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Program

SCOM5 Program

8.00 Registration & breakfast
 9.00  Organic microcavities in the strong light-matter coupling regime Stéphane Kéna-Cohen
 10.15  TBA  Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez
 11.30  Break  
 12.00 Exciton-polaritons in atomically thin materials Nicolas Ubrig
 13.15 Lunch  
 14.45  Quantum-electrodynamical density-functional theory: an introduction to a novel framework to control materials phenomena   Michael Ruggenthaler
 16.00 Break   
 16.30 Advances in fabrication techniques for strong coupling: harnessing DNA nanotechnology in nanophotonics  Karol Kolataj
 18.00 Dinner at Storms Pakhus  

 

 8.00  Registration and breakfast    
 8.30 Welcome    
8.45 Manipulating matter by strong coupling to the vacuum electromagnetic field  Thomas Ebbesen  Keynote speaker
 9.30 Break    
9.50 Exciton de-localisation and strong coupling: work in progress  Bill Barnes  Invited talk
10.20   Revealing the Nature of High-Order Cavity Polaritons Under the Coupling–Decoupling Transition May Godsi  Contributed talk
 10.40 On the origin of local chemical modifications under collective strong coupling Dominik Sidler   Contributed talk
 11.00 Break    
 11.30 Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy probes strong coupling: what can we learn? Christoph Lienau   Invited talk
 12.00 Ultra-strong coupling between optical phonons and surface plasmon polaritons observed in real space Xabier Arrieta   Contributed talk
 12.20 Cavity-Born-Oppenheimer Hartree-Fock: Molecules under Vibrational-Strong-Coupling Thomas Schnappinger   Contributed talk
 12.40 Lunch    
 14.00 When do molecular polaritons behave like optical filters? Joel Yuen-Zhou   Invited talk
14.30 Suppression of strong coupling effects by thermal disorder Jussi Toppari   Contributed talk
14.50  Strong coupling with the cavity antiresonances: forming polaritons with imaginary rather than real Rabi splitting Anael Ben-Asher   Contributed talk
15.10 Theory and Quantum Dynamics of Exciton Polariton transport  Frank Huo   Contributed talk
 15.30 Break    
 16.00 Strong light-matter coupling: from self-hybridized polaritons to Casimir self-assembly Timur Shegai   Invited talk
16.30 Strong coupling between a dielectric nanocavity and a monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide Frederik Schröder   Contributed talk
16.50  Direct Imaging of Polariton Relaxation Dynamics and Interactions Jonas M. Peterson   Contributed talk
 17.10 Giant Rabi splitting and polariton photoluminescence in an all solution-deposited dielectric microcavity Michael Papachatzakis   Contributed talk
 17.30 Bioinspired free-cavity exciton polaritons with J-aggregates for light harvesting Sara Nuñez Sánchez   Invited talk
 18.00 Poster session and reception    
 20.00 End of Conference Day 1    

