Metamaterials: Mechanical Acoustic and Thermal>

Planning

Monday, July 20, 2026

Time Event (+)
08:00 - 08:30 Welcome (Amphitheater 1) - R. Craster, B. Davies, S. Guenneau, M. Kadic, B. Ungureanu, M. Sabaté, M. Touboul  
08:30 - 09:30 Thermal (Amphitheater 1) - Chair: Richard Craster (+)  
08:30 - 09:30 › Nonlocality as a design tool in wave-tape and diffusion-type\\ metamaterials - Martin Wegener, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology  
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee break  
10:00 - 12:30 Mechanics (Amphitheater 1) - Dynamics - Chair: Martin Wegener (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Activate mechanical metamaterials with large deformation stiffness and (non)-reciprocity controlled by resistive heating - Olly Duncan, Manchester Metropolitan University  
10:20 - 10:40 › Active solids - Anton Souslov, University of Cambridge  
10:40 - 11:00 › Domain Structures in Spinor Mechanical Metamaterials - Miroslaw Dudek, University of Zielona Gora  
11:00 - 11:20 › Edge resonances in elastic structured waveguides - Michael Nieves, Keele University  
11:20 - 11:40 › Elastic waves in space-time varying media - Nistri Fabio, Politecnico di Torino  
11:40 - 12:00 › Extremal micropolar metamaterials for controlling elastic wave - Yi Chen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology  
12:00 - 12:15 › A novel Generalized Bloch Mode Synthesis and the Wave-based Finite Element Method for the analysis of hydroelastic phononic crystals: modeling and experiments - Vinícius Mauro de Souza Santos, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur  
12:15 - 12:30 › Accurate Mode Conversion and Preservation via an Impedance-Guided Elastic Metasurface - Mu Jiang, Tianjin University, University of Lorraine  
10:00 - 12:30 Acoustics (Amphitheater 2) - Metasurfaces - Chair: Paulo Piva (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Towards reconfigurable soft acoustic metalenses - Thomas Brunet, Institut de Mécanique et d'Ingénierie de Bordeaux  
10:20 - 10:40 › Loss steering and beam curving with hyperbolic shear metasurfaces - Emanuele Galiffi, University of Texas at Austin [Austin]  
10:40 - 11:00 › Moiré Acoustic Metasurfaces for Dynamic Out-of-Plane Beam Control - Hong-Tao Zhou, Tianjin University, National University of Singapore  
11:00 - 11:20 › Multitasking via metamaterials: New paradigms in wave-based computing - Mostafa Nouh, University at Buffalo [SUNY]  
11:20 - 11:40 › Acoustic metagrating: From principle to applications - Jun Mei, South China University of Technology  
11:40 - 12:00 › Acoustic bilayer moire metasurfaces - Tianzhi Yang, Northeastern University [Shenyang]  
12:00 - 12:15 › Synergistic Metasurface Barrier for Ventilated Broadband Acoustic Insulation via Topology Optimization - HAOBO QI, Tianjin University, Universite de Lorraine  
12:15 - 12:30 › Scattering Control Mechanisms and Bidirectional Wavefront Engineering with Janus Waterborne Acoustic Metasurfaces - Chen-Yang Li, Tianjin University, University of Messina  
10:00 - 12:35 Applied Mathematics (Amphitheater 3) - Chair: Michael I. Weinstein (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Modelling metamaterials on graphs - from steerable angular filters to smart reflecting surfaces - Gregor Tanner, University of Nottingham  
10:20 - 10:40 › Acoustic lattice resonances and generalised Rayleigh–Bloch waves - Malte A. Peter, University of Augsburg  
10:40 - 11:00 › Geometry of acoustic, elastic and optical black holes - Sebastiano Cominelli, Dipartimento di Meccanica = Department of Mechanical Engineering [Politecnico Milano]  
11:00 - 11:20 › A Real-Space Formulation of the Zak Phase via Weyl m-Functions - Clemens Thalhammer, Seminar for Applied Mathematics  
11:20 - 11:40 › An Integral Equation Formulation for the Aeroacoustics of Metacontinua - Umberto Iemma, Università Roma Tre  
11:40 - 12:00 › Automating the discovery of nonlinear architected materials - Giovanni Bordiga, Harvard University  
12:00 - 12:20 › Bounds and Limitations to Broadband Quasistatic Passive Cloaking - Aaron Welters, Florida Institute of Technology  
12:20 - 12:35 › Spectral approach for an homogenization problem using boundary integral operators - Anthony Gerber-Roth, Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique [Marseille]  
10:00 - 12:30 Acoustics (Amphitheater 4) - Time modulation - Chair: Andrea Alù (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Experiments on elastic wave refraction and reflexion at spatiotemporal interfaces - Fabrice Lemoult, Institut Langevin - Ondes et Images - ESPCI ParisTech, CNRS UMR 7587, INSERM U979  
10:20 - 10:40 › Surface water waves localization in a disordered time-modulated system - Svetlana KUZNETSOVA, Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, Junia, Univ. Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, UMR 8520 - IEMN – Institut d'Electronique de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, F-59000 Lille, France  
10:40 - 11:00 › TAMING LEAKY WAVES WITH SPACE- AND TIME-MODULATED ACOUSTIC METAMATERIALS - Emanuele Riva, Department of mechanical engineering, Politecnico di Milano  
