Metamaterials: Mechanical Acoustic and Thermal>

Program

Sunday, July 19, 2026

Time Event (+)
18:00 - 20:00 Registration - Hall d'exposition  

Monday, July 20, 2026

Time Event (+)
07:30 - 08:00 Registration - Hall d'exposition  
08:00 - 08:30 Welcome (Auditorium = Amphi 1) - R. Craster, B. Davies, S. Guenneau, M. Kadic, B. Ungureanu, M. Sabaté, M. Touboul  
08:30 - 09:30 Thermal (Auditorium = Amphi 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 - 12:20 Mechanics (Auditorium = Amphi 1) - Dynamics - Chairs: Martin Wegener and Yingrui Ye (+)  
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 - 12:20 › 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  
10:00 - 12:20 Acoustics (Salle prestige = Amphi 2) - Metasurfaces - Chairs: Paulo Piva and Carsten Rockstuhl (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Towards reconfigurable soft acoustic metalenses - Thomas Brunet, Institut de Mécanique et d'Ingénierie de Bordeaux  
10:20 - 10:40 › SAW Guiding via Resonant Attenuation of a Weakly Bonded Thin Film - Maroun Abi Ghanem  
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 › Scattering Control Mechanisms and Bidirectional Wavefront Engineering with Janus Waterborne Acoustic Metasurfaces - Chen-Yang Li, Tianjin University, University of Messina  
11:40 - 12:00 › Synergistic Metasurface Barrier for Ventilated Broadband Acoustic Insulation via Topology Optimization - HAOBO QI, Tianjin University, Universite de Lorraine  
12:00 - 12:20 › Nanodroplet induced acoustic Purcell effects - Chengzhi Shi, University of Michigan  
10:00 - 12:20 Applied Mathematics (Salle Claude Papi = Amphi 3) - Chairs: Michael I. Weinstein and Raphaël Assier (+)  
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, Laboratoire de Mécanique et d’Acoustique  
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 › Bounds and Limitations to Broadband Quasistatic Passive Cloaking - Aaron Welters, Florida Institute of Technology  
12:00 - 12:20 › Spectral approach for an homogenization problem using boundary integral operators - Anthony Gerber-Roth, Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique [Marseille]  
10:00 - 12:20 Acoustics (Salle Henri Matisse = Amphi 4) - Time modulation - Chairs: Andrea Alù and Alper Erturk (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Programmable Eigenmode Steering and Exceptional Points in Spatiotemporal Acoustic Metamaterials - Jensen Li, University of Exeter  
10:20 - 10:40 › Surface water waves localization in a disordered time-modulated system - Svetlana KUZNETSOVA, Univ. Lille, IEMN, 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 - Marc Dubois, 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 › Guided acoustic wave generation via evanescent fields using a spatiotemporally modulated plate stiffnesses - Blaine Gilbert, The University of Texas at Austin  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 16:00 Keynotes (Auditorium = Amphi 1) - Chair: Anastasia Kisil (+)  
14:00 - 14:30 › Auger processes and switching Indium Tin Oxide with femtosecond laser pulses - John Pendry, Department of Physics [Imperial College London]  
14:30 - 15:00 › Acoustic impedance matching between air and water - Andrew Norris, Rutgers University  
15:00 - 15:30 › Topology and duality in acoustic metamaterials - Andrea Alu, City University of New York  
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 (Salle prestige = Amphi 2) - Chair: Svetlana Kuznetsova and Thomas Brunet (+)  
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 (Auditorium = Amphi 1) - Static - Chairs: Krzysztof Dudek and Vinícius Mauro de Souza Santos (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › Moiré Mechanical Metamaterials - Preethi Ramesh Narayan, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid = University of Carlos III of Madrid  
16:50 - 17:10 › Miniature deep-sea soft robot based on chiral metastructures - Fei Pan, Beihang University  
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 › 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)  
16:30 - 18:30 Thermal (Salle Claude Papi = Amphi 3) - Chairs: Fernando Guevara Vasquez and Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › Thermal Bianisotropy Induced by Spatial Asymmetry - Gal Shmuel, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology  
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 › Non-Hermitian Thermal Coupling Sensor - Ying Li, Zhejiang University  
17:30 - 17:50 › Heat Diffusion Invariant - Liujun Xu, China Academy of Engineering Physics  
16:30 - 18:30 Mechanics (Salle Henri Matisse = Amphi 4) - Dynamics - Chair: Yi Chen and Fabio Nistri (+)  
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 › Nonreciprocal scattering of elastic waves at time interfaces induced by spatiotemporal modulation - Yingrui Ye  
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  
19:00 - 20:00 Acoustics (Auditorium = Amphi 1) - Chair: Sébastien Guenneau (+)  
19:00 - 20:00 › An Acoustic Arms Race – The stunning acoustic defences moths use to avoid becoming a bat's next meal - Marc Holderied, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol  

