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Dear Colleagues and Friends,
I am glad to write this message to launch this new series of the Newsletters and inform the Community about the recent activities of our Association.
First of all, I am happy to say that the transition of the operational office from Helsinki to Rome has been almost completed. The new team is now at work and I am sure you will see the results of their hard and enthusiastic work very soon. Before going on, I would like to express my gratitude to the former President, Sergei Tretyakov, and the Secretary General, Vladimir Podlozny for the very hard work devoted to create and promote the VI at the highest levels.
As to the activities, I am pleased to say that the Congress 2013 in Bordeaux was a success, thanks to the exceptional work of both the local organizing committee, chaired by Philippe Barois, and the technical program committee, chaired by Andrea Alù. Event organization and scientific quality were among the best ones we have ever had. Our Doctoral Programmes, wisely coordinated by Carsten Rockstuhl, have also continued their great tradition, running two excellent schools held in Glasgow and in Bordeaux.
Furthermore, the operational office has created and published the new Association and EUPROMETA websites, coordinated and performed the member census, and, last but not least, launched this new series of Newsletters that I hope you will enjoy.
Finally, I am happy to inform you that the number of the VI Members is growing: in 2013 we have around 100 new Personal Members and one new Institutional Member, the University of Trento. Welcome to all of you!
In conclusion, I would like to thank you all for your research activities in the field of metamaterials and the precious support to me and my team.
Filiberto Bilotti – METAMORPHOSE VI President
President’s Message
Association
Volume n. 1 – Issue n. 1 – October 2013
Association President’s message
Membership
Websites
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President
Filiberto Bilotti “Roma Tre” University – Italy
Former President
Sergei Tretyakov Aalto University, Finland
Secretary
Davide Ramaccia “Roma Tre” University, Italy
Board of Directors
Maria Kafesaki FORTH, Greece
Dorota Pawlak ITME, Poland
Vladimir Podlozny Aalto University, Finland
Alex Schuchinsky Queens University of Belfast, UK
METAMORPHOSE VI
METAMORPHOSE Newsletters
Congress & School Metamaterials 2013
EUPROMETA schools
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Research & Press Research highlights
Press news
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Members’ news Members’ research
Open positions
Event calendar
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The number of VI Members has increased in the last few weeks. This was mainly due to the new Personal Member scheme elaborated by the Board of Directors and decided in the last physical General Assembly held in London (April 2013).
The potential benefits of being a VI Personal Member have stimulated several Colleagues to join the Association while registering either at the Congress 2013 or at the two schools organized by EUPROMETA. Registration fees for VI Members, in fact, have been significantly reduced, if compared to regular non-member fees.
Today the number of 2013 VI Personal Members is around 100 and we hope that more Colleagues will join us in the next months.
While the exact number and data of the Personal Members were well known to the operational office,
Membership the same could not be said for the researchers working in the 22 Member Institutions. The only census of this kind, in fact, was dated back to 2007, at the time of VI establishment. For this reason, the office decided to run a new census in order to list all the persons affiliated to METAMORPHOSE either as Personal Members or as belonging to the Institutional Members.
A personal card with a unique identification number will be issued shortly and sent to all the Personal Members and all the researchers belonging to the Member Institutions.
Finally, we are happy to announce that the Association, starting from October 14, has a new Institutional Member: the University of Trento – ELEDIA Research Center, leaded by Prof. Andrea Massa. Congratulations to Andrea and his team and welcome on board!
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The ELEDIA Research Center, coordinated by Prof. Andrea MASSA, was established in 2000 at the Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications (now Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science) at the University of Trento, Trento, Italy. The ELEDIA Center currently features more than 25 members, including 6 Professors and Lecturers, 4 Post-Doc , 6 PhD students, 5 Research Associates, and 2 Administrative Staff. The teaching staff offers more than 15 courses divided among two Undergraduate Programs (Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, and Information Engineering and Business Organization) and a Master program (Telecommunication Engineering), and it coordinates more than 25 M.S. Theses and 50 B.S. Theses. The ELEDIA Research Center addresses several research activities within the broad field of Electromagnetics, including the design of innovative devices based on metamaterials and artificial media through System-by-Design strategies. Moreover, in the framework of the System-by-Design paradigm, the ELEDIA Research Center is currently hosting and cooperating at the development of the EMERALD Project, a research unit funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento at the DISI under the “Bando Unità di Ricerca 2011” and coordinated by Professor Douglas H. Werner, Full Professor in Electromagnetic Fields at the Penn State University, State College, USA.
