Nonlinear, Tunable and Active Metamaterials

Nonlinear Metamaterials.- Quantum Metamaterials.- Nonlinear and Tunable Left-Handed Transmission Line Metamaterials.- Nonlinear Optics with Backward Waves.- Tailoring Nonlinear Interactions in Metamaterials.- Intrinsic Localization, Nonlinear Transmission and Multistability in SQUID-based Metamaterials- Nonlinear Forward-Backward Waves in Artificial Materials.- Optimization Strategies for Secondorder Nonlinear Metamaterials.- Parametric Amplification of Magneto-inductive Waves.- Electro-optical Tuning of the Electromagnetic Response of Metamaterials.- Micromachined Tunable Metamaterials.

Ilya V. Shadrivov received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Radiophysics from the Nizhny Novgorod University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. He received the Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, in 2005. He is currently a Queen Elizabeth Fellow at the Nonlinear Physics Centre in the Research School of Physical Sciences and a Panel Member of the Optical Society of America 'Spotlight in Optics.

Mikhail Lapine received a Diploma (M.Sc., with honours) in biophysics from Moscow State University in 1997, and a PhD (summa cum laude) in physics from Osnabrück University in 2004. Upon working for a few years in biophysics and biochemistry at Moscow State University, Russia (1996-1999) and Osnabrück University, Germany (1999-2001), he turned to theoretical electrodynamics with a specific interest to effective medium treatment of metamaterials as well as development of nonlinear, tunable and reconfigurable metamaterials and worked on these topics at Osnabrück University (2001-2004; 2008), Helsinki University of Technology (2005-2007) and the University of Seville (2008-2010). He was also a visiting researcher at the Australian National University (2009; 2010-2011) and St.Petersburg National Research University ITMO (2011) and joined the University of Sydney in 2012. In 2007, Dr. Mikhail Lapine initiated an international journal Metamaterials (Elsevier) and since then acts as the Editor for this journal. He also serves as a reviewer for a number of journals in physics.

Yuri S. Kivshar received his Ph.D. degree in 1984 from the USSR Academy of Science and was at the Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Kharkov, Ukraine. From 1988 to 1993, he worked at different research centres in USA, France, Spain and Germany. In 1993, he accepted an appointment at the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering of the Australian National University where presently he is Professor and Head of the Nonlinear Physics Center.