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Time Event (+)
08:30 - 09:30 Mechanics (Auditorium = Amphi 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 - 12:20 Applied Mathematics (Salle Claude Papi = Amphi 3) - Chairs: Clemens Thalhammer and Mriganka Shekhar Chaki (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Emerging Opportunities for Space-Time Photonic Metamaterials - Zeki Hayran, Imperial College London  
10:20 - 10:40 › Geometric spectral properties of electromagnetic waveguides - Maxence CASSIER, Institut FRESNEL  
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 - 12:20 › Mechanical inhibition of dissipation in a thermodynamically consistent active solid - Luca Cocconi, University of Cambridge [UK], Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization  
10:00 - 12:20 Acoustics (Salle prestige = Amphi 2) - Chairs: Emanuele Riva and Olga Boyko (+)  
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 › Designing sonic crystals via primitive geometric shapes - Anna Sukhotinskaya, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology  
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 - 12:20 › Contact points open complete band gaps in artificial crystals - David Röhlig, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur  
10:00 - 12:20 Mechanics (Auditorium = Amphi 1) - Topology - Chairs: Preethi Ramesh Narayan and Jacopo Maria De Ponti (+)  
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 - Stefano Gonella  
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 - 12:20 › Auxetic Higher-Order Topological Insulator with a Tunable Band Gaps - Eloi Perez Compte, Politecnico di Torino  
10:00 - 12:20 Mechanics (Salle Henri Matisse = Amphi 4) - Statics - Chairs: Christelle Combescure and Luke Mizzi (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Multifunctionality in Auxetic Materials: From Droplets to Laminates - Shruti Mandhani, Sheffield Hallam University  
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 › Dynamic Control of Topological Mechanical Metamaterials - Antonio Gliozzi, Politecnico di Torino  
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 › Non-trivial origami metastructures with superior energy absorption performance - Pooya Sareh, Newcastle University [Newcastle]  
12:00 - 12:20 › Selective Plasma Bonding of Silicones for Active Mechanical Metamaterials - Luke Tinsley, Manchester Metropolitan University  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 16:00 Keynotes (Auditorium = Amphi 1) - Chair: Ying Wu (+)  
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 › Tunable scattering from spatiotemporally modulated acoustic metasurfaces and finite domains - Michael Haberman, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin  
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break (Terrasse)  
16:30 - 18:30 Applied Mathematics (Salle Claude Papi = Amphi 3) - Chairs: Sebastiano Cominelli and Maxence Cassier (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › Chirality for all seasons: from exceptional points to analogue computing - Steven Koufidis, Imperial College London  
16:50 - 17:10 › Sound wave propagation in waveguides with imperfect boundaries - Mriganka Shekhar Chaki, University of Sheffield  
17:10 - 17:30 › Tunable quasiperiodic composites and their spectral properties - Elena Cherkaev, Elena Cherkaev  
17:30 - 17:50 › Subwavelength localisation in aperiodic resonator arrays - Alexander Uhlmann, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich  
17:50 - 18:10 › Universal Chern Models on Arbitrary Triangulations - Emil Prodan, Yeshiva University  
16:30 - 18:30 Mechanics (Auditorium = Amphi 1) - Dynamics - Chairs: Daniele Giannini and Eloi Perez Compte (+)  
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 › Accurate Mode Conversion and Preservation via an Impedance-Guided Elastic Metasurface - Mu Jiang, Tianjin University, University of Lorraine  
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 › Multiple Scattering Theory for Finite-Width Elastic - Mario Lazaro, Universitat Politècnica de València  
18:10 - 18:30 › Non-reciprocal mechanical metamaterials - Yizhe Huang, Harbin Institute of Technology  
16:30 - 18:30 Mechanics (Salle Henri Matisse = Amphi 4) - Statics - Chairs: Davide Bigoni and Shruti Mandhani (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › Stable crack-growth and size-dependent fracture resistance in planar lattice materials - Milad Omidi, Aarhus University [Aarhus]  
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 › Multiscale programmable mechanical metamaterials - Krzysztof Dudek, University of Zielona Góra  
16:30 - 18:30 Acoustics (Salle prestige = Amphi 2) - Chairs: Tony Valier-Brasier and Lucas Van Belle (+)  
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 › Interplay between zero-index media and topological states - Changqing Xu, Nanjing Normal University  
17:10 - 17:30 › Harnessing topological acoustics for applications: Geometric phase computing, engineering and sensing - Pierre Deymier, University of Arizona  
17:30 - 17:50 › Quasi-normal modes for flexural waves on demand - 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 › Attacus MetaSurface - Reverse engineering a natural sound absorber metamaterial - Marc Holderied, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol  
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome cocktail (corsican style) at the conference venue  