The new Institutional Member: University of Trento - ELEDIA Research Center
A new main website of the Association has been created and published. The new website has a public part and a protected part. The public part has been made simpler and more appealing: it contains only general and useful information. An important section of the public website refers to the information given by the Members concerning their latest research results, open positions, or events co-sponsored by METAMORPHOSE. If you wish to publish your information on the website, please, send an email to [email protected].
The protected part of the website is for Personal and Institutional Members and contains the minutes of the meetings and voting tools.
Should you have any suggestion to improve the quality of the website and its usability, please, send an email to [email protected].
Websites The website of the Doctoral Programmes on Metamaterials – EUPROMETA has been created and published. The new website consists of two parts: a public and a protected one.
The public part contains all the information about past, present and future school events and specialized courses.
The protected part, instead, contains all the slides of the lectures given at the past schools and specialized events.
This is a reach resource and a great benefit for all the METAMORPHOSE VI Members.
Also in this case, should you have any suggestion to improve the quality of the website and its usability, please, send an email to [email protected].
The protected part of the Association website is designed to contain all the documents related to the METAMORPHOSE VI AISBL activities. Personal Members and researchers of the Institutional Members can download and read the Minutes of the Meetings of both Board of Directors and General Assembly. The representative persons of the Institutional Members and the Directors will also have access to dedicated web-tools for casting their votes when the General Assembly or the Board of Directors need to take a decision. The protected part of EUPROMETA website is reach of documents and presentations of the previous school events. Members can download all the lecturers given by the teachers and follow EUPROMETA courses off-line. So far, the slides are available for the most recent nine school editions (XV-XXIII). The operational office is also trying to recuperate the slides of the previous events and make them available on the website. Videos of some lecturers will also be available soon.
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The 7th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics – Metamaterials’2013 was held in Bordeaux on September 16-19, 2013. It was followed by the traditional EUPROMETA Doctoral School which was devoted this year to “Bottom-up Metamaterials”.
The conference was held in the Agora Conference centre situated on the Sciences and Technology Campus of the University of Bordeaux in Talence.
The Conference proved to be very attractive: about 400 papers were submitted and more than 300 were accepted as oral or poster presentations. 331 scientists from 30 different Countries attended the event.
The Technical Program Committee has selected 180 oral presentations: 3 plenary, 7 keynote, 49 invited, and 130 regular or extended oral. 170 poster presentations were accepted. The scientific programme was organized in 3 plenary sessions, 18 thematic oral sessions and 8 special sessions on dedicated topics, an ensemble covering all the fields of active research in electromagnetic and acoustic metamaterials.
A special evening session celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Congress reviewed the history of the series and the perspectives for future developments of the field.
A second special evening session devoted to presentations and discussions with representatives of funding agencies and high-impact journals was
organized to foster even more the field of metamaterials.
Martin Wegener – Plenary Session
A novelty, proposed to the delegates this year, received a good success. In addition to the classical publication of the presentations in the proceedings of the conference, in fact, the authors were offered the opportunity to publish their work on IEEE Xplore.
A special event of the Congress has been the tasting tour and gala diner that was held at Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte, near Bordeaux.
“Rendez-vous” is given for the next Congress on August 25-30, 2014 in Copenhagen.
Philippe Barois – Congress 2013 Local Chair
“This is not one of the several
metamaterial conferences, this is THE metamaterial
conference!”
Martin Wegener Plenary talk – Congress 2013
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Congress 2013
Congress & School
The next Metamaterials Congress will be held in Copenhagen on 25-30 August 2014 and will be organized by the group of Andrey Lavrirenko at DTU.
