Invited Speakers

PLENARY SPEAKERS

David Cahill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – USA

Failure of Fourier’s law in measurements of thermal conductivity by time-domain thermoreflectance

Prof. Cahill joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after earning his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from Cornell University, and working as a postdoctoral research associate at the IBM Watson Research Center. In 2005, he was named Willett Professor of Engineering and was appointed Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 2010. His research program focuses on developing a microscopic understanding of thermal transport at the nanoscale; the development of new methods of materials processing and analysis using ultrafast optical techniques; and advancing fundamental understanding of interfaces between materials and water. He received the Touloukian Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Peter Mark Memorial Award from the American Vacuum Society (AVS); is a fellow of the AVS, American Physical Society (APS) and Materials Research Society (MRS); and currently serves as the immediate past-chair of the Division of Materials Physics of the APS.Prof. Cahill joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after earning his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from Cornell University, and working as a postdoctoral research associate at the IBM Watson Research Center. In 2005, he was named Willett Professor of Engineering and was appointed Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 2010. His research program focuses on developing a microscopic understanding of thermal transport at the nanoscale; the development of new methods of materials processing and analysis using ultrafast optical techniques; and advancing fundamental understanding of interfaces between materials and water. He received the Touloukian Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Peter MarkMemorial Award from the American Vacuum Society (AVS); is a fellow of the AVS, American Physical Society (APS) and Materials Research Society (MRS); and currently serves as the immediate past-chair of the Division of Materials Physics of the APS.

 

Nicholas Fang, MIT Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Cambridge – USA

Teaching Old Waves New Tricks: The Quest For Acoustic Meta-Materials

Nicholas X. Fang received his BS and MS in physics from Nanjing University, and his PhD in mechanical engineering from University of California Los Angeles. He arrived at MIT in Jan 2011 as Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to MIT, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Professor Fang’s areas of research look at nanophotonics and nanofabrication. His recognitions include the ASME Chao and Trigger Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (2013); the ICO prize from the International Commission of Optics (2011); an invited participant of the Frontiers of Engineering Conference by National Academies in 2010; the NSF CAREER Award (2009) and MIT Technology Review Magazine’s 35 Young Innovators Award (2008).Nicholas X. Fang received his BS and MS in physics from Nanjing University, and his PhD in mechanical engineering from University of California Los Angeles. He arrived at MIT in Jan 2011 as Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to MIT, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Professor Fang’s areas of research look at nanophotonics and nanofabrication.  His recognitions include the ASME Chao and Trigger Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (2013); the ICO prize from the International Commission of Optics (2011); an invited participant of the Frontiers of Engineering Conference by National Academies in 2010; the NSF CAREER Award (2009) and MIT Technology Review Magazine’s 35 Young Innovators Award (2008).

 

 

Philip St.J. Russell, Max Planck Institute, Erlangen – Germany

Optomechanical and optoacoustic nonlinearities in microstructured optical fibres

Professor Philip Russell is a Director at the Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Optical Society (OSA), and has received a number of awards for his research into the science and applications of photonic crystal fibres, including the 2000 OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize, the 2005 Thomas Young Prize of the Institute for Physics (UK), the 2005 Körber Prize for European Science, the 2013 EPS Prize for Research into the Science of Light, the 2014 Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis and the 2015 IEEE Photonics Award. He is currently OSA's President.Professor Philip Russell is a Director at the Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Optical Society (OSA), and has received a number of awards for his research into the science and applications of photonic crystal fibres, including the 2000 OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize, the 2005 Thomas Young Prize of the Institute for Physics (UK), the 2005 Körber Prize for European Science, the 2013 EPS Prize for Research into the Science of Light, the 2014 Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis and the 2015 IEEE Photonics Award. He is currently OSA's President.