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Time Event (+)
08:30 - 09:30 Mechanics (Auditorium = Amphi 1) - Chair: Anastasiia Krushynska (+)  
08:30 - 09:30 › Waves in Multistable Mechanical Metamaterials - Vincent TOURNAT, Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans (LAUM), Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee break  
10:00 - 12:20 Acoustics (Salle prestige = Amphi 2) - Chairs: Agnès Maurel and Emanuele De Bono (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Effects of spatial modulation on a electroacoustic absorbant metasurface - Leonardo Ferreira, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur  
10:20 - 10:40 › Sensitivity to the boundary condition: from quasi-normal modes of open media to bound states in the continuum - Vincent Laude  
10:40 - 11:00 › Wave propagation in weakly disordered honeycomb sandwich panels. - Stepan Avetisov, LMA, CNRS  
11:00 - 11:20 › Wave dynamics in a nonreciprocal lattice - Vassos Achilleos, Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans  
11:20 - 11:40 › Metamaterial-Based Acoustofluidic Chip for Wave Control and Particle Manipulation - Xianchen Xu, Beijing Institute of Technology  
11:40 - 12:00 › Engineering topologically protected modes inspired by topological insulators - Camelia Prodan, Fordham University  
10:00 - 12:20 Applied Mathematics (Salle Claude Papi = Amphi 3) - Chairs: Bérangère Delourme and David Aznaurov (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Wave dispersion and localisation in chiral elastic waveguides subjected to gravity and variable gyricity - Alexander Movchan and Natasha Movchan, Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Liverpool  
10:20 - 10:40 › Effective mass density in the zero-shear limit of elastodynamics - william parnell, University of Manchester  
10:40 - 11:00 › Honeycomb structures perturbed along irrational edges - Pierre Amenoagbadji, Columbia University  
11:00 - 11:20 › Parametric Resonance in the LC Circuit: EPD Hypersensitivity and Capacitance Sensing - Alexander Figotin, Alexander Figotin  
11:20 - 11:40 › Scattering of transient waves by an interface with time-modulated jump conditions - Michaël Darche, Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique [Marseille]  
11:40 - 12:00 › Homogenization of resonant bubble screens: influence of bubble shape and lattice arrangement - Kim Pham, ENSTA  
12:00 - 12:20 › Acoustic Scattered Field Calculation for a Moving Source Using Time-Dependent Physical Optics - Lea Sirota, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University  
10:00 - 12:20 Mechanics (Auditorium = Amphi 1) - Static - Chairs: Dennis Kochmann and Paolo Han Beoletto (+)  
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 - 12:20 › Enhancing Dielectric Elastomer Energy Harvesting through Collapsible Metamaterial Architectures - Arnob Dutta, Département de Physique  
10:00 - 12:20 Mechanics (Salle Henri Matisse = Amphi 4) - Dynamics - Chairs: Svenja Hermann and Pavel Galich (+)  
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 - 12:20 › Frustrated Active Metamaterial - Rupesh Rupesh Mahore, Universiteit van Amsterdam - Corentin Coulais, Universiteit van Amsterdam  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 16:00 Keynotes (Auditorium = Amphi 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 (Auditorium = Amphi 1) - Dynamics - Chairs: Claude Boutin and Bart Van Damme (+)  
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 - Svenja Hermann,TU Dortmund University  
18:10 - 18:30 › Multifunctional composite metastructures - Yabin Jin, Fudan University  
16:30 - 18:30 Applied Mathematics (Salle Claude Papi = Amphi 3) - Chairs: Lea Sirota and Michaël Darche (+)  
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 › Numerical simulation of metasurfaces (joint work with I. Chollet, N. Grenèche and P.H. Tournier). - Bérangère Delourme, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord  
17:30 - 17:50 › Structures, properties, and fields in optimal multi-material structures - Andrej Cherkaev, Andrej Cherkaev  
17:50 - 18:10 › A scattering perspective on acoustic metamaterials - Carsten Rockstuhl, Karslruhe Institute of Technology  
18:10 - 18:30 › Machine Learning Methods for Chiral Elastic Cloaking Using a Differentiable FEM Framework - David Aznaurov, Institute of Mechanics  
16:30 - 18:30 Acoustics (Salle prestige = Amphi 2) - Chairs: Stepan Avetisov and Vassos Achilleos (+)  
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 metamaterial programming - Emanuele De Bono  
17:50 - 18:10 › Architected Metamaterials for Low-Frequency Noise Mitigation and Energy Harvesting from Walking - Xingyun LI, Institut d'Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie - UMR 8520  
18:10 - 18:30 › Harnessing Electro-Momentum Coupling for Programmable Directional Wave Control in Active Piezoelectric Metamaterials - Hrishikesh Danawe, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay  
20:00 - 22:00 Gala dinner at the conference venue  

