Session Matrix

31 /08	08.00 - 09.00	Registration
	09.00 - 09.30	Opening Ceremony
	09.30 - 10.30	Plenary Speaker Silvia Vignolini, “Bio-Inspired Self-Assembled Chiral Architecture for Optics and Plasmonics”
	10.30 - 11.00	Coffee Break
	11.00 - 12.30	Inverse Design and Machine Learning for Photonic Systems	Superconducting and Cavity-Engineered Quantum Metamaterials	Material- and thermally tunable metastructures	Nonlinear metasurfaces and lasing	Fundamentals of dispersive time-varying media
	12.30 - 14.00	Lunch break and Poster Session I
	14.00 - 15.30	Light-matter interactions in time-varying metamaterials	Analytical EM Theory and Wave-Matter Interactions	Metamaterials with extreme parameters and broken symmetries	Bistability, Diffraction & Reconfigurable Metasurfaces	Metasurfaces for beam control and intelligent radio environments
	15.30 - 16.00	Coffee Break
	16.00 - 18.00	Special Session: Electromagnetic information theory for (programmable) metamaterials	Topological Waves and Metamaterials	Chiral, anisotropic and nonlocal metamaterials	Time-modulated RF metasurfaces	2D and van der Waals Metasurfaces
	18.00 - 20.30	Welcome Reception

01 /09	09.00 - 10.00	Plenary Speaker Romain Fleury, "Shaping Wave Momentum and Information in Complex Media"
	10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
	10.30 - 12.30	Novel phenomena in synthetic dimension	Polaritons and Strong Light-Matter Effects	Sensing and metrology 1	Time-varying antennas and scatterers	Special Session: Programmable Mechanics and Instabilities
	12.30 - 14.00	Lunch break, Poster Session II
	14.00 - 15.30	Metamaterials with ultrafast modulation	Novel phenomena and synthetic motion 1	Quantum and Topological Photonics	Optical Effects in Nanophotonic Setups	Metastructures and Meta-Optics for Advanced Antenna Systems
	15.30 - 16.00	Coffee Break
	16.00 - 17.30	Physical Platforms for Analog Computing	Nonlinear Plasmonics and Hybrid Interactions	Time crystals	Active, Reconfigurable, and Nonreciprocal Metasurfaces	Emergent Phenomena in Non-Hermitian and Nonreciprocal Systems
	17.30 - 18.30	Plenary Speaker Michal Lipson, "TBD"

02 /09	09.00 - 10.00	Plenary Speaker Peter McMahon, “Programmable waveguide metamaterials for linear and nonlinear optics”
	10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
	10.30 - 12.30	Sensing and Wave Control in Acoustic and Mechanical Metamaterials	Sensing and metrology I	Thermal metamaterials and metasurfaces	Smart Electromagnetic Environments and Intelligent Metasurfaces for Wireless Communications	Physical Review Special Session
	12.30 - 14.00	Lunch break and Poster Session III
	14.00 - 15.30	Non-Hermitian Wave Dynamics and Scattering	Physics of artificial materials for novel and extreme phenomena	Active, Quantum & Emerging Platforms	Fabrication and experimental characterization of metastructures I	Metasurface Modeling, Simulation, and Design
	15.30 - 16.00	Coffee Break
	16.00 - 17.30	Meta-optics for Computing and Imaging	Geometry and Band Engineering in Artificial Wave Systems	Metasurface Engineering for Absorbing and Radiating Structures	Advanced Scattering Phenomena in Complex Electromagnetic Systems	Quantum Emitters and Purcell Enhancement
	17.30 - 18.30	Break before Social Dinner
	18.30 - 21:00	Social Dinner

03 /09	09.00 - 10.00	Time-varying media and synthetic motion 2	Nanophotonic metadevices	Scattering and disorder	Metaoptics for Classification and Feature Extraction	Physics of artificial materials for novel and extreme phenomena
	10.00 - 10.30	Coffee Break
	10.30 - 12.30	Photonic Operations with Optical Metasurfaces	Reconfigurable and programmable metasurfaces for wave control	Breaking Reciprocity: Physics and Technologies of Wave Isolation	Tunable, nonlinear, and temporal metastructures for photonics	Special Session: New Frontiers of Sound
	12.30 - 14.00	Lunch break and Poster Session IV
	14.00 - 15.30	2D, Hyperbolic and Spatiotemporal Nanophotonics	Metamaterials for biophysics and biomedicine	Physical and Neuromorphic Computing	Fabrication and experimental characterization of metastructures II	Advanced Antenna Architectures and Broadband Radiation Techniques
	15.30 - 16.00	Coffee Break
	16.00 - 17.00	Plenary Speaker Teri W. Odom, “Chiral Polariton Lasing from Plasmonic Metasurfaces”
	17.00 - 17.30	Closing ceremony