Workshop information
Vladimir Shalaev
Purdue University (USA)
Federico Capasso
Harvard University (USA)
Miriam Serena Vitiello
NEST, CNR-NANO and Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy)
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Light-matter interaction at the nanoscale
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Nano-structured materials
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Graphene and other 2D materials
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Mid-infrared and Terahertz nano photonics
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Near field optics and scanning probe microscopy
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Plasmonics with semiconductors and other materials
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Metasurfaces and Flat optics
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Polariton optics
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Structured light and Singular optics
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Topological photonics
Abstract Template
Abstract submission deadline:
May 15th, 2022
Please send in pdf form to:
miriam.vitiello@sns.it
Travel Form
Travel form submission deadline:
no later than May 31, 2022
to be returned to:
miriam.vitiello@sns.it
Program at a glance
Arrival & Registration
Welcome dinner
Networking and Scientific discussion
sicilian cakes, marsala and piano music in the “Marsala Room Cave”
Arrival and Registration
Lunch
SESSION I
Chair: Vladimir Shalaev (Purdue University)
Giorgio Benedek, Federico Capasso, Vladimir Shalaev and Miriam S. Vitiello
Opening remarks
Boubacar Kante (University of California, Berkeley, USA) invited
“Topological Lasers and Berkeley Surface Emitting Lasers (BerkSELs)”
Coffee Break
SESSION II
Chair: Federico Capasso (Harvard University, USA)
David B. Phillips (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter) invited
“Rendering the opaque transparent: recovering spatial information hidden in scattered light”
Jaming Ma (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
“Plasmonic Au Decoration on TiO2 Nanostructures for Solar Powered Redox Cells”
Tarique Anwar (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
“Hydrovoltaic energy generator using Nanostructured silicon and natural evaporation”
Andrea Tognazzi (University of Palermo and CNR-INO, Brescia)
“Tuning of nonlinear device through opto-thermal response”
Riccardo Panico (University of Lecce and CNR-NANOTECH, Italy)
“Onset of vortex clustering and inverse energy cascade in dissipative quantum fluids”
Dinner
From 21:30: Sicilian cakes, marsala piano music in the “Marsala Room Cave”
SESSION III
Chair: Miriam S. Vitiello (CNR-NANO, Italy)
Vladimir Shalaev (Purdue University,) invited
“Hybrid Quantum Photonics”
Ahmed Dorrah (Harvard University)
“Diffraction-free structured light for 3D holography”
coffe break
Evelyn Hu (Harvard University USA) invited
“Where Imperfections Lead to Opportunities: Semiconductor “Defects” as Nano-Photonic Emitters”
Helmut Ritsch (University of Innsbruck)
“Minimalistic efficient quantum devices build of dipole coupled nano arrays of quantum emitters”
Adeel Afridi (ETH and ICFO)
“Optomechanically Reconfigurable Metalens”
Hana Hampel (University of Gratz, Austria)
“New innovative approach for XUV focusing: Extreme Ultraviolet Metasurfaces”
lunch break and Free Time
SESSION IV
Chair: Boubacar Kante (University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Cornelia Denz (University of Muenster, Germany) invited
“Structuring topologies in light: from singularities to skyrmionic Hopfions”
Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
“Topological Trapped-Rainbow and Nonreciprocal Guides Beyond the Time-Bandwidth Limit”
Christina M. Spaegele (Harvard University)
“Topological protection of polarization singularities in four dimensions”
Michael de Oliveira (IIT Milan, Italy)
“Pure vortex beams from a phase-amplitude metasurface”
Valeriia Bobkova (University of Muenster, Germany)
“Orbital angular momentum of light structured by a highly scattering medium”
dinner
From 21:30: Sicilian cakes, marsala and piano music in the “Marsala Room Cave”
SESSION V
Chair: Cornelia Denz (University of Muenster, Germany)
Michael Berry (University of Bristol, UK) invited
“Four geometrical-optics illusions”
Izzatjon Allayarov (Leibniz University Hannover)
“On the Perspectives of Dynamic Kerker Effect in Nonmetal Single Nanoparticles”
coffe break
Alexandra Boltasseva (Purdue University) invited
“Machine-Learning-Assisted Photonics”
Hanan Herzig Sheinfux (ICFO, Spain)
“Multimodal interference and bound in the continuum modes in indirectly-patterned hyperbolic cavities”
Christian Lanza (University of Oviedo, Spain)
“Twist-tunable Polaritonic Nanoresonators in a van der Waals Crystal”
Luca Sortino (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
“All-dielectric nanophotonics with Transition Metal Dichalcogenides semiconductors”
Lunch Break and Free Time
SESSION VI
Chair: Rupert Huber (University of Regensburg, Germany)
Carlo Sirtori (Ecole Normale Superieure, France) invited
“Metamaterial enhanced THz devices”
Martin Micica (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
“THz Emission from Nanometer Thick Spintronic Heterojunctions”
Jihye Baik (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
“Intracavity Second Harmonic Generation in Quantum Cascade Lasers”
Valentino Pistore (CNR-NANO Italy)
“Terahertz frequency comb-based hyperspectral near-field imaging and spectroscopy”
Andreas Aigner (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany)
“Tailoring light-matter coupling in a plasmonic nanofin metasurface harnessing bound states in the continuum”
Dinner
21:30: Sicilian cakes, marsala and piano music in the “Marsala Room Cave”
SESSION VII
Chair: Alexandra Boltasseva (Purdue University, USA)
Monika Ritsch-Marte (Medical University of Innsbruck (Austria), invited
“Structuring Light for Direct Measurement of Optical Force and Torque”
Coffee Break
Diederik Wiersma (INRIM and University of Florence) invited
“Spectral super-resolution spectroscopy using a random laser”
Alessandra Di Gaspare (CNR –NANO, Italy)
“Hyperspectral nano-imaging in the THz range with low spatially coherent multimode random lasers”
Oisín Garrity (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
“Studying Light Matter Coupling and the Dielectric Function of van der Waals Materials by Near Field Optical Microscopy and Tip Enhanced Spectroscopy”
Lunch Break
Excursion and Dinner
Visit to the archeological site of Selinunte (Selinus), an ancient Greek city in front of the Mediterranean sea, followed by a swimming and dinner at the nearby beach of Marinella.