 

Edwin Thomas, Rice University, Houston – USA

Polymer Based Phononic Structures for Manipulation of Shock Waves

Ned Thomas did his PhD in materials science at Cornell University in 1974. He was an assistant professor in the University of Minnesota Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science from 1973-1977 when he joined the Polymer Science and Engineering department at University of Massachusetts-Amherst where he was Associate and Full Professor and Department Head over the period of 1977-1988. He then joined MIT in the Materials Science and Engineering department from 1988-2011 and was Department Head from 2006-2011 and Founding Director of the Institute of Soldier Nanotechnologies at MIT from 2002-2006. He currently serves as Dean of Engineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His interests are in microstructure, mechanical properties, photonic and phononic behavior of polymeric materials. He was elected to the USA National Academy of Engineering in 2009Ned Thomas did his PhD in materials science at Cornell University in 1974. He was an assistant professor in the University of Minnesota Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science from 1973-1977 when he joined the Polymer Science and Engineering department at University of Massachusetts-Amherst where he was Associate and Full Professor and Department Head over the period of 1977-1988.  He then joined MIT in the Materials Science and Engineering department from 1988-2011 and was Department Head from 2006-2011 and Founding Director of the Institute of Soldier Nanotechnologies at MIT from 2002-2006.  He currently serves as Dean of Engineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas.  His interests are in microstructure, mechanical properties, photonic and phononic behavior of polymeric materials.  He was elected to the USA National Academy of Engineering in 2009.

 

Martin Wegener, KIT Institute of Applied Physics, Karlsruhe – Germany

Experiments on cloaking in mechanics, acoustics, and thermodynamics

After completing his PhD in physics in 1987 at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Germany), he spent two years as a postdoc at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel (U.S.A.). From 1990-1995 he was professor (C3) at Universität Dortmund (Germany), since 1995 he is professor (C4, later W3) at Institute of Applied Physics of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Since 2001 he has a joint appointment as department head at Institute of Nanotechnology of KIT. Since 2001 he is also the coordinator of the DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) at KIT. His research interests comprise ultrafast optics, (extreme) nonlinear optics, near-field optics, optical laser lithography, photonic crystals, optical, mechanical, and thermodynamic metamaterials, as well as transformation physics. This research has led to various awards and honors, among which are the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Research Award 1993, the Baden-Württemberg Teaching Award 1998, the DFG Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award 2000, the European Union René Descartes Prize 2005, the Baden-Württemberg Research Award 2005, the Carl Zeiss Research Award 2006, and the SPIE Prism Award 2014 for the start-up company Nanoscribe GmbH. He is a member of Leopoldina, the German Academy of Sciences (since 2006), Fellow of the Optical Society of America (since 2008), Fellow of the Hector Foundation (since 2008), Adjunct Professor at the Optical Sciences Center, Tucson, U.S.A. (since 2009), and Honorary Professor at Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China (2014). After completing his PhD in physics in 1987 at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Germany), he spent two years as a postdoc at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel (U.S.A.). From 1990-1995 he was professor (C3) at Universität Dortmund (Germany), since 1995 he is professor (C4, later W3) at Institute of Applied Physics of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Since 2001 he has a joint appointment as department head at Institute of Nanotechnology of KIT. Since 2001 he is also the coordinator of the DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) at KIT. His research interests comprise ultrafast optics, (extreme) nonlinear optics, near-field optics, optical laser lithography, photonic crystals, optical, mechanical, and thermodynamic metamaterials, as well as transformation physics. This research has led to various awards and honors, among which are the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Research Award 1993, the Baden-Württemberg Teaching Award 1998, the DFG Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award 2000, the European Union René Descartes Prize 2005, the Baden-Württemberg Research Award 2005, the Carl Zeiss Research Award 2006, and the SPIE Prism Award 2014 for the start-up company Nanoscribe GmbH. He is a member of Leopoldina, the German Academy of Sciences (since 2006), Fellow of the Optical Society of America (since 2008), Fellow of the Hector Foundation (since 2008), Adjunct Professor at the Optical Sciences Center, Tucson, U.S.A. (since 2009), and Honorary Professor at Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China (2014).

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Chih-Wei Chang, National Taiwan University – Taiwan

Ballistic thermal conduction

Chih-Wei Chang obtained his Ph.D. in physics (2006), University of California at Berkeley (USA) and M.S. (1998), B.S. (1996) degrees from National Taiwan University (Taiwan). His research interests mainly focus on nanoscale phononics and photonics, particularly, experimental investigations on thermal transport of nanotubes and nanowires, plasmonics and metamaterials, as well as nanomechanical resonators. He is currently an associate research fellow of Center for Condensed Matter Sciences at National Taiwan University. His recent works on nanoscale thermal transport have been recognized by many awards in Taiwan.

