Plenary & Invited Speakers
Plenary Speakers
Prof. Gang Chen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Title Photomolecular Effect and Universal Interfacial Absorption
Prof. Philippe Ben-Abdallah
Institut d’Optique, France
Title Many-body near-field heat transfer
Prof. Masahiro Nomura
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Title Enhanced thermal conduction and radiation by surface phonon polaritons
Prof. Shanhui Fan
Stanford University, USA
Title Near-field Thermal Radiation with Time-Modulated Systems
Invited Speakers
Prof. Mathieu Francoeur
McGill University, Canada
Title Enhanced near-field radiative heat transfer between two thin membranes enabled by electromagnetic corner and edge modes
Prof. Achim Kittel
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany
Title Extreme Near Field Heat Transfer – Is It Heat Conduction?
Prof. Xianfan Xu
Purdue University, USA
Title Greatly enhanced radiative heat transfer in hyperbolic materials
Prof. Pramod Reddy
University of Michigan, USA
Title Energy Transfer and Conversion in Nanoscale Gaps
Prof. Junichiro Shiomi
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Title Materials informatics for selective thermal radiation
Prof. Bong Jae Lee
KAIST, Korea
Title Plasmonic Heat Transfer on a Thin Metal Film
Prof. Svend-Age Biehs
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany
Title Near-field radiative heat transfer in topological and non-reciprocal systems
Prof. Yi Zheng
Northeastern University, USA
Title Cost-effective Functional Energy Materials for Thermal Radiative Applications
Prof. Jian-Sheng Wang
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Title Photon transport out of non-equilibrium systems
Prof. Junming Zhao
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Title Field effect near field heat flux modulator: fundamentals and applications
Prof. Joshua David Caldwell
Vanderbilt University, USA
Title Exploiting and Controlling Lattice Symmetry and Strong Coupling for Enhanced Thermal Transport
Prof. Bo Zhao
University of Houston, USA
Title Exploiting Infrared Polaritons for Thermal Photonics
Prof. Xiulin Ruan
Purdue University, USA
Title Far-field and near-field thermal radiation engineered by four-phonon scattering
Prof. Rodolphe Vaillon
LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, France
Title Current limitations of near-field thermophotovoltaic devices and some solutions to overcome them
Prof. Yong Shuai
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Title Development of Circuit Model for Predicting Thermal Radiation in Nano/Microstructures