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	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. Vincenzo Amendola, Università di Padova, Italy
3. Veronica Bahamondes Lorca, Ohio University, USA
4. Lucas Besteiro, CINBIO - Universidade de Vigo, Spain
5. Andreas Fery, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Germany
6. Malcolm Kadowala, The University of Glasgow, UK
7. Hiromi Okamoto, Center for Mesoscopic Sciences, Japan
8. Tomoya Oshikiri, Tohoku University, Japan
9. Kyoungweon Park, UES Inc., USA
10. Rahul Rao, Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, USA
11. Gary Wiederrecht, Argonne Labs, USA
12. Peng Yu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
13. Eva Yazmin Santiago Santos, CINBIO - Universidade de Vigo, Spain
14. Ziwei Zhou, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Germany

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. Steven Anlage, University of Maryland, USA
2. Xianfeng Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
3. Alberto Curto, Ghent University and IMEC, Belgium
4. Stefania D’Agostino, National Research Council (CNR), Italy
5. Qiaoqiang Gan, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KSA
6. Jonathan Gratus, Lancaster University, UK
7. Sven Hofling, University of Würzburg, Germany
8. Xiaoyong Hu, Peking University, China
9. Yogesh Joglekar, Indiana University Purdue, USA
10. Magnus Jonsson, Linköping University, Sweden
11. Yu-Jung (Yuri) Lu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
12. Kevin MacDonald, University of Southampton, UK
13. Margherita Maiuri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
14. Evgeny Mamonov, Aalto University, Finland
15. Roberto Morandotti, INRS-EMT, Canada
16. Yuto Moritake, Tokyo Tech, Japan
17. Tadaaki Nagao, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
18. Roberto Paiella, Boston University, USA
19. Anatoliy Pinchuk, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA
20. Ilya Shadrivov, The Australian National University, Australia
21. Tigran Shahbazyan, Jackson State University, USA
22. Jonghwa Shin, KAIST, Korea
23. Osamu Takayma, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
24. Kerry Vahala, Caltech, USA
25. Shuming Wang, Nanjing University, China
26. Alexander Weber-Bargioni, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
27. Fajun Xiao, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
28. Cheng Zhang, HUST, China
29. Weihua 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	Wen-Hui (Sophia) Cheng 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

