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15-17 Apr 2026 Leuven (Belgium)
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Planning
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 08:00 - 08:45 | Logistics - Registration / welcoming coffee | |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Opening words | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Plenary Lecture - Chair: Daniele Giannini | (+) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | › The Return of the Helmholtz-resonator: A Story of Acoustic Metamaterials and Advanced Acoustic Resonators - Felix Langfeldt, University of Southampton | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Metamaterials for sound absorption - Chair: Jean Boulvert | (+) |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | › Multi-Resonant Low-Frequency Sound Absorption Using a Slit-Neck Helmholtz Unit Cell Capped by a Folded Quarter-Wave Resonator - Christopher Barrett, Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | › Broadband Sound Absorption Using Weakly Coupled Parallel-Arranged Helmholtz Resonators in Acoustic Metasurfaces: A Numerical Study - Faisal Rafique, Southern University of Science and Technology | |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | › Wideband Post‑Resonance Absorption in Mycelium‑Based Helmholtz Resonators - Tomas Gomez, KU Leuven, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Acoustics - Soft Matter and Bio-physics, University of Brescia, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break | |
| 11:20 - 11:35 | Polytec sponsoring - Thomas Karasinski, Olivier De Moor | |
| 11:35 - 12:35 | Metamaterials for sound absorption - Chair: Théo Cavalieri | (+) |
| 11:35 - 11:55 | › Utilizing integrated beam-resonators to characterize manufacturing variability in Selective Laser Sintered metamaterials - Alexander Kryuchkov, Materialise NV, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven | |
| 11:55 - 12:15 | › Building an Absorber Using Inclined Wiremesh Gratings - Juan Pablo Escudero, Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans | |
| 12:15 - 12:35 | › Numerical Investigation of Metasurface and its Application in Room Acoustics - Jonas Helboe Jørgensen, COMSOL A/S | |
| 12:35 - 14:20 | Lunch at Domus - Tiensestraat 8, 3000 Leuven | |
| 14:20 - 15:20 | Plenary Lecture - Chair: Sebastiano Cominelli | (+) |
| 14:20 - 15:20 | › Multi-scale approach to analysis and design of subwavelength mechanical and acoustic metamaterials on finite size domains - Varvara Kouznetsova, Eindhoven University of Technology [Eindhoven] | |
| 15:20 - 16:20 | Elastic metasurfaces - Chair: Sidharth Beniwal | (+) |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | › Efficient modelling and design of multimodal seismic metasurfaces for broadband ground vibration mitigation - David Carneiro, KU Leuven | |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | › Analytical and numerical study of Scholte-Stoneley wave control through elastic metasurfaces - Farhad Zeighami, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna | |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Phononic crystals - Chair: Farhad Zeighami | (+) |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | › Influence of the Unit Cell Choice on the Effectiveness of Band-Gap Metamaterials - Plastiras Demetriou, TU Dortmund University, Institute of Structural Mechanics | |
| 16:20 - 16:45 | Coffee break | |
| 16:45 - 17:45 | Phononic crystals - Chairs: Farhad Zeighami, Plastiras Demetriou | (+) |
| 16:45 - 17:05 | › Symmetry-Breaking in Twisted Kelvin Cell Lattices for Elastic Wace Control - Lukas Kleine-Wächter, Technische Universität Munchen - Technical University Munich - Université Technique de Munich, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm | |
| 17:05 - 17:25 | › Analysing Wave Dynamics in Additively Manufactured Viscoelastic Metamaterials - Sidharth Beniwal, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen (ENTEG), University of Groningen | |
| 17:25 - 17:45 | › Tunable Matryoshka Local Resonance Sonic Crystal acoustic barrier for optimised low frequency noise control. - Chetan Chalurkar, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee | |
| 18:30 - 20:30 | Dinner at Café Entrepot - Vaartkom 4, 3000 Leuven | |
| 21:00 - 23:00 | Scientific popularisation at OPEK - Vaartkom 4, 3000 Leuven |
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Thursday, April 16, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 08:45 - 09:45 | Plenary Lecture - Chair: Gioia Fusaro | (+) |
| 08:45 - 09:45 | › Wave propagation across time-varying interfaces - Marie Touboul, POEMS | |
| 09:45 - 10:45 | Non-linear, non-hermitian and topological acoustic/elastic systems - Chair: Anis Maddi | (+) |
| 09:45 - 10:05 | › Turning Walls into Sound Routers: A Reconfigurable and Active Time-Reversal Metasurface - Constant Bourdeloux, ESPCI Paris, PSL University, CNRS | |
| 10:05 - 10:25 | › Acoustics with time modulating ultrathin resistive sheet - Ioannis Stefanou, Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans | |
| 10:25 - 10:45 | › Time-Domain Robustness of Classical and Detuned Resonator Chains Under Nonlinear Impulsive Excitation - Filippo Tosato, Royal Military Academy (RMA) | |
| 10:45 - 11:10 | Coffee break offered by METAVISION | |
| 11:10 - 12:30 | Non-linear, non-hermitian and topological acoustic/elastic systems - Chairs: Filippo Tosato, Sané Erasmus | (+) |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | › Scattering properties of rotating metamaterials with effective properties - Levi T. Kaganowich, Acoustics Research Centre [University of Salford] | |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | › Long-Time Dynamics of Nonlinear Topological Mechanical Lattices - Sané Erasmus, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Group, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town | |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | › Auxetic Higher-Order Topological Insulator with a Tunable Band Gap - Eloi Perez Compte, Department of Applied Science and Technology [Politecnico di Torino] | |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | › Amplitude-Dependent Wave Attenuation in Nonlinear Locally Resonant Metamaterials - Berkay Bicer, KU Leuven Department of Mechanical Engineering, Division LMSD, Flanders Make | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch at Café Sport - Martelarenplein 13, 3000 Leuven | |
