At the Frontier of Light-Matter Interaction: Visions of Future Directions

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Organized in honor of the 60th birthday of Institute for Computational Catalysis Director and Flatiron Distinguished Scientist Angel Rubio, this workshop brings together an international group of distinguished theorists and experimentalists to explore open scientific questions in topics ranging from nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum materials to linear, non-linear and ultra-strong light-matter interactions in electronic materials.

  • 8:30 - 9:15 AM Breakfast
    9:15 - 9:30 AMWelcome/ Introduction
    9:30 - 10:00 AMSteven Louie (Berkeley)Excitons in 2D materials: Time-dependent phenomena, nonlinear optical responses, and excitonic insulators
    10:00 - 10:30 AMNuh Gedik (MIT)Visualizing a Terahertz Superfluid Plasmon in a Two- Dimensional Superconductor
    10:30 - 11:00 AMBreak
    11:00 - 11:30 AMGiulio Cerullo (Politecnico di Milano)Ultrafast charge and spin dynamics in 2D semiconductors and their heterostructures
    11:30 AM - 12:00 PMNicolas Tancogne-Dejean (MPSD)Ultrafast Control of Quantum Materials using Intense Laser Fields
    12:00 - 1:45 PMLunch
    1:45 - 2:15 PMFabio Caruso (University of Kiel)Ultrafast dynamics of the crystalline lattice
    2:15 - 2:45 PMNeepa Maitra (Rutgers University)TDDFT for Molecules Driven Far from Equilibrium: Reformulating it to be as Reliable as for Response
    2:45 - 3:15 PMBreak
    3:15 - 3:45 PMDaniele Varsano (University of Modena / CNR)Exploring Electronic Screening and Exciton Insulator Phases in 2D Materials
    3:45 - 4:15 PMPhilip Moll (MPSD)Function follows form: Tuning quantum materials by shape control
    4:15 - 4:45 PMAperitivo/Reception
    4:45 - 5:45 PMPanel #1- Time Dependent PhenomenaHardy Gross (Chair), KazuhiroYabana, Massimo Altarelli, Erio Tosatti
  • 8:30 - 9:30 AMBreakfast
    9:30 - 10:00 AMKin Fai Mak (MPSD)Exciton sensing of correlated electrons in 2D
    10:00 - 10:30 AMClaudia Draxl (Humboldt University )Excitons in the Time Domain
    10:30 - 11:00 AMBreak
    11:00 - 11:30 AMLucia Reining (Ecole Polytechnique / CNRS)Excitons in absorption and loss spectroscopies: an old topic, new effects
    11:30 AM - 12:00 PMMyrta Grüning (University of Belfast)From Electronic Structure to Nonlinear Optics via Real-Time Many-Body Simulations
    12:00 - 1:45 PMLunch
    1:45 - 2:15 PMKristian Thygesen (Technical University of Denmark)Light-matter interactions meet high-throughput computations
    2:15 - 2:45 PMLede Xian (Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory)Emergent platforms for exploring correlated phenomena in twisted 2D materials
    2:45 - 3:15 PMBreak
    3:15 - 3:45 PMDante Kennes (RWTH Aachen)Dynamics of Many Moiré Excitons
    3:45 - 4:15 PMSilvana Botti (University of Bochum)Electronic excitations at interfaces
    4:15 - 4:45 PMJerome Faist (ETH Zurich)Engineering correlations in a two-dimensional electron gas by vacuum fluctuations in cavities
  • 8:30 - 9:30 AMBreakfast
    9:30 - 10:00 AMJunichiro Kono (Rice University)Ultrastrong Light-Matter Interactions in Cavities
    10:00 - 10:30 AMAtaç Imamoğlu (ETH Zurich)Optical pumping of topological states in twisted MoTe2
    10:30 - 11:00 AMBreak
    11:00 - 11:30 AMTony Heinz (Stanford)
    11:30 AM - 12:00 PMAbraham Nitzan (U Penn)Collective response in light-matter interactions: The interplay between strong coupling, local dynamics, and disorder
    12:00 - 1:45 PMLunch
    1:45 - 2:45 PMPanel #2- Quantum Light MatterDmitri Basov (Chair), Abhay Pasupathy, Tim Berkelbach, Antoine Georges, Andrea Cavalleri
    2:45 - 3:15 PMBreak
    3:15 - 3:45 PMJohannes Flick (CUNY & CCQ)Strong light-matter interactions from first principles
    3:45 - 4:15 PMDongbin Shin (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)Cavity-induced topological phase transition in HgTe
    4:15 - 4:45 PMClosing RemarksAngel Rubio
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