8.00 Breakfast    
 8.30 Strong coupling and topological phenomena in plasmonic lattices  Päivi Törmä Keynote speaker 
 9.15 Break    
9.40 Addressing ultrastrong light-matter interaction of organic molecular layers in optical and infrared cavities Javier Aizpurua  Invited  talk
10.10 Nanophotonics to control mid-infrared light and polariton condensation Rakesh Arul  Contributed talk
10.30 Plexcitonic nanorattles based on J-aggregates as ultra-efficient SERS-tags Carla Estévez Varela  Contributed talk
 10.50 Break    
11.20 Quantum optics with radiation on the move Klaus Mølmer   Invited  talk
 11.50 Towards Exact Quantum Electrodynamics in Plasmonic Systems Ben Yuen  Contributed talk
 12.10 Chiral strong coupling quantum electrodynamics Hartree-Fock Yassir El Moutaoukai Contributed talk
12.30 Lunch    
14.00 Ultrafast Imaging of Nonlinear Exciton Polariton Interactions Libai Huang   Invited  talk
 14.30 Nonlinear polaritons in van der Waals heterostructure metasurfaces Luca Sortino  Contributed talk
14.50  Quantum Dynamics in Coupled Plasmonic Cavities Ishita Jena  Contributed talk
15.10  Break    
 15.40 Ultrafast collapse of molecular polaritons Nicolò Maccaferri  Invited  talk
 16.10  Ultrafast Spectroscopy Reveals (Dis)order-Driven Polariton Dynamics Aleesha George  Contributed talk
 16.30 Sub-5-fs pump-probe spectroscopy on strongly coupled exciton-cavity-polaritons Fritz Joshua Schnur Contributed talk
 17.00 Boat trip on Odense Å & walking to the restaurant (1.5 km)    
 19.00  Conference Dinner at Sortebro Kro    
 22:00 Bus to the city centre    
 8.00 Breakfast    
 8.30 SMILES—a plug and play platform for molecular polariton condensates
Vinod Menon  Invited talk
9.00  Condensation of cavity exciton-polaritons in perovskite nanocrystals at room-temperature Darius Urbonas Contributed talk
 9.20 Room-temperature polaritons in a tunable open microcavity using 2D hybrid perovskites Akshaya G Contributed talk
 9.40 Polariton waveguides for nonlinear optical phenomena Daniele Sanvitto Invited talk 
10.10 Break    
 10.40 Optical computing with polariton condensates in organic microcavities Pavlos Lagoudakis Invited talk
 11.10 On-chip Ultrafast Polariton Transistors Pietro Tassan Contributed talk
 11.30 Polariton-assisted hopping in amorphous non-conducting polymers David Hagenmüller  Contributed talk
 11.50 Extending the self-discharge time of Dicke quantum batteries using molecular triplets
Daniel J. Tibben
 Contributed talk
12.10  Device physics of organic solar cells under strong light-matter coupling Girish Lakhwani Contributed talk
 12.30 Lunch
 
 14.00 Organic exciton-polariton condensates in bound states in the continuum Jaime Gómez Rivas  Invited talk
14.30  Metasurface-enhanced superradiance in strongly-coupled J-aggregates Marco Marangi Contributed talk
 14.50 Generating phase singularities using surface exciton polaritons in an organic natural hyperbolic material Philip Thomas  Contributed talk
 15.10 Fano resonances between the emission of J-aggregate-covered metallic nanorods and spherical cavity modes Mikhail Vasilevskiy  Contributed talk
 15.30 Break    
 16.00 Mapping between quantum optics and nanophotonics Francisco García Vidal Invited talk 
 16.30 Electrical conductivity in amorphous polymers under vibrational strong coupling Kavya S. Mony Contributed talk
 16.50 Extended Lasing States in Electrically Tuneable Liquid-Crystal Microcavity Dmitry Dovzhenko Contributed talk
 17.10  TBA Marzena Szymanska  Invited talk
 17.40 Roundtable discussion    
 18.20 End of Conference    

 