 

Ivan Favero, Université Paris Denis Diderot – France

Gallium Arsenide Nano-Optomechanical Systems

Ivan Favero is CNRS scientist at Université Paris Diderot, leading a research activity optomechanical systems. The mutual interaction between light and mechanical resonators has been used over the last few years to demonstrate a plethora of phenomena, spanning from mesoscopic quantum optics to sensing applications. Ivan Favero’s researches aim at developing a novel generation of nanoscale semiconductor optomechanical devices, combining the recent developments of optomechanics with semiconductor optoelectronics technologies in the classical and quantum regimes.
Ivan Favero is CNRS scientist at Université Paris Diderot, leading a research activity optomechanical systems. The mutual interaction between light and mechanical resonators has been used over the last few years to demonstrate a plethora of phenomena, spanning from mesoscopic quantum optics to sensing applications. Ivan Favero’s researches aim at developing a novel generation of nanoscale semiconductor optomechanical devices, combining the recent developments of optomechanics with semiconductor optoelectronics technologies in the classical and quantum regimes.

 

Sébastien Guenneau, Institut Fresnel, Aix-Marseille Université - France

Frequency and time domain simulations of plates and seismic metamaterial

Sébastien Guenneau joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) as a research scientist in 2006. He has worked seven years in the United Kingdom as a postdoctoral research associate at Liverpool University (2001-2003) and Imperial College London (2003-2004) and then as an applied mathematics lecturer at Liverpool University (academic years 2004-2005 and 2007-2009). He is currently working as a CNRS research director at the Institut Fresnel of Aix-Marseille Université and he holds an Honorary Research Fellowship at Liverpool University (since 2009). He is an editorial board member of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, the English Academy of Sciences (since 2015) and he holds a European Research Council grant on acoustic, hydrodynamic and seismic metamaterials (since 2011). His research activities focus on mathematical models of photonic and phononic crystals (and crystal fibres) as well as on metamaterials for an enhanced control of wave and diffusion phenomena, including lensing and cloaking.
Sébastien Guenneau joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) as a research scientist in 2006. He has worked seven years in the United Kingdom as a postdoctoral research associate at Liverpool University (2001-2003) and Imperial College London (2003-2004) and then as an applied mathematics lecturer at Liverpool University (academic years 2004-2005 and 2007-2009). He is currently working as a CNRS research director at the Institut Fresnel of Aix-Marseille Université and he holds an Honorary Research Fellowship at Liverpool University (since 2009). He is an editorial board member of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, the English Academy of Sciences (since 2015) and he holds a European Research Council grant on acoustic, hydrodynamic and seismic metamaterials (since 2011). His research activities focus on mathematical models of photonic and phononic crystals (and crystal fibres) as well as on metamaterials for an enhanced control of wave and diffusion phenomena, including lensing and cloaking.
Massimo Ruzzene, Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta – USA

Application for metamaterial concepts for transducer design and energy harvesting

Massimo Ruzzene is a Professor in the Schools of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) in 1999. He is author of 2 books, 130 journal papers and about 170 conference papers. He has participated as a PI or co-PI in various research projects funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Army Research Office (ARO), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), NASA, the US Army, US Navy, DARPA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), as well as companies such as Boeing, Eurocopter, Raytheon, Corning and TRW. Most of his current and past research work has focused on solid mechanics, structural dynamics and wave propagation with application to structural health monitoring, metamaterials, and vibration and noise control. M. Ruzzene is a Fellow of ASME, an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and a member of AHS, and ASA. He currently serves as the program director for the Dynamics Control and Systems Diagnostics Program of CMMI at NSF.

