The Metamaterial Workshop will take the form of a summit, bringing together prominent scientists as well as students and postdoctoral fellows. The meeting will explore current state and emerging new frontiers at the interface of electromagnetics, photonics, soft materials, energy materials and nanotechnology. whereas the Outreach Forum held in conjunction with it will allow the researchers to share their experience and advances in conducting outreach and disseminating scientific knowledge. Workshop organization will assure that there will be enough time for discussion, and the speakers will be specifically asked to emphasize the open/emerging questions and unsolved problems. The focus will be on recent advances at the interface between materials physics and optics that promise to open up conceptually novel directions of research. The Metamaterial Workshop will enable researchers working at the forefronts of materials science, nanoscience, and optics to discuss the emerging uses of light for control and study of materials as well as the advances in the use of materials to control light. Being at the nexus of materials science, soft condensed matter physics, chemistry, optics, and photonics, the workshop theme is inherently interdisciplinary.

Workshop Topics

The three-day program is comprised of tutorial lectures on the following focus topics:

Confirmed Invited Speakers

Chan, Che Ting , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China;
Chen, Hou-Tong , Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies Los Alamos, USA;
Chen, Hongsheng , Zhejiang University, China;
Chen, Huanyang, Soochow University, China;
Clark, Noel , University of Colorado, Boulder, USA;
Cui, Tiejun , Southeast University, China;
Feng,Yijun ,Nanjing University, China;
Garcia-Vidal, Francisco J.,Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain;
He, Sailing , Zhejiang University, China; Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden;
Khoo,Iam-Choon,Pennsylvania State University, USA;
Leonhardt, Ulf.,St. Andrews University, Scotland;
Ma, Yungui, Research Scientist at National University of Singapore;
Mario, Hentschel, University of Stuttgart, Germany ;
Palffy-Muhoray, Peter, Kent State University, USA;
Rachel Won, Senior Editor of Nature Photonics at Nature Publishing Group;
Smalyukh, Ivan , University of Colorado at Boulder, USA;
Zhang,Xiang , University of California at Berkeley, USA;
Zheludev,Nikolay I. , University of Southampton, UK;
Zhou, Lei , Fudan University, China