Magnetoplasmonics
Novel magnetoplasmonic structures for enhancement of magneto-optical effects;
Magneto-optical phase effects;
Nonreciprocity effects in toroics.

Active plasmonics
Control of surface plasmon polaritons via electric field or spin-polarized current in multiferroics;
Control of surface plasmon polaritons via laser pulses;
Control of surface plasmon polaritons via direct and inverse magneto-optics.

Quantum plasmonics
Magnetic field controlled tunneling of surface plasmon polaritons in multilayer structures;
Plasmons in the hybrid structures of gold and graphene;
Surface plasmon polaritons in nanostructures with broken time and space inversion symmetry;
Electrodynamics of molecular nanoclusters;
Effects of Bose-Einstein Condensation in plasmonic systems.

Ultrafast optical control of the magnetization
Inverse Faraday effect in magnetoplasmonic structures;
Inverse Transverse Kerr effect;
Inverse Faraday effect and optical orientation in paramagnetic semiconductors (GaMnAs, CdMnTe).

Applications:
Modulation of light intensity, polarization and phase at GHz and THz frequencies;
Nonreciprocal elements for integrated optics (optical isolators, circulators etc.);
Plasmonic circuitry;
Plasmonic sensors.