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. Guillermo Acuna, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
2. Pierre-Michel Adam, Technological University of Troyes, France
3. Oscar Ávalos-Ovando, Ohio University, USA
4. David Babonneau, CNRS - PPRIME, France
5. Veronica Bahamondes Lorca, Ohio University, Athens, USA
6. Ilko Bald, University of Potsdam, Germany
7. Lucas Besteiro, CINBIO - Universidade de Vigo, Spain
8. Francesco Bisio, CNR-SPIN, Genova, Italy
9. Jean-Sébastien Bouillard, University of Hull, UK
10. Jean-François Bryche, LN2, Université de Sherbrooke & CNRS, Canada
11. Aurélie Broussier, UTT - Université de Technologie de Troyes, France
12. Hsu Chia Chan, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
13. Gérard Colas des francs, Université de Bourgogne, France
14. Miguel Comesana-Hermo, ITODYS-CNRS, Université de Paris, France
15. Miguel A. Correa-Duarte, CINBIO - Universidade de Vigo, Spain
16. Emiliano Cortès, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
17. Aurélien Cuche, CEMES-CNRS, France
18. Alberto Curto, Ghent University and IMEC, Belgium
19. Giuseppe Della Valle, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
20. Wolfgang Fritzsche (Keynote Speaker), Leibniz-IPHT - Jena, Germany
21. Rachel Grange, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
22. Michele Guizzardi, Dipartimento di Fisica - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
23. Yurii Gun'ko, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
24. Pedro Hernandez Martinez, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
25. Mikko Huttunen, Tampere University, Finland
26. Zee Hwan Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
27. Alina Karabchevsky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
28. Mathieu Kociak, CNRS & Université Paris-Saclay, France
29. Kuniaki Konishi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
30. Ilka Kriegel, Dipartimento di Fisica - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
31. Wakana Kubo, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan
32. Eric Le Moal, ISMO, Université Paris-Saclay, France
33. Emmanuel Lhuillier, INSP, Sorbonne-Université, France
34. Yanjun Liu, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
35. Theo Lohmüller, University of Munich, Germany
36. Euclydes Marega Jr, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
37. Shunsuke Murai, University of Kyoto, Japan
38. Rafik Naccache, Concordia University, Canada
39. Alberto Naldoni, University of Turin, Italy
40. Svetlana Neretina, University of Notre Dame, USA
41. Lai Ngoc Diep, ENS Paris Saclay, France
42. Hiromi Okamoto, Institute for Molecular Science, Center for Mesoscopic Sciences, Japan
43. Panos Patsalas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
44. Bruno Palpant, Université Paris Saclay, France
45. Matthias Pauly, University of Strasbourg, France
46. Jean-Marie Poumirol, CEMES, Toulouse, France
47. Lucas Razzari (Keynote Speaker), INRS, Canada
48. Francesco Scotognella, Dipartimento di Fisica - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
49. Chris Sikeler, University of Munich (LMU), Germany
50. Olivier Soppera, IMM UHA and CNRS, France
51. Andreas Tittl, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
52. Mona Treguet-Delapierre, ICMCB University Bordeaux and CNRS, France
53. Ventsislav Valev, University of Bath, United Kingdom
54. Alberto Vomiero, Luleå University of Technology, Italy
55. Gary Wiederrecht (Keynote Speaker), Argonne National Laboratory, USA
56. Peng Yu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
57. Margherita Zavelani-Rossi, Politecnico di Milano and CNR, Italy
58. Shuwen Zeng, Université de Technologie de Troyes, France

