The CBMS Conference: Mathematical Methods for Novel Metamaterials

May 20 - 24, 2024



The five-day conference will consist of 19 lectures and intensive discussions between the lecturers and the conference participants. The schedule of the conference for each day will consists of two-hour lectures by the principal lecturer and two-hour supporting lectures from one of the invited speakers, and two-hours of discussions.
   
 
2024 CBMS Conference - Click here to download a .pdf of the program.

  Monday, May 20

8:50AM-9:00AM

Opening Remarks

9:00AM-10:00AM

Lecture I

Speaker: Habib Ammari (ETH-Zürich)

Title: Introduction and Overview 

10:00AM-11:00AM 

Discussion and Coffee Break 

11:00AM-12:00PM

 Lecture II

Speaker: Oscar Bruno (Caltech)

Title: Advanced Computational Methods for Modeling, Simulation and Design - Part I 

12:15PM -1:45PM

Lunch Break at the Edge 

2:00PM-3:00PM

 Lecture III

Speaker: Habib Ammari (ETH-Zürich)

Title: Single Subwavelength Resonator and Effective Medium Theory in the Dilute Regime 

3:00PM-4:00PM

Discussion and Coffee Break

4:00PM-5:00PM

 Lecture IV

Speaker: Oscar Bruno (Caltech)

Title: Advanced Computational Methods for Modeling, Simulation and Design - Part II 

 6:00PM-8:00PM

 Banquet at the AU Hotel 

 

 
 
  Tuesday, May 21

9:00AM-10:00AM

 Lecture I

Speaker: Habib Ammari (ETH-Zürich)

Title: Systems of Strongly Interacting Subwavelength Resonators

10:00AM-11:00AM 

Discussion and Coffee Break 

11:00AM-12:00PM

 Lecture II

Speaker: Andrea Alù (CUNY)

Title: Exotic Linear and Nonlinear Light-Matter Interactions

in Metamaterials - Part I

12:15PM -1:45PM

Lunch Break at the Edge 

2:00PM-3:00PM

 Lecture III

Speaker: Habib Ammari (ETH-Zürich)

Title: Hermitian Systems I: Subwavelength Trapping

and Guiding of Waves

3:00PM-3:30PM

Discussion and Coffee Break

3:30PM-4:30PM

  Lecture IV

Speaker: Andrea Alù (CUNY)

Title: Exotic Linear and Nonlinear Light-Matter Interactions

in Metamaterials - Part II

4:45PM-5:30PM

 Guided Tour at Arboretum

 

 
 
  Wedneday, May 22

9:00AM-10:00AM

 Lecture I

Speaker: Habib Ammari (ETH-Zürich)

Title: Hermitian Systems II: Topological Defects

and Anderson Localization

10:00AM-11:00AM 

Discussion and Coffee Break 

11:00AM-12:00PM

 Lecture II

Speaker: Hai Zhang (HKUST)

Title: Mathematics of In-gap Edge Modes in Photonic/Phononic Structures - Part I 

12:15PM -1:45PM

Lunch Break at the Edge 

2:00PM-3:00PM

 Lecture III

Speaker: Habib Ammari (ETH-Zürich)

Title: Non-Hermitian Systems I

3:00PM-4:00PM

Discussion and Coffee Break

4:00PM-5:00PM

 Lecture IV

Speaker: Hai Zhang (HKUST)

Title: Mathematics of In-gap Edge Modes in Photonic/Phononic Structures - Part II 

 5:00PM-6:00PM

Lawn Games at Samford Lawn

 

 

 
 
  Thursday, May 23

9:00AM-10:00AM

 Lecture I

Speaker: Habib Ammari (ETH-Zürich)

Title: Non-Hermitian Systems II

10:00AM-11:00AM 

Discussion and Coffee Break 

11:00AM-12:00PM

 Lecture II

Speaker: John Schotland (Yale)

Title: Quantum Optics in Random Media - Part I

12:15PM -1:45PM

Lunch Break at the Edge 

2:00PM-3:00PM

 Lecture III

Speaker: Habib Ammari (ETH-Zürich)

Title: Time-modulated Systems I

3:00PM-4:00PM

Discussion and Coffee Break

4:00PM-5:00PM

 Lecture IV

Speaker: John Schotland (Yale)

Title: Quantum Optics in Random Media - Part II

 5:30PM-7:00PM

Dinner at Hey Day Market (voluntary)

 

 

  Friday, May 24

9:00AM-10:00AM

 Lecture I

Speaker: Habib Ammari (ETH-Zürich)

Title: Time-modulated Systems II

10:00AM-11:00AM 

Discussion and Coffee Break 

11:00AM-12:00PM

 Lecture II

Speaker: Graeme Milton (U of Utah)

Title: Guiding Stress: From Pentamodes to Cable Webs

to Masonry Structures

12:15PM -1:45PM

Lunch Break at the Edge 

2:00PM-3:00PM

 Lecture III

Speaker: Habib Ammari (ETH-Zürich)

Title: Summary and Open Problems