Monday, June 16, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
08:30 - 09:30 | Mechanism-based mechanical metamaterials - Robert Kohn | |
09:30 - 10:00 | Toward a universal model-based framework for wave control in extremely tunable meta-systems - Phlipp De L’Hougne | |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Extrinsic geometry and edge states in topological crystalline insulators - Barry Bradlyn | |
11:00 - 11:30 | Strong light-matter interaction in 2D magnets - Vinod Menon | |
11:30 - 11:50 | Some eigenvalue problems involving “Epsilon-near-zero” materials with dielectric inclusions - Raghavendra Venkatraman | |
11:50 - 12:10 | Edge states in the discrete slowly-varying SSH model - Xuenan Li | |
12:10 - 12:30 | Honeycomb structures perturbed along irrational edges - Pierre Amenoagbadji | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch/Posters | |
14:00 - 14:30 | Discovery of new scattering singularities in complex non-Hermitean systems - Steven Anlage | |
14:30 - 14:40 | Experimental validation of a three-dimensional water-like pentamode metamaterial fabricated via investment casting - Giacomo Brambilla | |
14:40 - 14:50 | Pump-induced polariton excitation and topological transitions in Van der Waals crystals - Enrico M. Renzi | |
14:50 - 15:00 | Relating topology and statistics of scattering singularities in inhomogeneous media - Nadav Shaibe | |
15:00 - 15:30 | Guiding stress: From pentamodes to cable webs and masonry structures - Graeme Milton | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Refreshment | |
16:00 - 16:30 | Localized topological states for piezoelectric MEMS devices - Richard Craster | |
16:30 - 17:00 | Bound states in the continuum for acoustic and elastic waves - Daniel Torrent Martí | |
17:00 - 17:20 | Super-bound states in the continuum in periodic slabs - Nan Zhang | |
17:20 - 17:40 | Self-induced microwave sink via plasma generation - Benjamin Fromont | |
17:40 - 18:00 | Global and local gaps in periodic media - Boris Vainberg | |
18:30 - 19:30 | Cocktails Café + Laundauer Medal |
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
08:30 - 09:30 | "Vibrational" Electromagnetics in Metamaterials - Nader Engheta | |
09:30 - 10:00 | Photon localisation and Bloch symmetry breaking in luminal gratings - John Pendry | |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Space-time materials : from water waves to membrane waves - Mathias Fink | |
11:00 - 11:30 | Spatiospectral shaping of pulse propagation through diffusive media - Hui Cao | |
11:30 - 11:50 | Coherence in optical transmission and backscattering tomographies - Claude Boccara | |
11:50 - 12:10 | Dispersion and cluster waves in periodic media - Yuri Godin | |
12:10 - 12:30 | Experimentally Probing Non-Hermitian Spectral Transition and Eigenstate Skewness - Jia-Xin Zhong | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch/Posters | |
14:00 - 14:30 | Thermodynamic paradoxes and topological singularities in fluctuation-induced fields - Mario Silveirinha | |
14:30 - 15:00 | Models for the BRDF of disordered metasurfaces - Philippe Lalanne | |
15:00 - 15:30 | Toying with acoustic underflow: Nonreciprocal sound propagation in fluid flow - Yakir Hadad | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | |
16:00 - 16:30 | Hyperbolic wave attractor - Simon Yves | |
16:30 - 17:00 | Distinct exceptional points in Hermitian phononic laminates - Gal Shmuel | |
17:00 - 17:30 | Can metamaterials help achieve an "optical advantage" in computing? - Francesco Monticone | |
17:30 - 18:00 | Interface effects in flatland optics - Vincenzo Galdi | |
18:00 - 20:00 | Brooklyn Bridge Walk - Brooklyn Bridge Walk + Spontaneous Dinner at Local Restaurants |
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
08:30 - 09:30 | Spectral properties of defected fractal beam lattices - Massimo Ruzzene | |
09:30 - 10:00 | Geometrical phase resonators - Alexander Khanikaev | |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break | |
10:30 - 11:00 | A generalization of exceptional points - Guancong Ma | |
11:00 - 11:30 | Acoustic impedance metasurfaces - Vincent Laude | |
11:30 - 11:50 | Nano-optomechanical metamaterial as a time-varying medium - Tongjun Liu | |
11:50 - 12:10 | Bowtie grating: wave steering in hyperbolic materials - Emroz Khan | |
12:10 - 12:30 | Nonlinear wave dynamics in active nonreciprocal systems - B. Many Manda | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch/Posters | |
14:00 - 14:30 | Training all mechanical neural networks for task learning through in situ backpropagation - Xiaoming Mao | |