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Time Event (+)
08:30 - 09:30 Applied Mathematics (Auditorium = Amphi 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 - 12:20 Acoustics (Salle prestige = Amphi 2) - Absorption - Chairs: Steven Cummer and Oliver Wright (+)  
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  
10:00 - 12:20 Applied Mathematics (Salle Claude Papi = Amphi 3) - Chair: Pierre Amenoagbadji and Andrej Cherkaev (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Quantitative multiscale operator approximations for high-contrast subwavelength resonances - Valery Smyshlyaev, University College of London  
10:20 - 10:40 › Optimization of metasurfaces using locally periodic resonant homogenization - Nicolas Lebbe, LAPLACE  
10:40 - 11:00 › Bayesian Meshless Methods for Scattering and Inverse Problems - 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  
10:00 - 12:20 Mechanics (Auditorium = Amphi 1) - Chair: Arthur Lebée and José Bico (+)  
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 › Stability, Features, and Constraints in Non-Local Phononic Crystals with Beyond-Nearest-Neighbor Interactions - Pai Wang, The University of Utah  
11:00 - 11:20 › Gradiometric sensors design for sub-Nyquist wavefield reconstruction - Davide Piciucco, ETH Zurich  
11:20 - 11:40 › Flattening curved surfaces - Paolo Han Beoletto, Politecnico di Torino  
11:40 - 12:00 › Automatic Differentiation for Nonlinear Mesh Optimization - Acuña Daniel, University of Amsterdam  
12:00 - 12:20 › Optimising mechanical metamaterials for head impact protection in sport - Harry Plant, Sheffield Hallam University  
10:00 - 12:20 Acoustics (Salle Henri Matisse = Amphi 4) - Topology - Chair: Vinicius Dal Poggetto and Vicente Romero (+)  
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 (Auditorium = Amphi 1) - Chair: Felix Langfeldt (+)  
14:00 - 14:30 › Polymer phononics: why don't predicted and measured transmission curves match? - 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 (Salle Claude Papi = Amphi 3) - Chair: Gal Shmuel and Liujun Xu (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › "Thermal radiation via Hilbert space methods " - Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton, Karslruhe Institute of Technology  
16:50 - 17:10 › Active thermal cloaking - Fernando Guevara Vasquez, Department of Mathematics - University of Utah  
17:10 - 17:30 › Non-reciprocal Thermal Metamaterials with Programmable Functionality - Qingxiang JI, Universite Marie et Louis Pasteur  
