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International Winter School and Workshop on
Strongly correlated fluids of light and matter


ECT*, Villazzano near Trento, January 12th-23rd 2015


        Scientific Programme:



    Monday January 12th

9h00-9h30           get together + introduction by the organizers

       chair i. Carusotto
9h30-11h00         Dalfovo 1 - Basics of the theory of dilute quantum gases
11h00-11h30       coffee
11h30-12h30       Rechtsman - Topological effects in propagating optics

       chair C. Ciuti
14h30-16h00       Amo 1 - Polariton BECs and superfluids
16h00-16h30       coffee
16h30-17h15       Ramiro-Manzano - Silicon photonics


    Tuesday January 13th

       chair B. Deveaud
9h30-11h00         Dalfovo 2 - Basics of the theory of dilute quantum gases
11h00-11h30       coffee
11h30-13h00       Amo 2 - Polariton BECs and superfluids

       chair D. Faccio
14h30-15h15       Deveaud - Feshbach resonances in polariton scattering
15h15-15h45       coffee
15h45-16h30       Wouters - Theory of polariton fluids
16h30-17h30       Nguyen & Gerace - Black holes in flowing polariton fluids in microcavities
17h30-17h50       Koghee - Dynamical Casimir Effect in Exciton-Polariton Condensates


    Wednesday January 14th

       chair M. Wouters
9h30-10h15         Faccio -  Towards analog gravity in nonlinear optics
10h15-10h35       Larre - Quantum fluctuations in propagating nonlinear optics
10h35-11h00       coffee
11h00-11h45       Conti - Quantum gravity simulation and irreversibility in nonlinear optics
11h45-12h15       Piazza - Ultracold Fermions inside an optical cavity
12h15-13h00       Imamoglu - Quantum optics with two-dimensional materials

        chair A. Amo
14h45-15h30       Ciuti -  Recent results on the theory of strongly correlated photonics systems
15h30-16h15       Angelakis -  Simulating out of equilibrium exotic phases with strongly interacting photons
16h15-16h45       coffee
16h45-17h30       Richard - Experiments with exciton-polariton fluids
17h30-18h00       Dominici -  2D+T trajectories and branching of phase singularities in a polariton fluid


    Thursday January 15th

       chair  D. Angelakis
9h30-10h30         Verstraete 1- Entanglement and simulation of strongly correlated systems
10h30-11h00       coffee
11h00-12h00       Verstraete 2 - Entanglement and simulation of strongly correlated systems
12h00-12h45       Fazio - Introductory remarks to dissipative quantum phase transitions

        chair M. Richard
14h30-15h15       Diehl - Non-equilibrium phase transitions in optics
15h15-15h35       Dagvadorj - Non-Equilibrium BKT transion in OPO
15h35-16h05       coffee
16h05-16h50       Keeling - Polariton and photon condensates in organic materials (TBC)
16h50-17h10       Chiocchetta - A quantum-Langevin model for non-equilibrium condensation
17h10-17h55       Rossini - Many-body simulations of open systems


    Friday January 16th

       chair D. Gerace
9h30-10h30         Verstraete 3 - Entanglement and simulation of strongly correlated systems
10h30-11h00       coffee
11h00-12h00       Verstraete 4 - Entanglement and simulation of strongly correlated systems
12h00-12h30       Bellec - Microwave experiments on edge states in topological and Dirac materials

       chair M. Hafezi
14h30-15h00       Bardyn - Topological polaritons
15h00-15h45       Simon - Topological Photonics: Braided Microwave Circuits and Twisted Resonators
15h45-16h15       coffee
16h15-17h00       Molina-Terriza - Angular momentum of light
17h00-17h20       Price - Quantum mechanics under a momentum space artificial magnetic field
17h20-17h40       Ozawa - Topological effects in microcavity photonics


    Monday January 19th

       chair D. Rossini
9h00-9h30           get together + introduction by the organizers
9h30-10h30         Stern 1 - Topologically protected states and topological quantum computation
10h30-11h00       coffee
11h00-12h00       Stern 2 - Topologically protected states and topological quantum computation
12h00-12h45       Bar Ad - Black holes in propagating fluids of light

       chair C.-E. Bardyn
14h00-16h00       Devoret 1,2 - Superconducting quantum circuits
16h00-16h30       coffee
16h30-17h15       Bramati - Manipulating polariton fluids with structured light
17h15-18h00       Le Hur - Artificial Gauge Fields and Topological Phases


    Tuesday January 20th

        chair T. Ozawa
9h30-10h30         Stern 3 - Topologically protected states and topological quantum computation
10h30-11h00       coffee
11h00-12h00       Stern 4 - Topologically protected states and topological quantum computation
12h00-12h45       Tureci - Non-equilibrium physics in lasers and polariton BECs

        chair A. Bramati
14h30-15h15       Savona - Quantum correlations in a state-of-the-art silicon photonic crystal platform
15h15-16h00       Hafezi - Topological effects in silicon photonics
16h00-16h30       coffee
16h30-17h15       Volz - Integrated fiber-cavity devices
17h15-18h00       Hartmann - Strongly interacting photons


    Wednesday January 21st


        chair R. Fazio
9h30-10h30         Kollath 1- Numerical methods for strongly correlated systems  
10h30-11h00       coffee
11h00-12h00       Kollath 2 - Numerical methods for strongly correlated systems

        chair R. Fazio
14h30-15h30       Devoret 3 - Superconducting quantum circuits
15h30-16h00       coffee
16h00-17h00       Devoret 4 - Superconducting quantum circuits
17h00-17h45       Weitz - Bose-Einstein condensation of photons and periodic potentials for light


    Thursday January 22nd

        chair C. Ciuti
9h30-10h30         Kollath 3 - Numerical methods for strongly correlated systems
10h30-11h00       coffee
11h00-12h00       Kollath 4 - Numerical methods for strongly correlated systems
12h00-12h45       Schmidt - Towards quantum simulation with circuit QED lattices

        chair C. Ciuti
14h30-15h15       Solano - Analog-digital quantum simulators of interacting fermions and bosons
15h15-16h00       Mazza - Fractional States, Helical Liquids and Topological Phases in Multicomponent 1D Fermionic Gases
16h00-16h30       coffee
16h30-17h15       Bloch - Cavity polaritons in 1D lattices


    Friday January 23rd

9h30-10h30         wrap-up round table
10h30-11h00       coffee
11h00-13h00       final discussion and closing







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