Wave Propagation and Material Response inTime-Varying Media

June 10-11, 2025

Imperial College London, London, UK

  • Spatial metamaterials - materials spatially engineered to display specific properties - have changed how we manipulate light and sound, and are becoming ubiquitous in wave technology. The next frontier of fundamental and applied research is time-varying metamaterials, where functionalities emerge from changing the material properties in time.

    A key unsolved problem is modelling the natural response of time-varying materials. Although mathematicians and physicists have approached this problem from the ideal and experimental perspectives, a concerted effort to combine these is required.

    This workshop brings together experts from Physics and Mathematics to identify the key challenges and opportunities in the field, and discuss a roadmap for future research. The workshop is sponsored by the CNRS-Imperial International Research Center (IRC) Connect Fund and the Meta-4D project on next generation metamaterials.

  • Richard Craster Riccardo Sapienza Marie Touboul T. V. Raziman

    Administrative support: Sorina Damsa and Ava Chiu

    This workshop is part of the Imperial-CNRS partnership

  • Keynote speakers:

    Rémi Carminati, ESPCI Paris - PSL

    John Pendry, Imperial College London

    Invited speakers:

    Vassos Achilleos, LAUM - CNRS

    Florian Allein, Université de Lille

    Bryn Davies, University of Warwick

    Marcello Ferrera, Heriot-Watt University

    Emanuele Galiffi, City University of New York

    Jonathan Gratus, Lancaster University

    Zeki Hayran, Imperial College London

    Euan Hendry, University of Exeter

    Erik Orvehed Hiltunen, University of Oslo

    Simon Horsley, University of Exeter

    Muamer Kadic, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur

    Steven Koufidis, Imperial College London

    Magdalini Koukouraki, PMMH, Sorbonne Université

    Fabrice Lemoult, ESPCI Paris - PSL

    Iñigo Liberal, Public University of Navarre

    Bruno Lombard, LMA - CNRS

    Matthieu Malléjac, Université de Bordeaux

    Martin McCall, Imperial College London

    Mohammad Sajjad Mirmoosa, University of Eastern Finland

    Mourad Oudich, Univérsité de Lorraine

    Vincent Pagneux, LAUM - CNRS

    Antonio Palermo, University of Bologna

    Emanuele Riva, Politecnico di Milano

    Carsten Rockstuhl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

    Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, King’s College London

    Liora Rueff, ETH Zurich

    Anatoly Zayats, King’s College London

  • The workshop will be held at the Lecture Theatre 3.01D,E of the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College London. The building is on the South Kensington campus, with its main entrance accessible from Prince Consort Road, SW72PG. The building can also be accessed from Delby Court, going through Bessemer building.

  • CNRS - Imperial IRC for Transformational Science and Technology

    CNRS, the largest fundamental science agency in Europe, and Imperial College London launched an institutional partnership in 2018, building on strong research collaborations in place between individual researchers and larger research groups, in particular those in Mathematics and quantitative sciences. In 2018 a joint CNRS-Imperial laboratory–the Abraham de Moivre International ResearchLab (IRL) in Mathematics, was established, which now serves as a hub for collaborations between the French and UK mathematics communities. This was CNRS’s first international joint research unit in the UK, and it has since hosted dozens of French mathematicians, organised workshops, published research papers and collaborated with other fields such as physics, computer science, biology, economics and social sciences.

    A new CNRS-Imperial IRL, Ayrton Bleriot Engineering Lab, is due to be launched on 12 June, 2025.

    This workshop has been funded from a Connect Fund from CNRS-Imperial IRC.

    Further information can be found here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/cnrs-imperial-international-research-centre/

    Meta-4D

    Multiple, disruptive wave-based technologies (acoustic, elastic, radio-frequency, terahertz, and optical) would emerge if the response of the underlying materials could be modulated at will, varying throughout space and time.

    META4D is a UKRI sponsored Programme grant that will simultaneously explore the fundamental physics of space-time-modulated materials and be the first to demonstrate their potential in realworld application.

    Further in formation can be found here https://meta4d.co.uk/

Programme

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