Ankit Srivastava, Illinois Institute of Technology

Ahmed Elbanna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Gal Shmuel, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Celia Reina, University of Pennsylvania

William Parnell, University of Manchester

Metamaterials and Phononic Crystals are microstructured continua designed to achieve exceptional spatial and/or temporal wave propagation characteristics. This symposium focuses on two emerging frontiers in the field of metamaterials and phononic crystals: a. Dynamic Homogenization: Topics include metamaterial homogenization techniques including but not limited to asymptotic methods, field and ensemble averaging, retrieval methods, variational dormulations, and strain projection methods. Also of interest is the connection of dynamically homogenized properties to the realization of transformation devices such as cloaks. b. Nonlinear and Coupled problems: Topics include wave propagation in both discrete and continuous material systems exhibiting nonlinear constitutive relations and/or finite deformation. Also of interest are the dynamics of coupled problems in metamaterials and phononic crystals where coupling includes but is not limited to dielectric, magnetorheological, nematic.

Keywords: material systems, dynamics and waves