Symposium I: Hybrid Nanomaterials and Metastructures for Photonics, Sensing and Energy

Symposium Co-Chairs

Jérôme Plain Technological University of Troyes, France	Alexander Govorov Ohio University, USA & University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China	Davy Gérard Technological University of Troyes, France	Pedro Hernandez Martinez Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

This Special Symposium focuses on both experimental and theoretical studies on optically active hybrid nanomaterials, such as semiconductors, metals, dielectrics, polymers, biomolecules, etc. The Symposium is dedicated to a wide range of fundamental investigations and applications of the optically active materials, including the bottom-up syntheses, top-down nanofabrication, chemical and physical examinations of new properties of such new hybrid optically active nanomaterials.

The central issues to be addressed in the Symposium are new physical and chemical functionalities arising from novel nanostructure and/or interactions between nanoscale building blocks. Examples of functional nanomaterials include colloidal quantum dots, metal nanocrystals, layered structures, nanocrystal complexes, lithographic metastructures and metasurfaces, hybrid nanostructures, bio-assemblies of nanocrystals and dye molecules, bio-conjugates, etc. In addition, the studies on the applications of these novel hybrid nanomaterials in the field of biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering are welcomed.

Topics:

1. Plasmonic nanocrystal assemblies and metastructures with novel optical properties and applications;
2. Hybrid structures with exciton and plasmon resonances; quantum and classical regimes of interactions;
3. New materials for nano-optics;
4. Hot plasmonic electrons in nanostructures;
5. Time-resolved studies for fast and ultra-fast dynamics in plasmonic and excitonic systems, involving hot electrons, phonons and excitons;
6. Quantum effects in plasmonic systems;
7. Chiral nanostructures and metastructures with artificial chirality;
8. Bio-assembled nanomaterials with chirality;
9. Using nanocrystals to design and assemble optical meta-materials, meta-devices and meta-surfaces;
10. Thermoplasmonics and photogeneration of heat in nanostructures;
11. Hybrid nanomaterials for catalysis, solar energy conversion, photovoltaics, photochemistry and photocatalysis, CO2 and CO-related reactions;
12. Hybrid nanomaterials for phototherapy, biophysics, biological sensing, bioimaging, and other biological applications;
13. Hybrid nanomaterials for spectroscopic applications, including surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), Infrared, THz, super-resolution microscopy, and etc;
14. Bio-assemblies of excitonic and plasmonic nanocrystals;
15. Nanomaterials for structural colors;
16. Collective resonances in dielectric and plasmonic metasurfaces;
17. Photonics and plasmonics with 2D materials;
18. Excitonic and Plasmonic phenomena in Epsilon Near Zero Materials.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

1. Oscar Ávalos-Ovando, Ohio University, USA
2. Lucas Besteiro, CINBIO - Universidade de Vigo, Spain
3. Felix Binkowski, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany
4. Andrey Bogdanov, ITMO, Saint Petersburg, Russia
5. Sophie Camelio, Université de Poitiers, France
6. Roberto Caputo, University of Calabria, Italy
7. Miguel Comesana-Hermo, CNRS, ITODYS, Université de Paris, France
8. Emiliano Cortés, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
9. Stephen K. Gray (Keynote Speaker), Argonne National Laboratory, USA
10. Yurii Gun'ko, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
11. Pedro Hernandez Martinez, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
12. Mikko Huttunen, Tampere university, Finland
13. Alina Karabchevsky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
14. Malcolm Kadodwala, University of Glasgow, UK
15. Xiang-Tian Kong, Nankai University, China
16. Jaebeom Lee, Chungnam National University, Korea
17. Marina Leite, University of Maryland, USA
18. Andrea Morani, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
19. Artur Movsesyan, Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; Ohio University, China and USA
20. Shunsuke Murai, Kyoto University, Japan
21. Alina Muravitskaya, University of Hull, UK
22. Alberto Naldoni (Keynote Speaker), Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
23. Svetlana Neretina, University of Notre Dame, USA
24. Hiromi Okamoto, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan
25. Vincent Paillard, CEMES, France
26. Francisco Rodriguez-Fortuño, King's College London, UK
27. Eva Yazmin Santiago Santos, Ohio University, USA
28. Ana Luísa Simões Gamboa, ITMO, Russia
29. Olivier Soppera, Université Haute Alsace / CNRS, France
30. Vittorianna Tasco, CNR Nanotec, Italy
31. Luiz Tizei, Paris-Saclay University/CNRS, France
32. Mona Treguer, ICMCB CNRS, France
33. Thomas Weiss, Graz University, Austria
34. Gary Wiederrecht, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
35. Peng Yu, Chengdu University of Information Technology, China

