Schedule
(Updated as of October 26, 2026)
Important notes:
| 1. | This program will be held in face-to-face mode. |
| 2. | Unauthorized recording of any session is prohibited. |
| 3. | Please obtain the consent from the speaker concerned for any adaptation/sharing of his/her presentation materials. |
| Should you have further enquiries, please feel free to contact the secretariat by email at ias2026ntp@ust.hk. | |
Venue: Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), G/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
November 13, 2026 (Fri)
Time
Event
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Registration |
| 09:30 - 09:40 |
Opening Remarks Che Ting CHAN (HKUST) |
| 09:40 - 09:50 |
Organizer Speech Lei SHI (Fudan University) Meng XIAO (Wuhan University) |
| 09:50 - 10:50 |
Minimum Energy and Photon Content in PT Symmetric Metamaterials Sir John PENDRY (Imperial College London; IAS Senior Visiting Fellow) |
| 10:50 - 11:10 |
Coffee Break and Group Photo |
| 11:10 - 11:40 |
Van der Waals Metasurfaces from Strong Coupling to Topology Andreas TITTL (LUM Munchen) |
| 11:40 - 12:10 |
Meta Devices: From Classical to Quantum Din Ping TSAI (City University of Hong Kong) |
| 12:10 - 14:00 |
Lunch (By invitation, Venue: IAS Lounge, 5/F) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Chern and Axion Topology in Electromagnetic Continua Mario G. SILVEIRINHA (University of Lisbon) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Nonreciprocal Magnetoelectric Metasurfaces: From Axion Electrodynamics to Synthetic Moving Matter Viktar ASADCHY (Aalto University) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Chirality Control with Polaritonic and Nonlinear Metasurfaces Kirill KOSHELEV (Australian National University) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
TBC |
| 17:15 |
Dinner (By invitation, Venue: Hung Kee Seafood Restaurant) |
November 14, 2026 (Sat)
Time
Event
| 09:00 - 09:45 |
TBC Franco NORI (RIKEN) |
| 09:45 - 10:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Vortices, Skyrmions, Möbius Strips: From Nanooptics to Ocean Waves Konstantin BLIOKH (Donostia International Physics Center) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Controlling Field Enhancement and Scattering in Dispersion-engineered Photonic Crystals Ewold VERHAGEN (NWO Institute AMOLF) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Spatiotemporal Scattering at the Interluminal Interface Yu LUO (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautic) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Photonic Feedback for Nanolasers from BICs to Moiré Hong-Gyu PARK (Seoul National University) |
| 12:00 - 14:30 |
Lunch (By invitation, Venue: IAS Lounge, 5/F) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
TBC Shuang ZHANG (The University of Hong Kong) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Kagome-inspired Topological Photonics Zhigang CHEN (Nankai University) |
| 15:30 - 17:30 |
Coffee Break and Poster Session |
| 17:45 |
Dinner (By invitation, Venue: Serenade) |
November 15, 2026 (Sun)
Time
Event
| 09:00 - 09:45 |
Recent Advances in Chiral and Nonlinear Metaphotonics Yuri KIVSHAR (Australian National University) |
| 09:45 - 10:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:15 - 10:45 |
Optical Metasurfaces for Imaging, Sensing, and Display Junsuk RHO (Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)) |
| 10:45 - 11:15 |
Bands of Exceptional Points Guancong MA (Hong Kong Baptist University) |
| 11:15 - 11:45 |
Riemann-Silberstein Geometric Phase in 4D Polarization Space Shubo WANG (City University of Hong Kong) |