Program

  • Please note that the program is subject to change, and will be updated continuously up to the conference.
  • Please make sure to keep your talks up to 20 minutes.

 

Sunday 10/02/2019
11:30Arrival to Ein-Gedi
11:30-12:00Opening Ceremony
Special opening session. Chair: Moti Segev
12:00-12:30Claude Cohen- Tannoudji:
Ultracold atoms. A model system for new investigations
12:30-13:30Lunch Break
Nanophotonics I. Chair: Vlad Shalaev
13:30-13:55Nikolay Zheludev:
“Plasmonics” in free space
14:00-14:25Hanan Sheinfux:
Multi-pronged tips for advanced near-field microscopy
14:30-14:55Justus Ndukaife:
New Frontiers for Nanomanipulation with Resonant Plasmonic Nanoantennas
15:00-15:25Uriel Levy:
Nanophotonics and hot vapors - the perfect marriage
15:25-15:45Coffee Break
Quantum optics I. Chair: Karl Ziemelis
15:45-16:10Misha Lukin:
Exploring new frontiers of quantum optical science
16:15-16:40Barak Dayan:
Photon-Atom Two-Qubit Gates
16:45-17:10David Gershoni:
The Quantum Knitting Machine - On Demand Generation of Entangled Photons in Cluster states
17:10-17:30Coffee Break
Non-hermitian Photonics. Chair: Demetri Christodoulides
17:30-17:55Nimrod Moiseyev:
Non hermitian singularities as physical objects
18:00-18:25Kostas Makris:
Extreme dynamics and wave control in Non-Hermitian Photonics
18:30-18:55Ziad Musslimani:
Integrable nonlocal PT symmetric models and their physical properties
19:30Dinner
20:30Get Together
Monday 11/02/2019
Monday opening session. Chair: Vlad Shalaev
08:45-09:25Michael Berry:
Optical nonconservative forces, work, local
wavevector, geometric phase and helicity, using electric-magnetic democracy
Quantum matter theory. Chair:
09:30-09:55Boris Shapiro:
Few examples of Floquet engineering
10:00-10:25Netanel Lindner:
Anomalous Floquet Insulators
10:30-10:55Raam Uzdin:
High-resolution thermodynamics in quantum matter and classical light
10:55-11:15Coffee Break
Nonlinear Optics. Chair: Alexander Popov
11:15-11:40Sergei Turytsin:
Nonlinear Fourier transform in photonics
11:45-12:10Zhigang Chen:
Soliton never dies - only replaced by other
12:15-12:40Sharon Shwarts:
Nonlinear spectroscopy with x-rays
12:45-13:10Eugenio Delre:
Linear and nonlinear effects in ferroelectric super-crystals: from broadband
white-light giant refraction to wavelength-insensitive second-harmonic generation
13:10-14:30Lunch Break
Light and Matter. Chair: Jacob Khurgin
14:30-14:55Ady Arie:
Wave-packets in linear potential and the
measurement of the Kennard cubic phase
15:00-15:25Ido Kaminer:
Dungeons, Dragons & Quantum Electrodynamics
15:30-15:55Tal Schwarts:
Molecules in a Quantum-Optical Flask
16:00-16:25Olga Smirnova:
Locally and globally chiral fields for ultimate control of
chiral light matter interaction
16:25-16:45Coffee Break
Machine learning in Photonics. Chair: Guy Bartal
16:45-17:10Giorgos Tsironis:
Searching for chimeras with machine learning
17:15-17:40Wenshan Cai:
Accelerate and Automate Metamaterial Design via Machine Learning
17:45-18:10Yoav Shechtman:
Deep learning for
uper-resolution microscopy
19:30-20:30Dinner
20:30-22:00Special After-Dinner Lecture - Aharon Ciechanover:
The revolution of personalized medicine: Are we going to cure all diseases
and at what price
Tuesday 12/02/2019
08:00-10:30Excursion to Nahal David
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
Photonic technology I. Chair: Alexandra Boltasseva
11:00-11:40Amnon Yariv:
Quantum control of noise and electron /photon dynamics in a
new generation of semiconductor lasers
11:45-12:10Kerry Vahala:
Integrated Optical Clocks &
Synthesizers from Ultra-High-Q Micro Cavities
12:15-12:40Gadi Eisenstein:
Are quantum dot
laser and amplifiers finally reaching the promised land ?
12:45-13:10Jacob Khurgin:
Finding a proper place for photons in a world full of fermions -where photonics
is indispensable and where it’s just for embellishment
