Monday, January 8, 2018 — Morning

Monday, January 8, 2018 — Morning Morning Plenary Session 1; Virgil Sanders, Chair 7:30 Federico Capasso, Harvard University, “Meta-optics at Visible Wavelengths” 8:00 Hui Cao, Yale University, “Mesoscopic Optics” 8:30 Marlan Scully, Baylor, Princeton, TAMU, “Black hole acceleration radiation: a quantum optical perspective” Advances in Metasurface Optics Mesoscopic Optics 1 Quantum Optics in General Relativity Trends in Quantum Information Science 1 Federico Capasso, Chair Hui Cao, Chair Marlan Scully, Chair Girish Agarwal, Chair

9:10 Wei Ting Chen, Harvard University, “Broad- Rémi Carminati, ESPCI PARIS, “Spatial cor- Don Page, University of Alberta, “Hawking Ra- Virginia Lorenz, University of Illinois at band Achromatic Metalenses in the visible” relations and mutual information between re- diation and Black Hole Thermodynamics” Urbana-Champaign, “Engineering photon-pair flected and transmitted speckles emerging from generation through Raman-mediated four-wave opaque disordered media” mixing” 9:30 Cheng-Wei Qiu, National University of Singa- Chia Wei (Wade) Hsu, Yale University, Gerald Moore, “Producing Photons with Mov- Sergey Polyakov, NIST, “Discrimination of fre- pore, “Atomically Thin Meta-lens: Diffraction- “Global control of light transmission in strongly ing Mirrors” quency shifted coherent states below the stan- limited Focusing and High Efficiency” scattering media” dard quantum limit” 9:50 Mikhail Belkin, The University of Texas at Alexandre Aubry, Institut Langevin - ESPCI Stephen Fulling, Texas A&M University, “How Andrei Faraon, California Institute of Technol- Austin, “Intersubband polaritonic metasurfaces Paris, PSL Research University, “Matrix ap- Does the Equivalence Principle Apply to ogy, “Quantum nano-photonic devices based on for frequency mixing and optical power limit- proach of optical imaging through strongly scat- Atomic Radiation?” rare-earth-doped crystals” ing” tering media” 10:10 Alejandro Rodriguez, Princeton University, Tomas Cizmar, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Anatoly Svidzinsky, Texas A&M University, John Reintjes, Sotera, “Entangled Ghost Imag- “Inverse design of metasurfaces for nonlinear Technology e.V., “Holographic micro-endoscopy “Excitation of atom by a uniformly accelerated ing: Resolution, the Gaussian Schell and Pop- and thermal photonics” based on multimode waveguides” mirror” per’s conjecture” — Break — Morning Plenary Session 2; Robert Boyd, Chair 10:50 Naomi Halas, Rice University, “Topics in Active Plasmonics” 11:20 Marco Genovese, INRIM, “Quantum Correlations for Quantum Imaging” Active Plasmonics 1 Quantum Correlations for Quantum Imaging Optics of 2D and Topological Materials Cold Atoms Naomi Halas, Chair Marco Genovese, Chair Mikhail Belkin, Chair Ron Folman, Chair

12:00 Jiming Bao, University of Houston, “Laser Robert Boyd, University of Ottawa, “Genera- Pending. Frank Narducci, Naval Postgraduate School, Streaming: Turning a Laser Beam into a Liquid tion of Caustics and Rogue Waves through Non- “Considerations for a dual accelerome- Jet Flow” linear Propagation” ter/gyroscope using continuous opposing atomic beams” 12:20 Nicolas Large, University of Texas at San Bonnie L. Schmittberger, Joint Quantum Insti- Alexey Belyanin, Texas A&M University, Mark Havey, Old Dominion University, “Light Antonio, “Numerical Modeling of Electron tute, “Improving the measurement of quantum “Optics and plasmonics of Dirac and Weyl Scattering from Cold Rubidium Atoms” Energy-Loss Spectroscopy in Complex Plas- correlations” fermions” monic Nanostructures” 12:40 Pierre Berini, University of Ottawa, “Nonlinear Mathieu Manceau, MPL, Erlangen, Germany, Galan Moody, NIST, “2D Spectroscopy of 2D Alexey Akimov, Texas A&M University, “Po- plasmonic metasurfaces” “SU(1,1) interferometry and enhanced sub-shot- Materials: Intrinsic Optical Properties of Mono- larized cold cloud of thulium atoms” noise imaging” layer Semiconductors” Monday, January 8, 2018 — Evening Evening Plenary Session; Mark Saﬀman, Chair 19:00 Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck, “‘Free-Space’ Chiral Quantum Optics - From Quantum Antenna to ’Free Space’ Quantum Links” 19:30 Olga Kocharovskaya, Texas A&M University, “Dynamical control of the resonant interaction: Towards new X-ray sources” 20:00 Matthew Pelton, University of Maryland Baltimore County, “Quantum Electronics with Nanocrystals”

