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List of Speakers & Tentative Titles

  1. Martin Aeschlimann, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany
    Spin phenomena at chiral metal-molecule hybrid interfaces.
  2. Hasan Areeq, Stanford University, USA
    (waiting for the title) 
  3. Mete Atature, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
    Quantum optics with solid-state spins.
  4. Ian Aupiais, Université de Genève, Switzerland
    Strong confinement and nonlinearity in superconducting THz cavities.
  5. Adolfo Avella, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
    Controlling ultrafast excitations in germanium: the role of pump-pulse parameters and multi-photon resonances
  6. Ihar Babushkin, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
    Light-matter and light-light entanglement by high harmonic generation in strong fields. 
  7. Edoardo Baldini, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
    Resonant chiral dressing by amplitude fluctuations in a ferroaxial electronic crystal.
  8. Wei Bao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
    New room-temperature playground for Bose-Einstein condensates using halide perovskites.
  9. Francesco Barantani, Universität Luxemburg, Luxemburg
    Resonant chiral dressing by amplitude fluctuations in a ferroaxial electronic crystal.
  10. Ed Barnes, Virginia Tech University, USA
    Preparation of entangled states for quantum information processing.
  11. Michael Bauer, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
    Tracking exciton-polariton propagation in thin films of semiconducting TMDC.
  12. Samuel Beaulieu, Université de Bordeaux, France
    Floquet engineering in valleytronic materials.
  13. Lara Benfatto, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy
    Probing and driving chirality with circularly polarized light.
  14. Martin Bernier, Université Laval, Canada
    Recent progress in ultrafast fluoride fiber lasers.
  15. Sofia Bertuetti, Politechnico Milano, Italy
    (waiting for the title)
  16. Rolf Binder, University of Arizona at Tucson, USA
    Nonlinearities in non-Hermitian systems.
  17. Fabio Boschini, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada
    Direct evidence of competition between superconductivity and pseudogap in the dark electronic side of cuprates.
  18. Uwe Bovensiepen, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
    Electronic structure engineering in 1T-TaS_2 effective on various timescales.
  19. Alan Bristow, West Virginia University, USA
    Multidimensional coherent spectroscopy of exciton-polaritons and biexcitons.
  20. Sangam Chatterjee, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Germany
    Monitoring and controlling interplay of excitons vs. plasma.
  21. Ioannis Chatzakis, Texas Technical University, USA
    Polarons in hexagonal boron nitride.
  22. Elbert Chia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
    Ubiquitous d-wave-like pairing symmetry in infinite-layer nickelate superconductors.
  23. Federico Cilento, Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy
    Kagome metals investigated by time-resolved spectroscopies.
  24. Mirco Cinchetti, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
    Nonequilibrium pathways to hidden excitations in magnetic quantum materials.
  25. Matthew Day, Vanderbilt University, USA
    The optical control of topological transport in quantum materials.
  26. Martina Dell’Angela, Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy
    Diradicals as model systems for nonlinear quantum dynamics.
  27. Jure Demsar, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
    Interplay between ferromagnetism and charge density waves in SmNiC2 probed by femtosecond optical spectroscopy.
  28. Thibault J.-Y. Derrien, FZU Institute of Physics, Czech Republic
    Linking harmonic generation and transient band gap dynamics in solids upon ultrafast light.
  29. Jacob Dolgner, Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie, Germany
    Quantum nonlinear photonics in HOPG.
  30. Hermann Dürr, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
    Non-equilibrium topological spin currents.
  31. Martin Eckstein, Universität Hamburg, Germany
    Theory of ultrafast disordering at photo-induced phase transitions.
  32. Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, Radiantis, Spain
    Femtosecond optical parametric oscillator continuously tunable across 3.6–8 µm. 
  33. Sophia Economou, FORTH, Greece – Virginia Tech University, USA
    Quantum information processing: from hardware to applications. 
  34. Stefan Eisebitt, Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Germany
    Magnon momentum microscopy: a new approach to study nonlinear spin-wave dynamics below 100-nm wavelength. 
