Program of the ESF Workshop on Polaritonics

 

Schedule:

Arrival - afternoon on Tuesday 20 March 2012

Meeting opens: 9.00 on Wednesday 21 March 2012

Meeting closes: 14.30 on Friday 23 March 2012

Departure - afternoon on Friday 23 March 2012

Main objectives of the Workshop:

Intensive studies of the strong – light matter coupling in semiconductor quantum microcavities have allowed to observe many fascinating fundamental effects (polariton lasing, polariton bistability and multistability, polariton superfluidity). Fundamental knowledge obtained has allowed to formulate new concept of polariton based coherent light sources, all-optical information processing systems, and THz sources and detectors. The idea of the workshop is to bring together researchers working in the area of polaritonics and neighbouring areas in order to discuss recent progress and construct a roadmap for the development of new concepts of polaritonic devices and its commercialisation.

 

Dr. Ana Helman (ESF Standing Committee for Physical and Engineering Sciences - PESC)
Presentation of the European Science Foundation (ESF)

List of speakers

• Alexey Kavokin (Convener) - University of Southampton, UK
  

• Alberto Amo - LPN-CNRS, France
  

• Raphaël Butté - EPFL, Switzerland
  Present status of polaritonic nonlinearities in planar III-nitride microcavities

• Marzena Szymanska - Universit of Warwick, UK
  Spatial correlation functions & topological defects in polariton condensates

• Ivan Shelykh - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; University of Iceland
  Polariton- electron mixtures

• Pavlos Savvidis - University of Crete, Greece
  

• Marlene Glauser - EPFL, Switzerland
  

• Natalia Berloff - University of Camdridge, UK
  Universality in modelling pattern forming of polariton condensates

• Olivia Pulci - University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  Universal infrared absorbance in graphene, silicene and germanene

• Gabriela Slavcheva - Imperial College London, UK
  Model of the time-resolved photoluminescence from resonantly excited p-doped InAs/GaAs QDs Towards realistic modelling of a dotcavity system

• Alberto Bramati - UPMC, France
  Polaritons: quantum fluid phenomena and optoelectronics and applications

• Nina Voronova - MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
  On vortices and solitonsformation in polaritonBose condensate

• Tim Liew - EPFL, Switzerland
  Multimode entanglement in semiconductor microcavities

• Guilherme Tosi - University of Camdridge, UK
  

• Paola Gori - CNR, Italy
  Electronic and optical properties of graphene-and graphane-likeSiClayers

• Sergey Andreev - CNRS, France
  Thermodynamic model of the macroscopically ordered exciton state

• Aldo Di Carlo - University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  

• Mikhail Glazov - Ioffe Institute, S-Petersburg, Russia
  Spin noise in quantum microcavities

• Laura Pilozzi - CNR, Italy
  Polaritonic crystals: from optical response to Casimir effect

• Fabio Liaci - Ioffe Institute, S-Petersburg, Russia
  Electron Spin and Exciton Emission Polarization in Heterovalent Coupled Quantum Wells III-V / II-(Mn)-VI Stuctures

• Daniele Sanvitto - Istituto Nanoscienza CNR, Italy
  Polariton transistor: towards all-optical logics