IAS Executive Director and Senior Fellow Won First Brillouin Medal for Groundbreaking Research in Phononics

HKUST Physicists Prof. SHENG Ping (IAS Senior Fellow), Prof. CHAN Che-Ting (Executive Director of IAS) and Prof. Jason YANG were jointly awarded the inaugural Brillouin Medal by the International Phononics Society (IPS) for their discovery of locally resonant acoustic / elastic metamaterials and related contributions. Prof Sheng and Prof Chan attended the second International Conference on Phononic Crystals / Metamaterials, Phonon Transport & Optomechanics (Phononics 2013) held at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt in early June to receive the Medal and deliver the Award Lecture.