— Break — Manybody Interactions New X-Ray Sources Quantum Electronics with Nanocrystals Active Plasmonics 2 Peter Zoller, Chair Olga Kocharovskaya, Chair Matthew Pelton, Chair Naomi Halas, Chair

20:50 Mark Saffman, University of Wisconsin- Arvinder Sandhu, University of Arizona, “New Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge, Gururaj Naik, Rice University, “Extreme Madison, “Scaling of optically and magnetically table-top X-ray generation schemes: Examples “Pico-Photonics: Strong Coupling and Optome- asymmetry and anisotropy for taming thermal trapped atomic qubit arrays” from HHG and Compact XFEL” chanics in extreme nano-optics with determinis- radiation” tic number and placement of molecules” 21:10 Alexey Gorshkov, Joint Quantum Institute, Donald Umstadter, University of Ne- Maiken H. Mikkelsen, Duke University, “Tai- Alejandro Manjavacas, University of New “Complexity of sampling as an order parameter” braska–Lincoln, “Kilo-order multiphoton lored emission of quantum dots and 2D materi- Mexico, “Hybridization and sensing in arrays of scattering: Converting near infrared laser light als using plasmonic nanocavities” plasmonic nanostructures” to x-rays” 21:30 Norman Yao, University of California Berke- James Carroll, Army Research Lab, “First David Norris, ETH Zurich, “Colloidal- Jason Valentine, Vanderbilt University, “Dy- ley, “Discrete Time Crystals” Demonstration of Inverse Electron Conversion” quantum-dot spasers and plasmonic amplifiers” namic Plasmonic Metasurfaces” 21:50 Elena Kuznetsova, Texas A&M University Wen-Te Liao, National Central University, Tai- Oleksandr Voznyy, University of Toronto, “Re- Christy Landes, Rice University, “Photo- IQSE, “Effective indirect spin-spin interac- wan, “Generation of short hard X-ray pulses of ducing the optical gain threshold in colloidal electrochemical dissolution: In search of hot tions in bilayers of Rydberg atoms and polar tailored duration using a Mössbauer source” nanocrystals: CW lasing and beyond” holes” molecules” 22:10 Kaden Hazzard, Rice University, “Synthetic Xiangjin Kong, Max Planck Institute for Nu- Shunping Zhang, Wuhan University, China, Tigran Shahbazyan, Jackson State University, dimensions in ultracold molecules: quantum clear Physics, “From electromagnetically in- “Strong plasmon-exciton interaction in “Landau damping of surface plasmons in metal strings, membranes, and dissipation-induced duced transparency to Autler-Townes splitting nanocavities” nanostructures” topology” with x-rays” Tuesday, January 9, 2018 — Morning Morning Plenary Session 1; Olga Kocharovskaya, Chair 7:30 Anne L’Huillier, Lund University, “Photoionization dynamics probed by attosecond light pulses” 8:00 Wolfgang Schleich, Ulm University, “On the interface of quantum and gravity” 8:30 Leonid Butov, University of California San Diego, “Condensation of indirect excitons” Ultrafast Photoionization Dynamics On the Interface of Quantum and Gravity 1 Excitons Topological Quantum Optics Anne L’Huillier, Chair Wolfgang Schleich, Chair Leonid Butov, Chair Chaoyang Lu, Chair