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	Seong Ok Han Korea Institute of Energy Research, 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. Imad Agha, University of Dayton, USA
2. Amit Agrawal, NIST, USA
3. Claude Amra, Institut Fresnel, France
4. Trevon Badloe, POSTECH, Korea
5. Daniele Bajoni, Università of Pavia, Italy
6. Fang Bo, Nankai University, China
7. Muriel Botey, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
8. Qi-Tao Cao, Peking University, China
9. Emmanuel Centeno, Université Clermont Auvergne, France
10. Pavel Cheben, National Research Council, Canada
11. Qin Chen, Jinan University, China
12. Xianzhong Chen, Heriot-Watt University, UK
13. Xuewen Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
14. Yu-Bin Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
15. Dmitry Chigrin, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
16. Yong-Hoon Cho, KAIST, Korea
17. Jun Hee Choi, Samsung, Korea
18. Esben R. Christensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
19. Thomas Christensen, MIT, USA
20. Cristian Ciracì, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy
21. Christophe Couteau, University of Technology of Troyes, France
22. Javier García de Abajo (Keynote Speaker), ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain
23. Alfredo De Rossi, Thales Research and Technology, France
24. Jean-Jacques Delaunay, University of Tokyo, Japan
25. Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, Université de Lille 1, France
26. Peter Dombi, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungary
27. Zhaogang Dong, A*STAR, Singapore
28. Erik Dujardin, CEMES CNRS, France
29. Abdulhakem Elezzabi, Univeristy of Alberta, Canada
30. Maria Farsari, FORTH, Greece
31. Vassili Fedotov, University of Southampton, UK
32. Sergej Flach, Institute for Basic Science, South Korea
33. Monika Fleischer, University of Tübingen, Germany
34. Marian Florescu, University of Surrey, UK
35. Jake Fontana, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
36. Braulio Garcia Camara, UC3M, Spain
37. Andrés Guerrero-Martínez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
38. Junpeng Guo, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
39. Qiong He, Fudan University, China
40. Han Htoon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
41. Xiaoyong Hu, Peking University, China
42. Junichi Inoue, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
43. Heonsu Jeon, Seoul National University, Korea
44. Jian-Hua Jiang, Soochow University, China
45. Amine Khitous & Olivier Soppera, PHOTON / IS2M - CNRS, France
46. Iam-Choon Khoo, Pennsylvania State University, USA
47. Alexei Kornyshev, Imperial College London, UK
48. Ivan Latella, University of Barcelona, Spain
49. Howard Lee, University of California, Irvine, USA
50. Jongwon Lee, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
51. Keon Jae Lee, KAIST, Korea
52. Dangyuan Lei, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
53. Marina S. Leite, University of California - Davis, USA
54. Juerg Leuthold, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
55. Jiafang Li, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
56. Lianlin Li, Peking University, China
57. Tao Li, Nanjing University, China
58. Wen-Di Li, The Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
59. Yongqian Li, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
60. Hong Liu, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR, Singapore
61. Yungui Ma, Zhejiang University, China
62. Nicolò Maccaferri, Umeå University, Sweden
63. Moritz Merklein, University of Sydney, Austraila
64. Bumki Min, KAIST, korea
65. Changjun Min, Shenzhen University, China
66. Hiro Minamimoto, Hokkaido University, Japan
67. Khaled Mnaymneh, National Research Council, Canada
68. Yuto Moritake, Tokyo Tech, Japan
69. Tadaaki Nagao, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
70. Rajesh Nair, IIT Ropar, India
71. Yoshiaki Nishijima, Yokohama National University, Japan
72. Jong G. Ok, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea
73. Taiichi Otsuji, Tohoku University, Japan
74. Ekmel Ozbay, Bilkent University, Turkey
75. Nicolae C Panoiu, University College London, UK
76. Nam-Gyu Park, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
77. Alexander Petrov, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
78. Soren Raza, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
79. Jie Ren, Tongji University, China
80. Mahmoud Rasras, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
81. Meng-Xin Ren, Nankai University, China
82. Matteo Rinaldi, Northeastern University, USA
83. Ann Roberts, University of Melbourne, Australia
84. Sookyoung Roh, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea
85. Young-Geun Roh, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea
86. Carsten Ronning, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität (FSU) Jena, Germany
87. Fabio Sciarrino, Univerity of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
88. Tigran Shahbazyan, Jackson State University, USA
89. Igor Smolyaninov, Saltenna LLC and University of Maryland, USA
90. Vera Smolyaninova, Towson University, USA
91. Dmitry Solnyshkov, Institut Pascal, France
92. Fangwen Sun, University of Science and Technology of China, China
93. Yuusuke Takashima, Tokushima University, Japan
94. Takasumi Tanabe, Keio University, Japan
95. Koichiro Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan
96. Takuo Tanaka, RIKEN, Japan
97. Sébastien Tanzilli, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
98. Thomas Taubner, Aachen University, Germany
99. Andrea Toma, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
100. Alessandro Tredicucci, Università di Pisa, Italy
101. Kerry Vahala (Keynote Speaker), Caltech, USA
102. Thierry Verbiest, KU Leuven, Belgium
103. Frank Vollmer, Univ. of Exeter, UK
104. Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University, USA
105. Jian Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
106. Mu Wang, Nanjing University, China
107. Shuming Wang, Nanjing University, China
108. Martin Wegener (Keynote Speaker), KIT, Germany
109. Guillaume Weick, IPCMS, France
110. Thomas Wong, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
111. Qing-Hua Xu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
112. Xiaohao Xu, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, China
113. Xiulai Xu, Peking University, China
114. Qing Yang, Zhejing University, China
115. Taka-aki Yano, Tokushima University, Japan
116. Yu Yao, Arizona State University, USA
117. Jae Su Yu, Kyung Hee University, Korea
118. Jianfeng Zang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
119. Dai Zhang, University of Tuebingen, Germany
120. Weihua Zhang, Nanjing University, China
121. Yong Zhang, Nanjing University, China
122. Jia Zhu, Nanjing University, China
123. Rashid Zia, Brown University, USA
124. Val Zwiller, KTH, Sweden