Symposium II: New trends in nanophotonics and advanced materials

Symposium Chairs

Junsuk Rho POSTECH, Korea	Hakjoo Lee CAMM, Korea	Namkyoo Park Seoul National University, Korea

This symposium will address the current trends in nanophotonics, metamaterials and metasurfaces, as well as their materials challenges and the best approaches for addressing them. It will also focus on novel applications and manufacturing techniques.

Topics:

1. Quantum nano-optics & optical antennas;
2. Nanophotonics for bio- and chemo-sensing applications;
3. Active and tunable optical metamaterials;
4. Nonlinear optics in nanostructures and metamaterials;
5. Metasurfaces & applications;
6. New plasmonic materials;
7. Nanomanipulation with light, optical trapping;
8. Nanophotonics for energy applications;
9. Theory and modelling for nanophotonics and metamaterials;
10. Topological photonics;
11. Graphene based metamaterials;
12. Elastic, Acoustic, and Seismic Metamaterials;
13. Novel nanofabrication and nanomanufacturing techniques;
14. Emeging applications and techniques.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

1. Jian Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
2. Adrian Agreda, Institut d'Optique Bordeaux, France
3. Mauro Antezza, Université de Montpellier, France
4. Ángela Barreda, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
5. Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge, UK
6. Joel Bellessa, Université de Lyon, France
7. Vladimir Belotelo, MSTU, Russia
8. Peter Bermel, Purdue University, USA
9. Andrea V. Bragas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
10. Alberto Bramati, Sorbonne Université, France
11. Cyprien Brulon, ONERA, France
12. Federico Capasso (Keynote Speaker), Harvard University, USA
13. David Castello-lurbe, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
14. Xianzhong Chen, Heriot-Watt University, UK
15. Alexander Chernov, Russian Quantum Center, Russia
16. Dmitry Chigrin, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
17. Hyunyong Choi, Yonsei University, Korea
18. Jun Hee Choi, Samsung, Korea
19. Wonshik Choi, Korea University, korea
20. Alasdair W. Clark, University of Glasgow, UK
21. Christophe Couteau, University of Technology of Troyes, France
22. Thomas Christensen, MIT, USA
23. Cristian Ciracì, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy
24. Matteo Clerici, University of Glasgow, UK
25. Aurelien Cuche, CEMES - CNRS, France
26. Tiejun Cui, Southeast University, China
27. Alberto G. Curto, TU/e – Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
28. Javier García de Abajo (Keynote Speaker), ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain
29. Nathalie Destouches, Université de Saint Etienne, France
30. Anton Desyatnikov, Nazarbaev University, Kazakhstan
31. Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, Université de Lille 1, France
32. Péter Dombi, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungary
33. Zhaogang Dong, A*STAR, Singapore
34. Glenna Drisko, ICMCB, Bordeaux, France
35. Hermann Dürr, Stanford University, USA
36. Abdulhakem Elezzabi, Univeristy of Alberta, Canada
37. Vladimir Fal'ko, University of Manchester, UK
38. Vivian Ferry, University of Minnesota, USA
39. Sergej Flach, Institute for Basic Science, South Korea
40. Fumin Huang, Queen's University Belfast, UK
41. Kin Hung Fung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
42. Daniel Gomez, RMIT University, Australia
43. Junpeng Guo, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
44. L. Jay Guo, University of Michigan, USA
45. Xiao Hu, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
46. Xiaoyong Hu, Peking University, China
47. Maria Kafesaki, FORTH, Greece
48. Sungtek Kahng, Incheon National University, Korea
49. Yukio Kawano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
50. Zee Hwan Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
51. Sergio Kogikoski, University of Potsdam, Germany
52. Ivan Latella, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, France
53. Jongwon Lee, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
54. Minkyung Lee, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea
55. Suyeon Lee, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea
56. Lianlin Li, Peking University, China
57. Long Li, Xidian University, China
58. Tao Li, Nanjing University, China
59. Inigo Liberal, University of Pennsylvania, USA
60. Theobald Lohmüller, LMU Munich Germany
61. Manuel Marques, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
62. Giovanni Mattei, University of Padova, Italy
63. Tatsunosuke Matsui, Mie University, Japan
64. Moritz Merklein, University of Sydney, Austraila
65. Agustin Mihi, ICMAB, Spain
66. Hiro Minamimoto, Hokkaido University, Japan
67. Marco Miniaci, CNRS - IEMN, France
68. Yuto Moritake, Tokyo Tech, Japan
69. Kei Murakoshi, Hokkaido University, Japan
70. Tadaaki Nagao, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
71. Rajesh Nair, IIT Ropar, India
72. Yoshiaki Nishijima, Yokohama National University, Japan
73. Jong G. Ok, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea
74. Ekmel Ozbay, Bilkent University, Turkey
75. Roberto Paiella, Boston University, USA
76. Hyeonsoo Park, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea
77. Hyun Sung Park, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea
78. Nam-Gyu Park, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
79. Dorota Anna Pawlak (Keynote Speaker), ENSEMBLE3 Centre of Excellence, Poland
80. Alexander Petrov, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
81. J. L. Pura, CSIC, Spain
82. Yury Rakovich, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
83. Meng-Xin Ren, Nankai University, China
84. Carlo Rizza, CNR-SPIN (L'Aquila), Italy
85. Hatem Rmili, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
86. Ovidio Rodríguez-Pena, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
87. Sookyoung Roh, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea
88. Mikhail Rybin, ITMO University, Russia
89. Alvar Sanchez, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
90. Anton Samusev, ITMO University, Russia
91. Vincenzo Savona, EPFL, Switzerland
92. Peter Schmelcher, Hamburg University, Germany
93. Tigran Shahbazyan, Jackson State University, USA
94. Sheng Shen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
95. Dmitry Solnyshkov, Institut Pascal, France
96. Clementine Symonds, Université de Lyon, France
97. Yuusuke Takashima, Tokushima University, Japan
98. Takasumi Tanabe, Keio University, Japan
99. Sébastien Tanzilli, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
100. Vasily Temnov, LSI, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA/DRF/IRAMIS, CNRS, France
101. Alessandro Tredicucci, CNR, Italy
102. Augusto Garci­a Valenzuela, UNAM, Mexico
103. Costas Valagiannopoulos, Nazarbaev University, Kazakhstan
104. Paolo Vavassori, CIC nanoGUNE, Spain
105. Jian Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
106. Mu Wang, Nanjing University, China
107. Esther Wertz, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
108. Martin Wolf, FHI Berlin, Germany
109. Thomas Wong, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
110. Hyunsoo Yang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
111. Taka-aki Yano, Tokushima University, Japan
112. Kuang Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
113. Linjie Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Symposium III: Advanced passive and active metasurfaces

Symposium Chairs

Howard Lee University of California, Irvine, USA	Pin-Chieh Wu National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Metasurfaces are arrays of subwavelength anisotropic light scatters (optical antennas) that can produce abrupt changes in the phase, amplitude, or polarization of light. Within last few years significant progress, design of metasurfaces that refract and focus light, enabling many unique properties and applications such as holograms, optical vortex generation/detection, ultrathin focusing lens, perfect absorber, etc.

This symposium will cover the fundamental principles and technological applications of metasurfaces, and particularly aim to explore on new materials, structures, and advanced optical science/functionality of metasurfaces for applications spanning from imaging system, bio/chemical sensing, energy harvesting devices, communication system, and data storage.

