Pl.1 (09:40 – 10:20)Chair: Olga Kocharovskaya (USA)
09:40 – 10:20 L Davidovich (Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering (IQSE) , Texas A&M University, College Station TX, USA; Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)Quantum Metrology for Open SystemsAbstract
Pl.2 (10:50 – 11:30)Chair: Olga Kocharovskaya (USA)
10:50 – 11:30 R W Boyd (University of Rochester, Rochester NY, USA; University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada)Metasurfaces and Metamaterials for Nonlinear PhotonicsAbstract
Tuesday, 7 July, 2026
Pl.3 (09:00 – 09:40)
09:00 – 09:40 L F DiMauro (Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus OH, USA)What Can We Learn from Attosecond Pulses?Abstract
Pl.4 (09:40 – 10:20)Chair: Jean Pierre von der Weid (Brazil)
09:40 – 10:20 N Davidson (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)Complex Bands and Topology with Coupled LasersAbstract
Pl.5 (10:50 – 11:30)Chair: Joachim von Zanthier (Germany)
10:50 – 11:30 F Schmidt-Kaler (QUANTUM, Institut für Physik, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany)Spin-Selective Coherent Light Scattering from Ion Crystals and Towards Scalable Quantum ComputingAbstract
Wednesday, 8 July, 2026
Pl.6 (09:00 – 09:40)Chair: Pavel Polynkin (USA)
09:00 – 09:40 L Bergé (Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA), University of Bordeaux, CEA, CNRS, Talence, France)Generation of Terahertz Pulses by Laser-Plasma Interactions: From Microjoule to Joule-Class EnergyAbstract
Pl.7 (09:40 – 10:20)Chair: Alexander Lvovsky (UK)
09:40 – 10:20 P McMahon (Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA)Optical Computing: Principles, Examples, and ProspectsAbstract
Pl.8 (10:50 – 11:30)Chair: Andrei Derevianko (USA)
10:50 – 11:30 R Elwell (University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, USA)Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus - 229mTh Nuclear Clock TransitionAbstract
09:00 – 09:40 I Kaminer (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)Where Does Quantum Optics Go Next?Abstract
Pl.10 (09:40 – 10:20)Chair: Marco Genovese (Italy)
09:40 – 10:20 J K Thompson (JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder CO, USA)Quantum Simulation and Sensing with Photon-Mediated InteractionsAbstract
Pl.11 (10:50 – 11:30)Chair: Zenghu Chang (Canada)
10:50 – 11:30 H Cao (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA)High-power Single-Frequency Multimode Fiber Laser AmplifiersAbstract
Friday, 10 July, 2026
Pl.12 (09:00 – 09:40)Chair: Jan Michael Rost (Germany)
09:00 – 09:40 T Brabec (Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada)Quantum Engineering of Strong Field PhysicsAbstract
Pl.13 (09:40 – 10:20)Chair: Xiaofei Shen (China)
09:40 – 10:20 B F Shen (Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China; ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China)Positron Acceleration with Transition Radiation Driven by Ultra Intense Laser at SULF and SELAbstract
Pl.14 (10:50 – 11:30)Chair: János Bergou (USA)
10:50 – 11:30 M Greiner (Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA), L Kendrick (MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA)Quantum Simulation of the Unknown: Observation of Pseudogap Physics and Stripes in the Fermi–Hubbard ModelAbstract