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  • 16 June 2025:  Summer School
  • 17-19 June 2025: Conference
  • 18 June 2025: Conference dinner at Sortebro Kro

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

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    

 

 

 

Last Updated 15.05.2025