2022 International Conference on Thermodynamics and Thermal Metamaterials (ThermoMeta2022)

Purpose

We started to hold the biennial International Conference on Thermodynamics and Thermal Metamaterials in 2020 (please find the list of invited speakers at the end of this notice). Now, we are in a position to organize the second conference (2022 International Conference on Thermodynamics and Thermal Metamaterials; ThermoMeta2022). The ThermoMeta2022 will provide interdisciplinary and in-depth discussions among and in various disciplines of physics, engineering thermophysics, and material science. In particular, it aims to gather scholars from different areas, especially thermodynamics and statistical physics, heat transfer, and materials thermodynamics. ThermoMeta2022 covers thermal metamaterials, from basic research to industrial applications. Moreover, recent years have witnessed much progress beyond thermal metamaterials, which is also a focus of ThermoMeta2022.

Thermal metamaterials are materials or devices with artificial structures that can control heat conduction, convection, and radiation in novel manners. In this case, geometric structures (rather than physical properties) dominate. This fact makes thermal metamaterials different from other materials, including thermoelectric materials, pyroelectric materials, magnetocaloric materials, and photothermal conversion materials. For the latter, physical properties (rather than geometric structures) play a dominating role instead.

Topic

A. Interdisciplinary research of thermodynamics and statistical physics, heat transfer, and materials thermodynamics: thermal metamaterials and their fundamental research, technology developments, engineering applications, industrialization, and commercialization. Topics include, but are not limited to:

(a)     Transformation thermotics and extended theories for thermal metamaterials

(b)    Controlling heat transfer with metamaterials, such as cloaks, concentrators, rotators, radiative coolers, illusion/camouflage, macroscopic diodes, transparency, and thermocrystals

(c)     Metathermotics: Thermal effects/responses of metamaterials, such as thermal conduction of vacuum, anti-parity-time symmetry and topology in diffusion, temperature-dependent thermal conductivities, non-Hermitian physics, and thermal topological insulators.

(d)    Nonlinear thermotics: thermal counterpart of nonlinear optics

(e)     Metamaterials for thermal energy storage or harvesting, such as ultra-low thermal conductivities

(f)      Metamaterials for thermal energy transport or transfer, such as ultra-high or effectively infinite thermal conductivities

(g)     Metamaterials for thermal energy conversion, such as thermophotovoltaic systems with high efficiency

(h)    Metamaterials for thermal energy utilization or application, such as zero-energy or negative-energy heat preservation

B. Other interdisciplinary research of thermodynamics and statistical physics, heat transfer, and materials thermodynamics: theory, computer simulation, and experiment. Topics may come from (but are not limited to) stochastic thermodynamics, quantum thermodynamics, electrocalorics, photothermics, phononics, thermal machines, and modern thermodynamics.

Organization Committee

Conference Chairman: Ji-Ping Huang (Fudan University, China)

Committee Members (in no particular order):

Cheng-Wei Qiu (National University of Singapore)

Lu Hao (Beijing Electro-mechanical Engineering Institute)

Bing-Yang Cao (Tsinghua University)

Er-Jun Liang (Zhengzhou University)

Peng Tan (Fudan University)

Zheng-Hua An (Fudan University)

Lei Gao (Suzhou City University)

Run Hu (Huazhong University of Science & Technology)

Xue-Feng Zhu (Huazhong University of Science & Technology)

Ying Li (Zhejiang University)

Xiang-Ying Shen (Southern University of Science and Technology)

Tian-Cheng Han (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)

Li-Fa Zhang (Nanjing Normal University)

Jie Chen (Tongji University)

Xiang-Fan Xu (Tongji University)

Jun Zhou (Nanjing Normal University)

Yun-Yun Li (Tongji University)

Jian Wang (Yangzhou University)

Xue-Ao Zhang (Xiamen University)

Zhi-Gang Zheng (Huaqiao University)

Jian-Hui Wang (Nanchang University)

Chun-Zhen Fan (Zhengzhou University)

