Metamaterials Science and Technology Workshop

WORKSHOP

The Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics sponsored a workshop this summer at UCSD July 20th-22nd 2015. The educational event, hosted by the CMIP, celebrated fifteen years of metamaterials progress! 2015 marks fifteen years since the first negative index metamaterial was demonstrated at U.C. San Diego and, of course, Sir John Pendry’s paper on the “perfect lens.” These two publications were major milestones in the development of the metamaterials field, which has grown steadily and rapidly ever since. CMIP partnered with UCSD to organize a three day metamaterials workshop, that highlighted both the history of metamaterials as well as the most recent advances and commercialization efforts. The workshop toke place on the UCSD campus, July 20-22, 2015.

Keynote Speakers:

Sir John B. Pendry

Imperial College London

Not everything was negative

Nathan Kundtz

President and CEO of Kymeta

Kymeta and the mass-market commercialization of metamaterials

Plenary Speakers:

Harry Atwater

Caltech

Electronically Tunable Metamaterials

Martin Wegener

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Recent progress on metamaterials in optics, thermodynamics, mechanics, and magneto-transport

Yuri Kivshar

Australian National University

All-dielectric nanophotonics and metadevices: From Fano resonance to functional metasurfaces

Eli Yablonovitch

Berkeley

Optical Antennas: Spontaneous Emission Faster Than Stimulated Emission

Metamaterials Speakers:

	Richard Averitt University of California San Diego (UCSD) Nonlinear high-field response of terahertz metamaterials		Evgenii Narimanov Purdue Photonic Hypercrystals
	Igal Brener Sandia Tunable and Nonlinear Metasurfaces: Metamaterials Meet Optoelectronics		Alec Rose Evolv Technologies Modular and metamaterial approaches to physical security
	Steve Cummer Duke University Applied Acoustic Metamaterials		Vladimir Shalaev Purdue Merging Metamaterials with Quantum Photonics
	Tom Driscoll Echodyne Echodyne's Challenge: Establishing a Fast Design Cycle for Productization of Metamaterial-Based Imaging Radar Systems		Gennady Shvets University of Texas at Austin Photonic Topological Insulators Based on Metamaterials: Molding the Flow of Light Around Corners and Obstacles
	Nader Engheta University of Pennsylvania Informatic metastructures		Costas Soukoulis AMES Lab / Iowa State University Optical Metamaterials Resonances with Large Quality Factors
	Shaya Fainman University of California San Diego (UCSD) Nanophotonics Technology		Anthony Starr Sensormetrix Development of Metamaterial for Military Applications
	Nicholas Fang MIT Tunable Light-matter Interaction With Quantum Spillover and 2D materials		Casey Tegreene Intellectual Ventures Metamaterials: An Investor’s Story, How to invest in a technology when you’re not sure what it’s good for
	Nan Jokerst Duke University 2D and 3D Metamaterials: Physical Realization and Heterogeneous Integration		Augustine Urbas AFOSR Metamaterials for Defense Applications
	Natalia Litchinitser University of Buffalo Singular Optics in the meta-world		Yaroslav Urzhumov Duke University/Intellectual Ventures Metamaterials: In Pursuit Of Globally Optimal Designs
	Zhaowei Liu University of California San Diego (UCSD) Quantum Plasmonic Metamaterials		Xiang Zhang Berkeley Optical metamaterials: progress and perspective
	Maiken Mikkelsen Duke University Control of Radiative Processes using Colloidally Synthesized Plasmonic Nanocavities		Nikolay Zheludev Southampton University Metamaterials: Optical Properties on Demand