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. Antonio Ambrosio, CNST@POLIMI - Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
2. David Ayuso, Max-Born-Institute, Germany
3. Peter Banzer, University of Graz, Austria
4. Gerrit Bauer, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands & Tohoku University, Japan
5. Jamal Berakdar, Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
6. Lei Bi, Univ. Electronic Sci. and Technol. of China, China
7. Konstantin Bliokh (Keynote Speaker), Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Spain
8. Jeremy Bourhill, The University of Western Australia, Australia
9. Eyal Buks, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
10. Amir Capua, The Hebrew University, Israel
11. Alexander Cerjan, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
12. Che Ting Chan, Hong Kong Univ. Sci. & Technol., China
13. Hou-Tong Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
14. Juan Deop-Ruano, Instituto de Quımica Fısica Blas Cabrera (IQF), Spain
15. Wenjie Dou, Westlake University, China
16. Vladimir Drachev, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia
17. Sotiris Droulias, University of Piraeus, Greece
18. Karin Everschor-Sitte, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
19. Jacob Gayles, University of South Florida, USA
20. Pavel Ginzburg, Tel Aviv University, Israel
21. Tommaso Giovannini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
22. Sebastian Golat, King’s College London, UK
23. Alexander Govorov, Ohio University, USA
24. Pavel Goz, Ariel University, Israel
25. Thierry Grosjean, University of Franche-Comte, France
26. Paweł Gruszecki, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
27. Yakir Hadad, Tel Aviv University, Israel
28. Chung Haejun, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
29. Tomoki Hirosawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
30. Jirka Hlinka, FZU - Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
31. Hajime Ishihara, Osaka University, Japan
32. Hiroaki Ishizuka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
33. Qingdong Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
34. Benjamin Jungfleisch, University of Delaware, USA
35. Maria Kafesaki, University of Crete, Greece
36. Eugene Kamenetskii, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
37. Yusuke Kato, The University of Tokyo, Japan
38. Sejeong Kim, University of Melbourne, Australia
39. Jun-ichiro Kishine, The Open University of Japan, Japan
40. Femius Koenderink, AMOLF Institute, Center for Nanophotonics, The Netherlands
41. Tiefu Li, Tsinghua University, China
42. Mamoru Matsuo, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences - Beijing, China
43. Sadamichi Maekawa, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Japan
44. Alejandro Martınez, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
45. Giuseppe Maruccio, University of Salento, Italy
46. Masahito Mochizuki, Waseda University, Japan
47. Yuriy Mokrousov, Peter Grünberg Institut (PGI-1) Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
48. Alexander Mook, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
49. Shuichi Murakami, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
50. Ofer Neufeld, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
51. Branislav Nikolic, University of Delaware, USA
52. Feodor Ogrin, University of Exeter, UK
53. Yoshihiro Okamura, The University of Tokyo, Japan
54. Takashige Omatsu, Chiba University, Japan
55. Yasutomo Ota, Keio University, Japan
56. John Pendry (Keynote Speaker), Imperial College London, UK
57. Emilija Petronijevic, Sapienza University di Roma, Italy
58. Sergei Prokhorenko, University of Arkansas, USA
59. Oleksandr Pylypovskyi, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V, Germany
60. Björn Reinhard, Boston University, USA
61. Nir Rotenberg, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
62. Akbar Salam, Wake Forest University, USA
63. Masahiro Sato, Chiba University, Japan
64. Pavlos Savvidis, University of Crete, Greece
65. Kei Sawada, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Japan
66. Giacomo Scalari, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
67. Akihiko Sekine, Fujitsu Research, Fujitsu Ltd, Japan
68. Oleksandr Serha, TU Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
69. Amos Sharoni, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
70. Atsushi Taguchi, Hokkaido University, Japan
71. Youtarou Takahashi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
72. Gen Tatara, RIKEN, Center for Emergent Matter Science, Japan
73. Xiangrong Wang, Hong Kong Univ. Sci. & Technol., China
74. Thomas Weiss, University of Graz, Austria
75. Liang Wu, University of Pennsylvania, USA
76. Junsuke Yamanishi, Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan
77. Peng Yan, Univ. of Electronic Sci. and Technol. of China, China
78. Youichi Yanase, Kyoto University, Japan
79. Jiadong Zang, University of New Hampshire, USA
80. Arcady Zhukov, University of Basque Country and Ikerbasque, Spain

Symposium V: Architectured Elastic and Acoustic Metamaterials & Phononic Crystals

This Symposium is sponsored by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme in the framework of the ERC StG POSEIDON under Grant Agreement No. 101039576.

This Symposium is sponsored by the European Union’s « Horizon Europe programme » in the framework of the project MAGNIFIC (HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01, Grant Agreement No. 101091968).

Symposium Chairs

Marco Miniaci IEMN - CNRS France	Jensen Li HKUST Hong Kong	Jean-Philippe Groby Université du Mans France	Vincent Pagneux LAUM - CNRS France	Noé Jiménez I3M - CSIC Spain

The scientific interest in elastic and acoustic metamaterials / phononic crystals has witnessed a remarkable growth in recent years. This is due to their great potential to achieve unconventional dynamic and quasi-static behaviors, as well as to the advancement of the manufacturing techniques leading to increasingly complex designs ("architectures") spanning multiple scale lengths or allowing space and time modulation of the material properties. This symposium aims at gathering the experts in the field of elastic and acoustic metamaterials, discuss their recent development at multiple length scales (from the macro to the nano-scale), including the design, novel physics and application based on acoustic metamaterials.

Topics:

1. Architectured elastic and acoustic metamaterials / phononic crystals: design and practical applications
2. Airborne and underwater wave control via elastic and acoustic metamaterials / phononic crystals
3. Bio-inspired elastic and acoustic metamaterials / phononic crystals
4. Topological protection, non-Hermitian and nonreciprocal elastic and acoustic metamaterials / phononic crystals
5. Tunability and reconfigurability in elastic and acoustic metamaterials / phononic crystals
6. Nano-opto-electro-mechanical systems

