Conference Outline
The conference will take place from Monday-Wednesday, November 4-6 at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) on the campus of City College. Scientific sessions with invited talks will be held over the course of all three days.
All invited talks will be held in the main-floor auditorium of the ASRC. The talks will be open to the public and will be live-streamed online for remote participation. Attendees are encouraged to use the cafe and other informal meeting spaces on each floor of the ASRC to meet and work together between sessions.
Aside from the public scientific sessions, there will be a breakout session in which 2-4 groups from different regions working on related problems will interact directly. Younger scientists will be encouraged to sit in on these discussions.
All invited talks will be recorded and made available for online viewing after the conference.
Program
| Session Chair: Andrea Alú | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome |
| 9:15 a.m. | Federico Capasso, Harvard University, Cambridge Multifunctional Metasurface Flat Optics |
| 9:40 a.m. | Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Photonic Mathematics |
| 10:05 a.m. | Dmitry Basov, Columbia University, New York City Programmable Quantum Materials |
| 10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 a.m. | Demetrios Christodoulides, University of Central Florida (CREOL), Orlando Optical Thermodynamics of highly-multimoded nonlinear photonic systems |
| 11:25 a.m. | Igal Brener, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque Nonlinear Optics with Metasurfaces and Epsilon Near Zero Materials |
| 11:50 a.m. | Lunch and APS Poster Session |
| Session Chair: Michael Shlesinger | |
| 1:00 p.m. | Mercedeh Khajavikhan, University of Central Florida (CREOL), Orlando Enhanced Sagnac Sensitivity at Exceptional Points |
| 1:25 p.m. | Mikael Rechtsman, Penn State University, State College Nonlinear topological photonics |
| 1:50 p.m. | Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Manipulating matter in dressed vacuum |
| 2:15 p.m. | E. Ercan Alp, Argonne National Laboratory, SESAME Modern Applications of X-Ray Spectroscopy at Synchrotron Sources |
| 2:40 p.m. | Owen D. Miller, Yale University, New Haven Maximal Free-Space Concentration of Light |
| 3:05 p.m. | Break |
| Session Chair: Manolis Antonoyiannakis | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Tsampikos Kottos, Wesleyan University, Middletown Light Propagation in Disordered Multimode Fibers |
| 3:55 p.m. | Andrea Frattalocchi, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal Ultra-flat meta-optics with experimental efficiency exceeding 98% in the visible for vectorial light control designed via artificial intelligence |
| 4:20 p.m. | Hakan Türeci, Princeton University, Princeton Quantum Electrodynamics with non-Hermitian modes |
| The following activities will be held at The Graduate Center, CUNY | |
| 6:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m. | Reception (registered attendees only) |
| 6:30 p.m. | Panel: Photonics 3.0: A Worldwide Quest for the Next Technology Revolution The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| 7:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. | Reception (general public) |
| 7:45 p.m. | Early-Career Scientist Symposium |
| Session Chair: Tsampikos Kottos | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Mordechai Segev, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Topological Photonics |
| 9:25 a.m. | Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue University, West Lafayette Plasmonic Metamaterials Meet Quantum |
| 9:50 a.m. | Ewold Verhagen, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Amsterdam Photons and phonons move like electrons: Unidirectional and topological states of light and sound at the nanoscale |
| 10:15 a.m. | Sahin Özdemir, Penn State University Optomechanics and Optics at non-Hermitian Degeneracies |
| 10:40 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 11:05 a.m. | Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue University, West Lafayette Artificial Intelligence Assisted Photonic Design and Measurements |
| 11:30 a.m. | Giuseppe Strangi, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Crossroads Between Photonics and Biology: The Next Big Thing will be at the Nanoscale |
| 11:55 a.m. | Lunch/Poster Session |
| Session Chair: Mikael Rechtsman | |
| 1:00 p.m. | A. Douglas Stone, Yale University, New Haven Theory of Reflectionless Scattering Modes |
| 1:25 p.m. | Carl Bender, Washington University, St. Louis PT symmetry |
| 1:50 p.m. | Jacob Khurgin, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Miniature Lasers: what does and what does not matter? |
| 2:15 p.m. | Ori Katz, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Imaging with Scattered Light |
| 2:40 p.m. | Patrick Sebbah, Bar-Ilan, CNRS, Ramat-Gan and Paris From Opaque to Transparent: Control of Light Scattering by Gain and Loss |
| 3:05 p.m. | Break |
| Session Chair: Vinod Menon | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Simon Gröblacher, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands Quantum optomechanics at room temperature |
| 3:55 p.m. | Ben Steinberg, Tel Aviv University Metamaterials on a carousel: a journey in a non-inertial landscape |
| 4:20 p.m. | Michael Weinstein, Columbia University, New York City Edge States and the Valley Hall Effect |
| 4:45 p.m. | Evgenii Narimanov, Purdue University, West Lafayette Ballistic Metamaterials |
| Session Chair: Matthew Sfeir | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Amnon Yariv, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena The Semiconductor for Laser The Next Phase |
| 9:25 a.m. | Alireza Marandi, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Half-Harmonic Generation: Enabling Photonic Solutions for Molecular Sensing and Non-Classical Computing |
| 9:50 a.m. | Alexander Gaeta, Columbia University, New York City Synchronization of Microresonator Frequency Comb |
| 10:15 a.m. | Ertugrul Cubukcu, University of California, San Diego Ultimate Thickness Limit of Optical Waveguiding and Resonators for Visible Photons |
| 10:40 a.m. | F. Omer Ilday, Bilkent University Ultra-efficient laser-material processing in the ablation-cooled regime |
| 11:05 a.m. | Lunch and APS Poster Session |
| Session Chair: Azriel Genack | |
| 1:25 p.m. | Yaron Bromberg, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Shaping the Wavefront of Entangled Photons |
| 1:50 p.m. | Ziad Musslimani, Florida State University, Tallahassee Solitons in complex integrable media |
| 2:15 p.m. | Hasan Yilmaz, Yale University, New Haven Controlling coherent light propagation through opaque media |
| 2:40 p.m. | Stephen Arnold, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering From the death of an icon to the birth of the world’s most sensitive photonic biosensor |
| 3:05 p.m. | Break |
| Session Chair: Andrea Alù | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Andrea Blanco-Redondo, NOKIA Bell Labs Topological quantum photonics |
| 3:55 p.m. | Yakir Hadad, Tel Aviv University Wave engineering in active and dynamic media |
| 4:20 p.m. | Ying Wu, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal Zero-index material |
| 4:45 p.m. | Award Ceremony and Closing Remarks |