SESSION VIII
Chair: Carlo Sirtori (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
Rupert Huber (University of Regensburg, Germany) invited
“Sculpting quantum trajectories with light fields”
Thomas Weber (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
“Strong coupling with WS2-intrinsic bound states in the continuum”
Coffee Break
Rainer Hillenbrand (NanoGune, Spain) invited
“Real-space IR and THz nanoimaging of hybrid polaritons”
Kirill Voronin (Donostia International Physics Center, San Sebastian Spain)
“Active Tuning of Highly Anisotropic Phonon Polaritons in Van der Waals Crystal Slabs by Gated Graphene”
Konstantin G. Wirth (Aachen University, Germany)
“Identification of ABCB stacked tetralayer graphene by near-field spectroscopy of interband transitions”
Eva A.A. Pogna (CNR-NANO, Italy)
“Near-field Mapping of THz Polaritons Propagation in Topological Insulators and Black Phosphorus”
Lunch Break and Free Time
SESSION IX
Chair: Evelyn Hu (Harvard University, USA)
Hatice Altug (Ecole Polytechnique federale de Lausanne, Switzerland) invited
“Applications of Nanophotonic Metasurfaces for Optical Biosensing, Spectroscopy and Bioimaging”
Antonio Ambrosio (IIT, Italy) invited
“Dynamic light-engineering platforms based on flat optical devices”
Sabrina Juergensen (University of Berlin, Germany)
“Collective States in Organic 2D-Materials”
Giacomo Venturi (IIT Milan, Italy)
“Imaging van der Waals Forces in a Twisted 2D Material”
Nathaniel Capote-Robayna (Donostia International Physics Center, San Sebastian Spain)
“Twisted Polaritonic Crystals in Thin Van der Waals Slabs”
Armando Genco (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
“Nonlinear Interactions of Dipolar Excitons and Polaritons in MoS2 Bilayers”
Conference Banquet
SESSION X
Chair: Hatice Haltug (Ecole Polytechnique federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Costantino De Angelis (University of Brescia), invited
“Reconfigurable nonlinear photonic metasurfaces”
Marta Mastrangelo (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris France)
“Optimization of patch-antenna metamaterial for the realisation of quantum cascade laser arrays”
Coffee Break
SESSION XI
Chair: Rainer Hillenbrand (NanoGune, Spain)
Michele Tamagnone (IIT, Italy) invited
“Polaritonic Resonators in 2D and van der Waals Materials”
Matej Sebek (Technical University of Denmark)
“Terahertz-lightwave induced electron field emission from graphene”
Matteo Tiberi (Cambridge Graphene Center, UK)
“Wafer-scale integration of graphene on silicon-on-insulator”
José A. Arcos-Pareja (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
“Surface enhanced Raman scattering of graphene by higherorder plasmon modes”
Elaheh Mostaani (Cambridge Graphene Center, UK)
“Charge-carrier complexes in monolayer semiconductors”
Closing Remarks
Traditional Closing Sicilian Lunch
Dinner
21:30: Sicilian cakes, marsala and piano music in the “Marsala Room Cave”
Location
- ETTORE MAJORANA FOUNDATION AND CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE
- Via Guarnotta, 26 – 91016 ERICE (Sicily) – Italy
- +39-0923-869133
- hq@ccsem.infn.it
- All inclusive fee of 920 euro
- plus 120 Euro per day for each accompanying person (if any)
- The participation fee is unbreakable, independently of the number of days you stay at the Conference
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