13:10-14:30Lunch Break
Metamaterials and Metasurfaces. Chair: TBD
14:30-14:55Nader Engheta:
Metamaterial Machines
15:00-15:25Mark Brongersma:
Plasmonic, Mietronic
and excitonic metasurfaces
15:30-15:55Erez Hasman:
Topologically controlled
multifunctional metasurfaces
16:00-16:25Xingjie Ni:
Dynamic and Active Metasurfaces
16:30-16:50Coffee Break
Topological Photonics. Chair: Netanel Lindner
16:50-17:15Mik Rechtsman:
Optical Weyl Points and Protected Defect Modes
17:20-17:45Zubin Jacob:
Maxwellian phases of matter
17:50-18:15 Tsampikos Kottos:
Reflective Photonic Limiters
18:20-18:45Alex Szamait:
Non-hermitian topological photonics
19:30-20:30Dinner
20:30-22:00Poster + Beer
Wednesday 13/02/2019
Quantum Optics II. Chair: Moti Segev
08:45-09:25Alain Aspect:
Landmarks in Quantum Optics revisited: from photons to atoms: Everything you always wanted
to know about Hanbury Brown and Twiss, Hong Ou and Mandel, Bell, but were afraid to ask
09:30-09:55Andrea Blanco Redondo:
Topological protection of photonic quantum states
10:00-10:25Rivka Beckenstein:
Quantum Metasurfaces
10:30-10:55Maciej Lewenstein:
Novel concepts of photonics at the Quantum Optics Group at ICFO
10:55-11:15Coffee Break
Exotic lasers and devices. Chair: Demetrios Christodoulides
11:15-11:55Steve Forrest:
Strong Coupling in Organic Semiconductors and Applications to Lasers and Other Phenomena
12:00-12:25Miguel Bandres:
Topological photonics
12:30-12:55Carmel Rotschild:
Luminescent Solar Power
13:00-13:25Tal Carmon:
Moving-photonics Isolators and Water-wave lasers
13:30-14:30Lunch Break
14:30-14:50Group photo
Atomic and Molecular. Chair: Maceij Lewenstein
14:55-15:20Hrvoje Buljan:
Engineering anyons
15:25-15:50Yoav Sagi:
Shortcuts to adiabaticity and quantum speed limits in
optical transfer of ultracold atoms
15:55-16:20Georgios Siviloglou:
From optical Airy beams to quantum gases of strontium
16:25-16:50Ed Narevicius:
Cold molecules
16:50-17:10Coffee Break
Special Birthday Session
17:15-17:45Moti Segev
17:50-18:20Vladimir M. Shalaev
18:25-18:55Demetrios Christodoulides
20:00Gala Dinner
Thursday 14/02/2019
Shaping light. Chair: Lluis Torner
8:45-09:25Mathias Fink:
Wave Control and Antenna Radiation Mechanism in “Time Materials”
09:30-09:55
Alexander Popov:
Shaping Light with the
Backward-Wave Nonlinear Hyperbolic Metamaterial
10:00-10:25
Nikos Efremidis:
Precise control of the amplitude, the beam-width, and the trajectory of optical beams
10:30-10:55Coffee Break
Photonic technology II. Chair: TBD
11:00-11:25
Alexandra Boltasseva:
Tailoring nanophotonic devices: From materials engineering
to design optimization
11:30-11:55
Boris Chichkov:
Laser printing of nanoparticles and living cells
12:00-12:25
Roberto Morandotti:
integrated quantum frequency combs
12:30-12:55
Detlef Kip:
Precision-diced ridge waveguides in
LiNbO3 for efficient amplifiers, lasers and frequency conversion
13:00-14:25
Lunch Break
Ultrafast Optics. Chair: Olga Smirnova
14:30-14:55
Misha Ivanov:
High harmonic spectroscopy of phase transitions in strongly correlated and topological solids'
15:00-15:25
Mark Stockman:
Ultrafast Topological Nanooptics
15:30-15:55
Nirit Dudovich:
Attosecond Interferometry
16:00-16:25
Oren Cohen:
Selection rules in generation of high harmonics
16:30-16:50Coffee Break
Nanophotonics II. Chair: Mark Brongersma
16:55-17:20
Evgenii Narimanov:
Ghost Waves in Anisotropic Materials: negative refractive index and evanescent
field enhancement in lossless media
17:25-17:50
Sergey Bozhevolnyi:
Nonradiating oscillating currents
17:55-18:20
Boris Luk'yanchuk:
Super-resonances in microsphere:
extreme effects in field localization
and optical super-resolution
18:25-18:50
Guy Bartal:
Optical Skyrmions - A new texture of light
19:00-20:30Dinner
20:30-22:00Moon Walking Tour
Friday 15/02/2019
09:00Check out until 09:00
09:30Departure