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Monday, July 20, 2026
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| 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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