The first flyer of the Congress can be found here while the first Call for Papers will be issued soon.
For more info, please, visit the Congress 2014 website:
http://congress2014.metamorphose-vi.org
The next school event organized by EUPROMETA will be held in Rome on 24-27 March 2014. The school will be devoted to the topic “Metamaterials for microwave components and systems”
The school forsees 12 hours of teaching and 12 hours of guided study and exercises.
School flyer is available here. For more info, please, visit the school website:
http://school.metamorphose-vi.org
Congress 2014
XXIV EUPROMETA School - Rome
To assure a constant progress in the field of metamaterials (MTMs); training and education are mandatory. Such training comprises all aspects that enable future scientists and engineers to work on a daily scale and conduct successful research in the field of MTMs. Education starts from imparting a profound theoretical understanding of the basic physical phenomena and the underlying mechanism of MTMs, requires understanding which fabrication technologies are available to translate MTMs from a conceptual idea to an actual device, makes it necessary to communicate how to design such devices by relying on a great variety of different numerical methods, asks for insights into the different characterization methods that allow to probe for the actual response of a fabricated structure, and, of course, requires a solid background on the various physical phenomena that can be exploited. The great diversity of different spectral realms and even physical systems in which phenomena related to MTMs can be observed adds an additional peculiarity, since the required experimental and numerical skills in the various domains are likely to be different. Therefore, any education shall reflect these characteristics and unify it with the purpose to foster the interaction of these communities. This education is provided by EUPROMETA most notably in terms of Doctoral Schools.
To provide a better structure and foster sustainability, EUPROMETA has been restructured in the past years and started to introduce two different schools types. The first is a set of core-schools that shall take place at the same locations in a regular temporal interval and shall comprise lectures at the introductory level. These core-schools usually last for one week and deal with subjects such as an Introduction to, the Fabrication of, and the Characterization of MTMs. These core-schools intend to cover all associated aspects and consist of a set of main lectures that are designed to serve as a solid introduction. In addition, more specialized and shorter schools are offered that can be attached to the Metamaterials Congress but which can be also organized as isolated events. They are usually organized on an ad-hoc base and designed to bring together students and experts from a specific and timely sub-discipline from the broader field of MTMs.
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Geographic distribution of the consortium managing EUPROMETA
EUPROMETA School: structure of the programmes
EUPROMETA School: 2013-2014 events
The school in Bordeaux, organized by Philippe Barois, was linked to the Metamaterials conference 2013 and took place immediately after, i.e. September 20-21. This specialized school was devoted to “Bottom-up Metamaterials”, the branch of science that explores the possibilities to self-assemble materials from basic constituents towards functional materials. The experts at this school were Thomas Bürgi, Dorota Pawlak, Jeremy Baumberg, Matteo Albani, Anton Kuzyk, Ashod Aradian, Jacques Leng, and Mona Treguer. More than 50 students attended the lectures and learned many aspects such as details on nanochemistry and self-assembly methods, the theory and simulations of bottom-up MTMs and the related optical.
Course Title: Bottom-up Metamaterials Place and dates: Bordeaux, France – 20-21 September 2013
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Course Title: Fabrication of Metamaterials Place and dates: Glasgow, UK – 17-21 June 2013 The school in Glasgow, organized by Nigel Johnson, was devoted to the fabrication of MTMs. Well reputed external speakers such as Martin Wegener (“Fabrication of 3D Metamaterials”), Marc Verschuuren (“Nanoimprint Lithography”), Radu Malureanu (“Fabrication of THz Metamaterials”), Dirk Grundler (“Magnonic Metamaterials”), Sascha Dmitriev (“Colloidal Nanolithography”), Jeong-Hyun Cho (“Nano-Origami”) and Bruce Burckel (“Membrane Projection Lithography”) gave insights into the basis, the foundations, and the perspectives of the fabrication technology they represented.
