September 12, 2019
All talks will be held in the ASRC Auditorium, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace, New York, NY 10031.
Find nearby hotels here.
 
8:15am
Arje Nachman, Program Manager, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Overview of the MURI program
 
8:30am
Andrea Alù, Principal Investigator, City University of New York (CUNY) – Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)
Team overview: Magnet-free non-reciprocal metamaterials based on spatio-temporal modulation
 
9:00am
Andrea Alù, Principal Investigator, CUNY-ASRC
New opportunities for spatio-temporal modulation in metamaterials
 
9:45am
Michal Lipson, Columbia University
Extreme light manipulation in silicon photonics
 
10:30am
Coffee Break and poster session
 
10:45am
Shanhui Fan, Stanford University
Gauge field and synthetic dimensions from dynamic modulations
 
11:30am
Anthony Grbic, University of Michigan
Analysis and development of time and space-time modulated circuits and metasurfaces
 
12:15pm
Lunch and poster session
 
1:30pm
Harish Krishnaswamy, Columbia University
Breaking fundamental limits related to bandwidth and size of time-modulated non-reciprocal components
 
2:15pm
Amir Safavi-Naeini (Stanford University)
Efficient modulation of low-loss electromagnetic structures: the role of mechanics 
 
3:00pm
Tobias Kippenberg, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Non-reciprocity in photonic integrated circuits based on silicon nitride
 
3:45pm
Closing Discussion
 
4:30pm 
Poster Session
 
5:30pm 
Departure
 
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POSTER PRESENTATIONS*
 
Arik Bergman (Alù group)
Synthetic frequency dimension in fiber optomechanics
 
Robert S Duggan  (Alù group)
Synthetic faraday effect with optomechanics or nonlinearities
 
Jiahui Wang (Fan group)
Non-reciprocal polarization rotation using dynamic refractive index modulation
 
Cody Scarborough (Grbic group)
Analysis and design of linear periodically time-varying networks
 
Zhanni Wu (Grbic group)
Time and space-time modulated metasurfaces
 
Ahmed Kord (Krishnaswamy group)
Topological principles in chip-scale commutated-network non-reciprocal components
 
Aravind Nagulu (Krishnaswamy group)
A reconfigurable chip-scale circulator-coupler based on commutated electrostatic delays

Utsav Dave (Lipson group)

Photonic technologies for extreme light manipulation

Wentao Jiang
(Safavi-Naeini group)
Frequency conversion and nonreciprocity with piezoelectrically driven optomechanics in thin-film lithium niobate
 
Nathan Lee (Safavi-Naeini group)
Quantum-compatible synthetic lattices with microwave photons
 
Raphael Van Laer (Safavi-Naeini group)
Ultra-efficient acousto-optomechanical processes
 
Kiyoul Yang (Vuckovic group)
Inverse designed photonic circuits for fully passive, bias-free nonreciprocal pulse transmitter in LIDAR system 
 
*Presenters: posters should be vertical, 48” tall x 36” wide max to fit the poster boards.