The Congress will address a wide area of research in artificial electromagnetic materials and surfaces and their applications from RF to optical frequencies. The conference topics encompassing theory, design, applications, fabrication and measurements include but are not limited to:

• Physics of complex electromagnetic materials
• Micro- and nano-fabrication of metamaterials
• Experimental techniques for characterization of metamaterials
• Analytical and numerical modelling of metamaterials
• Homogenization of metamaterials and effective medium models
• Three-dimensional metamaterials
• Planar metamaterial structures, meta-surfaces and meta-sheets
• Metamaterials for nanoelectronics and nanoantennas
• Carbon nanotubes and graphene in metamaterials
• Tunable, reconfigurable and nonlinear metamaterials
• Absorption-free metamaterials
• Chiral and bianisotropic composites
• Metamaterials with extreme parameters
• Quantum metamaterials
• Plasmonic metamaterials
• Extraordinary transmission
• EBG structures, photonic crystals, and their applications
• RF and microwave metamaterials: design, properties, and  applications
• Millimeter wave/THz metamaterials and applications
• Optical metamaterials and applications
• Acoustic metamaterials and applications
• Antenna and absorber applications of metamaterials
• Metamaterials as sensors
• Medical applications of metamaterials
• Superlenses, hyperlenses, other near-field imaging devices
• Transformational electromagnetics and optics
• Advances in cloaking
• Educational aspects of metamaterials