[ { "title": "Symposium I: Hybrid Nanomaterials and Metastructures for Photonics, Sensing and Energy", "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" ] ], "desc": [ "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." ], "topics": [ "Plasmonic nanocrystal assemblies and metastructures", "Hybrid structures with exciton and plasmon resonances", "New materials for nano-optics", "Hot plasmonic electrons in nanostructures", "Time-resolved studies for fast dynamics", "Quantum effects in plasmonic systems", "Chiral nanostructures and metastructures", "Bio-assembled nanomaterials with chirality", "Optical meta-materials and meta-surfaces", "Thermoplasmonics and photogeneration of heat", "Hybrid nanomaterials for catalysis and solar energy", "Applications in biophysics and bioimaging", "Spectroscopic applications (SERS, Infrared, THz)", "Nanomaterials for structural colors", "Collective resonances in metasurfaces" ] }, { "title": "Symposium II: New trends in nanophotonics and advanced materials", "chairs": [ [ "Junsuk Rho", "POSTECH, Korea" ], [ "Hakjoo Lee", "CAMM, Korea" ], [ "Namkyoo Park", "Seoul National University, Korea" ], [ "Seong Ok Han", "Korea Institute of Energy Research, Korea" ] ], "desc": [ "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": [ "Quantum nano-optics & optical antennas", "Nanophotonics for bio- and chemo-sensing", "Active and tunable optical metamaterials", "Nonlinear optics in nanostructures", "Metasurfaces & applications", "New plasmonic materials", "Nanomanipulation with light", "Nanophotonics for energy applications", "Theory and modelling", "Topological photonics", "Graphene based metamaterials", "Elastic, Acoustic, and Seismic Metamaterials", "Novel nanofabrication techniques", "Emerging applications and techniques" ] }, { "title": "Symposium III: Advanced passive and active metasurfaces and zero-index materials", "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" ] ], "desc": [ "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": [ "Active metasurfaces", "Nonlinear metasurfaces", "Quantum metasurfaces", "Topological photonics", "New materials for metasurfaces", "Passive metasurfaces with advanced properties", "Deep-learning design for nanophotonics", "Metasurfaces for bio-sensing", "New applications of metasurfaces", "Large scale metasurfaces" ] }, { "title": "Symposium IV: Chirality, magnetism, and magnetoelectricity: Separate phenomena and joint effects in meta", "chairs": [ [ "Eugene Kamenetskii", "Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel" ] ], "desc": [ "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." ], "topics": [ "Chiral dichroism and magnetism", "Chirality and magnetoelectricity", "Chirality, magnetism, and topology", "Time-reversal symmetry breaking", "Magneto-plasmonic metamaterials", "Matter interaction with twisted fields", "Magnetoelectric meta-atoms", "Chiral exceptional points", "Chiral excitons", "Magnetoelectric effect", "Axion electrodynamics" ] }, { "title": "Symposium V: Architectured Elastic and Acoustic Metamaterials & Phononic Crystals", "chairs": [ [ "Jensen Li", "HKUST, Hong Kong" ], [ "Jean-Philippe Groby", "Université du Mans, France" ], [ "Vincent Pagneux", "LAUM - CNRS, France" ], [ "Vicent Romero-García", "Universidad Politècnica de València, Spain" ], [ "Stefano Laureti", "University of Calabria, Italy" ] ], "desc": [ "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." ], "topics": [ "The ERC Starting Grant POSEIDON (Grant Agreement No. 101039576)", "The MAGNIFIC project (Grant Agreement No. 101091968)", "The MetacMed project (HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral Networks - Grant Agreement N°101119738)", "Architectured elastic and acoustic metamaterials", "Airborne and underwater wave control", "Bio-inspired metamaterials", "Metamaterials for biomedical applications", "Topological protection in phononic crystals", "Non-Hermitian and nonreciprocal metamaterials", "Tunability and reconfigurability", "Nano-opto-electro-mechanical systems" ] }, { "title": "Symposium VI: Advanced Techniques for Computational Electromagnetics", "chairs": [ [ "Maha Ben Rhouma", "Gustave Eiffel University - ESYCOM Lab, France" ] ], "desc": [ "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." ], "topics": [ "Wave Propagation and Programmable Metasurfaces", "Optical Communication and Terahertz Electronics", "Nanophotonic and Metamaterials Design", "5G/6G, EMC, and EM Protection", "AI and Machine Learning for EM Problems", "Scattering in Complex Environments", "Quantum EM and Multiphysics Modeling", "Semi-Analytical Methods and Fast Algorithms", "High-Performance Computation" ] } ]