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Metamaterials: Applications, Analysis and Modeling
January 25 - 29, 2010
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Organizing Committee
Susanne Brenner
(Louisiana State University)
Maria-Carme Calderer
(University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Tatsuo Itoh
(University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Robert Kohn
(New York University, Courant Institute)
Jichun Li
(University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Graeme Milton
(University of Utah, Mathematics)
Chi-Wang Shu
(Brown University)
Richard Ziolkowski
(University of Arizona, Engineering)
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Scientific Overview
Metamaterials are artificially structured media with unique and exotic properties not observed in
natural materials. These include, for example electromagnetic materials with permittivity and
permeability both designed to achieve novel effects, such as a negative refractive index, and
elastic materials configured to give a negative or anisotropic effective mass density at a given
frequency. They are typically constructed from high contrast materials, and the macroscopic fields
needed to describe their effective behaviors are not simple averages of the local fields. They
frequently gain their properties from microscopic resonances. The potential applications of such
materials are growing and include lenses that have subwavelength focussing, and electromagnetic and
acoustic cloaks that hide objects and leave incoming waves unscattered. Metamaterials also include
materials for which the equations governing their continuum electromagnetic or elastodynamic
macroscopic behavior are unlike any found in nature. This workshop brings together three groups of
people: physicists and engineers working on metamaterials and their applications; mathematicians who
are studying homogenization in high contrast materials and who are providing a greater understanding
of the mathematics of metamaterials; and numerical analysts interested in the solving the microscopic
and macroscopic equations governing the behavior of metamaterials. Many challenges remain, such as
seeking a better understanding of what novel behaviors and applications metamaterials can achieve in
practice; exploring what is theoretically possible by homogenization theory; and finding efficient
and accurate numerical algorithms for solving the partial differential equations to accelerate
progress in the field.
This workshop will include a poster session; a request for posters will be sent to registered participants in advance of the workshop.
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Confirmed Speakers
Guy Bouchitte
(Université de Toulon et du Var)
Wei Cai
(University of North Carolina Charlotte)
Christophe Caloz
(University of Montreal)
George Eleftheriades
(University of Toronto)
Nader Engheta
(University of Pennsylvania)
Shanhui Fan
(Stanford University)
Sebastien Guenneau
(University of Liverpool)
Ronald Hoppe
(University of Houston)
Tatsuo Itoh
(University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Maria Kafesaki
(Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas (FORTH))
Natasha Litchinitser
(SUNY Buffalo)
Vitaliy Lomakin
(University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
Roberto Merlin
(University of Michigan)
Graeme Milton
(University of Utah)
Peter Monk
(University of Delaware)
Evgueni Narimanov
(Purdue University)
Ben Schweizer
(Universität Dortmund)
Pierre Seppecher
(Université de Toulon et du Var)
Ping Sheng
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Gennady Shvets
(University of Texas at Austin)
Valery Smyshlyaev
(University of Bath)
Arthur Yaghjian
(Hanscom Air Force Base)
Richard Ziolkowski
(University of Arizona)
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Contact Us:
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
Attn: META2010
460 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles CA 90095-7121
Phone: 310 825-4755
Fax: 310 825-4756
Email: ipam@ucla.edu
Website:
http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/meta2010/
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