter
Webpages: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~joshi

Sir John Pendry
Condensed matter theory group, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London
I worked as a post-doctoral fellow with Professor Pendry during 2001-2003. In those early days of negative refractive index materials, we looked at a variety of problems assoicated with subwavelength image using negative index materials
Webpages: http://www.cmth.ph.ic.ac.uk/photonics/Newphotonics/

Prof. Narendra Kumar
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
I worked with Professor Kumar for my Ph.D. thesis during 1998-2001 on the transport of light through disordered materials, both active and passive.
Webpages: http://www.rri.res.in/~nkumar/