International
Winter School and Workshop on
Strongly correlated
fluids of light and matter
ECT*, Villazzano near
Trento, January 12th-23rd 2015
Lecturers:
- Franco Dalfovo (Trento University) - Basics of the theory of dilute
quantum gases
- Corinna Kollath (Bonn, Germany) - Numerical methods for strongly correlated
systems
- Michel Devoret (Yale, USA) - Superconducting quantum circuits
- Alberto Amo (LPN Marcoussis, France)
- Polariton BECs and
superfluids
- Frank Verstraete (Vienna, Austria) - Entanglement and simulation of strongly correlated systems
- Ady Stern (Weizmann, Israel) - Topologically protected states and topological quantum computation
Preliminary list of confirmed speakers
with tentative titles:
- Cristiano Ciuti (MPQ-Paris 7, France) - Recent results on the theory of strongly correlated photonics systems
- Atac Imamoglu (ETH Zurich) - Quantum optics with
two-dimensional materials
- Rosario Fazio (SNS Pisa, Italy) - Introductory remarks to dissipative quantum phase transitions
- Hakan Tureci (Princeton, USA) - Non-equilibrium
physics in lasers and polariton BECs
- Hannah Price (BEC Trento) - Quantum mechanics under a
momentum space artificial magnetic field
- Tomoki Ozawa (BEC Trento) - Topological effects in
microcavity photonics
- Mohammad Hafezi (JQI, USA) - Topological effects in
silicon photonics
- Pierre-Elie Larre (BEC Trento) - Quantum fluctuations
in propagating nonlinear optics
- Mikael Rechtsman (Haifa,
Israel) - Topological effects in propagating nonlinear
optics
- Michael Hartmann (Heriot-Watt, UK) - Strongly
interacting photons
- Martin Weitz (Bonn, Germany) - Bose-Einstein condensation of photons and periodic potentials for light
- Jonathan Keeling (St.
Andrews, UK) - Polariton and photon condensates in organic materials
- Fernando Ramiro Manzano (Trento University, Italy) -
Silicon photonics
- Davide Rossini (SNS Pisa, Italy) - Many-body
simulations of open systems
- Dimitris Angelakis (Technical
University of Crete and CQT
Singapore) - Simulating out of equilibrium exotic phases with strongly interacting photons
- Sebastian Diehl (Dresden, Germany) - Non-equilibrium
phase transitions in optics
- Karine Le Hur (Ec. Polytechnique, Paris, France) - Artificial Gauge Fields and Topological Phases
- Enrique Solano (Bilbao, Spain) - Analog-digital quantum simulators of interacting fermions and bosons
- Hai-Son Nguyen (LPN
Marcoussis, France) - Black holes in flowing polariton fluids in
microcavities (experiments)
- Dario Gerace (Univ. Pavia, Italy) - Black holes in
flowing polariton fluids in microcavities (theory)
- Benoit Deveaud (EPFL, Switzerland) - Feshbach
resonances in polariton scattering
- Shimshon Bar-Ad (Tel Aviv,
Israel) - Black holes in propagating fluids of light
- Daniele Faccio (Heriot-Watt, UK) - Towards analog
gravity in nonlinear optics
- Thomas Volz (Macquarie, Australia) - Integrated
fiber-cavity devices
- Gabriel Molina-Terriza (Macquarie, Australia) - Angular
momentum of light
- Michiel Wouters (Antwerp, Belgium) - Theory of polariton fluids
- Sebastian Schmidt (ETH Zurich,
Switzerland) - Towards quantum simulation with circuit QED lattices
- Jonathan Simon (Chicago, USA) - Topological Photonics: Braided Microwave Circuits and Twisted Resonators
- Maxime Richard (Grenoble) - Experiments with
exciton-polariton fluids
- Vincenzo Savona (EPFL) - Quantum correlations in a state-of-the-art silicon photonic crystal platform
- Alberto Bramati (LKB, Paris) - Manipulating polariton fluids with structured light
- Claudio Conti (ISC-CNR, Roma) - Quantum gravity simulation and irreversibility in nonlinear optics
- Lorenzo Dominici (Lecce) - 2D+T trajectories and branching of phase singularities in a polariton fluid
- Francesco Piazza (TU Munich, Germany) - Ultracold Fermions inside an optical cavity
- Selma Koghee (Antwerp, Belgium) - Dynamical Casimir Effect in Exciton-Polariton Condensates
- Galbadrakh Dagvadorj (Warwick, UK) - Non-Equilibrium BKT transion in OPO
- Alessio Chiocchetta (SISSA Trieste, Italy) - A quantum-Langevin model for non-equilibrium condensation
- Mathieu Bellec (Nice, France) - Microwave experiments on edge states in topological and Dirac materials
- Charles Bardyn (CalTech, USA) - Topological polaritons
- Leonardo Mazza (SNS Pisa, Italy) - Fractional States, Helical Liquids and Topological Phases in Multicomponent 1D Fermionic Gases
- Jacqueline Bloch (LPN Marcoussis, France) - Cavity polaritons in 1D lattices