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META-MEETING MEMOCS 2025
Methods in Metamaterials design: mathematical modelling, numerical techniques, experiments

30 March- 4 April 2025 –  Arpino, Italy

This meeting is intended to collect a selected group of scientists who are dedicating their efforts to the design of novel metamaterials or are developing methods useful to this aim.

Scientific Purpose
Metamaterial design is a novel branch of Mechanics, which show that this discipline is still capable of providing innovation and advances in fundamental science and technology. Albeit Mechanics has been the first mathematised theory in history of science, having its roots in the fundamental work of the Hellenistic school started by, among the others, Archytas of Tarentum, Archimedes and Hipparchus, many have believed that it had exhausted its “propulsive push” in contributing to the progress of exact sciences. Instead, the need of designing “exotic” materials whose properties are chosen “a priori” by the designer, tayloring them for specific purposes, has proven that Theoretical Mechanics can still push ahead the boundaries of knowledge. As theory is indissolubly connected with experiments, and as no prediction is possible without the conjoint use of analytical and numerical methods in the forum which MEMOCS intends to establish the necessary attention will be paid to the development of 3D printing techniques, which make possible the construction of the most complicated micro-architectures for metamaterials, to the experimental techniques needed to support an verify theoretical models, including the most modern DIC and DVC methods, and to the most advanced numerical methods, which include the more modern “non-local” and non-linear integration schemes.

The MEMOCS scientific committee, in order to assure the highest efficacy of the scientific exchange, has selected the participants based on their belonging to a community sharing the scientific language, the epistemological vision and the scientific objectives. In order to render a true scientific exchange possible NO MORE THAN 40/50 participants will be invited, so that in the chosen period it will be possible to have a sound discussion and the presentation slots will have a reasonable duration.