Special Sessions
VISORSURF
Organizers: M. Kafesaki and S. Tretyakov
Confirmed Speakers:
- Tie Jun Cui, Southeast University, "Information Metamaterials: Real-Time Information Processing Systems"
- Fu Liu, Aalto University, and Odysseas Tsilipakos, FORTH, "Electromagnetic Aspects of Practical Approaches to Realization of Intelligent Metasurfaces"
- Alexandros Pitilakis and Anna Tasolamprou, FORTH, "Software-Defined Metasurface Paradigm: Concept, Challenges, Prospects"
NANOARCHITECTRONICS
Organizers: A. Zayats and S. Maci
Confirmed Speakers:
- Filiberto Bilotti, "Roma Tre" University, "Metatronics Concept and its extension within the H2020 NanoArchitectronics Project: Definition and Potential Impact"
- Jean Chazelas, THALES-SA, "Nanoarchitectronics: the new paradigm of airborne systems"
- Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania, "Structured waves"
- Stefano Maci, University of Siena, "Nanoarchitectronics"
- John Pendry, Imperial College, "Metamaterials in the time domain"
NANOGAP PLASMONICS AND DEVICES
Organizers: C. Ciracì, A. Moreau, D.R. Smith
Confirmed Speakers:
- Sergey Bozhevolnyi, University of Southern Denmark, "Gap-plasmon based metasurfaces with diversified functionalities"
- Maiken Mikkelsen, Duke University, "Nanogap plasmonics: Dynamic tuning, perfect absorbers and photodetection"
- Antonio I. Fernàndez-Domìnguez, University of Madrid, "Light-Forbidden Transitions in Plasmon-Emitter Coupling"
- Soren Raza, Technical University of Denmark, "Gap plasmons explored with electron energy-loss spectroscopy"
- Giuliana Di Martino, University of Cambridge, "Using Optical Nanocavities to Improve Devices"
METASURFACES
Organizers: D.R. Smith and S. Maci
Confirmed Speakers:
- Ariel Epstein, Technion, "Engineering diffraction with analytically designed metagratings"
- George Eleftheriades, University of Toronto, "Recent Advances in Huygens’ Metasurfaces"
- Anthony Grbic, University of Michigan, "From Cascaded Metasurfaces to Compound Metaoptics"
- Hossein Mosallaei, Northeastern University, "Electrically tunable metasurfaces"
- Dan Sievenpiper, University of California - San Diego, "Line waves and unidirectional propagation on metasurfaces"
- David R. Smith, Duke University, "Multiscale Modeling of Electrically Large Waveguide-Fed Metasurface Apertures using a Coupled Dipole Approach"