 

Victor Sanchez-Morcillo, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia – Spain

Nonlinear waves in periodic media: from lattices to superlattices and phononic crystals

Victor J. Sánchez-Morcillo is currently Professor of Applied Physics at Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain). After completing a PhD in Nonlinear and Quantum Optics and a short stay in industry, in 2001 he joined UPV as Associate Professor, where he discovered the exciting field of acoustics, and he turned into a passionate acoustician. He is now mainly interested in nonlinear phenomena in acoustics, and particularly the effects emerging from the interplay between nonlinearity and dispersion created by periodic media (sonic and phononic crystals). Other research topics he works occasionally are high intensity focused beams, discrete nonlinear lattices, nonlinear dynamics and chaos in resonators, ultrasound driven bubbles, and pattern formation in wind-blown sand. He is member of the editorial board of Acta Acustica United with Acustica, the journal of the European Acoustical Society (EAA), chair of the Technical Committee of Ultrasound of the EAA, and Director of the Master in Acoustical Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia.Victor J. Sánchez-Morcillo is currently Professor of Applied Physics at Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain). After completing a PhD in Nonlinear and Quantum Optics and a short stay in industry, in 2001 he joined UPV as Associate Professor, where he discovered the exciting field of acoustics, and he turned into a passionate acoustician. He is now mainly interested in nonlinear phenomena in acoustics, and particularly the effects emerging from the interplay between nonlinearity and dispersion created by periodic media (sonic and phononic crystals). Other research topics he works occasionally are high intensity focused beams, discrete nonlinear lattices, nonlinear dynamics and chaos in resonators, ultrasound driven bubbles, and pattern formation in wind-blown sand. He is member of the editorial board of Acta Acustica United with Acustica, the journal of the European Acoustical Society (EAA), chair of the Technical Committee of Ultrasound of the EAA, and Director of the Master in Acoustical Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia.

INVITED LECTURES

Ali Adibi, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 
Georgia Institute of Technology – United States

Integrated phononic crystal structures using metallic pillars: operation principles and applications

Adrian Bachtold, ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences – Spain

Mechanical Resonators Based on Nanotubes and Graphene

Nicholas Boechler, University of Washington, Seattle - United States

Rayleigh and Lamb wave propagation in microspheres-based metamaterials

Rémy Braive, LPN-CNRS – France 

Integrated nano-optomechanics with photonic crystal 

Mihai Caleap, University of Bristol - United Kingdom

Colloïdal acoustic quasi-crystal

Emilio P. Calius, ICT Group, Callaghan Innovation, Auckland – New Zealand

Towards an elastodynamic cloak implementation using 3-D printed variable solids

Jianchun Cheng, Nanjing University - China

Manipulating sound by acoustic metamaterials

Stefano Gonella, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis - United States

Activation of Extended Optoacoustic Functionalities in Nonlinear Phononic Crystals

Jakob Jensen, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby – Denmark

Bandgaps in Coupled Acoustic-Mechanical Micro Systems

Sebastian Krödel, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, 
ETHZ – Switzerland

Wide band gap Seismic metastructures

Stefano Laureti, University of Warwick, Coventry – United Kingdom

High-resolution acoustic imaging at low frequencies using 3D-printed metamaterials

Geoffroy Lerosey, Institut Langevin, ESPCI Paris - France

Locally resonant acoustic metamaterials beyond homogenization: subwavelength control of waves, slow waves, negative index and other exotic phenomena

Ilari Maasilta, Nanoscience Center, University of Jyvaskyla - Finland

Engineering Thermal Properties using Two-Dimensional Phononic Crystals

Imran Mahboob, NTT Basic Research Laboratories - Japan

An electromechanical Van der Pol resonator

Martin Maldovan, Georgia Institute of Technology - United States

Thermal Energy Control by Coherent Interference of Phonons

Alexei Maznev, Department of Chemistry, MIT –United States

Acoustic analogues of photonic crystal phenomena without phononic crystals

Peter Rakich, Yale University - United States

The physics and technology of traveling-wave photon-phonon interactions in silicon.

Arnaud Tourin Institut Langevin - ESPCI Paris - France

Bubble Phononic Crystals

Vincent Tournat, LAUM,Université du Maine, Le Mans - France 

Linear and nonlinear rotational waves in granular phononic crystals

Xiangfan Xu, Tongji University, Shanghai – China

Phonon transports in novel two-dimensional materials

Emilio P. Calius, ICT Group, Callaghan Innovation, Auckland – New Zealand

Towards an elastodynamic cloak implementation using 3-D printed variable solids


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