9:10 Thomas Pfeifer, MPIK Heidelberg, “The time- Matthias Zimmermann, Ulm University, “The Tony Heinz, Stanford University, “Controlling Miguel A. Bandres, Technion, “Topological In- domain response of autoionization and strong- linear potential and the cubic phase” excitons in 2D materials” sulator Laser” ﬁeld ionization” 9:30 Luca Argenti, University of Central Florida, Gary Georgi Rozenman, Tel Aviv Univer- Victor Klimov, Los Alamos National Labora- Peng Xue, Southeast University, “Observa- “Attosecond photoelectron spectroscopy of res- sity, “Measuring Phases of Quantum Mechani- tory, “Strongly conﬁned excitons and biexcitons tion of topological edge states in parity-time- onant transitions” cal Wavepackets Using Surface Gravity Water- in relation to quantum-dot lasing and LEDs” symmetric quantum walks” Waves” 9:50 Paul Hockett, National Research Council of Hartmut Abele, TU Wien, “qBOUNCE, a Gil Refael, California Institute of Technology, Gediminas Juzeli¯unas, Vilnius University, Canada, “Bootstrapping (Ultrafast) Photoion- Quantum Bouncing Ball Gravity Spectrometer” “Topological Polaritons and excitons in solid “Novel topological optical lattices for ultracold ization Dynamics” state systems” atoms” 10:10 Tenio Popmintchev, University of California Dennis Schlippert, Leibniz Universitaet Han- Alexander High, University of Chicago, “Ex- Dawei Wang, Texas A&M University, “Parallel San Diego, “Coherent X-rays with Designed nover, “Towards tests of fundamental physics ploring the bright side and the dark side quantum operations with chiral spin states in a Spectral, Temporal Shape, and Spin and Orbital using Very Long Baseline Atom Interferometry” of excitons in atomically-thin transition metal superconducting circuit” Angular Momentum” dichalcogenides” — Break — Morning Plenary Session 2; George Welch, Chair 10:50 Peter Nordlander, Rice University, “Plasmon-Induced Hot Carrier Generation and Applications” 11:20 Gershon Kurizki, Weizmann Institute, “Thermodynamics of quantum and classical machines” Hot Carrier Generation Quantum and Classical Thermodynamic Mesoscopic Optics 2 Trends in Quantum Information Science 2 Peter Nordlander, Chair Machines Hui Cao, Chair Virginia Lorenz, Chair Gershon Kurizki, Chair

12:00 Stephan Link, Rice University, “Monitoring Abraham Nitzan, University of Pennsylvania, Douglas Stone, Yale University, “Unidirec- Girish Agarwal, Texas A&M University, “Mul- plasmon generated hot carriers one particle at a “Energy transfer and conversion in molecular tional reflectionless transmission of light with- tiphoton blockade in cavity QED” time” junctions” out and with PT symmetry” 12:20 Prineha Narang, Harvard University, Ulrich Poschinger, Universität Mainz, “A Nikolay Zheludev, University of Southampton, Christoph Simon, University of Calgary, “Excited-state and Correlated Light-Matter Single-Ion Heat Engine in the Quantum UK & NTU Singapore, “Super-Oscillations and “Quantum networks: global, warm, biological?” Interactions: Through the Lens of Electron- Regime” the Far-Field Metamaterial Super-Lens” Phonon Coupling” 12:40 Tianquan Lian, Emory University, “Two ap- Alexandre Roulet, Uni Basel, “Quantum Ab- Yun-Feng Xiao, Peking University, “Ultra- Mehmet Emre Tasgin, Hacettepe University, proaches for enhancing the efficiency of plas- sorption Refrigerator with Trapped Ions” high-Q asymmetric microcavity optics and pho- “Multiparticle entanglement in superradiance” mon induced hot electron transfer” tonics” Tuesday, January 9, 2018 — Evening Evening Plenary Session; Reinhard Kienberger, Chair 19:00 Ursula Keller, ETH Zurich, “Laser field controlled dynamics: from THz to PHz” 19:30 Volker Deckert, IPHT Jena, “Tip-enhanced spectroscopies - pushing the limit of spatial resolution” 20:00 Zubin Jacob, Purdue University, “Quantum Vacuum Radiation and Time-Reversal Symmetry”