11:00 - 11:20 › Time Modulated Metasurface for Nonreciprocal Near-Field Coupling - Ana Cristina Escobar, Institut Fresnel - Marc Dubois, Institut Fresnel - Redha ABDEDDAIM, Institut Fresnel - Stefan ENOCH, Institut Fresnel  
11:20 - 11:40 › Time-Modulated Active Willis Metamaterials - Bogdan Ioan Popa, Université du Michigan = University of Michigan [Ann Arbor]  
11:40 - 12:00 › Non-reciprocal information transmission based on dynamic synchronization - Nicolas Noiray, CAPS Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich  
12:00 - 12:20 › Programmable Eigenmode Steering and Exceptional Points in Spatiotemporal Acoustic Metamaterials - Jensen Li, University of Exeter  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 16:00 Keynotes (Amphitheater 1) - Chair: Anastasia Kisil (+)  
14:00 - 14:30 › Topology and duality in acoustic metamaterials - Andrea Alu, City University of New York  
14:30 - 15:00 › Acoustic impedance matching between air and water - Andrew Norris, Rutgers University  
15:00 - 15:30 › Waves in Multistable Mechanical Metamaterials - Vincent TOURNAT, LAUM and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
15:30 - 16:00 › Scattering by a random thin coating of nanoparticles - Laure Giovangigli, École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées  
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break  
16:30 - 18:30 Acoustics (Amphitheater 2) - Chair: Svetlana Kuznetsova (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › Acoustic Signatures of Architected Metamaterials for Functional Bone Implants - Giuseppe Rosi, Modélisation et Simulation Multi-Echelle (MSME)  
16:50 - 17:10 › An illustrated review of different dynamic homogenization regimes for wave propagation in random media - Régis Cottereau, Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique  
17:10 - 17:30 › An overview of the use of the Wiener-Hopf method in acoustic wave scattering - Anastasia Kisil, University of Manchester [Manchester]  
17:30 - 17:50 › Balancing nonlinearity and dispersion in piezoelectric metamaterials for envelope solitons and reservoir computing - Alper Erturk, Georgia Institute of Technology  
17:50 - 18:10 › Band Gaps and Physical Bounds from Randomly Distributed Resonators - Paulo Piva, University of Sheffield  
18:10 - 18:30 › Characterization of propagation modes and performance evaluation of phononic crystals for underwater noise reduction - Juliette KESSLER, IEMN, GREENOV-ITES  
16:30 - 18:30 Mechanics (Amphitheater 1) - Static - Chair : Krzysztof Dudek (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › 3D conformal curvy electronics: design, fabrication, and application - Wei Jian, Tsinghua University  
16:50 - 17:10 › Adaptive Folding Matter: From Natural Shape Formation to Tunable Meta-Ribbons - Mingchao Liu, University of Birmingham  
17:10 - 17:30 › Altering elastic properties of the f.c.c. hard sphere crystal with nanoinclusions containing aperiodic phase of hard dumbbells - Narojczyk Jakub, Institute of Molecular Physics Polish Academy of Sciences  
17:30 - 17:50 › Aperiodic mechanical metamaterials - Richard Moat, The Open University  
17:50 - 18:10 › Auxetic Materials: From Natural Systems to Synthetic Architectures - Ruben Gatt, University of Malta  
18:10 - 18:30 › Miniature deep-sea soft robot based on chiral metastructures - Fei Pan, Beihang University  
16:30 - 18:30 Thermal (Amphitheater 3) - Chair: Gal Shmuel (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › Making Transport Programmable and Interface-Compatible: Rescaled Schwarz–Christoffel Metamaterial Design and Temporal Anti-PT Thermal Control - Jiping Huang, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Fudan University  
16:50 - 17:10 › Dynamic Spectral Regulation and Applications of Vanadium Dioxide in Multi-Spectral Regions - Shuliang Dou, Harbin Institute of Technology  
17:10 - 17:30 › Active and passive control of thermal conduction using pillar-based phononic crystals - Ilari Maasilta, University of Jyväskylä  
17:30 - 17:50 › Heat Diffusion Invariant - Liujun Xu, China Academy of Engineering Physics  
17:50 - 18:10 › Passive Thermal-Load Control Using Impedance-Engineered Shallow Porous Surface for High-Speed Boundary Layer Flow - Solkeun Jee, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology  
18:10 - 18:30 › Non-Hermitian Thermal Coupling Sensor - Ying Li, Zhejiang University  
16:30 - 18:30 Mechanics (Amphitheater 4) - Dynamics - Chair: Yi Chen (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › Some recent research inspired by contributions to waveguide theory by Professor Denys J. Mead - Sergey Sorokin, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Aalborg University  
16:50 - 17:10 › Perfect absorption of flexural waves in vibration transmission problems using point-like resonant scatterers - Daniele Giannini, KU Leuven  
17:10 - 17:30 › Reduced-order modeling for dispersion analysis of nonlinear elastic metamaterials - Antonio Palermo  
17:30 - 17:50 › Seismic wave interaction with buried cavity networks - Agnès Maurel, ESPCI ParisTech, CNRS  
