The Ramunno group traveled to Erice, Sicily for the NATO Advanced Study Institute titled “Light-Matter Interactions Towards the Nanoscale” from July 20th to August 4th 2019. This year’s organizers included our very own research associate Antonino Calà Lesina. Many lecturers presented on various nanophotonic-related topics, including Prof. Ramunno who gave a workshop on Lumerical’s FDTD software. Joshua presented some of his work as a short seminar, and two posters.