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Our paper on “Harnessing the natural resonances of time-varying dispersive interfaces,” in collaboration with Carlo Rizza’s group (University of l’Aquila), Maria Antonietta Vincenti (University of Brescia), and Michael Scalora (U.S. Army CCDC) has been published in Physical Review Letters.

Prof. Vincenzo Galdi has delivered a lecture on “Analog computing via short-pulsed metamaterials” at the 2024 Simons Collaboration Satellite Workshop on Wave-Based Analog Computing, New York, NW, Oct. 23, 2024.

Akram Bediaf and Mohamed Bedra, Ph.D. students at the University of Batna 2, Algeria, have temporarily joined the Fields & Waves Lab for a research internship. They will be working on the application of symbolic regression to flatland optics.

Prof. Marco Di Renzo has delivered a mini-course on “Emerging Communication Technologies and Analytical Tools for Analysis and Optimization” (October 8–10, 2024).

Prof. Vincenzo Galdi has delivered a lecture on “Perspectives on space-time coding digital metasurfaces” at the EsOA Course on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Smart Radio Environment, Siena, Italy, September 30–October 4, 2024.

Our paper on “Harnessing the natural resonances of time-varying dispersive interfaces,” in collaboration with Carlo Rizza’s group (University of l’Aquila), Maria Antonietta Vincenti (University of Brescia), and Michael Scalora (U.S. Army CCDC) has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.

Prof. Vincenzo Galdi has delivered a lecture on “Analytical and machine-learning-based design of space-time coding digital metasurfaces” at the 2024 Huawei Antenna Technology Workshop – Automated and Human Intelligent Design for Antennas and Wireless Communications, Siena, Italy, Sep.

Profs. Giuseppe Castaldi and Vincenzo Galdi have been included in the list of world’s top 2% scientists compiled by Stanford University, based on citation metrics for the year 2023. The entire ranking can be found here.

We have presented a poster on “Cognitive backscatter metasurface” at the 25th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Lucca, Italy, Sep. 10-13, 2024.

We have presented three invited talks on “Some emerging concepts in the design of space-time-coding digital metasurfaces” “Time-switched metastructures: analysis and design of the anomalous radiative phenomena at time-interfaces” “Excitation of natural resonances in time-varying dispersive interfaces”