Symposium III: Advanced passive and active metasurfaces and zero-index materials

Symposium Chair

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 (Keynote Speaker), Caltech, USA
2. Hyeyoung Ahn, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
3. Viktoriia Babicheva, University of New Mexico, USA
4. Pierre Berini, University of Ottawa, Canada
5. Mark Brongersma (Keynote Speaker), Stanford University, USA
6. Haogang Cai, New York University, USA
7. Debashis Chanda, University of Central Florida, USA
8. Hong-Tong Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
9. Wen-Hui Cheng, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
10. Shangjr Felix Gwo, National Tsing-Hua University - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
11. Jesse Frantz, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
12. Patrice Genevet, Centre de Recherche sur l'Hétéro-épitaxie et ses Applications, France
13. Min Seok Jang, KAIST, Korea
14. Melissa Li, Caltech, USA
15. Zhaowei Liu, University of California San Diego, USA
16. Yu-Jung Lu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
17. Arka Majumdar, University of Washington, USA
18. Andrea Marini, University of L'Aquila, Italy
19. Jeremy Munday, University of California Davis, USA
20. Guru Naik, Rice University, USA
21. Ragip Pala, Meta Materials Inc, USA
22. Roberto Paiella, Boston University, USA
23. Junsuk Rho, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
24. Markus Schmidt, University of Jena, Germany
25. Gennadiy Shvets, Cornell University, USA
26. Qinghua Song, Tsinghua University, China
27. Georgia Theano Papadakis, ICFO, Spain
28. Augustine Urbas, Air Force Research Lab., USA
29. Benjamin Vest, Institut d'optique, France
30. Qijie Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
31. Jing Wen, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
32. Yuanmu Yang, Tsinghua University, China
33. Thomas Zentgraf, Paderborn University, USA
34. 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. Antonio Ambrosio, CNST@POLIMI - Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
3. David Ayuso, Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany
4. Peter Banzer, University of Graz, Austria
5. Alessandro Belardini, Sapienza University di Roma, Italy
6. Jamal Berakdar, Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
7. Lei Bi, Univ. Electronic Sci. and Technol. of China, China
8. Eyal Buks, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
9. Andres Cantarero, Universitat de València, Spain
10. Filippo Capolino, University of California, Irvine, USA
11. Alexander Cerjan, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, USA
12. Che Ting Chan, The Kong Univ. Sci. & Technology, China
13. Eugene Chudnovsky, The City University of New York, USA
14. Akito Daido, Kyoto University, Japan
15. Vladimir Drachev, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia
16. Sotiris Droulias, University of Piraeus, Greece
17. Maxim Durach, Georgia Southern University, USA
18. Bruno Gallas, Sorbonne Université, France
19. Jacob Gayles, University of South Florida, USA
20. Tommaso Giovannini, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
21. Yuri Gorodetski, Ariel University, Israel
22. Alexander Govorov, Ohio University, USA
23. Piotr Graczyk, Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Acad. Sci., Poznan, Poland
24. Tomoki Hirosawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
25. Simon Horsley, University of Exeter, UK
26. Jun’ichi Ieda, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Japan
27. Hajime Ishihara, Osaka University, Japan
28. Hiroaki Ishizuka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
29. Qing-Dong Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
30. Maria Kafesaki, University of Crete, Greece
31. Eugene Kamenetskii, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
32. Jun-ichiro Kishine, The Open University of Japan, Japan
