Scientific Seminars
S1 — Modern Trends in Laser Physics
Our Seminar 1 is the only one in the frame of our workshop which is not focused on one particular research area but covers a broad range of modern trends in the field of light-matter interactions in accordance with its title, "Modern trends in laser physics".
Show ProgrammeS2 — Strong Field & Attosecond Physics
Reinhard Kienberger
Technische Universität München, Garching, Bavaria, Germany
Seminar 2 has mapped the development of strong-field physics from a small area of interest only to a handful of specialists to its current outstanding significance almost from the beginning. Contributions to theory as well as the numerous applications that have emerged are welcome, including also free-electron lasers, precision measurement, terahertz physics, etc.
Show ProgrammeS4 — Physics and Applications of Nanolasers
Stephan Reitzenstein
Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Seminar 4 centers on the physics of micro- and nanolasers, semiconductor-based devices and novel 2D materials for lasing. Integrated Si-based platforms belong to its scope, as well as topological lasers, quantum effects at the micro-nanoscale, emergence of coherence and photon/polariton condensation, and novel applications such as laser-based neuromorphic computing.
Show ProgrammeS5 — Nonlinear Optics & Spectroscopy
Seminar 5 covers recent trends, novel applications, and theoretical and experimental developments in the fields of nonlinear optics and spectroscopy. Specific topics of interest include intense laser-matters interactions and associated phenomena, short-pulse laser filamentation and self-action effects, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), frequency-comb spectroscopy, chemometrics, laser-generated plasmas, and novel optical sources, nonlinear materials, structures, and interactions.
Show ProgrammeS6 — Physics of Cold Trapped Atoms and Ions
Vanderlei S. Bagnato
University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
The topics of Seminar 6 are: Cooling and trapping of atoms, Bose-Einstein condensation, degenerate Fermi gas, Bose-Bose, Fermi-Fermi, and Bose-Fermi mixtures, optical lattices, dipolar and spinor atoms, quantum and thermal effects of trapped atoms, superfluid hydrodynamics, spin-orbit interaction, droplets in mixtures, quantum turbulence, vortex turbulence, granulation, wave turbulence, coherent topological modes, generation of nonequilibrium condensates, etc.
Show ProgrammeS7 — Quantum Information Science
Seminar 7 concerns the application of quantum optics to develop quantum technologies, such as quantum information (including quantum communication and computation), quantum metrology, quantum imaging and quantum sensing. Contributions that deepen our fundamental understanding of foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum information are also included.
Show ProgrammeS8 — Fiber Optics
Miguel Ángel Bello-Jiménez
Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
Research, development, and applications of fiber optics, including techniques and measurement; devices and sensors; and the design and engineering of fiber lasers.
Show ProgrammeS9 — Extreme Light Technologies, Science, and Applications
Our seminar aims at covering the theoretical and experimental advances related to high-field physics, the extreme existing multi-petawatt and prospected light facilities and associated applications. This includes topics like the study of extreme laser acceleration, quantum radiative reaction, pair production and spin dynamics, as well as laboratory astrophysics and the search for new physics with ultrastrong laser pulses and state-of-the-art high-energy leptons beams.
Show ProgrammeS10 — Quantum Engineering and Biophotonics
Seminar 10 deals with applications of quantum information science. The specific focus is on quantum sensing and imaging for studies of complex biological systems.
Show ProgrammeS11 — Metasurfaces and Metamaterials
Ebrahim Karimi
Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Metasurfaces are arrays of subwavelength anisotropic light scatters (optical antennas) that can produce abrupt changes in the phase, amplitude, or polarization of light. Within last few years significant progress, design of metasurfaces that refract and focus light, enabling many unique properties and applications such as ultrathin focusing lens, advanced imaging system, holograms, optical vortex generation/detection, perfect absorber/color filter, etc.
This seminar will cover the fundamental principles and technological applications of metasurfaces, and particularly aim to explore on new structures, materials, and advanced optical science/functionality of metasurfaces for applications spanning from imaging system, laser development, bio/chemical sensing, energy harvesting devices, quantum/communication system, and data storage.
S12 — Optical Computing and Neural Networks
Optical analogue computing methods, including optical neural networks for artificial intelligence and combinatorial optimization.
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