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. Pierre Michel Adam, University of Technology of Troyes, France
2. Ara Apkarian, University of California, Irvine, USA
3. Yann Battié, University of Lorraine, France
4. Olga Baturina, US Naval Research Laboratory, USA
5. Lucas Besteiro, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China & INRS-Énergie, Canada
6. Kai Braun, University of Tübingen, Germany
7. Zhigang Chen, San Francisco State University, USA
8. Gérard Colas des Francs, University of Dijon, France
9. Miguel A. Correa-Duarte (Keynote Speaker), University of Vigo, Spain
   
10. Emiliano Cortés, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Germany
11. Sébastien Cueff, Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon - CNRS, France
12. Alberto Curto, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
13. Hilmi Volkan Demir (Keynote Speaker), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore & Bilkent University, Turkey
14. Wayne Dickson, King's College London, UK
15. Laura Fabris, Rutgers University, USA
16. Cyriaque Genet, CNRS, France
17. Stephen Gray, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
18. Thierry Grosjean, FEMTO-ST, France
19. Yurii Gun'ko, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
20. Hayk Harutyunyan, Emory University, USA
21. Alexander Holleitner, Technical University of Munich, Germany
22. Zee Hwan Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
23. Wakana Kubo, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
24. Yanjun Liu, SUSTech, China
25. Theobald Lohmüller, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Germany
26. Martin Lopez-Garcia, Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
27. Michele Magnozzi, Università di Genova, Italy
28. Euclydes Marega Jr., University San Paulo, Brazil 
    
29. Bruno Masenelli, INSA Lyon, France
30. Shunsuke Murai, University of Kyoto, Japan
31. Alberto Naldoni, Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Republic
32. Tetsuya Narushima, Institute for Molecular Science, Japan
33. Luke Nicholls, King's College London, UK
34. Hiromi Okamoto (Keynote Speaker), Institute for Molecular Science, Japan
    
35. Juan Bernardo Perez Sanchez, University of California San Diego, USA
36. Julien Proust, University of Technology of Troyes, France
37. Luca Razzari, INRS-Énergie, Canada
    
38. Raul Rodriguez, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia
39. Richard Schaller, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
40. Ana Luísa Simões Gamboa, ITMO University, Russia
41. Clémentine Symonds, Univ. Lyon, France
42. Zhiming Wang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
    
43. Peter Wiecha, Univ. Southampton, UK
44. Thomas Weiss, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany
45. Gary Wiederrecht, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
46. Jiang Wu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
47. Nianqiang (Nick) Wu, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
48. Ahmet Ali Yanik, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
49. Peng Yu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
50. Yu Zhang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

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. Amit Agrawa, NIST, USA
2. Vladimir Aksyuk, National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA
3. Philippe Barois, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, France
4. Manfred Bayer, TU Dortmund, Germany
5. Joel Bellessa, Université de Lyon, France
6. Philippe Ben Abdallah, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, France
7. Daniel Benedikovic, C2N - Université Paris Saclay, France
8. Svend-Age Biehs, Oldenburg University, Germany
9. Andrea V. Bragas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
10. Alberto Bramati, Pierre et Marie Curie University - UPMC, France
11. Christophe Caloz, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
12. Alexander Chernov, Russian Quantum Center, Russia
13. Dmitry Chigrin, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
14. Hyuck Choo (Keynote Speaker), Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea
15. Thomas Christensen, MIT, USA
16. Cristian Ciracì, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy
17. Alasdair W. Clark,  University of Glasgow, UK
18. Aurelien Cuche, CEMES - CNRS, France
19. Jean-Jacques Delaunay, University of Tokyo, Japan
20. Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, Université de Lille 1, France
21. Péter Dombi, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungary
22. Jakub Dostalek, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria
23. Abdulhakem Elezzabi, Univeristy of Alberta, Cananda
24. Vladimir Fal'ko, University of Manchester, UK
25. Vassili Fedotov, University of Southampton, UK
26. Didier Felbacq, Université Montpellier II, France
27. Sergej Flach, Institute for Basic Science, South Korea
28. Monika Fleischer, Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Germany
29. Marian Florescu, University of Surrey, UK
30. Jake Fontana, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
31. Carlo Forestiere, Universita di Napoli "Federico II", Italy
32. Kin Hung Fung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
33. Seunghoon Han, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea
    
34. Richard Hobbs, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
35. Gengkai Hu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
36. Xiao Hu, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
37. Zhifeng Huang, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
38. Vakhtang Jandieri, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
39. Maria Kafesaki, FORTH, Greece
40. Artemis Karvounis, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
41. Jeongyong Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
42. Daniel Lanzillotti Kimura, CNRS - Université Paris Saclay, France
    
43. Andrei Lavrinenko, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
44. Jaesoong Lee, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea
    