17:50 - 18:10 › Surface Elastic Waves in Lattices - Srikantha Phani, University of British Columbia  
18:10 - 18:30 › The Crucial Role of Interfaces in Metamaterial Performance - Svenja Hermann, TU Dortmund University  

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Time Event (+)
08:30 - 09:30 Mechanics (Amphitheater 1) - Chair: Gengkai Hu (+)  
08:30 - 09:30 › Shearing, folding, and vibrating solids and structures - Davide Bigoni, University of Trento  
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee break  
10:00 - 12:30 Applied Mathematics (Amphitheater 3) - Chair: Onella Mattei (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Emerging Opportunities for Space-Time Photonic Metamaterials - Zeki Hayran, Imperial College London  
10:20 - 10:40 › Scattering of transient waves by an interface with time-modulated jump conditions - Michaël Darche, Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique [Marseille]  
10:40 - 11:00 › Waves within a network of lowly time-modulated interfaces: time-dependent effective properties, reciprocity and high-order dispersion - Bruno Lombard, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, LMA UMR 7031, Marseille, LMA  
11:00 - 11:20 › Wave propagation across a network of time-modulated interfaces: recovering non-reciprocity through homogenization. - Raphaël Assier, Department of Mathematics, The University of Manchester  
11:20 - 11:40 › Error estimation for a homogenized model of a time-modulated metamaterial - Jean-Francois Mercier, Poems  
11:40 - 12:00 › A modal analysis of rainbow trapping vs rainbow reflection - Luke Bennetts, University of Melbourne  
12:00 - 12:15 › Mechanical inhibition of dissipation in a thermodynamically consistent active solid - Luca Cocconi, University of Cambridge [UK], Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization  
12:15 - 12:30 › Active Roton-Like Metamaterials Enabled by Time-Modulated Piezoelectric Shunt-Controlled Elastic Coupling - Mohsen Farsiani, Sharif University of Technology [Tehran]  
10:00 - 12:30 Acoustics (Amphitheater 2) - Chair: Emanuele Riva (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Dispersion relation of acoustic waves in metaporous layers - Jean-Philippe Groby, Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans  
10:20 - 10:40 › Elastic wave propagation in stealthy hyperuniform materials - Tony Valier-Brasier, Institut d'Alembert  
10:40 - 11:00 › Acoustic Focusing and All-angle Self-collimation by Locally Resonant Asymmetric Sonic Crystal - Muhammad Gulzari, University College Dublin  
11:00 - 11:20 › Experimental acoustic and vibrational studies of periodic macro-inclusion panels for underwater acoustics applications - Clément Larcade, IEMN  
11:20 - 11:40 › From metamaterials to products: challenges across the TRL scale - Gianluca MEMOLI, University of Sussex, Metasonixx Ltd  
11:40 - 12:00 › Model-based auralization and optimization of vibro-acoustic metamaterial partitions to reduce annoyance - Lucas Van Belle, KU Leuven, Deparment of Mechanical Engineering, Flanders Make@KU Leuven  
12:00 - 12:15 › Contact points open complete band gaps in artificial crystals - David Röhlig, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur  
12:15 - 12:30 › Designing sonic crystals via primitive geometric shapes - Anna Sukhotinskaya, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology  
10:00 - 12:30 Mechanics (Amphitheater 1) - Topology - Chair: Johan Christensen (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Asymmetric Wave Transport Starting from Zero Frequency in 3D Topologically Elastic Metamaterials - Feng Li, Beijing Institute of Technology  
10:20 - 10:40 › Automated Design of Topological Metamaterials via Band Morphology Optimization - Pegah Azizi  
10:40 - 11:00 › From Soft Matter Physics to Topological Mechanical Metamaterials - Di Zhou, Beijing Institute of Technology  
11:00 - 11:20 › Nonreciprocal topological kink-wave propagation in mechanical metamaterials - Jinliang Wang, Universite Marie et Louis Pasteur  
11:20 - 11:40 › Boundary elastic waves in topological soft metamaterials under uniaxial stretching - Gang-Gang Xu, Tianjin University  
11:40 - 12:00 › Orbital Degrees of Freedom Enable Extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Topology in Elastic Lattices - Rui Zhu, Beijing Institute of Technology  
12:00 - 12:15 › Auxetic Higher-Order Topological Insulator with a Tunable Band Gaps - Eloi Perez Compte, Politecnico di Torino  
12:15 - 12:30 › Observation of a Temporal Topological Interface State in a Time-Modulated Parametric Oscillator  
10:00 - 12:30 Mechanics (Amphitheater 4) - Statics - Chair: Christelle Combescure (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Models of auxetic metamatireals at the atomic-molecular level - Konstantin Tretiakov, Polish Academy of Sciences  
10:20 - 10:40 › Structural Metamaterials for Enhanced Damping and Thermal Stability in Large Space Structures - Şerife Tol, University of Michigan System  
10:40 - 11:00 › Non-reciprocal buckling makes active filaments polyfunctional - Jack Binysh, University of Amsterdam  
