Event

Metamaterials UK Conference & Forum 2024

Date: 19th – 23rd May 2024 | Format: in person only

Registration: Click here to access the expression of interest form which will run until the 22nd of March.

Venue: Wotton House, 4* Country Estate Hotel, Guildford Rd, Wotton, Dorking RH5 6HS

Wotton House is a country estate in Surrey. Please check your travel time to the venue before deciding on your arrival/departure times.

It can be accessed by the M25, the M3 South, the A24 East, and the A3 from London. Parking is extensive and free for guests of the hotel, conference venue and leisure club.

The closest train station, Dorking Station, is just 4 miles or a 15 minute drive from the hotel. Direct links and connections from London Waterloo, London Victoria, Reading, and Gatwick Airport are available.

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Aim of the event:

The Metamaterials UK Conference & Forum 2024 will focus on the launch of the NetworkPlus and the vision for the next four years. This is an opportunity for early engagement with the NetworkPlus and the UK metamaterials community. The Network will be embarking on its new course building on its success to date and aiming to create new collaborations, encourage new researchers, and dynamically engage with an agenda for the future of metamaterials in the UK.

The conference provides a space for the community to come together to widen knowledge horizons beyond subject-specifics to lay the foundation for future collaborations between and across UK academia and industry (e.g., addressing grand challenges, joint projects, research grants, consultancy work etc.).

Target audience: Academics (incl. Early Career Researchers at/beyond post-doc level), postdocs outside the ECR scope, representatives from industry and non-Higher Education research organisations. Family members are welcome to attend, in particular if caring responsibilities need to be supported to enable your attendance.

Sponsors: The Metamaterials UK Conference & Forum 2024 is kindly sponsored by EPSRC and Dstl.

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Conference content

Please note, this event is focused on discussion groups and networking alongside evening showcases of academic work and industrial applications, rather than a traditional sequence of scientific presentations.  To make the most of the networking opportunities and knowledge exchange, we would like to encourage all participants to arrive Sunday evening and stay until the gala dinner on Wednesday evening, with departure by Thursday lunchtime.

The programme content below is preliminary and will be defined based on speaker availability. It will consist of the following sessions:

Monday 20th May 2024 

 

Time  Location  Session  Speaker 
8:30–09:00  Wotton Suite 
  • Registration 
  
9:00–09:50 

 

 Wotton Suite  Welcome 

  • Update on Strategy and Leadership, Governance, Observatory, ED&I, website? 
  • Celebrate NetworkPlus success, Meta4D success? Lessons learned? EPSRC MM Hub? 
  

  1. Alastair Hibbins (University of Exeter) 
  1. Claire Dancer (University of Warwick) 
9:50–10:00  Wotton Suite  Institute of Physics: Introduction 
  1. Anne Crean (IoP) 
  1. Jenny Lovell (IoP) 
10:00–10:50  Wotton Suite  Underpinning Science 

  • Introduction & highlights 
  • Fundamental Science theme 

 

 Chairs 

  1. Andrea di Falco (University of St Andrews) 
  1. Anton Souslov?(University of Cambridge 

 

Speaker? 

  1. Nikolay Zheuldev (University of Southampton)? 
10:50–11:20  BREAK 
11:20–12:30 

 

 Wotton Suite  Underpinning Science cont. 

  1. Fundamental Science theme speakers 
  1. Fundamental Science theme panel 
 Speakers 

  1. Riccardo Spaienza (Imperial College London)? 
  1. Jack Gartside (Imperial College London)? 

 

Panel Discussion 

  1. Simon Horsley (University of Exeter) 
  1. Ian Youngs (Dstl)? 
 

12:30–14:00 

  

LUNCH BREAK 

 

 

14:00–14:30  Wotton Suite  ARIA Virtual Introduction   
14:30–18:00  Wotton Suite  Special Interest Group Roadmaps: Part I 

  1. Acoustic Metamaterials? 
  1. Active Metamaterials 
  1. Mechanical Metamaterials? 

 

 Acoustic 

  1. Gregory Chaplain (University of Exeter) 
  1. Felix Langfeldt (University of Southampton) 

Active 

  1. Simon Pope (University of Sheffield) 
  1. Diane Roth (QinetiQ) 
  1. Aakash Bansal (Loughborough University) 

Mechanical Metamaterials 

  1. Andrew Alderson (Sheffield Hallam University) 
  1. Oliver Duncan (Manchester Metropolitan University) 

 
16:30-17:00  BREAK 
17:00-18:00  Wotton Suite  Special Interest Group Roadmaps:  Part II 

  1. Theory, Modelling and AI? 
  1. Photonic Metamaterials? 
  1. Microwave & THz Metamaterials 
 Theory, Modelling and AI? 

  1. Stefan Szyniszewski (Durham University) 
  1. Simon Horsley (University of Exeter) 
  1. Marcelo Dias (University of Edinburgh) 
  1. Malte Peter (University of Augsburg) 

Photonic Metamaterials? 

  1. Mitchell Kenney (University of Nottingham) 
  1. Rupert Oulton (Imperial College London) 
  1. Sebastian Schulz (University of St Andrews) 

Microwave & THz Metamaterials? 

  1. Stephen Henthorn (University of Sheffield) 
  1. Miguel Navarro-Cia (University of Birmingham) 
  1. Milo Baraclough (Dstl) 
18:00–18:45  BREAK 
18:45–19:30  Wotton Suite  Just a minute (posters)?   
19:30  Posters & Demonstrators and buffet?in the Evelyn Suite 

 

Tuesday 21st May 2024 

 

Time  Location  Session  Speaker 
09:00–10:20 

 

 Wotton Suite?  Challenge – Sustainability: Part I 

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  1. Introduction to Sustainability Challenge 
  1. Talks and Q&A 

 

 Chair 

  1. Katie Shanks 

 

Speakers 

  1. Rox Middleton?(University of Bath) 
  1. Ryan Bower?(Imperial College London) 
  1. Simon Horsley (University of Exeter) 
  1. Gregory Chaplain (University of Exeter) 
  1. Simone Michele
10:20–10:50?  BREAK 
10:50–12:30? 

