UA MSE Hosts Global Phononics Conference

Phononics 2019, one of the premiere international conferences in the field of phononics and acoustic metamaterials, is taking place on the University of Arizona campus June 3-7. Phononics, a rapidly growing field that first emerged in the late 1980s, is the study of phonons, a type of particle that carries sound and heat.

“The conference brings together pretty much the entire world’s community working in research on this topic,” said conference chair Pierre Deymier, who is also head of UA Department of Materials Science and Engineering. “We have a very strong research group in the field of phononics and acoustic metamaterials here in Tucson, and the UA is the leader of this conference and a leader in the field.”

The UA has also secured funding from the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research to fund fellowships to the conference for early-career scientists and underrepresented minorities.