List of Talks

• Andrea V. Bragas - Coherent Acoustic Dynamics in MoS2 Nanostructures
• Michele Celebrano - Nonlinear Light Conversion and Modulation with Lithium Niobate Metastructures
• Ben Lawrie - All-optical two-dimensional quantum noise spectroscopies
• Christiano José Santiago de Matos - Nonlinear optical frequency conversion in 2D materials: status and perspectives
• Francisco J. García-Vidal - Close encounters between periodic light and periodic matter
• Alex Fainstein - Cavity Polariton Time Crystals
• Päivi Törmä - Quasicrystals, flat band lasing, and coherence in plasmonic lattices
• Pedro David García - Computing with the complex nonlinear dynamics of an optomechanical oscillator
• F. Javier García de Abajo - Quantum nanophotonics with free electrons
• Sasha (Aliaksandra) Rakovich - Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles for bioimaging and photodynamic therapy applications
• Jason Valentine - Meta-Optics for Object and Spectral Classification
• Guillermo Acuna - Nanophotonics beyond silver and gold: DNA‑origami assembled dielectric and UV‑plasmonic nanoantennas
• Antonio Garcia-Martin - Magneto-Optics in metasurfaces with Brewster’s BICs
• Yaseera Ismail - Free-Space Quantum Optical Links: From Entanglement Generation to Real-Time QKD Implementation
• Frank Scheffold - Photonic bandgaps and Anderson localization in three-dimensional disordered dielectric networks
• Hasan Yilmaz - Limits of Wave Control in Complex Media: Beyond Randomness
• Omar S. Magana-Loaiza - Many-body plasmonic platforms for quantum technologies
• Helmut Ritsch - A nanoscale mirror-less laser
• Monika Ritsch-Marte - Acoustically-mediated optical tomography of mesoscopic biological samples
• Joshua Caldwell - Uncovering the role of crystal symmetry and polaritons in thermal conductivity enhancements
• Takashi Yamamoto - Multiplexed quantum network technologies toward a large-scale quantum computer
• Giorgio Volpe - Light-Matter and Electromagnetic Interactions at Liquid Interfaces
• Felipe Pinheiro - Fractal states in electromagnetic wave transport: from aperiodic to disordered systems
• Stefan Maier - Modulation and selected applications of quasi-bound state in the continuum resonances
• Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop - Catch, move and twist using optically controlled quantum sensors
• Jose Sánchez-Gil - Breaking symmetries in metasurfaces to unleash quasi-BIC phenomenology
• Pieter Neethling - Integrated Optical Tweezers/Microfluidics Setup for Single Cell Analysis
• Gregory Triplett - New Developments to detect hidden patterns in molecular fingerprints measured by confocal Raman Spectroscopy
• Niels Verellen - Configurable photonics for structured illumination
• Javier Aizpurua - Ultrafast Dynamics of Energetic Carriers Induced by Optical Pulses in Plasmonic Nanogaps and Nanoparticles
• Andrew Forbes - The topology of entangled states
• Laura Foglia - Nanoscale Transient Grating beyond Thermoelasticity
• Mark Tame - Doing More with Less: Few-Photon Quantum Technologies at the Nanoscale
• Tjaart Krüger - Plasmon-tuned photosynthesis
• Christine Margarete Steenkamp - Trapped ions and unsharp measurements: experiment and modelling in Stellenbosch
• Andrea Baldi - Sensing with AI-designed plasmonic metasurfaces
• Eugenio R. Méndez - Optical techniques in a targeted drug delivery system
• Arthur Goetschy - Theory of wave control in complex media
• Amos Kiyumbi - Plasmonic nanostructured sensors for malaria biosensing: from an effective microscopic model to experiment
• Antonio Carone - Bioinspired self-assembled chiral architectures for plasmonics
• Harald Giessen - Discovery of phonon-polaritonic skyrmions: Transition from bubble- to Néel-type
• Riccardo Sapienza - Metamaterials that vary in time unlock superluminal motion
• Aitzol Garcia-Etxarri - 3D topological photonics: 3D Chern photonic insulators and electromagnetic axions
• Philippe Lalanne - Disspative coupling and DOS of disordered metasurfaces

List of Posters

• Pedro Ornelas - Metasurface-assisted quantum skyrmions enhanced by high-dimensional entanglement
• Francois Conradie - Singlet-triplet annihilation domains in light-harvesting aggregates
• Teresa Celaya Garmendia - Nanoneuro: Plasmonic Nanoparticle Mediated Neuromodulation
• Conrad Strydom - Demonstration of quantum random number generation using nitrogen vacancy centre emitters
• Celia Sherriff - Quantum plasmonic sensing for enhanced malaria detection