The courses were complemented by various experts from Glasgow such as Richard De La Rue, David Cumming, Steven Thoms, Tim Drysdale, and Nigel Johnson himself that gave lectures on their specific field of expertise. Moreover, to release the students from a lecture-type only exposure, they were asked to involve themselves into the fabrication by a devoted hands-on training in lithography and while visiting the impressive nanofabrication
facilities of the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre. Besides, soft-skills were taught to the students in a lecture associated with an exercise on “Entrepreneurship, Project Management and Scientific Writing”. This truly made the school bold and comprehensive; leaving equally many positive impressions with the students.
Motivated by the success of these and many other past schools, a series of future events is currently in preparation. Among others, a core-school on optical MTMs will be organized in Fall 2014 in Jena, Germany and a more specialized school on industrial applications of microwave MTMs in Rome, Italy in Spring 2014. The schedule is complemented by a special school that is attached to the Metamaterials conference; the exact topic thereof is currently under discussion.
Next events
Having said these things, it only remains to invite you and your colleagues and students to one of our future schools. These schools constitute the ideal environment to get linked to other fellows that share your interest and your passion for MTMs. The relaxed atmosphere at all schools (that are always accompanied by an extended social program) provides the right setting to develop ideas and plans for collaboration. We can only invite you to be a part of that community.
Carsten Rockstuhl – EUPROMETA Coordinator
This section of the Newsletters is devoted to the research highlights of the last two months. Our experts will select some papers from the literature that, according to them, are worth to be brought to attention of the Community.
METAMORPHOSE Members are also invited to highlight their own papers for the benefit of their colleagues, writing a short report that will be published in the section devoted to the News from Members.
Research highlights
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N. Shitrit, I. Yulevich, E. Maguid, D. Ozeri, D. Veksler, V. Kleiner, E. Hasman Spin-Optical Metamaterial Route to Spin-Controlled Photonics Science, vol. 340, No. 6133 pp. 724-726, 2013 DOI: 10.1126/science.1234892
Abstract Spin optics provides a route to control light, whereby the photon helicity (spin angular momentum) degeneracy is removed due to a geometric gradient onto a metasurface. The alliance of spin optics and metamaterials offers the dispersion engineering of a structured matter in a polarization helicity–dependent manner. We show that polarization-controlled optical modes of metamaterials arise where the spatial inversion symmetry is violated. The emerged spin-split dispersion of spontaneous emission originates from the spin-orbit interaction of light, generating a selection rule based on symmetry restrictions in a spin-optical metamaterial. The inversion asymmetric metasurface is obtained via anisotropic optical antenna patterns. This type of metamaterial provides a route for spin-controlled nanophotonic applications based on the design of the metasurface symmetry properties.
F. Liu, Z. Liang, Z., and J. Li Manipulating Polarization and Impedance Signature: A Reciprocal Field Transformation Approach Physical Review Letters, vol. 111, No. 3, 033901, 2013 DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.033901
Abstract We introduce a field transformation method for wave manipulation based on completely reciprocal and passive materials. While coordinate transformations in transformation optics (TO) change the size and shape of an object, field transformations give us direct control on the impedance and polarization signature of an object. Using our approach, a new type of perfect conductor can be realized to completely convert between transverse electric and transverse magnetic polarizations at any incidence angles and a perfect magnetic conductor of arbitrary shape can be mimicked by using anisotropic materials. The approach can be further combined with TO to enhance existing TO devices. For example, a dielectric cylinder can become completely transparent for both polarizations using bianisotropic materials.
C. W. Hsu, B. Zhen, J. Lee, S.-L. Chua, S. G. Johnson, J. D. Joannopoulos, M. Soljačić Observation of Trapped Light Within the Radiation Continuum Nature, vol. 499, No. 7457, pp. 188–191, 2103 DOI:10.1038/nature12289
Abstract The ability to confine light is important both scientifically and technologically. Many light confinement methods exist, but they all achieve confinement with materials or systems that forbid outgoing waves. These systems can be implemented by metallic mirrors, by photonic band-gap materials, by highly disordered media (Anderson localization) and, for a subset of outgoing waves, by translational symmetry (total internal reflection) or by rotational or reflection symmetry. Exceptions to these examples exist only in theoretical proposals. Here we predict and show experimentally that light can be perfectly confined in a patterned dielectric slab, even though outgoing waves are allowed in the surrounding medium. Technically, this is an observation of an ‘embedded eigenvalue’—namely, a bound state in a continuum of radiation modes—that is not due to symmetry incompatibility. Such a bound state can exist stably in a general class of geometries in which all of its radiation amplitudes vanish simultaneously as a result of destructive interference. This method to trap electromagnetic waves is also applicable to electronic and mechanical waves.