11:00 - 11:20 › Non-trivial origami metastructures with superior energy absorption performance - Pooya Sareh, Newcastle University  
11:20 - 11:40 › Shell-lattice metamaterials with intrinsic contact stabilization for exceptional mechanical performance and nonlinear stability - Xueyan Chen, Harbin Institue of technology  
11:40 - 12:00 › 3D conformal curvy electronics: design, fabrication, and application - Wei Jian, Tsinghua University  
12:00 - 12:15 › Collision Of Transition Waves In Multistable Lattice - Anusree Ray, University of Galway  
12:15 - 12:30 › Dynamic Control of Topological Mechanical Metamaterials - Antonio Gliozzi, Politecnico di Torino  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 16:00 Keynotes (Amphitheater 1) - Chair: Michael Haberman (+)  
14:00 - 14:30 › Bounds on the complex permittivity, complex permittivity, and Q-factors in two-phase composites - Graeme Milton, The University of Utah  
14:30 - 15:00 › Spectral properties of hyperbolic and fractal lattices - Massimo Ruzzene, University of Colorado Boulder  
15:00 - 15:30 › Rayleigh Waves in 2D Extremal Materials - Gengkai Hu, Beijing Institute of Technology  
15:30 - 16:00 › Buckle-Barrel Correspondence in Mechanical Metamaterials - Johan Christensen, Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies  
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break (Terrasse)  
16:30 - 18:30 Applied Mathematics (Amphitheater 3) - Chair: Sebastiano Cominelli (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › Scattering from Multiphysics metasurfaces - Colquitt Daniel, University of Liverpool  
16:50 - 17:10 › Sound wave propagation in waveguides with imperfect boundaries - Mriganka Shekhar Chaki, University of Sheffield  
17:10 - 17:30 › Spatio-temporal materials and billiards - Ornella Mattei, San Francisco State University  
17:30 - 17:50 › Subwavelength localisation in aperiodic resonator arrays - Alexander Uhlmann, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich  
17:50 - 18:10 › Tunable quasiperiodic composites and their spectral properties - Elena Cherkaev, Elena Cherkaev  
18:10 - 18:30 › Universal Chern Models on Arbitrary Triangulations - Emil Prodan, Yeshiva University  
16:30 - 18:30 Mechanics (Amphitheater 1) - Dynamics - Chair: Daniele Giannini (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › Some Practical Aspects of Designing and Validating Metastructures for Vibration Control - Morvan Ouisse, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, SUPMICROTECH, CNRS, Institut FEMTO-ST  
16:50 - 17:10 › Non-Hermitian high-order diffractive metasurfaces for elastic-wave control - Bing Li, Northwestern Polytechnical University  
17:10 - 17:30 › When waves localise: how topological interface states can advance microscale sensing - Jacopo Maria De Ponti, Politecnico di Milano  
17:30 - 17:50 › Reconfigurable Topological Waves - Sayan Jana, Tel Aviv University  
17:50 - 18:10 › Neighboring effect in Metamaterials: Wave Propagation, Energy Absorption, and Deployability - Giada Risso, Harvard University  
18:10 - 18:30 › Design of interface states using canonical phononic waveguides - Lorenzo Morini, Department of Mechanical, Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Cagliari  
16:30 - 18:30 Mechanics (Amphitheater 4) - Statics - Chair: Davide Bigoni (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › Some remarks on auxetics - Krzysztof W. Wojciechowski, Institute of Molecular Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences  
16:50 - 17:10 › Negative stiffness mechanical metamaterials: design and application - Xiaojun Tan, Beihang University  
17:10 - 17:30 › Limits of linear elastic behavior of lattice materials due to buckling and bifurcation: theoretical and experimental approaches. - Marc Louis Maurice François, Institut de Recherche en Génie Civil et Mécanique  
17:30 - 17:50 › Linear and nonlinear metaclusters of scatterers for mechanical energy flow control - Pawel Packo, AGH University of Science and Technology  
17:50 - 18:10 › Linking Metamaterial Symmetry and Domain of linearity : New Numerical Insights - Christelle Combescure, Institut de Recherche Dupuy de Lôme  
18:10 - 18:30 › Topological Instability in Mechanical Metamaterials - JINGYI ZHANG, Institute IMDEA Materials  
16:30 - 18:30 Acoustics (Amphitheater 2) - Chair: Tony Valier-Brasier (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › Experimental Investigation of Resonant Microdisks for the Creation of a Multiple-Scattering Acoustic Medium - Olga Boyko, Olga Boyko-Kazymyrenko  
16:50 - 17:10 › Guided acoustic wave generation via evanescent fields using a spatiotemporally modulated plate stiffnesses - Michael Haberman,The University of Texas at Austin  
17:10 - 17:30 › Harnessing topological acoustics for applications: Geometric phase computing, engineering and sensing - Pierre Deymier, University of Arizona  
17:30 - 17:50 › Hyperuniformity from reaction-diffusion interactions in Turing patterns - Vicente Romero Garcia, Polytechnic University of Valencia  