  35. Iliya Eremin, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
    Third harmonic generation of composite modes in unconventional superconductors. 
  36. Michael Fechner, Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie, Germany
    Coherent terahertz emission from critical superconducting fluctuations. 
  37. Adrian Feiguin, Northwestern University, USA
    Ligand charge correlations as the origin of the mass enhancement in LiV2O4. 
  38. Jim Freericks, Georgetown University, USA
    Electronic Raman scattering related to phonon Raman scattering. 
  39. Michael Först, Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie, Germany
    Light-driven high temperature superconductivity. 
  40. Herbert Fotso, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA
    Scalable photon-mediated operations in quantum information processing. 
  41. Yann Gallais, Université Paris Cité, France
    Dynamics of quantum phases by ultrafast Raman scattering.
    Ultrafast Raman probe of photo-induced dynamics in cuprates. 
  42. Yaroslav Gerasimenko, Universität Regensburg, Germany
    Atomic-scale ultrafast switching dynamics in a quantum material. 
  43. Donsung Choi, Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie, Germany
    Light-induced ferroelectricity in a piezoelectric. 
  44. Harald Gießen, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
    Phononic skyrmions. 
  45. Tomke Glier, Universität Hamburg, Germany
    Inelastic light scattering on unconventional amplitude modes. 
  46. Denis Golež, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
    Optical and transport properties of metastable states in Wigner crystals. 
  47. Claudia Gollner, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
    Direct probing of ultrafast charge carrier dynamics in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides by time-domain THz emission spectroscopy. 
  48. Daria Gorelova, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus–Senftenberg, Germany
    Theoretical description of attosecond x-ray imaging and spectroscopy. 
  49. Oleg Gorobtsov, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
    Disorder and sequential ultrafast morphology transitions in photoexcited V2O3. 
  50. Elizabeth Grace, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
    Single-shot spatiotemporal plasma density measurements with a chirped probe pulse. 
  51. Matt Graham, Oregon State University, USA
    Driving ultrafast spin and Landau-level transitions in twisted 2D, 1D, and 0D graphene systems. 
  52. Denis Grigorovitch, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
    (waiting for the title) 
  53. Alexander Gray, Temple University, USA
    Interfacial magnetism in nickelate-manganite superlattices: new mechanisms, dual magnetic sublattices, and ultrafast control. 
  54. Uwe Griebner, Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Germany
    Sub-50 fs post-compression of millijoule 5-µm pulses in coated and uncoated hollow-core fibers. 
  55. Vitaly Gruzdev, University of New Mexico, USA
    Petahertz lightwave electronics: status, issues, gaps, challenges, and future developments. 
  56. Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Universität Rostock, Germany
    Probing correlated materials with sub-cycle optical pulses. 
  57. Kenan Gundogdu, North Carolina State University, USA
    High-temperature superfluorescence. 
  58. Zahid Hasan, Princeton University, USA
    Ultrafast studies of topological quantum matter – a new frontier. 
  59. Ulrich Hofer, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
    Subcycle band-structure videography of lightwave-driven currents. 
  60. Philip Hoffman, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
    Direct view on electron and exciton dynamics in twisted bilayer graphene. 
  61. Anton Husakou, Max-Born Institut Berlin, Germany
    Semiclassical and quantum characterization of photoionization in gases and solids. 
  62. Menderes Işkın, Koç University, Türkiye
    Flat-band superconductivity and quantum geometry. 
  63. Julen Ibañez Azpiroz, Centro de Fisika des Materiales, Spain
    Spin symmetries as a guide for the optical response of magnetic materials. 
  64. Shinichiro Iwai, Tohoku University, Japan
    Ultrafast recovery of Umklapp scattering and quasiparticle generation in superconducting YBa2Cu3Oy. 
  65. Henri Jaffres, CNRS-Thales, France
    THz spectroscopy of spin-injection efficient at quantum materials interfaces.
  66. Allan Johnson, Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados Nanociencia, Spain
    An experimental thermodynamic perspective on ultrafast phase transitions. 
  67. Steven Johnson, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
    Linear and nonlinear x-ray probes of ultrafast material dynamics. 