Topics:

1. Active metasurfaces (via electrical, thermal, optomechanical, optical controls, etc);
2. Nonlinear metasurfaces;
3. Quantum metasurfaces and topological photonics;
4. New materials for metasurfaces (e.g., 2D materials, oxides/nitrides, phase-change materials, high-index dielectrics);
5. Passive metasurfaces with advanced optical properties and functionalities;
6. Deep-learning design for nanophotonics and metasurfaces;
7. Metasurfaces for advanced optical imaging and bio-sensing;
8. New applications of metasurfaces;
9. Large scale metasurfaces and advanced device applications.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

1. Harry Atwater, Caltech, USA
2. Viktoriia Babicheva, University of New Mexico, USA
3. Pierre Berini, University of Ottawa, Canada
4. Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue University, USA
5. Ozdal Boyraz, UC Irvine, USA
6. Mark Brongersma (Keynote Speaker), Stanford University, USA
7. Wen-Hui Cheng, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
8. Jonathan Fan, Stanford University, USA
9. Patrice Genevet (Keynote Speaker), Université Côte d’Azur - CNRS, France
10. Philip Hom, Northrop Grumman Corporation, USA
11. Jer-Shing Huang, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany
12. Min Seok Jang, KAIST, Korea
13. Nathaniel Kinsey, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
14. Zhaowei Liu, University of California San Diego, USA
15. Yu-Jung Lu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
16. Arka Majumdar, University of Washington, USA
17. Andrea Marini, University of L'Aquila, Italy
18. Junsuk Rho, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
19. Markus Schmidt, University of Jena, Germany
20. Vladimir Shalaev (Keynote Speaker), Purdue University, USA
21. Maxim Shcherbakov, UC Irvine, USA
22. Qinghua Song, Tsinghua University, China
23. Andreas Tittl, LMU München, Germany
24. Din Ping Tsai, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
25. Ming-Lun Tseng, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
26. Qijie Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
27. Yao-Wei Wei, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
28. Jing Wen, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
29. Yuanmu Yang, Tsinghua University, China
30. Ta-Jen Yen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
31. Nanfang Yu, Columbia University, USA
32. Yang Zhao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Symposium IV: Chirality, magnetism, and magnetoelectricity: Separate phenomena and joint effects in metamaterial structures

Symposium Chair

Eugene Kamenetskii Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Chirality, magnetism, magnetoelectricity – three types of different phenomena. Whether they can be exhibited as joint effects, both in optics and microwaves? The goal of this session is to discuss such joint effects in metamaterial structures in a view of different aspects of the field-matter interaction. An incomplete list of topics suggested for discussions is the following:

Topics:

1. Chiral dichroism and magnetism;
2. Chirality and magnetoelectricity;
3. Chirality, magnetism, and topology;
4. Time-reversal and space-inversion symmetry breakings and non-reciprocity;
5. Magneto-plasmonic and magnonic metamaterial structures;
6. Matter interaction with twisted EM fields;
7. Magnetoelectric structures and magnetoelectric fields.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