17:50 - 18:10 › Integrated phononic devices for on-chip signal processing: critical dimensions variability - Omid Reza Ranjbar Naeini, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory  
18:10 - 18:30 › Interplay between zero-index media and topological states - Changqing Xu, Nanjing Normal University  

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Time Event (+)
08:30 - 09:30 Thermal (Amphitheater 1) - Chair: Anastasiia Krushynska (+)  
08:30 - 09:30 › When heat transfer meets metamaterials and topological physics - Cheng-Wei Qiu, National University of Singapore  
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee break  
10:00 - 12:30 Acoustics (Amphitheater 2) - Chair: Agnès Maurel (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Nanodroplet induced acoustic Purcell effects - Chengzhi Shi, University of Michigan  
10:20 - 10:40 › Sensitivity to the boundary condition: from quasi-normal modes of open media to bound states in the continuum  
10:40 - 11:00 › Wave propagation in weakly disordered honeycomb sandwich panels. - Stepan Avetisov, LMA, CNRS  
11:00 - 11:20 › Metamaterial-Assisted Acoustic Tweezers in Microfluidic Environments - Junfei Li, Purdue University  
11:20 - 11:40 › Metamaterial-Based Acoustofluidic Chip for Wave Control and Particle Manipulation - Xianchen Xu, Beijing Institute of Technology  
11:40 - 12:00 › Wave dynamics in a nonreciprocal lattice - Vassos Achilleos, Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans  
12:00 - 12:15 › Effects of spatial modulation on a electroacoustic absorbant metasurface - Leonardo Ferreira, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur  
12:15 - 12:30 › Engineering topologically protected modes inspired by topological insulators - Camelia Prodan, Fordham University  
10:00 - 12:40 Applied Mathematics (Amphitheater 3) - Chair: Rémi Cornaggia (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Effective properties of non-Hermitian lattices at an exceptional point - Alice Vanel, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Med, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France  
10:20 - 10:40 › Elastodynamic resonance and its influence on elastodynamic metamaterials - william parnell, University of Manchester  
10:40 - 11:00 › Honeycomb structures perturbed along irrational edges - Pierre Amenoagbadji, Columbia University  
11:00 - 11:20 › Factorized dispersion relations for two coupled systems - Alexander Figotin, Alexander Figotin  
11:20 - 11:40 › Geometric spectral properties of electromagnetic waveguides - Maxence CASSIER, Institut FRESNEL  
11:40 - 12:00 › Homogenization of resonant bubble screens: influence of bubble shape and lattice arrangement - Kim Pham, ENSTA  
12:00 - 12:20 › Nonstationary Synthetic Acoustic Holography - Lea Sirota, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University  
12:20 - 12:40 › Structures, properties, and fields in optimal multi-material structures - Andrej Cherkaev, Andrej Cherkaev  
10:00 - 12:30 Mechanics (Amphitheater 1) - Static - Chair: Dennis Kochmann (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Development, mechanical characterisation and optimisation of novel Axisymmetric auxetic metamaterial - Nejc Novak, University of Maribor  
10:20 - 10:40 › Disordered Auxetic Metamaterial Frameworks - Luke Mizzi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia  
10:40 - 11:00 › Dynamics and Elasticity of origami-like beams and plates - Igor Berinskii, Tel Aviv University  
11:00 - 11:20 › From articulated-bi-parallelogram trusses to third gradient 1D continua - Claude Boutin, École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État  
11:20 - 11:40 › Hyperelastic Mechanical Metamaterials with Skin-like Behavior - Qingxiang JI, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur  
11:40 - 12:00 › Lightweight and rigid metamaterials based on random micro-lattice architectures - Thuy Nguyen, DVRC & SPEC CEA Saclay  
12:00 - 12:15 › Enhancing Dielectric Elastomer Energy Harvesting through Collapsible Metamaterial Architectures - Arnob Dutta, Département de Physique  
12:15 - 12:30 › Design and characterization of 2-ply Helical Auxetic Yarns with a fully negative Poisson's ratio by mold casting pre-angled core yarns - Pierre Roberjot, Delft university of Technology, Department of Precision and Microsystems Engineering (PME)  
10:00 - 12:30 Mechanics (Amphitheater 4) - Dynamics - Chair: Angela Madeo (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Traveling waves in a nonlinear lattice with nonreciprocal coupling - Behrooz Yousefzadeh, Concordia University  
10:20 - 10:40 › Vibrations in a finite-size microstructured Euler-Bernoulli beam:homogenization and edge effects - Antoine Rallu, ENTPE  
10:40 - 11:00 › Viscoelastic phononic crystals for vibration isolation: a material study - Bart Van Damme, Empa, Laboratory for AcousticsandNoise Control  
11:00 - 11:20 › Wave based manipulation and reading of mechanical memory in a mass-in-mass metamaterial - Audrey Watkins, Harvard University  
11:20 - 11:40 › Homogenized model of a prestressed ladder beam – Application to buckling - Stanislas Antczak, University of Lyon, ENTPE  