  68. Gregor Jotzu, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
    Coherent control of spins and superconducting quanta using Terahertz light. 
  69. Dominik Juraschek, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherlands
    Multicolor phonon excitation in terahertz cavities. 
  70. Franz Kärtner, Universität Hamburg – DESY, Germany
    Optimised optical waveforms for efficient water window attosecond pulse generation.
  71. Kota Katsumi, New York University, USA
    Probing collective excitations in strongly correlated materials using terahertz two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy. 
  72. Tobias Kippenberg, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
    Femtosecond mode lock lasers based on erbium doped photonic integrated circuits. 
  73. Andrei Kirillyouk, Radboud Universiteit, The Netherlands
    Ultrafast lattice-driven switching of ferroic order. 
  74. Patrick Klein, Universität Hamburg, Germany
    Time resolved Raman scattering. 
  75. Andreas Knorr, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
    Spatio-temporal dynamics in two-dimensional exciton gases. 
  76. Oleksandr Kovalenko, Lancaster University, UK
    Phonon-driven coherent spin dynamics in iron oxides. 
  77. Tilmann Kuhn, Universität Münster, Germany
    Markovian and non-Markovian effects of the electron-phonon interaction on the optical properties of moiré excitons in TMDC bilayers. 
  78. Norio Kumada, NTT, Japan
    Ultrafast edge photocurrent dynamics in WTe2 driven by broken crystal symmetry. 
  79. Yannis Laplace, École Polytechnique – Institut Polytechnique de Paris
    Plasmonic metamaterial time crystal. 
  80. Francois Legare, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada
    Nonlinear optics and frequency conversion in hollow core waveguides. 
  81. Alfred Leitenstorfer, Konstanz Universität, Germany
    Quantum Dynamics under Elementary Confinement in Time and Space. 
  82. Hebin Li, Miami University, USA
    Optical two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy of color centers in solids. 
  83. Cristoph Lienau, Universität Oldenburg, Germany
    Ultrafast meets ultrasensitive: Multimode Rabi oscillations and Floquet dynamics in the strong coupling of excitonic quantum emitters to a tunable open cavity. 
  84. Peter Littlewood, University of Chicago, USA
    Non-reciprocal and non-Hermitian quantum dynamics. 
  85. Paul van Loosdrecht, Die Universität zu Köln, Germany
    Non-equilibrium dynamics in quantum materials. 
  86. Louis Lopez, Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Germany
    Tracing light-induced dynamics of local charge order at the angstrom scale. 
  87. Konstantinos Makris, University of Crete – FORTH, Greece
    Nonlinear optics of non-Hermitian lattices: from skin solitons to thermalization. 
  88. Dirk Manske, Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
    How to activate and detect the Higgs mode in superconductors. 
  89. Marina Marinkovic, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
    Digital quantum simulation of cQED: insights from superconducting and trapped ion quantum testbeds. 
  90. Anna Martinez, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
    Average power scaling of terahertz time-domain systems: challenges and opportunities. 
  91. Stefan Mathias, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
    Unraveling exciton dynamics in 2D quantum materials on ultrashort time- and lengthscales using time-resolved momentum microscopy. 
  92. Ludwig Mathey, Hamburg University, Germany
    Dynamics and criticality of superconductors. 
  93. Ryusuke Matsunaga, The University of Tokyo, Japan
    Spin, valley, and orbital-dependent transport in semiconductors studied by time-resolved terahertz polarimetry. 
  94. James McIver, Columbia University, USA
    THz electrodynamics of moiré materials. 
  95. Johan Mentink, Radboud Universiteit, the Netherlands
    Predicting quantum physics of ultrafast nanomagnetism. 
  96. Rostislav Mikhaylovskiy, Lancaster University, UK
    Coupled dynamics of quantum orbitals and quasi-classical magnons in rare-earth iron oxides. 
  97. Sergey Mirov, Alabama State University at Birmingham, USA
    Cr and Fe doped ZnSe/S mid-IR lasers and applications. 
