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, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
2. Tao Ding, Wuhan University, China
3. Wolfgang Fritzsche, Leibniz-IPHT, Jena, Germany
4. Holger Lange, Universität Hamburg, Germany
5. Gaetan Leveque, University of Lille, France
6. Shunsuke Murai, University of Kyoto, Japan
7. Hiromi Okamoto, Center for Mesoscopic Sciences, Japan
8. Kyoungweon Park, UES, Inc., USA
9. Mona Treguer Delapierre, ICMCB - University of Bordeaux, France
10. Joseph G. Tischler, University of Oklahoma, USA
11. Gary Wiederrecht, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
12. Nick Wu, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
13. Tao Xu, Shanghai University, China
14. Peng Yu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Symposium II: New trends in nanophotonics and advanced materials

Symposium Co-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. Trevon Badloe, POSTECH, Korea
2. Qin Chen, Jinan University, China
3. Yong-Hoon Cho, KAIST, Korea
4. Johannes Dickmann, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
5. Abdulhakem Elezzabi, Univeristy of Alberta, Canada
6. Chase T. Ellis, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA
7. Marian Florescu, University of Surrey, UK
8. Han Htoon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
9. Joel Kuttruff, Universität Konstanz, Germany
10. Jongwon Lee, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
11. Jiafang Li, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
12. Lianlin Li, Peking University, China
13. Hong Liu, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR, Singapore
14. Moritz Merklein, University of Sydney, Austraila
15. Yuto Moritake, Tokyo Tech, Japan
16. Jong Ok, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea
17. Taiichi Otsuji, Tohoku University, Japan
18. Ekmel Ozbay, Bilkent University, Turkey
19. Meng-Xin Ren, Nankai University, China
20. Ann Roberts, University of Melbourne, Australia
21. Tigran Shahbazyan, Jackson State University, USA
22. Dmitry Solnyshkov, Institut Pascal, France
23. Yuusuke Takashima, Tokushima University, Japan
24. Takasumi Tanabe, Keio University, Japan
25. Shuming Wang, Nanjing University, China
26. Taka-aki Yano, Tokushima University, Japan
27. Winnie Ye, Carleton University, Canada
28. Jianfeng Zang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
29. Cheng Zhang, HUST, China
30. Dai Zhang, University of Tuebingen, Germany
31. Yong Zhang, Nanjing University, China

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

Symposium Co-Chairs

Howard Lee University of California, Irvine USA	Pin Chieh Wu National Cheng Kung University Taiwan	Qinghua Song Tsinghua University China

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. Hyeyoung Ahn, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
2. Pierre Berini, University of Ottawa, Canada
3. Wenshan Cai, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
4. Debashis Chanda, University of Central Florida, USA
5. Wen-Hui Cheng, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
6. Fei Ding, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
7. Jesse Frantz, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
8. Patrice Genevet, Colorado School of Mines, USA
9. Shangjr Felix Gwo, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan
10. Juejun Hu, MIT, USA
11. Min Seok Jang, KAIST, Korea
12. Laura Kim, UCLA, USA
13. Nathaniel Kinsey, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
14. Mark Lawrence, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
15. Dangyuan Lei, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
16. Marina Leite, University of California, Davis, USA
17. Tao Li, Nanjing University, China
18. Ying Li, Zhejiang University, China
19. Zhaowei Liu, University of California San Diego, USA
20. Yu-Jung Lu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
21. Guancong Ma, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
22. Arka Majumdar, University of Washington, USA
23. Gururaj Naik, Rice University, USA
24. Roberto Paiella, Boston University, USA
25. Ruwen Peng, Nanjing University, China
26. Aaswath Raman, University of California Los Angeles, USA
27. Haoran Ren, Monash University, Australia
28. Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue University, USA
29. Maxim Shcherbakov, UC Irvine, USA
30. Jingbo Sun, Tsinghua University, China
31. Takuo Tanaka, RIKEN, Japan
32. Ming-Lun Tseng, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
33. Benjamin Vest, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, France
34. Qijie Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
35. Yuanmu Yang, Tsinghua University, China
36. 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 electromagnetic fields;
7. Magnetoelectric meta-atoms and magnetoelectric fields;
8. Chiral exceptional points;
9. Chiral excitons;
10. Magnetoelectric effect and axion electrodynamics.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

