Confirmed invited speakers:
Franco Nori (RIKEN)
"Quantum Nonlinear
Optics without Photons, how to excite two or more atoms simultaneously
with a single photon, and other unusual properties of
ultra-strongly-coupled QED systems"
Jerome Faist (ETH Zurich)
"Engineeting vacuum fields with metamaterials: effects of non-locality and breaking time-reversal symmetry"
Ido Kaminer (Technion)
| "Strong
Coupling by Nonlocal Light–Matter Interactions" |
Päivi Törmä (Aalto University)
Polarization
textures, correlations and sub-picosecond thermalization of
Bose-Einstein condensates in strongly coupled plasmonic lattices"
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Mikhail Noginov (Norfolk State University)
| "Control
of Physical Phenomena with Nonlocal Metal-Dielectric Environments" |
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Wei Xiong (University of California in San Diego)
"Ultrafast
Dynamics and Interactions of Molecular Vibrational Polaritons"
Thomas Ebbesen (University of Strasbourg)
"Chemical and material properties under strong coupling" |
Jenny Clark (University of Sheffield)
"Triplet-triplet annihilation in films, crystals and microcavities"
Ruben Esteban (DIPC, San Sebastian)
"Bringing optomechanics to the molecular scale"
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Johannes Feist (University Autonoma de Madrid)
"Ultrafast molecular polaritonics in lossy plasmonic & hybrid cavities"
Matthew Pelton (University of Maryland)
| "Room-temperature
strong coupling between plasmons and single quantum dots" |
Stephane Kena-Cohen (Polytechnique de Montréal)
"Molecular
strong coupling and novel structures for manipulating light"
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Pavlos Lagoudakis (University of Southhampton)
"Polaritonic computing: a versatile platform for full logic and analogue simulation"
Christian Schneider (University of Würzburg)
| "Room
temperature Exciton-Polaritons and their Condensates in Optical Lattices" |
Jonathan Keeling (University of St Andrews)
| "Modelling
Organic polariton condensation: Mean-field and beyond" |
Jeremy Baumberg (Cambridge University)
"Picocavities: Plasmonic Forces at the Picoscale"
Koen Vandewal (Hasselt University)
| Organic
opto-electronics enhanced with weak and strong light-matter coupling" |
Christoph Lienau (University of Oldenburg)
| "Two-dimensional
electronic spectroscopy: A powerful tool for probing strong couplings in
molecular aggregates" |
Joel Yuen-Zhou (University California San Diego)
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"Vibropolaritonic chemistry through dark modes and polariton condensation"
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