  98. Matteo Mitrano, Harvard University, USA
    Revealing novel electronic phases in driven quantum chains with ultrafast X-rays. 
  99. Masataka Mogi, University of Tokyo, Japan
    Ultrafast optical control of topological crystalline order. 
  100. Reza Safaei Mohamadabadi, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada
    Ultrafast nonlinear optics in gas-filled hollow-core waveguides. 
  101. Oliver Monti, University of Arizona at Tucson, USA
    Spin-resolved band structures of layered quantum materials. 
  102. Soumya Mukherjee, l’École Normale Supérieure – CNRS, France
    Ultrafast THz properties of 2D transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures. 
  103. Niclas Sven Müller, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
    Nonlinear imaging of polaritons, crystal structure and stacking configurations in 2D materials with sum-frequency generation microscopy. 
  104. Yuta Murakami, Tohoku University, Japan
    Toward high-harmonic spectroscopy of strongly correlated systems. 
  105. Andrey Moskalenko, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology – KAIST, Korea
    Electro-optic sampling of the electric-field operator for ultrabroadband pulses of Gaussian quantum light. 
  106. Sergej Neb, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
    Local fields expose atomic-scale non-adiabatic carrier–phonon dynamics in Ti₃C₂Tₓ MXene. 
  107. Christian Negrin, Politechnico Milano, Italy
    Holographic imaging of ultrafast demagnetization dynamics. 
  108. Niloufar Nilforoushan, Université Paris-Saclay, France
    Strong-field lightwave engineering of excitonic states in a semiconductor monolayer. 
  109. Lazaro Padiha, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
    Optical coherences and fine structure in colloidal quantum dots revealed by multi-dimensional coherent spectroscopy. 
  110. Evangelos Papaioannou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
    Enhanced spin-to-charge conversion. 
  111. Ilias Perakis, The University of Alabama – Birmingham, USA – FORTH, Greece
    Terahertz 2D coherent spectroscopy for probing and controlling multi-correlations in quantum matter. 
  112. Vasili Perebeinos, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
    Linear and nonlinear optical response in low-dimensional materials. 
  113. Luca Perfetti, Ecole Polytechnique, France
    Tomography of a quantum exciton liquid. 
  114. Antonio Picano, Collège de France, PSL Research University, Paris, France
    Thermalization fronts in the Hubbard-Holstein model.
  115. Ilie Radu, European XFEL
    THz-driven ultrafast spin dynamics. 
  116. Marina Radulaski, University of California at Davis, USA
    Scalable quantum hardware in silicon carbide color center platform. 
  117. Michael Rafailov, Ultrafast Bandgap Photonics – Dynamics of Nonequilibrium, USA
    Bleaching in the presence of external field. 
  118. Theo Rasing, Radboud Universiteit, The Netherlands
    Probing and controlling magnetism by light. Controlling magnetism on the length and time scale of the exchange interaction. 
  119. Mika Rerrer, Universität Hamburg, Germany
    Light induced ultrafast structural transition in HOPG. 
  120. Baerbel Rethfeld, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
    Energy-resolved nonequilibrium dynamics of electrons, spins and phonons in laser-excited metals. 
  121. Laurenz Rettig, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany
    Ultrafast control of charge density waves. 
  122. Matthew Ringer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
    Transition and application of non-equilibrium discoveries. 
  123. Alon Ron, Tel Aviv University, Israel
    Ultrafast manipulation of a free energy landscape uncovers the hybrid electronic–ionic nature of the ferroelectric soft mode. 
  124. Michael Rübhausen, Universität Hamburg, Germany
    A Hitchhiker’s guide to collective excitations in the Mexican-hat potential. 
  125. Charlotte Sanders, UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
    Three-dimensional electron dynamics in PtBi2. 
  126. Pavlos Savvidis, China West University, China & FORTH, Greece
    Quantum light and fluids: applications in photonic simulation and annealing. 
  127. Agustin Schiffrin, Monash University, Australia
    Ultrafast carrier relaxation dynamics in formamidinium-rich metal-halide perovskites. 