45. Jongwon Lee, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
46. Juerg Leuthold, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
47. Qiang Li, Zhejiang University, China
48. Tao Li, Nanjing University, China
49. Bin Liang, Nanjing University, China
50. Monica Lorenzon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
51. Tien-Chang Lu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
52. Yungui Ma, Zhejiang University, China
53. Kevin MacDonald, University of Southampton, UK
54. Sadahiro Masuo, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
55. Agnes Maurel, ESPCI Paristech, France
56. Moritz Merklein, University of Sydney, Austraila
57. Agustin Mihi, ICMAB, Spain
58. Hiroaki Minamide, RIKEN, Japan
59. Hiro Minamimoto, okkaido University, Japan
60. Hideki T. Miyazaki, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
61. Khaled Mnaymneh, National Research Council, Canada
62. Gabriel Molina-Terriza, Macquarie University, Australia
63. Yuto Moritake, Tokyo Tech, Japan
64. Kei Murakoshi, Hokkaido University, Japan
65. Tadaaki Nagao, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
66. Rajesh Nair, IIT Ropar, India
67. Toshihiro Nakanishi, Kyoto University, Japan
68. Joanna Niedziolka-Jonsson, Instytut Chemii Fizycznej, Poland
69. Yoshiaki Nishijima, Yokohama National University, Japan
70. Taiichi Otsuji, Tohoku University, Japan
71. Roberto Paiella, Boston University, USA
72. Vincent Pagneux, University of Maine, France
73. Hongkyu Park, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea
74. Yeonsang Park, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea
75. Nicholas Carlos Pazos Perez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
76. Xianji Piao, Seoul National University, Korea
77. Mauricio Pilo-Pais, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
78. Marco Rahm, MMT Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
79. Yury Rakovich, Materials Physics Center, Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain
80. Carlos A. Ramos, University Paris Sud - CNRS, France
81. Soren Raza, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
82. Xifeng Ren, University of Science and Technology of China, China
83. Junsuk Rho (Keynote Speaker), POSTECH, Korea
84. Carlo Rizza, CNR-SPIN (L'Aquila), Italy
85. Ann Roberts, University of Melbourne, Australia
86. Malte Röntgen, Universität Hamburg, Germany
87. Kazuaki Sakoda, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
88. Michael J. Sammon, University of Minnesota, USA
89. Alvar Sanchez, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
90. Vincenzo Savona,  EPFL, Switzerland
91. Jean Sébastien Bouillard, University of Hull, UK
92. Wei Sha, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
93. Tigran Shahbazyan, Jackson State University, USA
94. Zhongxiang Shen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
95. Christophe Silien, University of Limerick, Ireland
96. Dmitry Solnyshkov, Institut Pascal, France
97. Marc Sorel, The University of Glasgow, UK
    
98. Andrzej Stupakiewicz, University at Białystok, Poland
99. Yuusuke Takashima, Tokushima University, Japan
100. Takasumi Tanabe, Keio University, Japan
101. Raziman Thottungal Valapu, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
102. Motonobu Tomoda, Hokkaido University, Japan
103. Johann Toudert, ICFO, Spain
104. Stelios Tzortzakis, FORTH, Greece
105. Niels Verellen, KU Leuven, Belgium
106. Kevin Vynck, Institut d'Optique Bordeaux, France
107. Shubo Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
108. Shuming Wang, Nanjing University, China
109. Alexander Weber-Bargioni, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
110. Esther Wertz, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
111. Thomas T. Y. Wong, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
112. Jun Jun Xiao, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
113. Xiulai Xu, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
114. Taka-aki Yano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
115. Luo Yu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
116. Jianfeng Zang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
117. Cheng Zhang, HUST, China
118. Douguo Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China, China
119. Weili Zhang (Keynote), Oklahoma State University, USA
120. Bo O. Zhu, Nanjing University, China
121. Jia Zhu, Nanjing University, China
122. Val Zwiller, KTH, Sweden

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

Symposium Co-Chairs

Howard Lee University of California, Irvine, USA	Yu-Jung (Yuri) Lu Academia Sinica, Taiwan	Zi Jing Wong Texas A&M, USA

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;
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 metasurfaces;
7. Metasurfaces for advanced optical imaging;
8. New applications of metasurfaces.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

1. Harry Atwater (Keynote Speaker), California Institute of Technology, USA
2. Joel Cox, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
3. Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania, USA
4. Eyal Feigenbaum, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
5. Shangjr Felix Gwo, National Tsing-Hua University - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
6. Ortwin Hess, Imperial College London, UK
7. Min Seok Jang, KAIST, Korea
8. Junichiro Kono, Rice University, USA
9. Byoungho Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea
10. Dangyuan Lei, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
11. Yang Li, Tsinghua University, China
12. Ahmed Mahmoud, American University, Egypt
13. Arka Majumdar, University of Washington, USA
14. Andrea Marini, University of L'Aquila, Italy
15. Jeremy Munday, University of California Davis, USA
16. Min Qiu, Westlake University, China
17. Jose A Sanchez-Gil, Instituto de Estructura de la Materia - CSIC, Spain
18. Markus Schmidt, University of Jena, Germany
19. Augustine Urbas, Air Force Research Lab., USA
20. Qijie Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
21. Jing Wen, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
22. Pin-Chieh Wu, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
23. Ta-Jen Yen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