11:40 - 12:00 › Size effects and dynamic behavior in mechanical metamaterials: a relaxed micromorphic study - Mohammad Sarhil, TU Dortmund University  
12:00 - 12:15 › Anomalous frozen evanescent phonons - Ke Wang, Karslruhe Institute of Technology [Karlsruhe]  
12:15 - 12:30 › Frustrated Active Metamaterial - Rupesh Rupesh Mahore, Universiteit van Amsterdam - Corentin Coulais, Universiteit van Amsterdam  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 16:00 Keynotes (Amphitheater 1) - Chair: William Parnell (+)  
14:00 - 14:30 › Design of Metamaterials - Dennis Kochmann, ETH Zurich  
14:30 - 15:00 › Photonic Time-Crystals - Mordechai (Moti) Segev, Technion  
15:00 - 15:30 › Non-Hermitian Topological Mode Morphing in Active Metabeams: Continuum Formulation and Experimental Validation - Guoliang Huang, Peking University [Beijing]  
15:30 - 16:00 › The Mosaic Approach to Acoustic Metamaterials Design - Ping Sheng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Clare Hall  
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break  
16:30 - 18:30 Mechanics (Amphitheater 1) - Dynamics - Chair: Claude Boutin (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › Extreme damping and time-varying material parameters in elastic metamaterials: from theoretical prediction to experimental validation - Kaijun Yi, Beijing Institute of Technology  
16:50 - 17:10 › Extreme wave focusing in nonlinear mechanical metamaterials - Jinkyu Yang, Seoul National University  
17:10 - 17:30 › Integrating Bragg scattering, local resonance, and contradirectional coupling: a path towards wide elastic band-gap engineering - Elisabetta Manconi, University of Parma  
17:30 - 17:50 › Magnetic-Field Sensitivity of Shear Waves in Isotropic Magneto-Active Polymers - Pavel Galich, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology  
17:50 - 18:10 › Modeling wave propagation and boundary effects in vibroacoustic metamaterials by a relaxed micromorphic continuum - Angela Madeo,TU Dortmund University  
18:10 - 18:30 › Multifunctional composite metastructures - Yabin Jin, Fudan University  
16:30 - 18:30 Applied Mathematics (Amphitheater 3) - Chair: Alice Vanel (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › Wave localisation in periodic media. - Yannick De Bruijn, University of Oslo  
16:50 - 17:10 › Wave Control through Topology Optimization: Acoustic Rainbow Devices and Topological Insulators - Rasmus Christiansen, Technical University of Denmark  
17:10 - 17:30 › Waves in Active Nonreciprocal Metamaterials - Bertin Many Manda, Tel Aviv University  
17:30 - 17:50 › Well-posed homogenized strain-gradient models for linear elastodynamics and elastostatics in arbitrary periodic media - Rémi Cornaggia, Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert  
17:50 - 18:10 › A scattering perspective on acoustic metamaterials - Carsten Rockstuhl, Karslruhe Institute of Technology  
18:10 - 18:30 › Numerical simulation of metasurfaces (joint work with I. Chollet, N. Grenèche and P.H. Tournier). - Bérangère Delourme, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord  
16:30 - 18:40 Acoustics (Amphitheater 2) - Chair: Fabrice Lemoult (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › Experimental demonstration of three-dimensional Anderson localization of scalar classical waves - Fanambinana Delmotte, Université Paris Cité   
16:50 - 17:10 › Tunability of electrically controlled piezoelectric phononic crystals - Anne-Christine Hladky, Université de Lille, IEMN  
17:10 - 17:30 › Robust Topological Optomechanical coupling in 1D SSH PhoXonic crystals - yan pennec, Institute of Electronic, Microelectonic and Nanotechnology  
17:30 - 17:50 › TOWARD NONLINEAR METAMATÉTRIAL PROGRAMMING - Manuel Collet, Laboratoire de Tribologie et Dynamique des Systèmes  
17:50 - 18:05 › Architected Metamaterials for Low-Frequency Noise Mitigation and Energy Harvesting from Walking - Xingyun LI, Institut d'Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie - UMR 8520  
18:05 - 18:20 › Harnessing Electro-Momentum Coupling for Programmable Directional Wave Control in Active Piezoelectric Metamaterials - Hrishikesh Danawe, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay  

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Time Event (+)
08:30 - 09:30 Applied Mathematics (Amphitheater 1) - Chair: Laure Giovangigli (+)  
08:30 - 09:30 › Quantum tunneling and its complete suppression in strongly magnetic systems - Michael Weinstein, Columbia University  
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee break (Terrasse)  
10:00 - 12:30 Acoustics (Amphitheater 2) - Absorption - Chair: Steven Cummer (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Rayleigh waves mitigation in granular media via a terraced metasurface - Nikos Aravantinos-Zafiris, Department of Environment, Ionian University, Zakynthos, 29100, Greece  
10:20 - 10:40 › Metafluid interpretation of sonic black holes in ducts: rainbow trapping versus black-hole effect - Oriol Guasch, Human-Environment Research (HER) group, Department of Engineering, La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull (LS - URL)  
