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

Workshop

Computational Quantum Physics

When

September 24, 2025
All Day
September 25, 2025
All Day
September 26, 2025
All Day

Where

Flatiron Institute, 162 Fifth Avenue

160 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10010

Organized in honor of the 60^th 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.

Wednesday, September 24

8:30 – 9:15 AM	Breakfast
9:15 – 9:30 AM	Welcome/ Introduction
9:30 – 10:00 AM	Steven Louie (Berkeley)	Excitons in 2D materials: Time-dependent phenomena, nonlinear optical responses, and excitonic insulators
10:00 – 10:30 AM	Nuh Gedik (MIT)	Visualizing a Terahertz Superfluid Plasmon in a Two- Dimensional Superconductor
10:30 – 11:00 AM	Break
11:00 – 11:30 AM	Giulio Cerullo (Politecnico di Milano)	Ultrafast charge and spin dynamics in 2D semiconductors and their heterostructures
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM	Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean (MPSD)	Ultrafast Control of Quantum Materials using Intense Laser Fields
12:00 – 1:45 PM	Lunch
1:45 – 2:15 PM	Fabio Caruso (University of Kiel)	Ultrafast dynamics of the crystalline lattice
2:15 – 2:45 PM	Neepa Maitra (Rutgers University)	TDDFT for Molecules Driven Far from Equilibrium: Reformulating it to be as Reliable as for Response
2:45 – 3:15 PM	Break
3:15 – 3:45 PM	Daniele Varsano (University of Modena / CNR)	Exploring Electronic Screening and Exciton Insulator Phases in 2D Materials
3:45 – 4:15 PM	Philip Moll (MPSD)	Function follows form: Tuning quantum materials by shape control
4:15 – 4:45 PM	Aperitivo/Reception
4:45 – 5:45 PM	Panel #1- Time Dependent Phenomena	Hardy Gross (Chair), KazuhiroYabana, Massimo Altarelli, Erio Tosatti

Thursday, September 25

8:30 – 9:30 AM	Breakfast
9:30 – 10:00 AM	Kin Fai Mak (MPSD)	Exciton sensing of correlated electrons in 2D
10:00 – 10:30 AM	Claudia Draxl (Humboldt University )	Excitons in the Time Domain
10:30 – 11:00 AM	Break
11:00 – 11:30 AM	Lucia Reining (Ecole Polytechnique / CNRS)	Excitons in absorption and loss spectroscopies: an old topic, new effects
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM	Myrta Grüning (University of Belfast)	From Electronic Structure to Nonlinear Optics via Real-Time Many-Body Simulations
12:00 – 1:45 PM	Lunch
1:45 – 2:15 PM	Kristian Thygesen (Technical University of Denmark)	Light-matter interactions meet high-throughput computations
2:15 – 2:45 PM	Lede Xian (Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory)	Emergent platforms for exploring correlated phenomena in twisted 2D materials
2:45 – 3:15 PM	Break
3:15 – 3:45 PM	Dante Kennes (RWTH Aachen)	Dynamics of Many Moiré Excitons
3:45 – 4:15 PM	Silvana Botti (University of Bochum)	Electronic excitations at interfaces
4:15 – 4:45 PM	Jerome Faist (ETH Zurich)	Engineering correlations in a two-dimensional electron gas by vacuum fluctuations in cavities

Friday, September 26

8:30 – 9:30 AM	Breakfast
9:30 – 10:00 AM	Junichiro Kono (Rice University)	Ultrastrong Light-Matter Interactions in Cavities
10:00 – 10:30 AM	Ataç Imamoğlu (ETH Zurich)	Optical pumping of topological states in twisted MoTe2
10:30 – 11:00 AM	Break
11:00 – 11:30 AM	Tony Heinz (Stanford)
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM	Abraham Nitzan (U Penn)	Collective response in light-matter interactions: The interplay between strong coupling, local dynamics, and disorder
12:00 – 1:45 PM	Lunch
1:45 – 2:45 PM	Panel #2- Quantum Light Matter	Dmitri Basov (Chair), Abhay Pasupathy, Tim Berkelbach, Antoine Georges, Andrea Cavalleri
2:45 – 3:15 PM	Break
3:15 – 3:45 PM	Johannes Flick (CUNY & CCQ)	Strong light-matter interactions from first principles
3:45 – 4:15 PM	Dongbin Shin (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)	Cavity-induced topological phase transition in HgTe
4:15 – 4:45 PM	Closing Remarks	Angel Rubio

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