Description: This is a course for graduate students in the area of 21st century Photonics, broadly defined (including plasmonics, nanophotonics, plasmonic photocatalysis, metasurfaces, active photonic devices). Students who should take this course would be students enrolled in Applied Physics, Physical Chemistry, Physics, Chemical Physics, Chemistry, and Photonics in Electrical Engineering. The course will begin with introductory lectures based on landmark papers that built the field and inspired its subfields. Subsequently, each student selects and presents a critical summary of several research papers related to their chosen research topic. Repeatable for Credit.