N. K. Grady, J. E. Heyes, D. R. Chowdhury, Y. Zeng, M. T. Reiten, A. K. Azad, A. J. Taylor, D. A. R. Dalvit, H.-T. Chen Terahertz Metamaterials for Linear Polarization Conversion and Anomalous Refraction Science, vol. 340, No. 6138, pp. 1304–1307, 2013 DOI:10.1126/science.1235399
Abstract Polarization is one of the basic properties of electromagnetic waves conveying valuable information in signal transmission and sensitive measurements. Conventional methods for advanced polarization control impose demanding requirements on material properties and attain only limited performance. We demonstrated ultrathin, broadband, and highly efficient metamaterial-based terahertz polarization converters that are capable of rotating a linear polarization state into its orthogonal one. On the basis of these results, we created metamaterial structures capable of realizing near-perfect anomalous refraction. Our work opens new opportunities for creating high-performance photonic devices and enables emergent metamaterial functionalities for applications in the technologically difficult terahertz-frequency regime.
L. Britnell, R. M. Ribeiro, A. Eckmann, R. Jalil, B. D. Belle, A. Mishchenko, Y.-J. Kim, R. V. Gorbachev, T. Georgiou, S. V. Morozov, A. N. Grigorenko, A. K. Geim, C. Casiraghi, A. H. Castro Neto, K. S. Novoselov Strong Light-Matter Interactions in Heterostructures of Atomically Thin Films Science, vol. 340, No. 6138, pp. 1311–1314, 2013 DOI:10.1126/science.1235547
Abstract The isolation of various two-dimensional (2D) materials, and the possibility to combine them in vertical stacks, has created a new paradigm in materials science: heterostructures based on 2D crystals. Such a concept has already proven fruitful for a number of electronic applications in the area of ultrathin and flexible devices. Here, we expand the range of such structures to photoactive ones by using semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs)/graphene stacks. Van Hove singularities in the electronic density of states of TMDC guarantees enhanced light-matter interactions, leading to enhanced photon absorption and electron-hole creation (which are collected in transparent graphene electrodes). This allows development of extremely efficient flexible photovoltaic devices with photoresponsivity above 0.1 ampere per watt (corresponding to an external quantum efficiency of above 30%).
Research & Press News
In this section, we report some recent press news related to the work of collegues and friends belonging to the community and other researchers working in the field of metamaterials.
Press news sometimes have little to do with real science, especially considering how mass media tend to emphasize some still preliminary and intermediate results. Nevertheless, it is interesting to see how we and our research are seen from the outside world and what kind of impact the outside world is expecting from us.
Therefore, do not take all the news in this section too much seriously!
Press News List
Space-Time Curvature Simulated On Microchip For First Time Ever
World’s First Quantum Metamaterial Unveiled
Material Gives Visible Light an Infinite Wavelength
The invisibility cloak: Science fact or fiction?
Photonics, ghosts, and orbs
Press News Julius Springer Award
Sir John Pendry has been awarded the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics 2013. The award has been presented on 18 October 2013 at the Magnus Haus of the German Physical Society in Berlin.
The VI Member Andrea Alù has been invited to give a talk at the world-class series of conferences TEDx. In this event, held in Austin this year, Andrea managed to bring metamaterials and invisibility concepts to a broad audience, linking together movies, literature, art and science. You can learn more about his presentation at TEDx website http://tedxaustin.com/speakers/andrea-alu/ and watch the video of the talk on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jseHPnqXlPY.
