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Invited and Keynote talks:

  1. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Sep.24, 2020, Boston, USA.

  2. Department of Ocean Engineering,  University of Rhode Island, Feb. 27, 2020, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA.

  3. Keynote: 7th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM) , Dec. 18-21, 2019, Taipei, Taiwan.

  4. Department of Aerospace Engineering,  University of Michigan, Feb. 6, 2019, Ann Arbor, Michigan , USA.

  5. Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Jan. 30, 2019, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
  6. School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy, Arizona State University, Jan 25, 2019, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
  7. Dep. of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science,  University of Pittsburg, Jan 7, 2019, Pittsburgh, Penn., USA.
  8. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Dec. 14, 2018, Storrs, Connecticut, USA.
  9. Department of Material Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, July 31, 2018, College Station, Texas, USA.

  10. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University, Feb 26, 2018, New York, USA.


Conference Presentations: (abstracts / extended abstracts)​​

  1. Bilal O. R., Foehr A. Huber S. and C. Daraio, Spiraling Metamaterials: From Wave beaming to Topological Insulation, Phononics2019: 5th International Conference on Phononic Crystals/Metamaterials, Phonon Transport, Topological Phononics,  June 3-7 June, 2019, Tuscan, Arizona, USA.

  2. Bilal O. R., Foehr A. and C. Daraio, Reprogrammable phononic metamaterial, International Congress on Ultrasonics, Dec 18 – 20, 2017,  Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

  3. Bilal O. R., Foehr A. and C. Daraio, Reprogrammable phononic metamaterial, International Conference on Advances in Functional Materials, Aug 14-17, 2017, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.

  4. Bilal O. R., Foehr A. and C. Daraio, Reprogrammable nonlinear phononic metamaterials, WAVES 2017: 13th International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation, May 15-19, 2017, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA.

  5. Bilal O. R.,  Süsstrunk R., Daraio C., and Huber S.D.,  Intrinsically polar elastic metamaterials, American Physical Society March Meeting, March 13-17, 2017. New Orleans, LA, USA.

  6.  Foehr A.,​ Bilal O. R. and C. Daraio, Spiral-based metamaterials: from local resonance to inertial amplification and Bragg scattering, American Physical Society March Meeting, March 13-17, 2017. New Orleans, LA, USA.
  7. Bauhofer A., Krödel S., Bilal O. R., Daraio C and Constantinescu A., Direct Laser Writing of Single-Material Sheets with Programmable Self-Rolling Capability, American Physical Society, Mar 13-17, 2017. New Orleans, LA, USA.
  8. Bilal O. R., ​Reprogrammable Metamaterials to Dynamically Direct Stress Waves, James K. Knowles Lectures
    and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium, February, 13th, 2017, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA.

  9. Bilal O. R., Foehr A. and C. Daraio, Harnessing geometric and magnetic nonlinearities for acoustic switching and logic, 53rd Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES), 2-5 October 2016, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA.

  10. Bilal O. R., Foehr A. and C. Daraio, Observation of trampoline effects in locally-resonant and inertially-amplified meta-plates, 53rd Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES), 2-5 October 2016, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA.

  11. Bilal O. R., Foehr A. and C. Daraio, Phononic transistors and Mechanical Calculators, International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, August 21 to 26, 2016, Montreal, Canada.

  12. Bilal O. R.,  Foehr A. and C. Daraio, Harnessing geometric and magnetic nonlinearities in phononic meta-plates, American Physical Society March Meeting, March 14-18, 2016, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

  13. Bilal O. R.,  Foehr A., J. Cha and Daraio C., Effects of elasto-capillarity on periodic films folding and unfolding, American Physical Society March Meeting, 14-18 March, 2016, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  14. Hussein MI, Biringen S.,  Bilal O. R.  and Kucala A., Phononic subsurface: Flow stabilization by crystals, American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting, November 22 to 24, 2015, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

  15. Hussein MI, Biringen S.,  Bilal O. R.  and Kucala A., Flow Control by Subsurface phonons, Proceedings of 2015 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R & D Expo 13 to 19 November 2015, Houston, Texas, USA.