| 14:30 - 15:50 | Metamaterials for sound insulation - Chairs: Sofie Becuwe, Elena Violeta Carreras Casanova | (+) |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | › A holistic design framework for Acoustic Metawindows: from simple metamaterial units to sustainable full-scale building integration - Gioia Fusaro, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna | |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | › Study of the wave propagation inside an open phase gradient metamaterial - Adrien Guthapfel, KU Leuven, LMSD (Campus Heverlee), E2E core Lab, Flanders Make | |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | › Exploring the influence of chirality in the band gap formation of 3D metamaterials - Alonso Cuartero, EMPA, Laboratory for Acoustics/Noise control, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering [Zürich] | |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | › Vibration reduction on an automotive power electronic unit using a locally resonant metamaterial solution: predictive methodology and validation - Sara Tincani, Robert Bosch GmbH, Center of Competence-Vibration, KU Leuven, Campus Diepenbeek, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wetenschapspark 27, 3590 Diepenbeek | |
| 15:50 - 17:00 | Walk and discussions towards Stella Brewery | |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Social activity and discussions at Stella Artois Brewery - Aarschotsesteenweg 20, 3000 Leuven | |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Dinner at Brasserie't Oud Gasthuys - Brusselsestraat 63B, 3000 Leuven |
Friday, April 17, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 08:45 - 09:45 | Plenary Lecture - Chair: Matthieu Mallejac | (+) |
| 08:45 - 09:45 | › Loss-compensated non-reciprocal wave scattering with synchronized self-oscillators - Nicolas Noiray, CAPS Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich | |
| 09:45 - 10:45 | Metamaterials for sound insulation - Chair: Faisal Rafique | (+) |
| 09:45 - 10:05 | › Multi-material 3-d printing of customizable membrane-type acoustic metamaterials - Uğur Dinçer, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Lightweight Systems, Lilienthalplatz 7, 38108 Braunschweig | |
| 10:05 - 10:25 | › Auralisation of sound transmission through a vibro-acoustic metamaterial - Stuart Cumming, Institute of Sound and Vibration Research | |
| 10:25 - 10:45 | › Resonant acoustic metamaterials for broadband sound transmission loss enhancement and cavity depth minimization in double walls - Michiel Lannoye, KU Leuven, Department of Civil Engineering | |
| 10:45 - 11:10 | Coffee break | |
| 11:10 - 12:30 | Metamaterials for sound insulation - Chair: Adrien Guthapfel | (+) |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | › A study on the low-frequency vibroacoustic behavior of membranes with added strip masses using a finite element model - Ajju Raja Justus, Ph.D. Scholar | |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | › Suppression of vibration transmission across junctions between thin plates using metamaterial strips - Sofie Becuwe, KU Leuven, Department of Civil Engineering, Structural Mechanics Section | |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | › Sonic Crystal Noise Barrier Design and Validation - Nicolas Herrera Leon, University of Coimbra | |
| 12:10 - 15:00 | Numerical methods - Chair: Lukas Kleine-Wächter | (+) |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | › Numerical Modeling of Nonlinear Sound Propagation in Bubbly Viscoelastic Acoustic Metamaterials - Elena Violeta Carreras Casanova, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos | |
| 12:30 - 14:20 | Lunch at Domus - Tiensestraat 8, 3000 Leuven | |
| 14:20 - 16:00 | Numerical methods - Chair: Lukas Kleine-Wächter | (+) |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | › Deep learning-based inverse design of tolopogical interface and corner states in two-dimensional phononic crystals - Xue-Qian Zhang, Beijing Jiaotong University, Universitat Politècnica de València = Universitad Politecnica de Valencia = Polytechnic University of Valencia | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | › WFEM-based assessment of the robustness of finite metamaterial vibration isolation under varying, realistic load cases - Line Mardini, Empa, Laboratory for Acoustics/Noise Control, KU Leuven, Department of Mechanical Engineering campus Diepenbeek | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Numerical methods - Chair: Lucas Van Belle | (+) |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | › Mechanical Metamaterials for Modulating Turbulent Flow Dynamics - Bastiaan J.T. Piest, Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen, University of Groningen [Groningen] | |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | › Characterizing and Quantifying the Impact of Production Uncertainties on the Dynamic Response of a series of Metamaterial beams - Yves Pillot, KU Leuven Department of Mechanical Engineering, Division LMSD, Flanders Make | |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | › Monolithic inertial metamaterial for vibration absorption - Alvin Chung, Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University | |
| 16:00 - 16:10 | Closing cerimony | |
| 16:10 - 17:00 | Closing drinks and discussions | |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Dinner at Café Sport - Martelarenplein 13, 3000 Leuven |
