David W. Ward received his B.S. in physics from the College of Charleston and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a co-founder of the field of polaritonics and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. His research interests include single molecule spectroscopy and imaging, sub-diffraction imaging, novel optical materials, and computational electrodynamics.Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; david@davidward.org