1. Yutaka Akagi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
2. David Ayuso, Max-Born-Institut, Germany
3. Peter Banzer, Max Planck Institute Science of Light, Germany
4. Lei Bi, Univ. Electronic Sci. and Technol. of China, China
5. Che Ting Chan (Keynote Speaker), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
6. Wei Chen, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brasil
7. Alexandre Dmitriev, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
8. Vladimir Drachev, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia
9. Yonatan Dubi, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
10. Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
11. Jonas Fransson, Uppsala University, Sweden
12. Kayn Forbes, University of East Anglia, UK
13. Markus Garst, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
14. Davy Gerard, Troyes Technological University, France
15. Sumit Ghosh, Peter Grünberg Institut (PGI-1), Germany
16. Marco Gobbi, CIC nanoGUNE, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
17. Yuri Gorodetski, Ariel University, Israel
18. Alexander Govorov, Ohio University, USA
19. Robin (Chen-Bin) Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
20. Zubin Jacob, Purdue University, USA
21. Eugene Kamenetskii, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
22. Jun-ichiro Kishine, The Open University of Japan, Japan
23. Hidekazu Kurebayashi, University College London, UK
24. Pedro Landeros, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
25. Hajime Ishihara, Osaka University, Japan
26. Shoufeng Lan, Texas A&M University, USA
27. Sadamichi Maekawa, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Japan
28. Gil Markovich, Tel Aviv University, Israel
29. Mamoru Matsuo, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences - Beijing, China
30. Masahito Mochizuki, Waseda University, Japan
31. Shuich Murakami, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
32. Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas (Keynote Speaker), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
33. Jan Masell (né Müller), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
34. Branislav Nikolic, University of Delaware, USA
35. Feodor Ogrin, University of Exeter, UK
36. Takashige Omatsu, Chiba University, Japan
37. Yasutomo Ota, Keio University, Japan
38. Matteo Pancaldi, Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy
39. Alessandro Pitanti, NEST - Istituto Nanoscienze, Italy
40. Igor Proskurin, University of Manitoba, Canada
41. Alexander Pyatakov, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
42. Oleksandr Pylypovskyi, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V, Germany
43. Björn Reinhard, Boston University, USA
44. Nir Rotenberg, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
45. Masahiro Sato, Ibaraki University, Japan
46. Kei Sawada, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Japan
47. Dominik Schulz, Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
48. Oleksandr Serha, TU Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
49. Anjan Soumyanarayanan, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
50. Takuo Tanaka, RIKEN - Metamaterials Laboratory, Japan
51. Gen Tatara, RIKEN, Center for Emergent Matter Science, Japan
52. Ewold Verhagen, AMOLF, The Netherlands
53. Silvia Viola-Kusminskiy (Keynote Speaker), Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany
54. Xiang Rong Wang, Hong Kong Univ. Sci. & Technol., China
55. Zuojia Wang, Zhejiang University, China
56. Peng Yan, Univ. of Electronic Sci. and Technol. of China, China
57. Binghai Yan, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
58. Yoichi Yanase, Kyoto University, Japan
59. Tao Yu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
60. Shira Yochelis, The Hebrew University, Israel
61. Takehito Yokoyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
62. Mateusz Zelent, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
63. Yan Zhou, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Symposium V: Phononics and acoustic metamaterials

Symposium Chairs

 

Jensen Li Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong	Guoliang Huang University of Missouri, USA

Acoustic Metamaterials is a class of artificial structure designed to control, direct, and manipulate sonic waves, which have wave manipulation functionalities beyond the defined limits of natural materials. Within a time span of 20 years, acoustic metamaterials have emerged and rapidly developed, from acoustic waves, water waves to elastic waves in solids more recently. This symposium aims at gathering the experts in the field of acoustic metamaterials, and discuss the recent development of these metamaterials, including the design, novel physics and application based on acoustic metamaterials.

Topics:

1. Acoustic metameterials design and practical applications;
2. Sound wave control using acoustic metamaterials;
3. Anisotropic acoustic metamaterial;
4. Acoustic topological metametarials;
5. Tunable or reconfigurable acoustic metameterials;
6. Active acoustic metamaterials;
7. Bianisotropic and nonreciprocal acoustic metameterials;
8. Negative reflection and cloak based on acoustic metamaterials;
9. Non-Hermitian acoustic metamaterials.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

1. Vassos Achilleos, Université du Mans, France
2. Gaurav Bahl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
3. Jean-Charles Beugnot, FEMTO-ST, France
4. Bernard Bonello, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
5. Remy Braive, Universite Paris Diderot, France
6. Pai-Yen Chen, Wayne State University, USA
7. Stefan Enoch, Institut Fresnel - CNRS, France
8. Keivan Esfarjani, University of Virginia, USA
9. Abdelkrim Khelif, FEMTO-ST - CNRS, France
10. Yoon Young Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
11. Anastasiia Krushynska, University of Groningen, Netherlands
12. Pawel Kudela, Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery, Poland
13. Bing Li, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
14. Guangcong Ma, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
15. Masahiro Nomura, The University of Tokyo, Japan
16. Mourad Oudich, University of Lorraine, France
17. William Parnell, University of Manchester, UK
18. Yan Pennec, Universite de Lille, France
19. Mika Prunnila, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Finland
20. José Sanchez-Dehesa, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
21. Jia-Hong Sun, Chang Gung University, Taiwan
22. Georgios Theocharis, Universite du Maine, France
23. Sebastian Volz, LIMMS - CNRS & The University of Tokyo, Japan
24. Mona Zebarjadi, University of Virginia, USA
25. Likun Zhang, The University of Mississippi, USA