 

 Wotton Suite?  Challenge – Sustainability: Part II 

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  1. Application Intro Talks and Panel Discussion 
  1. Roundtable Discussion: 
  1.  Bio-based and abundant materials sourcing/reducing critical material requirement, fabrication, and applications?? 
  1. Metamaterials for Energy? 
  1. Metamaterials for Environmental Monitoring? 

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  1. Maria Crespo-Ribadeneyra?(Queen Mary’s University London) 
  1. Peter Martin
  1. Steven Hepplestone?(University of Exeter) 

 
 

12:30–15:00 

  

LUNCH (PACKED) AND WALK 

 

 

15:00–17:25 

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 Wotton Suite?  Challenge – Healthcare:??Part I 

 

  1. Introduction to Healthcare Challenge 
  1. Talks and Q&A? 
 Chair 

Tom Allen (Manchester Metropolitan) 

? 

 

Speakers: 

  1. Nick Stone (University of Exeter)? 
  1. Richard Hall (University of Leeds)? 
  1. Mazdak Ghajari (Imperial College London)? 
17:25–17:45?  BREAK 
17:45–18:30? 

 

 Wotton Suite?  Challenge – Health cont.? 

 

  1. Panel Discussion?(chaired by Calum Williams (University of Exeter) 
  1. Challenges and opportunities on clinical translation of advanced healthcare technologies.??? 
  1. Wrap-up and summary? 
  1. Rob Hewson (Imperial College London)? 
  1. Olga Kravchenko (Imperial College London)? 
  1. Nick Stone (University of Exeter)? 
  1. Richard Hall (University of Leeds)? 
  1. Mazdak Ghajari (Imperial College London)? 

 
18:30–19:00?  BREAK 
19:00  ‘Street Food’ and posters?in the Evelyn Suite 

 

 

 

Wednesday 22nd May 2024 

 

Time  Location  Session  Speaker 
9:00–11:10? 

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 Wotton Suite?  Challenge – Manufacturing: Part I 

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  1. Overview of SIG achievements and Review of the roadmap 
  1. Planned Activities for the Manufacturing Challenge 
  1. Panel Discussion? 
 Chair 

  1. Claire Dancer (University of Warwick)
  1. Nick Grant (University of Warwick)

 

Speakers 

  1. TBC 

 
11:10–11:40?  BREAK 
11:40–12:30?  Wotton Suite?  Challenge – Manufacturing: Part II 

  1. Workshop on planning roadmaps to large scale investments? 
  1. Wrap-up?? 
 Speakers  

  1. TBC
 

12:30–14:00? 

  

LUNCH BREAK 

 
14:00–14:30??  Wotton Suite?  ‘Title TBC’ 
  1. Ian Youngs 
14:30–18:00? 

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 Wotton Suite?  Challenge – Space and Aviation: Part I (Space) 

?? 

  1. Introduction 
  1. Talks 
  1. Roundtables? 
  1. Feedback and wrap-up 
 Chairs 

  1. Simon Pope (University of Sheffield) 
  1. Thomas Bassett (MBDA) 

 

Speakers 

  1. Aaakash Bansal (Loughborough University)? 
  1. Iman Mohagheghian(University of Surrey)? 
  1. Fred Claeyssens (University of Sheffield)? 
  1. Stephen Henthorn (University of Sheffield)? 
16:05–16:30?  BREAK 

 

16:30–18:00  Wotton Suite?  Challenge – Space and Aviation: Part II (Aviation) 

 

  1. Talks 
  1. Panel Discussion? 
  1. Wrap-up? 
  1. Simon Masters (Future Flight at Innovate UK) 

 
18:00–19:00?  BREAK 
19:00?    Drinks   
19:30-23:00? 

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 GALA Dinner 

Dinner speaker: Miles Padgett 

 

 

Thursday 23rd May 2024 

Time  Location  Session  Speaker 
 

Before 9:00? 

  

Check out and settle up by 9:00 am for all delegates leaving on Thursday.? 

 
09:00-10:30? 

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  Wotton Suite  Aria interactive workshop: developing ideas for climate monitoring? 
  1. Gemma Bale (ARIA) 
  1. Sarah Bohndiek (ARIA) 
  1. Jessica Humphreys (ARIA) 
10:30-11:00?  BREAK 
11:00-13:00 

 

 Wotton Suite  Metamaterials for Future Telecommunications?  TBC 
13:00-14:00?  LUNCH BREAK 

 

 

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Commitment fee

  • for UK-based Network members: £500 for non-ECRs, ECRs £250. Non-refundable. Accommodation and meals on site as well as optional social activities offered during the conference will be included. UK-based researchers who cannot afford the commitment fee are invited to approach Network Leadership Team directly to discuss the attendance costs: info@metamaterials.network.
  • for international guests:  £1,000 for non-ECRs, £500 ECRs. Non-refundable. Accommodation and meals on site as well as optional social activities offered during the conference will be included.

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Questions?

If you have any questions please contact the UK Metamaterials Network admin team at info@metamaterials.network

Posted on 8th February 2024

Key info

  • Date: 19 May - 23 May 2024
  • Location: Wotton House, 4* Country Estate Hotel, Guildford Rd, Wotton, Dorking RH5 6HS
  • Registration deadline: 22 March 2024
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