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. David Ayuso, Max Born Institute - Berlin, Germany
2. Peter Banzer, Max Planck Inst. Science of Light, Germany
3. Igor Barsukov, University of California, Riverside, USA
4. Gerrit Bauer, Tohoku University, Japan
5. Jamal Berakdar, Martin-Luther Univ. Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
6. Lei Bi, Univ. Electronic Sci. and Technol. of China,  China
7. Konstantin Bliokh (Keynote Speaker), RIKEN, Japan
   
8. Lykourgos Bougas, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany
9. Vladimir Drachev, Skolkovo Inst. Science Technology, Russia
10. Marco Finazzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
11. Jonas Fransson, Uppsala University, Sweden
12. Markus Garst, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
13. Yuri Gorodetski, Ariel University, Israel
14. Alexander Govorov (Keynote Speaker), Ohio University, USA
15. Kun Huang, Univ. Sci. and Techn. of China - USTC , China
16. Robin (Chen-Bin) Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
17. Hajime Ishihara, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
18. Eugene Kamenetskii, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
19. Jun-Ichiro Kishine, The Open University of Japan, Japan
20. Maciej Krawczyk, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
21. Pedro Landeros, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
22. Jan Masell (né Müller), RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Japan
23. Mamoru Matsuo, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences - Beijing, China
24. Masahito Mochizuki, Waseda University, Japan
25. Yuriy Mokrousov, Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-1), Germany
26. Shuichi Murakami, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
27. Branislav Nikolic, University of Delaware, USA
28. Feodor Ogrin, University of Exeter, UK
29. Takashige Omatsu, Chiba University, Japan
30. Yasutomo Ota, The University of Tokyo, Japan
31. Yossi Paltiel, The Hebrew University, Israel
32. Felipe Pérez-Rodríguez, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico
33. Alessandro Pitanti, NEST - Istituto Nanoscienze, Italy
34. Jingbo Qi, Univ. of Electronic Sci. and Technol. of China, China
35. Björn Reinhard, Boston University, USA
36. Nir Rotenberg, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
37. Juan Jose Saenz, Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Spain
38. Keiji Sasaki, Hokkaido University, Japan
39. Masahiro Sato, Ibaraki University, Japan
40. Kei Sawada, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Japan
41. Helmut Schultheiss, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
42. Behrooz Semnani, University of Waterloo, Canada
    
43. Alexander Serga, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
44. Akihito Takeuchi, AI & Research Department, AI inside Inc., Japan
45. Takuo Tanaka, RIKEN - Metamaterials Laboratory, Japan
46. Gen Tatara, RIKEN, Center for Emergent Matter Science, Japan
47. Frederic Vanderveken, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
48. Ewold Verhagen, AMOLF, The Netherlands
49. Silvia Viola-Kusminskiy, Max Planck Inst. Science of Light, Germany
50. Xiang Rong Wang, Hong Kong Univ. Sci. & Technol., China
51. Jian Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
52. Zuojia Wang, Shandong University, China
53. Peng Yan, Univ. of Electronic Sci. and Technol. of China, China
54. Yoichi Yanase, Kyoto University, Japan
55. Takehito Yokoyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
56. Anatoly Zayats (Keynote Speaker), King's College London, UK
57. 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. Gaurav Bahl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
2. Andrea Bergamini, ETHZ, Switzerland
3. Remy Braive, Universite Paris Diderot, France
4. Bernard Bonello, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
5. Yanfeng Chen, Nanjing University, China
6. Martin Esmann, Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology - CNRS, France
7. Ivan Favero, MPQ - Universite Paris Diderot, France
8. Eduard Karpov, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
9. Tobias Kippenberg, EPFL, Switzerland
10. Tielrooij Klaas-Jan, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain
11. Arkadii Krokhin, University of North Texas, USA
12. Anastasiia Krushynska, University of Groningen, Netherlands
13. Michael Leamy, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
14. Bing Li, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
15. Yong Li, Tongji University, China
16. Frieder Lucklum, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
17. Guangcong Ma, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
18. Kathryn Matlack, University of Illinois, USA
19. Masahiro Nomura, The University of Tokyo, Japan
20. Antonio Palermo, University of Bologna, Italy
21. William Parnell, University of Manchester, UK
22. Yan Pennec, Universite de Lille, France
23. Mika Prunilla, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Finland
24. Arnaud Tourin, ESPCI Paris, France
25. Pierre Verlot, University of Nottingham, UK
26. Sebastian Volz, CNRS · Laboratory for Integrated Micro-Mechatronic Systems, Japan
27. Markus Wagner, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
28. Oliver Wright, Hokkaido University, Japan 
    
29. Xin Zhang, Boston University, USA