- 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 | |
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11:30 | Arrival to Ein-Gedi |
11:30-12:00 | Opening Ceremony |
Special opening session. Chair: Moti Segev | |
12:00-12:30 | Claude Cohen- Tannoudji: Ultracold atoms. A model system for new investigations |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break |
Nanophotonics I. Chair: Vlad Shalaev | |
13:30-13:55 | Nikolay Zheludev: “Plasmonics” in free space |
14:00-14:25 | Hanan Sheinfux: Multi-pronged tips for advanced near-field microscopy |
14:30-14:55 | Justus Ndukaife: New Frontiers for Nanomanipulation with Resonant Plasmonic Nanoantennas |
15:00-15:25 | Uriel Levy: Nanophotonics and hot vapors - the perfect marriage |
15:25-15:45 | Coffee Break |
Quantum optics I. Chair: Karl Ziemelis | |
15:45-16:10 | Misha Lukin: Exploring new frontiers of quantum optical science |
16:15-16:40 | Barak Dayan: Photon-Atom Two-Qubit Gates |
16:45-17:10 | David Gershoni: The Quantum Knitting Machine - On Demand Generation of Entangled Photons in Cluster states |
17:10-17:30 | Coffee Break |
Non-hermitian Photonics. Chair: Demetri Christodoulides | |
17:30-17:55 | Nimrod Moiseyev: Non hermitian singularities as physical objects |
18:00-18:25 | Kostas Makris: Extreme dynamics and wave control in Non-Hermitian Photonics |
18:30-18:55 | Ziad Musslimani: Integrable nonlocal PT symmetric models and their physical properties |
19:30 | Dinner |
20:30 | Get Together |
Monday 11/02/2019 | |
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Monday opening session. Chair: Vlad Shalaev | |
08:45-09:25 | Michael Berry: Optical nonconservative forces, work, local wavevector, geometric phase and helicity, using electric-magnetic democracy |
Quantum matter theory. Chair: | |
09:30-09:55 | Boris Shapiro: Few examples of Floquet engineering |
10:00-10:25 | Netanel Lindner: Anomalous Floquet Insulators |
10:30-10:55 | Raam Uzdin: High-resolution thermodynamics in quantum matter and classical light |
10:55-11:15 | Coffee Break |
Nonlinear Optics. Chair: Alexander Popov | |
11:15-11:40 | Sergei Turytsin: Nonlinear Fourier transform in photonics |
11:45-12:10 | Zhigang Chen: Soliton never dies - only replaced by other |
12:15-12:40 | Sharon Shwarts: Nonlinear spectroscopy with x-rays |
12:45-13:10 | Eugenio Delre: Linear and nonlinear effects in ferroelectric super-crystals: from broadband white-light giant refraction to wavelength-insensitive second-harmonic generation |
13:10-14:30 | Lunch Break |
Light and Matter. Chair: Jacob Khurgin | |
14:30-14:55 | Ady Arie: Wave-packets in linear potential and the measurement of the Kennard cubic phase |
15:00-15:25 | Ido Kaminer: Dungeons, Dragons & Quantum Electrodynamics |
15:30-15:55 | Tal Schwarts: Molecules in a Quantum-Optical Flask |
16:00-16:25 | Olga Smirnova: Locally and globally chiral fields for ultimate control of chiral light matter interaction |
16:25-16:45 | Coffee Break |
Machine learning in Photonics. Chair: Guy Bartal | |
16:45-17:10 | Giorgos Tsironis: Searching for chimeras with machine learning |
17:15-17:40 | Wenshan Cai: Accelerate and Automate Metamaterial Design via Machine Learning |
17:45-18:10 | Yoav Shechtman: Deep learning for uper-resolution microscopy |
19:30-20:30 | Dinner |
20:30-22:00 | Special 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 | |
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08:00-10:30 | Excursion to Nahal David |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
Photonic technology I. Chair: Alexandra Boltasseva | |
11:00-11:40 | Amnon Yariv: Quantum control of noise and electron /photon dynamics in a new generation of semiconductor lasers |
11:45-12:10 | Kerry Vahala: Integrated Optical Clocks & Synthesizers from Ultra-High-Q Micro Cavities |
12:15-12:40 | Gadi Eisenstein: Are quantum dot laser and amplifiers finally reaching the promised land ? |
12:45-13:10 | Jacob Khurgin: Finding a proper place for photons in a world full of fermions -where photonics is indispensable and where it’s just for embellishment |
13:10-14:30 | Lunch Break |
Metamaterials and Metasurfaces. Chair: TBD | |
14:30-14:55 | Nader Engheta: Metamaterial Machines |
15:00-15:25 | Mark Brongersma: Plasmonic, Mietronic and excitonic metasurfaces |
15:30-15:55 | Erez Hasman: Topologically controlled multifunctional metasurfaces |
16:00-16:25 | Xingjie Ni: Dynamic and Active Metasurfaces |
16:30-16:50 | Coffee Break |
Topological Photonics. Chair: Netanel Lindner | |
16:50-17:15 | Mik Rechtsman: Optical Weyl Points and Protected Defect Modes |
17:20-17:45 | Zubin Jacob: Maxwellian phases of matter |
17:50-18:15 | Tsampikos Kottos: Reflective Photonic Limiters |
18:20-18:45 | Alex Szamait: Non-hermitian topological photonics |
19:30-20:30 | Dinner |
20:30-22:00 | Poster + Beer |
Wednesday 13/02/2019 | |
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Quantum Optics II. Chair: Moti Segev | |
08:45-09:25 | Alain 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 |
09:30-09:55 | Andrea Blanco Redondo: Topological protection of photonic quantum states |
10:00-10:25 | Rivka Beckenstein: Quantum Metasurfaces |
10:30-10:55 | Maciej Lewenstein: Novel concepts of photonics at the Quantum Optics Group at ICFO |
10:55-11:15 | Coffee Break |
Exotic lasers and devices. Chair: Demetrios Christodoulides | |
11:15-11:55 | Steve Forrest: Strong Coupling in Organic Semiconductors and Applications to Lasers and Other Phenomena |
12:00-12:25 | Miguel Bandres: Topological photonics |
12:30-12:55 | Carmel Rotschild: Luminescent Solar Power |
13:00-13:25 | Tal Carmon: Moving-photonics Isolators and Water-wave lasers |
13:30-14:30 | Lunch Break |
14:30-14:50 | Group photo |
Atomic and Molecular. Chair: Maceij Lewenstein | |
14:55-15:20 | Hrvoje Buljan: Engineering anyons |
15:25-15:50 | Yoav Sagi: Shortcuts to adiabaticity and quantum speed limits in optical transfer of ultracold atoms |
15:55-16:20 | Georgios Siviloglou: From optical Airy beams to quantum gases of strontium |
16:25-16:50 | Ed Narevicius: Cold molecules |
16:50-17:10 | Coffee Break |
Special Birthday Session | |
17:15-17:45 | Moti Segev |
17:50-18:20 | Vladimir M. Shalaev |
18:25-18:55 | Demetrios Christodoulides |
20:00 | Gala Dinner |
Thursday 14/02/2019 | |
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Shaping light. Chair: Lluis Torner | |
8:45-09:25 | Mathias 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 |
10:30-10:55 | Coffee 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 |
16:30-16:50 | Coffee 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 |
19:00-20:30 | Dinner |
20:30-22:00 | Moon Walking Tour |
Friday 15/02/2019 | |
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09:00 | Check out until 09:00 |
09:30 | Departure |