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.


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Speakers:
Q. ABBASSI, University of Glasgow, UK
A. ALU, City University of New York, USA
H. CABRERA, ICTP, Italy
A. CANDEO, Politecnico Di Milano, Italy
F. CAPASSO, Harvard University, USA
M. CHAKER, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada
D. COJOC, CNR Istituto Officina dei Materiali, Italy
S. DAL ZILIO, CNR Istituto Officina dei Materiali, Italy
M. DANAILOV, Elettra-Sincrotrone, Italy
A. DANNER, National University of Singapore, Singapore
J. G. DE ABAJO, Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Spain
J. HOWELL, Chapman University, USA
R. HU, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, PRC
I. KIM, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), RK
F. KOPPENS, Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Spain
M. Q. MEHMOOD, Information Technology University of the Punjab, Pakistan
H. MICHINEL, Institute of Physics and Aerospace Sciences (IFCAE), Spain
J. RHO, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), RK
N. A. RUBIN, University of California, San Diego, USA
R. J SEWELL, Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Spain
N. WESTBROOK, Institut d'Optique, France
O. WRIGHT, Hokkaido University, Japan
M. ZUBAIR, University of Glasgow, UK

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.