  16. Bilal O. R., Phononic Subsurfaces: A New Methodology for Flow Control, Mechanics of Materials Seminar, Mechanical and process engineering Department, 29 September, 2015, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

  17. Bilal O. R., Towards overcoming metamaterial Limitations, Dynamics Seminar, Mechanical and process engineering Department, 7 September, 2015, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

  18. Bilal O. R., Kucala A., S. and Biringen Hussein MI, Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Channel Flow Instability Control using Phononic Crystals, Phononics2015: 3rd International Conference on Phononic Crystals, Metamaterials and Opto-Mechanics, 31 May- 5 June, 2015, Paris, France.

  19. Golobic M.,  Bilal O. R.  and Hussein MI, Local Analysis of the resonator in Elastic metamaterial Phononics2015: 3rd International Conference on Phononic Crystals, Metamaterials and Opto-Mechanics, 31 May- 5 June, 2015, Paris, France. 

  20. Frandsen NNM,  Bilal O. R., Jensen JS and Hussein MI, band gaps of Continuous Elastic Structures by Inertial Amplification, Phononics2015: 3rd International Conference on Phononic Crystals, Metamaterials and Opto-Mechanics, 31 May- 5 June, 2015, Paris, France. 

  21. Hussein MI, Biringen S.,  Bilal O. R.  and Kucala A., Flow Control by Subsurface phonon Phononics2015: 3rd International Conference on Phononic Crystals, Metamaterials and Opto-Mechanics, 31 May- 5 June, 2015, Paris, France.

  22. Biringen, S., Hussein, MI, Kucala, A. and  Bilal, O. R., Simulation of transitional flows and their control by phononic subsurfaces,  Keynote Address , 8th International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer, 25-28 May 2015, Istanbul, Turkey.

  23. Hussein, MI, Biringen, S.,  Bilal, O. R.  and Kucala, A. Reducing flow drag by crystals,  Invited Talk , 2015 Smead 
    Symposium, 15-16 May, 2015, Vail, Colorado, USA.

  24. Hussein, MI, Honarvar, H., Krattiger, D., and Bilal, O. R., "Nanophononic metamaterial: Slowing down thermal transport by mechanical vibrations," Proceedings of 2014 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R & D Expo 14 to 20 November 2014 , Montreal, Canada.

  25. Bilal O. R., "PhoNonic material: The Mystery of Missing Frequencies and Their Applications", CU Graduate STEMinar, 18 September 2014, Boulder, CO, USA.

  26. Bilal O. R.  and Hussein MI, "Trampoline metamaterial: Local Resonance Enhancement by Springboards" Phononics 2013: 2nd International Conference on Phononic Crystals, Metamaterials and Opto Mechanics, 2-6 June, 2013, Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt.

  27. Guo Q.,  Bilal O. R., Hull RC and Hussein MI, "Ultrafast ribbon Structure Calculation for Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials," PECS X: 10th International Symposium on Photonic and Electromagnetic Crystal Structures, 3-8 June, 2012 Santa Fe, NM, USA .

  28. Bilal O. R., El-Beltagy MA and MI Hussein, "On the Properties of Optimal Low-Symmetry Photonic Crystals," PECS X: 10th International Symposium on Photonic and Electromagnetic Crystal Structures, 3-8 June, 2012 Santa Fe, NM, USA. (Poster)

  29. Bilal, O. R., El-Beltagy, MA and Hussein, MI, "Genetically evolved photonic crystals: Breaking the world record in band gap size," Invited Talk, The Egyptian Materials Research Society Workshop on Photonic Crystals and Graphene, 3-6 October, 2011, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

  30. Guo Q.,  Bilal O. R.  and Hussein MI, "Convergence of the Reduced Bloch Mode Expansion Method for Electronic Structure Calculations band," Phononics, 2011: 1st International Conference on Phononic Crystals, Metamaterials and Opto Mechanics, 29 May -2 June, 2011 Santa Fe , NM, USA. (Poster)

  31. Bilal O. R.  and Hussein MI, "Phononic ribbon Gap Optimization for combined in-plane and out-of-Plane Waves," Phononics, 2011: 1st Int. , Conference on Phononic Crystals, Metamaterials and Optomechanics, 29 May- 2 June 2011 Santa Fe, NM, USA. (Poster)

  32. Bilal O. R., El-Beltagy MA and MI Hussein, Effect of Symmetry on Optimal Photonic Crystals Design, META10, 2nd International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and plasmonics, 22-25 February 2010 Cairo, Egypt. (Poster)