— Break — Attosecond Field-Driven Dynamics in Theoretical and Experimental Developments in Topological Metrology of Quantum Vacuum Hot Carrier Induced Chemistry Condensed Matter Probe Enhanced Spectroscopy Radiation Peter Nordlander, Chair Ursula Keller, Chair Volker Deckert, Chair Zubin Jacob, Chair

20:50 Martin Schultze, MPQ / LMU, “Attosecond Javier Aizpurua, Center for Materials Physics, Marty Stevens, NIST, “Seeing the dark: explor- Renee Frontiera, University of Minnesota, “Ul- electron dynamics in small- and wide-gap ma- San Sebastian (CSIC-UPV/EHU), “Driving ing the limits of dark count rate in superconduct- trafast SERS probing of molecular heating and terials” surface-enhanced molecular spectroscopy to the ing single-photon detectors” hot carrier transfer in plasmonic photocatalysis” atomic scale” 21:10 Peter Kraus, University of California Berkeley, George Schatz, Northwestern University, “The- Stefan Yoshi Buhmann, University of Freiburg, Katherine (Kallie) Willets, Temple University, “Attosecond quantum dynamics of photoexcited ories of SERS, TERS and Plasmon-Enhanced “Quantum Friction” “Isolating local heating and hot carrier effects semiconductors” Energy Transfer” in plasmon-mediated photoelectrochemical re- actions” 21:30 David Reis, Stanford PULSE Institute, “High Christiane Höppener, Leibniz Institut für Pho- Denis Seletskiy, Polytechnique Montréal, “Sub- Wei David Wei, University of Florida, Harmonics from Solids” tonische Technologien Jena, Germany, “Optical cycle quantum electrodynamics” “Elucidating the Origin of Size-Dependent Nanoparticle Antennas for investigations of or- Photocatalytic Activity in Plasmonic- ganic materials” Metal/Semiconductor Heterostructures” 21:50 Uwe Thumm, Kansas State University, “At- Nan Jiang, University of Illinois at Chicago, Roberto Passante, University of Palermo, Jennifer Dionne, Stanford University, “In situ tosecond time-resolved spectroscopies from “Recent progress in the study of surface chem- Italy, “Detection of the Unruh effect through visualization of plasmon-mediated chemical solid surfaces and nanoparticles” istry on various noble metal surfaces by ul- radiation-mediated interactions between accel- transformations at the single and sub-particle trahigh vacuum tip-enhanced Raman spec- erating atoms” level” troscopy” 22:10 Agnieszka Jaron-Becker, JILA, University of Dmitry Kurouski, Texas A&M University, Manuel Donaire, Universidad de Valladolid, Stephen Cronin, University of Southern Cal- Colorado, “Towards Ultrafast Control of Pho- “TERS in biology and electrochemistry” “Vacuum Momentum: The Casimir Momentum ifornia, “Plasmon-Enhanced Hot Electron- toinduced Ring-Currents in Benzene” of a Chiral Molecule in a Magnetic Field” Driven Photocatalysis” Wednesday, January 10, 2018 — Morning Morning Plenary Session 1; Alexey Belyanin, Chair 7:30 Gadi Eisenstein, Technion, “Substituting cryogenic temperature by short time excitations: Quantum coherent effects in room temperature quantum dot optical gain media” 8:00 Jacob Khurgin, Johns Hopkisn University, “Alternatives to metals in plasmonics: semiconductors, phononic materials and others” 8:30 Frank Koppens, ICFO, “Polaritons in layered two-dimensional materials” Laser Dynamics Advances in Practical Plasmonic and Photonics Frontiers with 2D Materials 1 On the Interface of Quantum and Gravity 2 Gadi Eisenstein, Chair Metamaterials Gennady Shvets, Chair Wolfgang Schleich, Chair Jacob Khurgin, Chair

