Plenary talks

Nader Engheta

The University of Pennsylvania, USA

Nader Engheta is the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in  Philadelphia, with affiliations in the Departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, Bioengineering, and Materials Science and Engineering. He received his BS degree from the University of Tehran, and his MS and Ph.D. degrees from Caltech. His current research activities span a broad range of areas including optics, metamaterials, electrodynamics, microwaves, photonics, nano-optics, graphene photonics, imaging and sensing inspired by eyes of animal species, microwave and optical antennas, and physics and engineering of fields and waves. He has received several awards for his research includingthe2023 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering, Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences(2023),Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award(2023), the2020Isaac Newton Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics (UK),the2020Max Born Award from the OPTICA (formerly Optical Society), the2019 Ellis Island Medal of Honor,the2018IEEEPioneer Award in Nanotechnology, the2022Hermann Anton Haus Lecture at MIT, the2015 SPIE Gold Medal, the2014 Balthasar van der Pol Gold Medal from the International Union of Radio Science(URSI),the2017 William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, the Canadian Academy of Engineering as an International Fellow, the Fellow of US National Academy of Inventors (NAI),the IEEE Electromagnetics Award, the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship Award from DoD, the Wheatstone Lecture in King’s College London, 2006 Scientific American Magazine 50 Leaders in Science and Technology, and the Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a Fellow of nine international scientific and technical organizations, i.e., IEEE, OPTICA, APS, MRS, SPIE, URSI, AAAS, IOP and NAI. He has received the honorary doctoral degrees from the Aalto University in Finland in 2016, the University of Stuttgart, Germany in 2016, and Ukraine’s National Technical University Kharkov Polytechnic Institute in 2017.

 

Hui Cao

Yale University, USA 

"Controlling Coherent Light Transport and Absorption"

Hui Cao is the John C. Malone Professor of Applied Physics, a Professor of Physics, and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Yale University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 1997.  Prior to joining the Yale faculty in 2008, she was on the faculty of Northwestern University for ten years.  Her technical interests and activities are in the areas of mesoscopic physics, complex photonic materials and devices, nanophotonics, and biophotonics. Cao is a Fellow of IEEE, AAAS, APS and OSA, and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

 

Maria Chekhova

Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany

"Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion in Metasurfaces and Other 'Flat' Platforms"

Maria Chekhova obtained her PhD at the Lomonosov University (Moscow, Russia) in 1989 and later worked there as a researcher and a group leader. In 1997-2009 she was a visiting professor at the University of Maryland (USA) and in the Metrology Institute (Turin, Italy). Since 2009 she leads an independent research group at Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light (Erlangen, Germany) and since 2020, she also holds a professor position at the university of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Her research area is generation and application of nonclassical light, with a special focus on extreme cases: bright states of light manifesting quantum behavior on the one hand and nanoscale sources of quantum light on the other hand. She has authored more than 200 papers and a book. She is a Fellow of Optica and a Deputy Editor of Optics Express journal.

 

Ping Sheng

The Honk Kong University of Science and Technology, Honk Kong

Ping Sheng is a senior member of the Institute for Advanced Study and Professor Emeritus at HKUST. He obtained his BSc in Physics from the California Institute of Technology, and PhD in Physics from Princeton University in 1971. After a stay at the Institute for Advanced Study, Ping joined RCA David Sarnoff Research Center in 1973. In 1979 he joined the Exxon Corporate Research Lab, where he served as the head of the theory group during 1982-86. In 1994 Ping joined the HKUST as a professor of physics and served as the head of the physics department from 1999 to 2008. Prof. Sheng is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Member of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials. He served as the Executive Editor of Solid State Communications, a Division Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters and a member of the editorial board of New Journal of Physics. He was awarded the Brillouin Medal by the International Phononics Society in 2013, the Rolf Landauer Medal by the ETOPIM Society in 2018, and the Bloch Prize in 2021. Prof. Sheng was elected a member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences in 2019. Prof. Sheng has published more than 480 papers with a total of over 53,000 citations, with an h-index of 102 (by Google Scholar). He has presented over 350 keynote, plenary or invited talks at international meetings and conferences. His research interests include acoustic metamaterials, nanostructured carbon, giant electrorheological fluids, fluid-solid interfacial phenomena, and effective medium theory of composites. Prof. Sheng’s research has led to the founding of a successful startup company, the Acoustic Metamaterials Group, which is in the process of establishing a base in the UK.

 

Laura Na Liu

University of Stuttgart, Germany

"Programmable Metamaterials"

Laura Na Liu received her Ph. D in Physics at University of Stuttgart, Germany. She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and as a Texas Instruments visiting professor at Rice University, respectively. Before she became a professor at the Kirchhoff Institute for Physics at University of Heidelberg in 2015, she had worked as an independent group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. In 2020, she joined University of Stuttgart and became the Director of the 2. Physics Institute.

 

Tamara Seidman

Northwestern University, USA

Tamar Seideman is the Dow Chemical Company Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Northwestern University. She specializes in coherence spectroscopies and coherent control in isolated molecules and dissipative media as well as in ultrafast nanoplasmonics, current-driven phenomena in nanoelectronics and mathematical models. Prof. Seideman studied chemistry at the Tel Aviv University and graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in 1982. She joined the Weizmann Institute of Science for her doctoral studies and earned her PhD under the supervision of Moshe Shapiro. Professor Seideman was made a Weizmann Fellow and a Fulbright Program Fellow at University of California, Berkeley. In 1992 she joined the Ames Research Center as a Principal Investigator before being appointed a research associate at the National Research Council of Canada in 1993. Seideman was made an associate research officer at the National Research Council of Canada in 1996. She was cross-appointed as a professor of chemistry at Queen's University. In 2003 Professor Seideman joint Northwestern. Prof. Seideman work has been recognized by numerous awards and distinctions. She was elected as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,, as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, she received the Senior A. von Humboldt Research Award, the Sackler Visiting Award, the University of Hamburg Mildred Dresselhaus Award, the Weizmann Institute of Science Weston Professorship, Journal of Physical Chemistry Celebration of Women Chemists, as well as the Knesset of Israel Award.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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