16:30 - 18:30 Mechanics (Auditorium = Amphi 1) - Dynamics - Chair: Elisabetta Manconi and Abdelkrim Khelif (+)  
16:30 - 16:50 › Design of interface states using canonical phononic waveguides - Lorenzo Morini, Department of Mechanical, Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Cagliari  
16:50 - 17:10 › Non-Newtonian mechanical metamaterials and their potential applications - Lianchao Wang, IMDEA Materials Institute  
17:10 - 17:30 › Towards tight bounds on the elastic properties of 3D metamaterials - Christian Kern, University of Utah  
17:30 - 17:50 › Topological instability and reentrant crystallization in active solids - Zory Davoyan, University of Cambridge [Cambridge, UK]  
17:50 - 18:10 › From Periodic Bandgaps to Stealthy Disorder Modal Reorganization in Diatomic Mechanical Chains - Sivan Levi, The University of British Columbia  
16:30 - 18:30 Acoustics (Salle prestige = Amphi 2) - Chair: Sarah Tachet and Jie Deng (+)  
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 › Boundary convection, a special type of nonlocality to achieve nonreciprocal acoustic propagation - Emanuele De Bono, University of Naples  
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 - 18:10 › Microrobots actuated by optical tweezers for enhanced optomechanical performance - Alaa Ali, Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174)  
16:30 - 18:30 Mechanics (Salle Henri Matisse = Amphi 4) - Statics - Chair: Kanty Rabenorosoa and Bahram Djafari-Rouhani (+)  
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 - 17:50 › Design and characterization of programmable liquid crystal micro-actuators made by two-photon polymerization - Arnaud Spangenberg, Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse  
17:50 - 18:10 › Shaping pneumatic architected structures - Jose Bico, PMMH  
19:00 - 22:00 Boat tour - Sunset at the "Iles sanguinaires", wine and charcuterie tasting, and possibility to swim  

Friday, July 24, 2026

Time Event (+)
08:30 - 09:30 Acoustics (Auditorium = Amphi 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 - 11:30 Keynotes (Auditorium = Amphi 1) - Chair: Michael Haberman (+)  
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 - 11:30 › Explicit fully-coupled nonlocal constitutive relations for a randomly-laminated composite and their implications - John R Willis, University of Cambridge [Cambridge, UK]  
11:30 - 12:00 Closing ceremony (Auditorium = Amphi 1) - METAMAT  
12:00 - 14:00 Departure in maritime shuttle for a lunch at a beachfront restaurant (La Plage Blanche)  
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