LPHYS'26.    Program:

Plenary Session

Schedule:

  1. Monday, 6 July, 2026
  2. Pl.1 (09:40 – 10:20)Chair: Olga Kocharovskaya (USA)
    1. 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 Systems Abstract 
  3. Pl.2 (10:50 – 11:30) Chair: Olga Kocharovskaya (USA)
    1. 10:50 – 11:30 R W Boyd (University of Rochester, Rochester NY, USA; University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada)Metasurfaces and Metamaterials for Nonlinear Photonics Abstract 
  4. Tuesday, 7 July, 2026
  5. Pl.3 (09:00 – 09:40)
    1. 09:00 – 09:40 L F DiMauro (Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus OH, USA)What Can We Learn from Attosecond Pulses? Abstract 
  6. Pl.4 (09:40 – 10:20) Chair: Jean Pierre von der Weid (Brazil)
    1. 09:40 – 10:20 N Davidson (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)Complex Bands and Topology with Coupled Lasers Abstract 
  7. Pl.5 (10:50 – 11:30) Chair: Joachim von Zanthier (Germany)
    1. 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 Computing Abstract 
  8. Wednesday, 8 July, 2026
  9. Pl.6 (09:00 – 09:40)Chair: Pavel Polynkin (USA)
    1. 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 Energy Abstract 
  10. Pl.7 (09:40 – 10:20) Chair: Alexander Lvovsky (UK)
    1. 09:40 – 10:20 P McMahon (Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA)Optical Computing: Principles, Examples, and Prospects Abstract 
  11. Pl.8 (10:50 – 11:30) Chair: Andrei Derevianko (USA)
    1. 10:50 – 11:30 R Elwell (University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, USA)Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus - 229mTh Nuclear Clock Transition Abstract 
  12. Thursday, 9 July, 2026
  13. Pl.9 (09:00 – 09:40)Chair: Ebrahim Karimi (Canada)
    1. 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 
  14. Pl.10 (09:40 – 10:20) Chair: Marco Genovese (Italy)
    1. 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 Interactions Abstract 
  15. Pl.11 (10:50 – 11:30) Chair: Zenghu Chang (Canada)
    1. 10:50 – 11:30 H Cao (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA)High-power Single-Frequency Multimode Fiber Laser Amplifiers Abstract 
  16. Friday, 10 July, 2026
  17. Pl.12 (09:00 – 09:40)Chair: Jan Michael Rost (Germany)
    1. 09:00 – 09:40 T Brabec (Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada)Quantum Engineering of Strong Field Physics Abstract 
  18. Pl.13 (09:40 – 10:20) Chair: Xiaofei Shen (China)
    1. 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 SEL Abstract 
  19. Pl.14 (10:50 – 11:30) Chair: János Bergou (USA)
    1. 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 Model Abstract