Invited Speakers

Keynote Speakers (confirmed):

• Andrei Bernevig (Princeton U) on "Moire platforms beyond TMDs and graphene"
  
• Nader Engheta (U Pennsylvania) on "Vibrational electromagnetics in metamaterials"
  
• Robert Kohn (New York U) on "Mechanism-based mechanical metamaterials"
• Massimo Ruzzene (U Colorado Boulder) "Spectral properties of defected fractal beam lattices"
  
• Martin Wegener (Karlsruhe Inst. Tech.) on "Nonlocal metamaterials"
  

 Invited Speakers (confirmed): 

• Steven Anlage (U Maryland) on "Discovery of new scattering singularities in complex non-Hermitean systems"
• Barry Bradlin (U Illinois) on "Extrinsic geometry and edge states in topological cryastalline insulators"
  
• Ungureanu Bogdan
• Hui Cao (Yale U) on "Spatio-temporal control of light propagation in disordered media"
  
• Alex Cerjan (Sandia) on "An operator based approach to classifying topology in open and nonlinear systems"
  
• Andrey Chabanov (UT San Antonio) on "Gyrotropic metamaterials with tailored magnetization"
  
• Corentin Coulais (U  Amsterdam) on "Active metamaterials: From non-reciprocal nonlinear dynamics to adaptive locomotion"
  
• Richard Craster (Imperial College) on "Localized topological states for piezoelectricity"
  
• Philipp De L'Hougne (CNRS) on "Toward a universal model-based framework for wave control in extremely tunable meta-systems"
  
• Nikta Fakhri (MIT) on "Nonreciprocal living solids"
  
• Mathias Fink (ESPCI Paris) on "Space-time materials : From water waves to membrane waves"
  
• Vincenzo Galdi (U. Sannio) on "Interface effects in flatland optics"
• Pouyan Ghaemi (CUNY) on "Fractional Hall states on near term quantum computers"
  
• Michael Haberman (UT Austin) on "Source-driven homogenization theory for electro-momentum coupled scatterers"
  
• Yakir Hadad (Tel-Aviv U) on "Toying with Acoustics Underflow: Nonreciprocal Sound Propagation in Fluid Flow"
  
• Alexander Khanikaev (U Central Florida) on "Geometrical phase resonators"
  
• Tsampikos Kottos (Wesleyan U) on "Harnessing multiple-scattering electromagnetic environments for wave-control via in-situ adjoint optimization"
  
• Philippe Lalanne (CNRS) on "Models for the BRDF of disordered metasurfaces"
  
• Vincent Laude (CNRS) on "Acoustic impedance metasurfaces"
  
• Guancong Ma (Hong Kong Baptist U) on "A generalization of exceptional points"
  
• Jihong Ma (U Vermont) on "Breakdown of conventional topological state prediction in one-dimensional lattices"
  
• Ornella Mattei (San Francisco State U) on "Bounds on the temporal response of isotropic viscoelastic composites"
  
• Sander Mann (U Amsterdam) on "Kirchhoff's laws of thermal radiation for complex, nonreciprocal, and time-varying materials"
  
• Xiaoming Mao (U Michigan) on "Training all mechanical neural networks for task learning through in situ backpropagation"
  
• Daniel Torrent Martí (U. Jaume I) on "Bound states in the continuum for acoustic and elastic waves"
  
• Yarden Mazor (Tel-Aviv U) on "Topology-Driven Design of Bianisotropic Metasurfaces Using Knotted Particles"
  
• Vinod Menon (City U New York) on "Strong light-matter interaction in 2D magnets"
  
• Owen Miller (Yale U) on "ENZ materials: Optimal designs for low-loss composites and near-field antennas"
  
• Graeme Milton (U Utah) on "Guiding stress : From pentamodes to cable webs to masonry structures"
  
• Francesco Monticone (Cornell U) on "Can metamaterials help achieve an "optical advantage" in computing?"
  
• Evgeni Narimanov (Purdue U) on "Hyperbolic quantum processor"
  
• Vincent Pagneux (U. de Maine) on "Networks of acoustic waveguides: effects of symmetry and topology"
  
• John Pendry (Imperial College) on "Photon localisation and Bloch symmetry breaking in luminal gratings"
  
• Riccardo Sapienza (Imperial College) on "Spatio-temporal metamaterials for light"
  
• Gal Shmuel (Technion) on "Distinct exceptional points in hermitian phononic laminates"
  
• Mario Silveirinha (U Lisbon) on "Thermodynamic paradoxes and topological singularities in fluctuation-induced fields"
  
• Dimitrios Sounas (Wayne State U) on "Negative capacitors with Floquet engineering"
  
• Douglas Stone (Yale U) on "Coherent control of wave scattering via engineering of spectral singularities"
  
• Evelyn Tang (Rice U) on "Robust emergent function in living systems"
  
• Ewold Verhagen (AMOLF) on "Topology-inspired routes to optical field confinement and enhancement in two-dimensional photonic crystals"
  
• Mu Wang (Nanjing U.) on "How to make a matte surface broadband transparent?"
  
• Michael Weinstein (Columbia U) on "Quantum tunneling and its absence in deep wells and strong magnetic fields"
• Simon Yves (CUNY) on "Hyperbolic wave attractor"