Nanometa 2026 Invited Speakers
Steven Anlage, Université du Maryland, College Park, USA,
New Photonic Topological Singularities Identified Through Generalized Speckle Patterns, (Sir Michael Berry session)

Mark Dennis, University of  Bermingham, UK,                                        Fragile topologies in optical fields: knotted vortices, skyrmionic origami and nonabelian dark points (Sir Michael Berry session)

Douglas Stone,  University of Yale, New Haven, USA,                                 Coherent Control of Wave Scattering via Coincidences of Complex Spectra (Sir Michael Berry session)

Baile Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,                                        Axion Electrodynamics and Topological Photonic Crystals  (Sir Michael Berry session)

Noah A. Rubin, University of California San Diego, USA,            Metasurface-Enabled Astronomical Polarimetry.

Harry Atwater California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA,
Talk title available soon.

Guy Bartal, Technion, Haifa, Israel,                                                              Optical Skyrmions – from classical to quantum.

John Dudley, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, Besançon, France      Understanding and insights into nonlinear waveguide dynamics using machine learning.

Daniele Faccio University of Glasgow, UK,                                                  Black hole bombs and how to build one.

Liang Feng University of Pennsylvania,
Active Integrated Photonics for Information Processing, Computing, And Quantum Networking.

Javier Garcia de Abajo ICFO, Castelldefels, Spain,
Ultrafast and Quantum Physics with Free Electrons.

Mohammad Hafezi University Maryland, College Park, USA,
Nonlinear Topological Photonics: Frequency Combs and Novel Phase-Matching Schemes.

Mario Hentschel University of Stuttgart, Germany,                     Environmetal Nanophotonics.

Jacob Khurgin John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.               Complex Frequency Illumination in Imaging: A Comparison of Physical and Synthetic Approaches.

Uriel Levy Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel                                         New concepts and platforms in metasurfaces: from imaging to tunable devices.

Natalia Litchnitser, Duke University, Durham USA, 
Nonlinear Metasurfaces with Multiple Broken Symmetries.

Renmin Ma Peking University, China,
Diffraction-Less Singular Dispersion In Photonic Crystals (real talk title available soon).

Min Qiu Westlake University, Hangzhou, China
Silicon Carbide Metalens And AR Diffractive Waveguides.

Moti Segev Technion, Haifa, Israel                                                                Light-Matter Interactions in Single-Cycle and Sub-Cycle Regime.

Yijie Shen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore                       Axion Sources in 3D Topological Light Waves.

Gennady Shvets Cornell University, Ithaca, USA,                              Plasmonic Metasurface as an Imaging Device: Multi-spectral Infrared Microscopy with Vibrational Contrast.

Cesare Soci, NTU Singapore
On-chip quantum nanophotonics with superconducting detectors

Daniele Struppa, Université Chapman, Orange,USA 
still to come
Andreas Tittl LMU Munich, Germany
Permittivity-Driven Ultrafast Photonic Bound States in the Continuum.

Jianwei Wang Peking University, China
Topological Integrated Photonics.

Qiwen Zhan Westlake University, Hangzhou, China                             Topology with Spatiotemporally Sculptured Light.

Shuang Zhang University of Hong Kong, China,
Cavity Induced Modification of Laudau Degeneracy in Graphene

You Zhou University of Maryland, College Park, USA                               Near-field probe and control of excitons in 2D materials with plasmonic nanostructures.