9:10 Kent Choquette, University of Illinois, “Non- N. Asger Mortensen, University of South- Shangjr Gwo, National Tsing-Hua University, Caslav Brukner, Institut for Quantum Optics Hermiticity and dynamics in coupled VCSEL ern Denmark, “Laser post-processing of “When Plasmonic Metasurfaces Meet 2D Semi- and Quantum Information, “Quantum tests of arrays” morphology-dependent plasmonic resonances” conductor Monolayers: Strong Coupling and time dilation and the equivalence principle” Nonlinear Processes” 9:30 Justin Norman, UC Santa Barbara, “Low Uriel Levy, HUJI, “Controlling amplitude, Gregory Fuchs, Cornell University, “Optical Yair Margalit, Ben-Gurion University, “Time threshold, high gain 1300 nm quantum dot lasers phase, polarization and spectral properties of Properties of Single Quantum Emitters in a 2D as a ”which path” witness” epitaxially grown on Si” light using silicon metasurfaces” Insulator” 9:50 Johann Peter Reithmaier, University of Kas- Greg Sun, UMass Boston, “The prospect of Thomas Taubner, RWTH Aachen University, Fabio Di Pumpo, Ulm University, “Phase shifts sel, “High-Speed Directly Modulated 1.55 µm low-loss semiconductors for high ﬁeld enhance- “Nanoscale imaging with 2D materials” from proper time” Quantum Dot Lasers” ment” 10:10 Constance Chang-Hasnain, University of Cal- Volker Sorger, GWU, “Attojoule Modulators Joel Cox, ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sci- J. S. Ben-Benjamin, Texas A&M University, ifornia Berkeley, “Wavelength-swept VCSEL for Photonic Neuromorphic Algorithms” ences, “Nonlinear plasmonics in atomically-thin “Extracting photons from a rotating black hole” with high-index contrast metastructures” materials” — Break — Morning Plenary Session 2; Marlan Scully, Chair 10:50 Marlan Scully, Baylor, Princeton, TAMU, “Presentation of the 2018 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics” 11:20 Ernst Rasel, Leibniz University Hannover, “Space-borne Bose-Einstein condensation for precision interferometry” New Tools for Atom Interferometry Attosecond Photoemission From Solid Targets Photonics Frontiers with 2D Materials 2 Manybody Interactions 2 Ernst Rasel, Chair Ursula Keller, Chair Frank Koppens, Chair Kaden Hazzard, Chair

12:00 Franck Pereira dos Santos, Paris Observatory, Reinhard Kienberger, TU Munich, Germany, Josh Caldwell, Vanderbilt University, “Novel Juha Javanainen, University of Connecticut, “A force sensor for local measurements based on “Attosecond electron dynamics in surfaces and Materials and Approaches for Dynamic IR “Light in a stack of 2D atom lattices” trapped atom interferometry” layered systems” Nano-Optics” 12:20 Marco Fattori, LENS, University of Firenze, Walter Pfeiffer, Bielefeld University, “Intra- Ertugrul Cubukcu, University of California, Kyungwon An, Seoul National University, “Su- “Atom interferometry with trapped Bose Ein- atomic angular momentum induced attosecond San Diego, “Resonant Linear and Nonlinear perradiance by chiral-interacting atoms in a cav- stein condensates with tunable interactions” delays in solid state photoemission” Monolayer Photonics” ity” 12:40 Jan Rudolph, Stanford University, “Atom inter- Lukas Gallmann, ETH Zurich, “The effective Gennady Shvets, Cornell University, “Re- Robert Lewis-Swan, JILA, NIST, University ferometry using clock transitions for fundamen- mass in attosecond photoemission from solids” configurable Topological Photonics on the of Colorado, “Cavity Mediated Collective Spin tal physics” Nanoscale Using Graphene Plasmon Polaritons” Exchange Interactions in a Strontium Superradi- ant Laser” Wednesday, January 10, 2018 — Evening Evening Plenary Session; Wim Leemans, Chair 19:00 Vlad Shalaev, Purdue University, “Catching Light Rays: Emerging Plasmonic Materials for Energy Conversion, High-Temperature Sensing & Nanophotonics” 19:30 Jack Harris, Yale University, “Topological physics with two oscillators: beyond the Berry phase via exceptional points” 20:00 Jorge Rocca, Colorado State University, “Relativistic nanophotonics: heating matter to extreme conditions with compact lasers”