1. Yutaka Akagi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
2. Evangelos Almpanis, Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Greece
3. Antonio Ambrosio, CNST@POLIMI - Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
4. Steven Anlage, University of Maryland, USA
5. David Ayuso, Max-Born-Institut, Germany
6. Benfeng Bai, Tsinghua University, China
7. Peter Banzer, University of Graz, Austria
8. Gerrit Bauer (Keynote Speaker), Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands & Tohoku University, Japan
9. Alessandro Belardini, Sapienza University di Roma, Italy
10. Jamal Berakdar, Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
11. Lei Bi, Univ. Electronic Sci. and Technol. of China, China
12. Konstantin Bliokh (Keynote Speaker), RIKEN, Japan
13. Eyal Buks, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
14. Che Ting Chan, Hong Kong Univ. Sci. & Technol., China
15. Alexander Cerjan, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
16. Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
17. Iago Diez, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
18. Lingyuan Gao, University of Arkansas, USA
19. Jacob Gayles, University of South Florida, USA
20. Yuri Gorodetski, Ariel University, Israel
21. Alexander Govorov, Ohio University, USA
22. Tomoki Hirosawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
23. Hajime Ishihara, Osaka University, Japan
24. Hiroaki Ishizuka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
25. Qingdong Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
26. Maria Kafesaki, University of Crete, Greece
27. Terunori Kaihara, CIC nanoGUNE, Basque Alliance for R&D, Spain
28. Eugene Kamenetskii, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
29. Yusuke Kato, The University of Tokyo, Japan
30. Se Kwon Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
31. Jun-ichiro Kishine, The Open University of Japan, Japan
32. Hiroaki Kusunose, Meiji University, Japan
33. Philippe Lalanne, Institut d'Optique d'Aquitaine - CNRS, France
34. Tiefu Li, Tsinghua University, China
35. Konstantinos Makris, University of Crete, Greece
36. Gil Markovich, Tel Aviv University, Israel
37. Mamoru Matsuo, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences - Beijing, China
38. Masahito Mochizuki, Waseda University, Japan
39. Yuriy Mokrousov, Peter Grünberg Institut (PGI-1) Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
40. Gabriel Molina-Terriza, Donostia International Physics Center, Spain
41. Alexander Mook, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
42. Shuichi Murakami, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
43. Ki Tae Nam, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
44. Branislav Nikolic, University of Delaware, USA
45. Feodor Ogrin, University of Exeter, UK
46. Yoshihiro Okamura, The University of Tokyo, Japan
47. Takashige Omatsu, Chiba University, Japan
48. Yasutomo Ota, Keio University, Japan
49. Tomoki Ozawa, Tohoku University, Japan
50. Oleksandr Pylypovskyi, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., Germany
51. Björn Reinhard, Boston University, USA
52. Masahiro Sato, Chiba University, Japan
53. Christian Schäfer, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
54. Akihiko Sekine, Fujitsu Research, Fujitsu Ltd, Japan
55. Behrooz Semnani, University of Waterloo, Canada
56. Oleksandr Serha, TU Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
57. Amos Sharoni, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
58. Alexandros Spiliotis, Westlake University, China
59. Michael Tobar, University of Western Australia, Australia
60. Yoshihiko Togawa, Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan
61. Xiangrong Wang, Hong Kong Univ. Sci. & Technol., China
62. Zuojia Wang, Zhejiang University, China
63. Kam Sing Wong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
64. Pin Chieh Wu, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
65. Hiroshi Yamamoto, Institute for Molecular Science, Japan
66. Peng Yan, Univ. of Electronic Sci. and Technol. of China, China
67. Youichi Yanase, Kyoto University, Japan
68. Takehito Yokoyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
69. Jiadong Zang, University of New Hampshire, USA
70. Anatoly Zayats (Keynote Speaker), King's College London,UK
71. Yan Zhou, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
72. Uli Zuelicke, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Symposium V: Phononics and acoustic metamaterials

Symposium Chair

Marco Miniaci IEMN - CNRS France

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. Jouni Ahopelto, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
2. Gaurav Bahl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
3. Davide Bigoni, University of Trento, Italy
4. Federico Bosia, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
5. Johan Christensen, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
6. Barahm Djafari-Rouhani, Université de Lille 1, France
7. Stefan Enoch, Institut Fresnel - CNRS, France
8. Antonio Gliozzi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
9. Zardo Ilaria, University of Basel, Switzerland
10. Yoon Young Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
11. Svetlana Kuznetsova, IEMN, France
12. Bing Li, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China