META 2024 will feature several technical tutorials instructed by world-leading experts on various topics of interest to the META community. Tutorials are intended to provide a high quality learning experience to conference attendees.

Registration

The tutorials are part of the conference technical program, and are free of charge to the conference attendees.

Who Should Attend?

The tutorials will address an audience with a varied range of interests and backgrounds: beginners, students, researchers, lecturers and representatives of companies, governments and funding agencies who wish to learn new concepts and technologies.

When?

July 16-19, 2024.

Where?

Tutorials will be held at the conference venue

Tutorials & Instructors

Tutorial 1: "Topological Origin of Surface Maxwell Waves and Surface Acoustic Modes" Prof. Franco Nori, Riken (Japan) and University of Michigan (USA) Tutorial length: 1 hour Description: Interfaces between optical media (including dielectrics, metals, negative-index materials) can support surface electromagnetic waves, which now play crucial roles in plasmonics, metamaterials, and nano-photonics. We have shown [K. Y. Bliokh et al., Nat. Commun. 10, 580 (2019)] that surface Maxwell waves at interfaces between homogeneous isotropic media described by real permittivities and permeabilities have a topological origin explained by the bulk-boundary correspondence. This is explained by the nontrivial topology of the non-Hermitian photon helicity operator in the Weyl-like representation of Maxwell equations. The corresponding topological invariant, which determines the number of surface modes, describes the winding of the complex helicity spectrum across the interface. Our theory provides a new twist and insights for several areas of wave physics: Maxwell electromagnetism, topological quantum states, non-Hermitian wave physics, and metamaterials. We have also analyzed [K. Y. Bliokh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. (2019)] another type of classical waves: longitudinal acoustic waves corresponding to spinless phonons. We show that surface acoustic waves, which appear at interfaces between media with opposite-sign densities, can be explained by similar topological features and the bulk-boundary correspondence. However, in contrast to photons, the topological properties of sound waves originate from the non-Hermitian four-momentum operator in the Klein-Gordon representation of acoustic fields.

Tutorial 2: "Writing and Submitting Your Papers" Dr. Rachel Won, Nature Photonics, UK Tutorial length: 1 hour Description: This talk covers the detailed information and guidelines on scientific paper preparation and submission, including tips for writing an effective cover letter, an informative abstract, a comprehensive introduction and an attractive paper, and editorial and peer-review processes. You will also get to know how to choose a journal for submission, what editors seek, how your papers are reviewed and how to make an appeal.