Andrea Alù at TEDxAustin 2013: FearLess On The Quest To Invisibility - Metamaterials and Cloaking
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Institutional and Personal Members may want to use this section of the Newsletters to highlight their own recent research achievements. A short abstract of the results and/or multimedia/graphic files can be sent to [email protected]. The same info will also be available on the Association website.
Student Paper Competition
1. F. Monticone, University of Texas at Austin, USA
2. D. Strickland, Southwest Research Institute, USA
3. F. Prudêncio, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Best paper award
1. S. Maslovski, et al. “Equivalent Circuit Approach for Radiative Heat Transfer Problems”
2. F. Rodríguez-Fortuño, et al. “Unidirectional Excitation of Guided Light using a Circularly Polarized”
3. T. Karamanos, et al. “First-Principles Parameter Retrieval of Complex Single-Negative Bulk Metamaterials”
Best poster award - IOP
O. Zhuromskyy, U. Peschel, “T-matrix Analysis of Dipole Waves on Chains of Dielectric Particles”
Best student poster award EPS
E. Ovchinnikova, et al. “Design and Experimental Study of Superconducting Left-Handed Transmission Lines with Tunable Dispersion”
Best student poster award IET
1. M.K. Hedayati, M. Elbahri, “Perfect Plasmonic Absorber for Visible Frequency”
2. M. Roig, et al. “Steerable Ka-Band Leaky Wave Antenna based on Liquid Crystal Material”
3. M.C. Guattari, et al. “Metamaterial Split-Ring Resonators for Retrieval of Soil Electromagnetic Properties”
Congress 2013 Awards
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Members’ Research
Members’ News
Institutional and Personal Members may want to use this section of the Newsletters to advertise open positions available at their institutions. A short statement about the position and the related website link can be sent to [email protected]. The same info will also be available on the Association website.
PostDoc position available at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
For our newly established “Photonics” group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology group we are looking for a well-educated, highly motivated, and committed PostDoc that wishes to significantly advance her/his scientific career in a stimulating and interesting environment. The candidate should have proven expertise and interest in the field of plasmonics and metamaterials and/or the development of suitable computational tools. More information can be obtained from Prof. Carsten Rockstuhl ([email protected]).
Open Positions
Event Calendar Institutional and Personal Members may want to use this section of the Newsletters to advertise the events they organize that are technically sponsored by METAMORPHOSE VI AISBL. Should you want to request the techncial sponsorship of the Association for your event (conference, workshop, seminar, school, etc.), please, send a message to [email protected].
2013
Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference – 11-12 November 2013 - Loughborough, UK.
2014
XXIV EUPROMETA School on “Metamaterials for microwave components and systems” – 24-27 March 2013 – Rome – Italy.
8th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics – Metamaterials 2014 – 25-30 August 2014 - Copenhagen, UK.
The new office in Rome consists of the following 5 people:
• Enrico Acciardi – Administration Manager
• Paolo Carbone – IT Administrator
• Davide Ramaccia – Secretary
• Mirko Barbuto and Alessio Monti – Secretarial office
The new Operational Office Staff at “Roma Tre” University
A young and very enthusiastic
group is happy to help and serve
the Association. Should you have
any need, please, contact them!
Newsletter contributors: Andrea Alù – University of Texas at Austin, Mirko Barbuto – “Roma Tre” University, Philippe Barois – University of Bordeaux, Filiberto Bilotti – “Roma Tre” University, Vincenzo Galdi – University of Sannio at Benevento, Alessio Monti – “Roma Tre” University, Davide Ramaccia – “Roma Tre” University, Carsten Rockstuhl –
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Social life at Metamaterials 2013
Should you have nice photos of the Congress 2013, please, send us and we will publish them on the METAMORPHOSE VI website. To send your pictures, use the following email address: [email protected].
Contacts: [email protected] for any general inquire; [email protected] for any inquire about event registration or membership fee payments; [email protected] for any inquire from the METAMORPHOSE VI Members.
Enrico Paolo Davide Mirko Alessio