33. Henrik Koch, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
34. Rahul Kumar, University of Glasgow, UK
35. Philippe Lalanne, Institut d'Optique d'Aquitaine - CNRS, France
36. Shoufeng Lan, Texas A&M University, USA
37. Hyoung-In Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
38. Martin McCall, Imperial College London, UK
39. Stefan Meskers, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
40. Masahito Mochizuki, Waseda University, Japan
41. Gabriel Molina-Terriza, Donostia International Physics Center, Spain
42. Shuichi Murakami, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
43. Naoto Nagaosa (Keynote Speaker), RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Japan
44. Branislav Nikolic, University of Delaware, USA
45. Feodor Ogrin, University of Exeter, UK
46. Takashige Omatsu, Chiba University, Japan
47. Yasutomo Ota, Keio University, Japan
48. John Pendry (Keynote Speaker), Imperial College London, UK
49. Francesco Pineider, University of Pisa, Italy
50. Oleksandr Pylypovskyi, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., Germany
51. Björn Reinhard, Boston University, USA
52. Nir Rotenberg, Queen’s University, Canada
53. Tom Saunderson, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany
54. Masahiro Sato, Chiba University, Japan
55. Kei Sawada, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Japan
56. Christian Schneider, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
57. Shinichiro Seki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
58. Akihiko Sekine, Fujitsu Research - Fujitsu Ltd, Japan
59. Giuseppe Strangi, Case Western Reserve University, USA
60. Yuta Suzuki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
61. Oleksandr Serha, TU Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
62. Chen Shaohai, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
63. Gen Tatara, RIKEN, Center for Emergent Matter Science, Japan
64. Samarth Vadia, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
65. Vincent Vlaminck, IMT- Atlantique, Technopole Brest-Iroise, France
66. Xiangrong Wang (Keynote Speaker), The Hong Kong Univ. Sci. & Technol., China
67. Peng Yan, Univ. Electronic Sci. and Technol. of China, China
68. Jiadong Zang, University of New Hampshire, USA
69. Anatoly Zayats, King's College London, UK
70. Arcady Zhukov, University of Basque Country and Ikerbasque, Spain

Symposium V: Phononics and acoustic metamaterials

Symposium Chairs

 

Jensen Li Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong	Jean-Philippe Groby Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans France	Marco Miniaci IEMN - CNRS France	Vicente Romero-García IUMPA UPV Spain	Vincent Pagneux LAUM - CNRS France	Noé Jiménez I3M - CSIC Spain

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. Stéphane Brulé, Menard France, France
2. Michele Brun, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy
3. Giorgio Carta, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy
4. Simon Félix, Le Mans Université, France
5. Guoliang Huang (Keynote Speaker), University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
6. Muamer Kadic, Université de Franche Comté, France
7. Anastasiia Krushynska, University of Groningen, Netherland
8. Samantha Kucher, ESPCI Paris, France
9. Maxime Lanoy, Le Mans Université, France
10. Guancong Ma, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
11. Yang Meng, Le Mans Université, France
12. Jack Ng, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
13. Nicolas Noiray, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
14. Pawel Packo, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
15. Dorota Pawlak, Institute of Electronic Materials Technology, Poland
16. Luis Garcia Raffi, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
17. Motonobu Tomada, Hokkaido University, Japan
18. Daniel Torrent, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
19. Yifang Zhu, Southeast University, China