Alexander A. Lisyansky is a Professor of Physics at Queens College (the City University of New York). He has taught undergraduate and graduate students for over 30 years and has authored over 200 research papers and 4 books. Dr. Lisyansky’s current research focuses on quantum optics, plasmonics, and condensed matter theory. Vladislav Yu. Shishkov is a researcher at the Dukhov Research Institute of Automatics (VNIIA), Moscow, Russia. He is also a lecturer at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Current research of Shishkov focuses on quantum optics, plasmonics and Bose-Einstein condensates in organic microcavities. Alexey P. Vinogradov is a Head Scientist at the Institute for Theoretical and Applied Electromagnetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Не also holds the position of Professor at Moscow Physical Technical Institute. Current research of Prof. Vinogradov is focused on problems in classical and quantum electrodynamics including homogenization and electromagnetic characterization of bulk metamaterials, quantum description of quantized electromagnetic field interaction with matter. Evgeny S. Andrianov is a Leader of Laboratory of Quantum Optics of the Dukhov Research Institute of Automatics, Russia. Не also holds a position of Assistant Professor at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia. Current research of Dr. Andrianov is focused on problems in quantum electrodynamics, quantum optics, and the theory of open quantum systems. He is an author of more than 100 papers in refereed international journals and one monograph.