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

1. Jouni Ahopelto, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
2. Igor Bargatin, University of Pennsylvania, USA
3. Olga Boyko, Sorbonne Université, France
4. Stephane Brulé, Menard Society, France
5. Yi Chen, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany
6. Johan Christensen, IMDEA Materials, Spain
7. Vanessa Cool, KU Leuven, Belgium
8. Carl Davies, Radboud University, The Netherlands
9. Fernando Fraternali, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
10. Mahmoud Hussein, University of Colorado, USA
11. Umberto Iemma, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy
12. Muamer Kadic, Université de Franche Comté, France
13. Michel Kazan, American University of Beirut, Libanon
14. Arkadii Krokhin, University of North Texas, USA
15. Svetlana Kuznetsova, IEMN, France
16. Stefano Laureti, University of Calabria, UK
17. Michael Leamy, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
18. Denys Makarov, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e. V. (HZDR), Germany
19. Mamoru Matsuo, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
20. Daniel, Navarro-Urrios, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain
21. Joo Hwan Oh, UNIST, Korea
22. Oreste Salvatore Bursi, University of Trento, Italy
23. Yifang Zhu, Southeast University, China

Symposium VI: Advanced Techniques for Computational Electromagnetics

Symposium Chair

Maha Ben Rhouma Gustave Eiffel University - ESYCOM Lab (France)

This symposium aims to bring together experts in computational electromagnetics for a comprehensive examination of recent advancements and challenges in simulating complex materials and devices. The focus of the symposium includes addressing general issues in applied computational electromagnetics, with the option to delve into specific applications, techniques, codes, or computational challenges. The symposium may capture the interest of both theoretical researchers and numerical analysts, as well as appeal to experimentalists and designers looking to implement these approaches in the domain of complex structures.

Topics:

1. Wave Propagation, Programmable Metasurfaces, Optical Communication, Terahertz Electronics, Wireless Optical Communication, Nanophotonic and Metamaterials Design, and Others
2. 5G/6G, EMC, EM Protection, and Industry Software
3. AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning for EM Problems, Low Frequency EM, Scattering in Complex Environments, EM Measurement, Quantum EM, Multiphysics Modeling for Integrated Packaging
4. Mobile Systems, Millimeter-Wave Antennas, Reconfigurable Antennas, Antenna Array, Millimeter-Wave Propagation, Ground-Penetrating Radar Imaging, Metamaterials, Topological EM, OAM Mode Theory
5. Semi-Analytical Methods, Fast Algorithms, High-Frequency Asymptotics, Domain Decomposition, High-Performance Computation

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

1. Ali Adibi, Georgia Tech, USA
2. Karim Achouri, EPFL, Switzerland
3. Mauro Antezza, University of Montpellier, France
4. Pierre Berini, University of Ottawa, Canada
5. Cedric Blanchard, CEMHTI - CNRS, France
6. Antonio Calà Lesina, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
7. Lucas Cerdan, CSIC, Spain
8. Pierre-Olivier Chapuis, CETHIL – CNR, France
9. Dmitry Chigrin, DWI Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Germany
10. Thomas Christensen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
11. Rasmus Christiansen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
12. Joel Cox, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
13. Andrea Fratalocchi, KAUST University, Saudi Arabia
14. Tian Gu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
15. Brahim Guizal, University of Montpellier, France
16. Mikko Huttunen, Tampere University, Finland
17. Tobias Kippenberg, EPFL, Switzerland
18. Philippe Lalanne, Institut d'Optique, France
19. Xiao Lin, Zhejiang University, China
20. Zin LIn, Virginia Tech, USA
21. Ya Yan Lu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
22. Sean Molesky, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
23. Jens Niegemann, Ansys, Canada
24. Victor Pacheco-Peña, Newcastle University, UK
25. Santi Concetto Pavone, University of Catania, Italy
26. Marco Rahm, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
27. Haoran Ren, Monash University, USA
28. Junsuk Rho, POSTECH, Korea
29. Alejandro Rodriguez, Princeton University, USA
30. Charles Roques-Carmes, Stanford University, USA
31. David Smith, Duke University, USA
32. Marin Soljačić (Keynote Speaker), MIT, USA
33. Dmitry Solnyshkov, Institut Pascal, France
34. Christina Spaegele, Meta Reality Labs, USA
35. Takasumi Tanabe, Keio University, Japan
36. Sebastian Volz, LIMMS- University of Tokyo, Japan
37. Shubo Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
38. Chenglin Xu, Synopsys Inc., USA
39. Zongfu Yu, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA