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An ICTP Meeting

Metamaterials are artificially engineered structures with sub-wavelength spatial dimensions in general. The fundamental building block of a certain metamaterial is known as meta–atom whose specific arrangement in a periodic or aperiodic array provides a unique way of tailoring the properties and response of incident waves.

The main applications of metamaterials are found in the industrial sectors like information and communication technologies (ICT), space sciences & defense, but new applications are emerging in health, energy, and environmental areas. Some notable examples of devices realized during the past few years are sensors, super-lensing, cloaking, and light-emitting diodes using dynamic, reconfigurable, and tunable metamaterials.

This technology is being improved further in the marketplace by metamaterials that provide added value over and above state-of-the-art approaches. The World Economic Forum listed plasmonic metamaterials as one of the ten emerging technologies in 2018. Also, the Global Metamaterials Market survey by Mforesight in 2018 predicts a compound annual growth of 36.4% in the next five years.

Keeping this unprecedented potential of metamaterials in view, the ICTP Winter College of 2025 will cover various types of metamaterials such as electromagnetic, planer/flat (metasurfaces), acoustics, thermal, mechanical, low-dimensional, etc.

The potential topics will include metamaterials’ modeling, design, computational science, and their unprecedented applications/phenomena such as structured light beams, novel wave-matter interactions, imaging & sensing, compact optical devices/systems (through meta-optics),  next-generation wireless communication, energy harvesting, cloaking, tunability and reconfigurability, polarization multiplexing, multi-functionality, extra-ordinary absorption/transmission, holographic displays, chiral light-matter interactions, and unique Quantum interactions, etc.


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Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.