10:40 - 11:00 › Two-dimensional sonic black holes for wave trapping and noise reduction - Jie Deng, Human-Environment Research (HER) group, Department of Engineering, La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull  
11:00 - 11:20 › Noise reduction in turbulent flows using graded labyrinthine metamaterials - Federico Bosia, Politecnico di Torino [Torino]  
11:20 - 11:40 › Numerical study of a hybrid active-passive metamaterial sound absorber - Felix Langfeldt, University of Southampton  
11:40 - 12:00 › Sound transmission characteristics of anisotropic metamaterial slabs - Vinicius Dal Poggetto, Universitat Politècnica de València = Universitad Politecnica de Valencia = Polytechnic University of Valencia  
12:00 - 12:15 › Low-frequency broadband underwater acoustic metamaterials via hierarchical Helmholtz resonators - Federica Ongaro, Politecnico di Torino = Polytechnic of Turin  
12:15 - 12:30 › SAW Guiding via Resonant Attenuation of a Weakly Bonded Thin Film  
10:00 - 12:40 Applied Mathematics (Amphitheater 3) - Chair: Pierre Amenoagbadji (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Modelling Time Varying Metamaterials Via Quantum Graph Theory - Tristan Lawrie, University of Exeter  
10:20 - 10:40 › Nonlinear Topological Mechanical Metamaterials : acoustic control of kinks - Georgios Théocharis, Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans  
10:40 - 11:00 › Numerically validating effective waves in disordered particulates: the effect of pair-correlation - Artur Gower, University of Sheffield  
11:00 - 11:20 › On the surface Bloch waves in truncated periodic media - Bojan Guzina, University of Minnesota  
11:20 - 11:40 › On the design of metacontinua in the aeroacoustic spacetime - Giada Colombo, Department of Civil, Computer Science and Aeronautical Technologies Engineering, Roma Tre University  
11:40 - 12:00 › Optimization of metasurfaces using locally periodic resonant homogenization - Nicolas Lebbe, LAPLACE  
12:00 - 12:20 › Quantitative multiscale operator approximations - Valery Smyshlyaev, University College of London  
12:20 - 12:40 › Machine Learning Methods for Chiral Elastic Cloaking Using a Differentiable FEM Framework - David Aznaurov, Institute of Mechanics  
10:00 - 12:30 Mechanics (Amphitheater 1) - Chair: Arthur Lebée (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › From non linearity to metamaterials for robotics advanced performances - Kanty Rabenorosoa, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur  
10:20 - 10:40 › Investigation of the Mechanical Response of Additively Manufactured PEEK Metamaterials under Varying Environmental Conditions - Bo Cao, Northwestern Polytechnical University  
10:40 - 11:00 › Observation of a Temporal Topological Interface State in a Parametric Oscillator - Rajesh Chaunsali, Indian Institute of Science  
11:00 - 11:15 › Adaptive twisting metamaterials - Mattia Utzeri, University of Politecnica delle Marche  
11:15 - 11:30 › Automatic Differentiation for Nonlinear Mesh Optimization - Acuña Daniel, University of Amsterdam  
11:30 - 11:45 › Heterogeneous lattice materials with multifunctionality - Wu Jiacheng, Tongji University  
11:45 - 12:00 › 3D micro-printing - Gwenn ULLIAC, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur  
12:00 - 12:15 › A Cellular Bimorph - PANOS TSOPELAS, National Technical University of Athens  
12:15 - 12:30 › Flattening curved surfaces - Paolo Han Beoletto, Politecnico di Torino  
10:00 - 12:30 Acoustics (Amphitheater 4) - Topology - Chair: Emanuele Galiffi (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Emergent Unconventional Topological States in Complex Phononic Crystals - Jihong Ma, University of Vermont [Burlington]  
10:20 - 10:40 › Topological phases and scattering protected by projective chiral symmetry - Theo Torres, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne  
10:40 - 11:00 › Topological localized modes in Hermitian and non-Hermitian periodic or disordered elastic metastructures - Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, IEMN, CNRS UMR 8520, University of Lille  
11:00 - 11:20 › Geometric Control of Topological Modes in Segmented Acoustic Waveguides - Sarah TACHET, Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique [Marseille]  
11:20 - 11:40 › Twofold Topological Phase Transition in a Coupled-Resonator Phononic Molecule - Rafael Mendez, Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, C.P. 62210 Cuernavaca  
11:40 - 12:00 › Ultra-High-Q BIC-Enabled Underwater Acoustic Metasurfaces for Coherent Perfect Absorption and Ultrasensitive Sensing - Abdelkrim Khelif, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University  
12:00 - 12:20 › Modal Confinement by Curvature: Quasimodes at the Photon Sphere in an Acoustic Black Hole - Jiaoqing Wang, Bar-Ilan University [Israël]  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 16:00 Keynotes (Amphitheater 1) - Chair: Felix Langfeldt (+)  
14:00 - 14:30 › Mechanical metamaterials for implants: from design to clinical application - Anastasiia Krushynska, University of Groningen [Groningen]  