  128. Clemens von Korf Schmissing, Max-Born-Institut Nichtlineare Optik Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Germany
    Ultrafast spin-reorientation in ferri- and antiferromagnetic systems. 
  129. Thorsten Schmitt, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
    Time-resolved RIXS. 
  130. Christian Schneider, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
    Altermagnets. 
  131. Michael Sentef, Bremen Universität, Germany
    Towards cavity control of superconductivity. 
  132. Choongwon Seo, Stanford University, USA
    Ultrafast X-ray scattering studies of the charge density wave amplitude mode in YBCO. 
  133. Kyle Seyler, University of Arizona at Tucson, USA
    Magnetization dynamics in moiré bilayers. 
  134. Sangeeta Sharma, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
    Ultrafast valley-to-saddle-to altertronics. 
  135. Sufei Shi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    Controlling moiré exciton diffusion via strong correlations. 
  136. Kyriaki Samioti, Université Paris-Saclay, France
    Band structure and ultrafast dynamics in MnSb₂Te₄: a magnetic semimetal. 
  137. Hadas Soifer, Tel Aviv University, Israel
    Resolving the phase of a Dirac topological state via interferometric photoemission. 
  138. Evgeni Sorokin, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
    Ultrashort pulse lasers. 
  139. Irina Sorokina, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
    Recent progress in miniaturized 2–3 micron frequency combs and their applications in science and industry. 
  140. Benjamin Stadtmüller, Universität Augsburg, Germany
    Ultrafast spin dynamics in magnetic and non-magnetic van der Waals materials. 
  141. Aaron Sternbach, University of Maryland College Park, USA
    Nano-Terahertz spectroscopy of ferroelectrics. 
  142. Kai Sun, University of Michigan, USA
    Algebraic non-Hermitian skin effect in arbitrary dimensions. 
  143. Janosch Tasto, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
    Analyzing the laser driven tetragonal-to-cubic phase transition in ferroelectric BaTiO3 using EXAFS spectroscopy as a local probe. 
  144. Shingo Toyoda, Riken, Japan
    All-optical control of an antiferromagnet via an inverse optical magnetoelectric effect. 
  145. Mariano Trigo, SLAC & Stanford University, USA
    Hidden phases of quantum paraelectrics under uniaxial strain. 
  146. Naoto Tsuji, Tokyo University, Japan
    Two dimensional coherent spectroscopy of disordered superconductors. 
  147. Mattia Udina, Université de Strasbourg & Université Paris Cité, France
    Revealing subtle symmetry breaking through the antisymmetric Raman response. 
  148. Tsuneya Yoshida, Kyoto University, Japan
    Liouvillian skin effect in electron systems. 
  149. Eryin Wang, Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie, Germany
    Ultrafast depairing currents and diode behavior in type-II superconductors. 
  150. Jigang Wang, Ames National Lab & Iowa State University, USA
    Extreme nonlinear phononics of hybrid exciton–phonon order revealed by THz2D coherent spectroscopy. 
  151. Nanlin Wang, Shanghai JiaoTong University – Peking University, China
    New insight into the interplay between superconductivity and pseudogap in cuprate superconductors as revealed by detecting collective Higgs modes. 
  152. Yao Wang, Emory University, USA
    Role of matter interactions in superradiant phenomena. 
  153. Yiping Wang, Columbia University, USA
    Time-domain view of fractional Chern insulators in twisted MoTe2. 
  154. Christian Weidgans, Universität Regensburg, Germany
    Tune the BEC with magnetic field – a first-ever for polariton condensates. 
  155. Sijie Zhang, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
    Revealing hidden bulk inversion symmetry breaking in ZrTe₅ via terahertz-driven nonlinear optics. 
  156. Hanyu Zhu, Rice University, USA
    Ultrafast spin-phonon dynamics with infrared and Raman-active chiral phonons. 
  157. Alfred Zong, Stanford University, USA
    Probing equilibrium properties of correlated materials via ultrafast atomic motion.
  158. Michael Zuerch, University of California, Berkeley, USA
    Ultrafast propagation of polar vortex domain walls.