14:30 - 15:00 | Topology-inspired routes to optical field confinement and enhancement in 2-dimensional photonic crystals - Ewold Verhagen | |
15:00 - 15:30 | Topology protects edge currents in stochastic and biological systems - Evelyn Tang | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | |
16:00 - 16:30 | Breakdown of conventional topological state prediction in one-dimensional lattices - Jihong Ma | |
16:30 - 17:00 | Nonreciprocal living solids - Nikta Fakhri | |
17:00 - 17:30 | How to make a matte surface broadband transparent? - Mu Wang | |
17:30 - 18:00 | ENZ materials: Optimal designs for low-loss composites and near-field antennas - Owen Miller |
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
08:30 - 09:30 | Moire platforms beyond TMDs and graphene - Andrei Bernevig | |
09:30 - 10:00 | Quantum tunneling and its absence in deep wells and strong magnetic fields - Michael Weinstein | |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Quantum algorithms to realize and study fractional Hall states - Pouyan Ghaemi | |
11:00 - 11:30 | An operator based approach to classifying topology in open and nonlinear systems - Alex Cerjan | |
11:30 - 11:50 | How fast does the edge spin current flow? - Sergey Skipetrov | |
11:50 - 12:10 | Tailoring acoustic complex media for logic gates - Hongkuan Zhang | |
12:10 - 12:30 | A geometric phase for diffraction of scalar waves - Adam Overvig | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch/Posters | |
14:00 - 14:10 | Moiré materials based on M-point twisting - Dumitru Calugaru | |
14:10 - 14:20 | Electromagnetic absorption beyond the Rozanov bound via time-varying and time-switched lossy layers - Matteo Ciabattoni | |
14:20 - 14:30 | Design and scaling laws for multifunctional grating couplers - Nazar Pyvovar | |
14:30 - 14:40 | Loading and firing optical pulses in diffusive media - Rohin McIntosh | |
14:40 - 14:50 | Optical coherent absorption and amplification in a time-varying medium - Anthony Harwood | |
14:50 - 15:00 | Localization of wave propagation in non-symmetric rotor chain structures exhibiting dual topological states - Soroush Soltani | |
15:00 - 15:30 | Harnessing multiple-scattering electromagnetic environments for wave-control via in-situ adjoint optimization - Tsampikos Kottos | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | |
16:00 - 16:30 | Hyperbolic quantum processor - Evgeni Narimanov | |
16:30 - 17:00 | Bounds on the temporal response of isotropic viscoelastic composites - Ornella Mattei | |
17:00 - 17:30 | Networks of acoustic waveguides: effects of symmetry and topology - Vincent Pagneux | |
17:30 - 18:00 | Coherent control of wave scattering via engineering of spectral singularities - Douglas Stone | |
19:00 - 21:00 | Conference Dinner: All Participants Invited - TBD |
Friday, June 20, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
08:30 - 09:30 | Nonlocal metamaterials - Martin Wegener | |
09:30 - 10:00 | Spatio-temporal metamaterials for light - Riccardo Sapienza | |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Active metamaterials: From non-reciprocal nonlinear dynamics to adaptive locomotion - Corentin Coulais | |
11:00 - 11:30 | Topology-driven design of bianisotropic metasurfaces using knotted particles - Yarden Mazor | |
11:30 - 11:50 | Tunable asymmetric responses via multilayers of Babinet patterns - Maria Csete | |
11:50 - 12:10 | Tight limits to the Hall effect and other nonreciprocal effects in 3D composites - Christian Kern | |
12:10 - 12:30 | High-order virtual gain for optical loss compensation in plasmonics and metamaterial - Fuxin Guan | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch/Posters | |
14:00 - 14:10 | Acoustic wave steering by the rotation scatterers in a complex media - Jiaying Xu | |
14:10 - 14:20 | Moiré mechanism for fractional Chern insulators in rhombohedral graphene superlattices - Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman | |
14:20 - 14:30 | Scattering singularities of a resonant cavity containing plasma - Célia Bouyssou | |
14:30 - 15:00 | Gyrotropic metamaterials with tailored magnetization - Andrey Chabanov | |
15:00 - 15:30 | Kirchhoff's laws of thermal radiation for complex, nonreciprocal, and time-varying materials - Sander Mann | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | |
16:00 - 16:30 | Source-driven homogenization theory for electro-momentum coupled scatterers - Michael Haberman | |
16:30 - 17:00 | Negative capacitors with Floquet engineering - Dimitrios Sounas | |
17:00 - 17:40 | Awards & Closing Ceremony - Student Awards |