Metamaterials: Applications, Analysis and Modeling - IPAM

Metamaterials: Applications, Analysis and Modeling

January 25 - 29, 2010

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, January 25, 2010

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:30-10:20
Ping Sheng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Phononic Metamaterials with Negative Dynamic Mass Density
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:50
Evgueni Narimanov (Purdue University)
Infinite at Every Frequency: the photonic density of states in (meta)materials with hyperbolic dispersion and related phenomena.

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:20
Guy Bouchitte (Université de Toulon et du Var)
Homogenization of 3D-dielectric photonic crystals and artiÞcial magnetism
14:30-14:45
Break
14:45-15:35
George Eleftheriades (University of Toronto)
The Transmission-line Paradigm for Metamaterials: Fundamentials and Selected Applications
15:45-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Gennady Shvets (University of Texas at Austin)
Spatial dispersion and effective constitutive parameters of electromagnetic metamaterials
17:00-19:00
Reception and Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:20
Nader Engheta (University of Pennsylvania)
Metamaterials for Taming the Light: Metactronics at the Nanoscale
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:50
Ronald Hoppe (University of Houston)
Mathematical Modeling, Numerical Simulation and Optimization of Surface Acoustic Wave Driven Micro°uidic Biochips

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:20
Roberto Merlin (University of Michigan)
High Frequency Magnetism in Metamaterials and the Landau-Lifshitz Permeability Argument
14:30-14:45
Break
14:45-15:35
Maria Kafesaki (Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas (FORTH))
Magnetic response of nanoscale left-handed metamaterials
15:45-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Ben Schweizer (Universität Dortmund)
Some rigorous results on split ring resonators and cloaking by anomalous localized resonance

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:20
Shanhui Fan (Stanford University)
Theory and novel classes of meta-materials
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:50
Graeme Milton (University of Utah)
Realizability of metamaterials with prescribed electric permittivity and magnetic permeability tensors

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:20
Christophe Caloz (University of Montreal)
Some Novel Directions in Metamaterial Engineering
14:30-15:00
Break
15:00-15:50
Sebastien Guenneau (University of Liverpool)
Acoustic cloaks for surface waves

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:20
Tatsuo Itoh (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Advances of Composite Right/Left Handed Structures for Microwave Applications
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:50
Wei Cai (University of North Carolina Charlotte)
High order and Multi-physics Numerical Methods for surface plasmon polaritons

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:20
Valery Smyshlyaev (University of Bath)
Homogenization with partially high contrasts: non-standard effects and non-classical analysis
14:30-14:45
Break
14:45-15:35
Pierre Seppecher (Université de Toulon et du Var)
Some homogenization results for viscoelastic bodies at fixed frequency.
15:45-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Richard Ziolkowski (University of Arizona)
A Practical View of Metamaterial-engineered Radiating and Scattering Systems

Friday, January 29, 2010

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:20
Vitaliy Lomakin (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
Hardware accelerated fast integral equation solvers and the study of optical waves in compound nanoparticle arrays
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:50
Natasha Litchinitser (SUNY Buffalo)
Metamaterials: From Linear to Nonlinear Optics

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:20
Peter Monk (University of Delaware)
The Interior Transmission Problem in Acoustics and Electromagnetics
14:30-14:45
Break
14:45-15:35
Arthur Yaghjian (Hanscom Air Force Base)
Discrepancy between Group and Energy-Transport Velocities in Spherical Electromagnetic Cloaks
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