Schedule
Thursday, October 9, 2025
8:00- Breakfast
8:30 – Introductory Remarks by the Organizers (Andrea Alu, Albert Polman, and Giuseppe Strangi)
8:45 – Introductory Remarks by Mark G. Allen, Alfred Fitler Moore Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
9:00 – Mark Brongersma, Stanford University: Soft materials for dynamic metasurface optics
9:20 – Giuseppe Strangi, Case Western Reserve University: Photonically Induced Levitation on ENZ Metasurfaces: A Meissner-like Effect
9:40 – Robert Boyd, University of Rochester and University of Ottawa: My thanks to Nader for discovering ENZ behavior, a new breakthrough material for nonlinear optics
10:00 – Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue University: Quantum Meta-Photonics
10:20-10:50 Break
10:50 – Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue University: The wonders of Epsilon Near Zero
11:10 – Nikolay Zheludev, University of Southampton (UK) and Texas A&M University: Optical metrology a myriad times finer than Robert Hook’s and a million times faster than Eadweard Muybridge’s
11:30 – Ventsislav Valev, University of Bath (UK): Suppressing the Obvious: Metascience in Nonlinear Chiroptical Scattering
11:50 – Cherie Kagan, University of Pennsylvania: Three-Dimensional Colloidal Nanocrystal Metamaterials
12:10-1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 – Christopher Murray, University of Pennsylvania: Building with Artificial Atoms
1:50 – Harry Atwater, Caltech: Metastructured Lightsails: from Optomechanics to Spacecraft
2:10 – Alan Willner, USC: Longitudinally-Structured Light Fields for Communications and Sensing
2:30 – Albert Polman, AMOLF (The Netherlands): Optical metasurfaces controlling electron wavepackets
2:50 – Kathleen Stebe, University of Pennsylvania: Far from equilibrium structures in liquid crystals
3:10 – 3:40 Break
3:40 – Stefano Maci, University of Siena (Italy): Synthesis of metasurfaces through the alternating projection method
4:00 – Silvio Hrabar, University of Zagreb (Croatia): An Overview of Applications of Negative/positive
Converters and Inverters in Artificial EM Structures
4:20 – Vincenzo Galdi, University of Sannio at Benevento (Italy): Wave engineering and processing via temporal metamaterials
4:40 – Arthur Yaghjian, Research Consultant: Combining Bode-Fano and Dispersive Tuning to increase Antenna Bandwidth
5:00 end of the first day
7:00 – Workshop Dinner at The Glandt Forum in the Singh Center for Nanotechnology (3205 Walnut Street)
Friday, October 10, 2025
8:00 – Breakfast
9:00 – Andrea Alù, CUNY ASRC: Tailoring Waves with Metamaterials
9:20 – Mario Silveirinha, University of Lisbon (Portugal): ‘Flipping the Wave Spin with Parity‑Time‑Dual Symmetric Metamaterials
9:40 – Scott Tyo, Australian Defence Science and Technology Group: Using metasurfaces to enhance antenna performance and control scattering from Australian Defence platforms
10:00 – Viktor Gruev, UIUC: Polarization Imaging and Applications
10:20 – 10:50 Break
10:50 – Ahmad Hoorfar, Villanova University: A Journey of Over 30 years of Friendship and Research Collaboration with Prof. Engheta
11:10 – Ebrahim Karimi, Chapman University: SPDC: Still Pretty Darn Cool
11:30 – Francisco Rodrigues-Fortuno, King’s College London (UK): Electric and magnetic fields as one of many possible bases: the electromagnetic symmetry sphere
11:50 – Artur Davoyan, UCLA: Metamaterials legend: from extreme to reciprocal
12:10 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – Inigo Liberal, Public University of Navarra (Spain): Epsilon-near-zero media: from classical to quantum
1:50 – Victor Pacheco-Pena, Newcastle University (UK): Metamaterials for spatial, temporal and spatiotemporal control of wave propagation
2:10 – Shu Yang, University of Pennsylvania: Switching Chirality in Soft Metamaterials
2:30 – Diego M. Solis, University of Vego (Spain): Resonances in a Time-Modulated Lattice of Dipoles
2:50 – Ahmed Mahmoud, Nile University (Egypt): Exploring Chirality and Nonreciprocity in Photonic Metastructures
3:10 – 3:40 Break
3:40 – Mario Junior Mencagli, University of Delaware: Temporal Metamaterials for Dispersion Engineering and Electromagnetic Energy Control
4:00 – Brian Edwards, University of Pennsylvania: Knowledge Spoilage
4:20 – Dimitrios Tzarouchis, Intracom Telecom (Greece): Taming Electromagnetic Waves with Metamaterials: From Fundamental Theory to Industrial Applications
4:40 – Humeyra Caglayan, Eidhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands): Shaping Light to Compute: Meta-Operators for Optical Imaging Tasks
5:00 End of the workshop