14:30 - 15:00 › Physics Driven Design and Digital Fabrication of Metamaterials - Nicholas Fang, University of Hong Kong  
15:00 - 15:30 › Phononic subsurfaces: Flow control by wave synchronization across the fluid-structure interface - Mahmoud I. Hussein, University of Colorado  
15:30 - 16:00 › Acoustofluidics and Metamaterials - Steven Cummer, Duke University  
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break (Terrasse)  
16:30 - 18:30 Thermal (Amphitheater 3) - Chair: Ilari Maasilta (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › "Thermal radiation via Hilbert space methods " - Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton, Karslruhe Institute of Technology  
16:50 - 17:10 › Nonlocal, micromorphic and hyperbolic heat conduction theories constructed by homogenization based on the Floquet-Bloch transformation - Jean-François Ganghoffer, LEMTA  
17:10 - 17:30 › Temperature-selective emitter - Hang Wei, Soochow University  
17:30 - 17:50 › Thermal Bianisotropy Induced by Spatial Asymmetry - Gal Shmuel, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology  
17:50 - 18:10 › Active thermal cloaking - Fernando Guevara Vasquez, Department of Mathematics - University of Utah  
18:10 - 18:25 › Research on Near-Field Thermal Radiation Enhancement Driven by Metamaterials - Zhou Cheng-Long, Harbin Institute of Technology  
16:30 - 18:35 Mechanics (Amphitheater 1) - Dynamics - Chair: Elisabetta Manconi (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › Multimodal motion and behavior switching of multistable ciliary walkers - Paul Baconnier, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics  
16:50 - 17:10 › Non-Newtonian mechanical metamaterials and their potential applications - Lianchao Wang, IMDEA Materials Institute  
17:10 - 17:30 › On microstructures realizing all elastic Quadramode materials - Christian Kern, University of Utah  
17:30 - 17:50 › Optimization of disordered structures aimed at controlling flexural waves in thin plates - Mario Lazaro, Universitat Politècnica de València  
17:50 - 18:05 › Elastic wave propagation in diatom-inspired radially self-similar phononic pseudocrystals - Chiara Gazzola, Politecnico di Milano  
18:05 - 18:20 › Structure Factor and Elastic Wave Propagation - Sivan Levi, The University of British Columbia  
18:20 - 18:35 › Gradiometric sensors design for sub-Nyquist wavefield reconstruction - Davide Piciucco, ETH Zurich - Marc Serra-Garcia, AMOLF - Johan O.A. Robertsson, ETH Zurich  
16:30 - 18:30 Acoustics (Amphitheater 2) - Chair: Sarah Tachet (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › Omnidirectional and anomalous acoustic absorption with an array of wiremeshes - Vincent Pagneux, Laboratoire d'acoustique de l'université du Maine  
16:50 - 17:10 › Some non-Hermitian and modulated acoustic topological crystals - Baile Zhang, Nanyang Technological University  
17:10 - 17:30 › Slow Sound Effects in Rainbow Trapping Silencers - David FRANCOZ, Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique de Marseille  
17:30 - 17:50 › Scanning near-field acoustic imaging with a zero-mass meta-atom - Oliver Wright, Hokkaido University, The University of Osaka  
17:50 - 18:05 › Boundary convection, a special type of nonlocality to achieve nonreciprocal acoustic propagation. - Emanuele De Bono, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale  
16:30 - 18:30 Mechanics (Amphitheater 4) - Statics - Chair: Kanty Rabenorosoa (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › MatAIRials: Isotropic Inflatable Metamaterials for Freefrom Surface Design - Arthur Lebée, Laboratoire Navier  
16:50 - 17:10 › Mechanical metamaterials with integrated intelligence - Chang Chen, Tsinghua University  
17:10 - 17:30 › Mechanical Metamaterials with composite periodic lattice truss materials - Jian Xiong, Harbin Institute of Technology  
17:30 - 17:45 › Heterogeneous lattice materials with multifunctionality - Wu Jiacheng, Tongji University  
17:45 - 18:05 › Design and characterization of programmable liquid crystal micro-actuators made by two-photon polymerization - Arnaud Spangenberg, Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse  
18:05 - 18:25 › Shaping pneumatic architected structures - Jose Bico, PMMH  
19:00 - 22:00 Banquet and METAMAT Medal Awards (Terrasse)  

Friday, July 24, 2026

Time Event (+)
08:30 - 09:30 Acoustics (Amphitheater 1) - Chair: Martin Van Hecke (+)  
08:30 - 09:30 › Effective medium theories and their applications in metamaterials - Ying Wu, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology  
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee break (Terrasse)  
10:00 - 12:00 Keynotes (Amphitheater 1) - Chair: Ying Wu (+)  
10:00 - 10:30 › Mechano-X - Nicola Pugno, University of Trento, Queen Mary University of London  
10:30 - 11:00 › Massively Multistable Metamaterials - Martin Van Hecke, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics  
11:00 - 12:00 Closing ceremony (Amphitheater 1) - METAMAT  
12:00 - 17:00 Lunch and excursion  
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