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What is META?

The International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META) features every year the latest developments in the area of Nanophotonic, Metamaterials and related topics.

The conference program consists of plenary lectures, keynote talks, special sessions of invited talks, general sessions and high-profile poster sessions that typically cover a broad range of exciting physics, such as metamaterials and negative index materials, metatronics and graphene metamaterials, plasmonics and nanophotonics, plasmon-enhanced photovoltaics, photonic and plasmonic crystals and cavities, materials for photonics (Graphene, MoS2, WS2, etc), quantum photonics, nanobiophotonics, structured light, near-field optics and nano-optics, transformational electromagnetics and cloaking, acoustic metamaterials, optomechanics, nanofabrication technologies, etc.

The conference program typically features an excursion program and a banquet.

The origin of the conference dates back to 2002 as a NATO Advanced Research Workshop at a time when many of the current topical research areas began to emerge from the field of complex electromagnetic materials.

Following a now well-established tradition META takes place every year in unique locations around the world.

Past META Conferences

Year	Organizers	Venue
2016	Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas, Said Zouhdi	Torremolinos-Malaga, Spain
2015	Vinod Menon, Said Zouhdi	New York, USA
2014	Nikolay Zheludev, Jing Hua Teng, Said Zouhdi	Singapore
2013	Hamid M. K. Al-Naimiy, Said Zouhdi	Sharjah-Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2012	Xavier Begaud, Said Zouhdi	Paris, France
2010	Hadia Elhennawy, Said Zouhdi	Cairo, Egypt
2008	Alexey Vinogradov, Said Zouhdi	Marrakesh, Morocco
2002	Said Zouhdi	Marrakesh, Morocco

META Proceedings

		META'15 in New York The 6th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics August 4-7, 2015, New York, USA Proceedings ISBN: 978-2-9545460-7-0 ISSN: 2429-1390

		META'14 in Singapore The 5th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics May 20-23, 2014, Singapore Proceedings ISBN: 978-2-9545460-4-9 ISSN: 2429-1390

		META'13 in Sharjah The 4th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics March 18-22, 2013, Sharjah-Dubai, UAE Proceedings ISBN: 978-2-9545460-0-1 ISSN: 2429-1390

		META'12 in Paris The 3rd International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics April 19-22, 2012, Paris, France Proceedings ISBN: 978-2-9545460-5-6 ISSN: 2429-1390

		META'10 in Cairo The 2nd International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics February 22-25, 2010, Cairo, Egypt Proceedings ISBN: 978-2-9545460-6-3 ISSN: 2429-1390

		META'08 in Marrakesh The 1st International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics May 7-10, 2008, Marrakesh, Morocco Proceedings ISBN: 978-1-4020-9407-1