Ji-Zhou He (Nanchang University)

Da-Hai He (Xiamen University)

Hao-Chun Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology)

Hong-Liang Yi (Harbin Institute of Technology)

Li Chen (Xi’an Jiaotong University)

Zhi-Guo Qu (Xi’an Jiaotong University)

Jian-Fei Zhang (Xi’an Jiaotong University)

Quan-Wen Hou (Northwestern Polytechnical University)

Yun-Gui Ma (Zhejiang University)

Jie Ren (Tongji University)

Jian-Hua Jiang (Soochow University)

Chu-Yun Deng (National University of Defense Technology)

Sen Zhang (National University of Defense Technology)

Zong-Hua Liu (East China Normal University)

Li-An Zhu (National University of Defense Technology)

Gao-Le Dai (Nantong University)

Ji-Ping Huang (Fudan University)

Supported by the Department of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

No registration fee is required.

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PS: If you cannot download the Reply Slip, please email <20210190018@fudan.edu.cn>.

Deadlines

Deadline 1: July 17, 2022, for returning the Reply Slip.

Deadline 2: July 31, 2022, for returning the pre-recorded oral presentation video file (we will announce the detailed requirements after July 17).

Previous List of Invited Speakers for 2020 International Conference on Thermodynamics and Thermal Metamaterials

I. Non-Local

• Andrea Alù (City University of New York, USA)                   

• Ercan Dede (Toyota Research Institute of North America, USA)       

• Abhishek Dhar (Raman Research Institute, India)  

• Davide Donadio (University of California, Davis, USA) 

• Garuda Fujii (Shinshu University, Japan)                       

• George Fytas (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany)

• Miroslav Grmela (Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada)           

• Toshiya Ideue (The University of Tokyo, Japan)                    

• Bao-Wen Li (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)                

• Manas Kulkarni (Raman Research Institute, India)

• Pinar Mengü&ccedil; (Ozyegin University, Turkey)         

• Masahiro Nomura (The University of Tokyo, Japan)                

• Cheng-Wei Qiu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)  

• Xiu-Lin Ruan (Purdue University, USA)

• Sergey Sobolev (Russian Academy of Science, Moscow Region, Russia) 

• Sebastian Volz (The University of Tokyo, Japan)             

• Li-Qiu Wang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)            

• Lilia M. Woods (University of South Florida, USA)                 

• Jun-Qiao Wu (University of California, Berkeley, USA)             

• Gang Zhang (A*STAR, Singapore)

• Xiang Zhang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China/ University of California, Berkeley, USA) 

II. Local

• Zheng-Hua An (Fudan University) 

• Bing-Yang Cao (Tsinghua University)

• Jie Chen (Tongji University)                                       

• Zhen Chen (Southeast University)

• Chun-Zhen Fan (Zhengzhou University)

• Lei Gao (Soochow University)  

• Tian-Cheng Han (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)

• Da-Hai He (Xiamen University) 

• Xiao He (Harbin Engineering University)                                   

• Run Hu (Huazhong University of Science & Technology)            

• Ji-Ping Huang (Fudan University)                                   

• Jian-Hua Jiang (Soochow University)

• Yun-Yun Li (Tongji University)

• Er-Jun Liang (Zhengzhou University)                                 

• Wei-Shu Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology)

• Ying Li (Zhejiang University)                                     

• Yun-Gui Ma (Zhejiang University)                                   

• Xiao-Shi Qian (Shanghai Jiaotong University)

• Zhi-Guo Qu (Xi’An Jiaotong University)

• Hai-Tao Quan (Peking University)                                   

• Jie Ren (Tongji University)

• Peng Tan (Fudan University)

• Zhan-Chun Tu (Beijing Normal University)  

• Jian Wang (Yangzhou University)                          

• Hong-Liang Yi (Harbin Institute of Technology)                        

• Hao-Chun Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology)

• Li-Fa Zhang (Nanjing Normal University) 

• Han Zhou (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

• Xue-Feng Zhu (Huazhong University of Science & Technology)