SCOM5 Posters

  1. Abdelouadoud Mammeri, Hyperspectral camera for inline spectral analysis of organic solar cells
  2. Ahmed Gaber Abdelmagid, Organic polaritons enable high-responsivity, angle-independent narrowband microcavity photodiodes
  3. Alexandra R. Wright, Understanding the role of molecular aggregation in polariton formation
  4. Ángel Giménez-Mascarell, Hexagonal silica microsphere monolayers supporting surface phonon-polaritons for radiative cooling applications
  5. Angus Crookes, Multimode strong coupling in plasmonic nanocavities
  6. Ann-Céline Zimmermann, Terahertz control in a transmission electron microscope
  7. Arpan Dutta, Organic excitonic nanostructures for weak and strong coupling
  8. Arun Kumar Kanakati, Simulating nuclear quantum effects in electronic strong coupling
  9. Avishek Sarbajna, Optoelectronic response of light–matter interaction in ultrathin excitonic systems
  10. Carlos Bustamante, Topology optimization of optical devices and their potential application in polaritonic chemistry
  11. P. Elli Stamatopoulou, A multi-scale approach for modeling strong coupling in open nanocavities probed by electrons
  12. Fathimath Faseela, Polaritonic engineering in non-fullerene acceptor organic photovoltaic devices
  13. Florian Maurer, Quantum description of plasmon polaritons in the PZW representation
  14. Frieder Lindel, Strong coupling between periodic arrays of quantum emitters and periodic light
  15. Gal Sandik, Exploring the multiple scattering of organic exciton-polaritons using interferometric imaging
  16. Hanlin Fang, Confining excitons in semiconducting moiré superlattices
  17. Hassan Ali Qureshi, TBA
  18. Helena Poulose, Towards nonlinear spectroscopic studies of organic molecules under vibrational strong coupling
  19. Hira Asif, Stark control of plexcitonic states in incoherent quantum systems
  20. Jacob Horak, Analytic model reveals local molecular polarizability changes induced by collective strong coupling
  21. Jakub Skórka, Quantisation of electromagnetic field near dispersive resonators
  22. Jie Ji, Phase topology and group index of THz vibro-polaritons in metasurfaces
  23. José N. Gama, Surface exciton polaritons from visible to the near-infrared supported by nolecular materials
  24. R. Kevin Kessing, Cooperative effects in vibrational polaritons require environment-induced nonequilibrium steady states
  25. Kuljeet Kaur, Charge transport engineering in organic semiconductors through strong coupling in MOSFET-based Fabry-Pérot cavities
  26. Lukas Freter, Exact numerical solution of the dissipative Tavis–Cummings model in the context of super-radiance 
  27. Luke Hands, Causality for the second quantisation of open non-Hermitian nanophotonic systems
  28. Marcelo Barreiro, Surface and cavity exciton-polaritons in J-aggregate films
  29. Martijn Wubs, Collective single-photon emission mediated by surface plasmon polaritons and disturbed by phonons
  30. Michael Reitz, Nonlinear semiclassical spectroscopy of ultrafast molecular polariton dynamics
  31. Mikkel Have Eriksen, Chiral light–matter dynamics with thermal magnetoplasmons in graphene nanodisks
  32. Nicola Peruffo, The nature of excited states relaxation in plexcitonic materials
  33. Nikolaos Kyvelos, Mesoscopic phenomena and fabrication imperfections in plasmonic nanolens: impact on chiral light–matter interactions
  34. Oleg V. Kotov, Lifshitz–Lorentz theory for cavity-modified ground state of a polaritonic system
  35. Olli Siltanen, A unified quantum master equation model of cavity-coupled OLEDs
  36. Pedro Ninhos, Tunable exciton polaritons in band-gap engineered hexagonal boron nitride
  37. Rahul Bhuyan, The role of the size of the exciton reservoir and polariton states on strong exciton photon coupling dynamics
  38. Rana Lomlu, Vast polaritonic enhancement of donor–acceptor energy transfer
  39. Sandeep Singh, Morphology-driven light–matter interactions in semiconductor polaritonic systems—a review
  40. Santiago A. Gomez, The quantum palette of methylene blue: unveiling vibronic deatures and the influence of dimerization and CB[7] encapsulation towards strong coupling applications
  41. Sebastian Montillo, Theoretical insights into the resonant suppression effect in vibrational polariton chemistry
  42. Sebastian Toivonen, Hierarchical pure states approach to non-linear spectroscopy of polaritonic quantum batteries
  43. Sergii Morozov, An atlas of photonic and plasmonic materials for cathodoluminescence microscopy
  44. Sinan Bascil, Quantifying the effect of vibrational strong coupling on hydrogen bonding
  45. Sricharan Raghavan-Chitra, High-Q microresonators unveil quantum rare events
  46. Sven Ebel, Cathodoluminescence by backscattered and secondary electrons
  47. Therese Karmstrand, A quantum description of the dissipative properties of cavity polaritons in the ultrastrong coupling regime
  48. Thomas F. Allard, Mirror-induced effects in cavity polaritonics: influence on edge states
  49. Timo Leppälä, Organic microcavity polariton dynamics with non-Markovian quantum state diffusion
  50. Ville Tiainen, Selectively guiding excitation energy by collaborative strong light–matter coupling
  51. Vladislav Yu. Shishkov, Sympathetic mechanism for vibrational condensation enabled by polariton optomechanical interaction
  52. Wenhua Zhao, Feedback cooling of fermionic atoms in optical lattices
  53. Yu-Chen Wei, Enhanced delayed fluorescence in non-local netasurfaces: the role of electronic strong coupling


The conference topics cover all aspects of strong light—matter coupling, including:

• Exciton polaritons in organic molecules and 2D materials
• Polaritonic chemistry and physics
• Polariton condensation
• Polariton photochemistry and photophysics
• Plasmon—exciton polaritons, Mie—exciton polaritons, phonon polaritons, magnons
• Quantum optics and quantum information with polaritons
• Electron-beam spectroscopy studies of polaritonic states
• Molecular excitations and vibrations
• Polaritonic lasing

 

 

 

Last Updated 26.05.2025