— Break — Plasmonics for Nanophotonics, Energy, and Topological and Nonreciprocal Control Relativistic Plasmas and X-Ray Lasers Cold Atoms in Space Beyond Jack Harris, Chair Jorge Rocca, Chair Ernst Rasel, Chair Vlad Shalaev, Chair

20:50 Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technol- Sahin Ozdemir, The Pennsylvania State Uni- Wim Leemans, Lawrence Berkeley National Philippe Bouyer, CNRS - IOGS, “Dual-species ogy, “Materials Limits for Thermal Radiation – versity, “Optics and Optomechanics at Excep- Lab, “On the promise of laser plasma acceler- interferometry with ultra-cold atoms in 0-g” Near Field and Far Field” tional Points” ators and enabling the machine to be brought to the problem” 21:10 Mark Brongersma, Stanford University, Lan Yang, Washington University in St. Louis, Carmen Menoni, Colorado State University, Rob Thompson, Jet Propulsion Lab, “An over “Multi-resonant Metamaterial Antireflection “Whispering-gallery-mode resonators at excep- “Soft x-ray laser nanoscale molecular imaging: view of the Cold Atom Lab Mission” Coatings” tional points” enhanced mass range and sensitivity” 21:30 Shanhui Fan, Stanford University, “Theoretical Raam Uzdin, Technion, Haifa, Israel, “From Siegfried Glenzer, SLAC/Stanford, “Frist mea- Bastian Leykauf, Humboldt-Universität zu limits for harvesting outgoing thermal radiation” non-Hermitian speed limits to quantum measurement of the X-ray ion feature using LCLS” Berlin, “A mobile quantum gravity sensor for surements and Markovian environments” field applications” 21:50 Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue University, Demetrios Christodoulides, CREOL-UCF, Félicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Nathan Lundblad, Bates College, “Planned “Tailorable Ultra-Thin Films and MXenes for “Parity-Time Symmetry and Exceptional Points Laboratory, “Applications of light sources experiments with shell-geometry Bose-Einstein Nanophotonic Applications” in Optics” driven by laser wakefield acceleration” condensation in microgravity aboard CAL” 22:10 Pramod Reddy, University of Michigan, “Near- Andrea Alu, CUNY Advanced Science Re- Szymon Suckewer, Princeton University,— Hamilton Paul, UCLA, “Atom interferometry: Field Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion” search Center, “Topological Photonics, Slow Participant not registered — science on the space station” Light and Non-Reciprocal Transport Based on Temporal Modulations” Thursday, January 11, 2018 — Morning Morning Plenary Session 1; Thomas Weinacht, Chair 7:30 Mark Raizen, University of Texas at Austin, “An alternative to laser cooling and evaporative cooling” 8:00 Stephan Reitzenstein, TU Berlin, “Physics and applications of cavity enhanced quantum dot microlasers” 8:30 Louis DiMauro, The Ohio State University, “The Scaling of Strong Field Atomic Physics” Novel Cooling Methods Physics of Semiconductor Nanolasers Strong Field Atomic Physics Advanced Laser Spectroscopy Mark Raizen, Chair Stephan Reitzenstein, Chair Louis DiMauro, Chair Vladimir Malinovsky, Chair

9:10 James Thompson, JILA, “A magneto-optical Weng Chow, Sandia National Labs, “Cavity- Thomas Weinacht, Stony Brook University, Svetlana Malinovskaya, Stevens Institute of trap and laser cooling using adiabatic passage QED for better lighting” “Nonadiabatic Dynamics in Strong Field Ioniza- Technology, “Enhanced CARS for remote detec- on a forbidden transition in strontium” tion” tion” 9:30 Harold Metcalf, Stony Brook University, Daniel Brunner, FEMTO-ST, “Towards Pho- Robert Jones, University of Virginia, “Strong- Aleks Rebane, Montana State University, “Ad- “Strong Optical Forces on Atoms Using Adia- tonic Networks of Micropillar Lasers for Neu- Field Physics Near THz Irradiated Nano-Tips” vances in femtosecond multiphoton absorption batic Rapid Passage” romorphic Computing” of organic systems” 9:50 Dmitry Budker, Helmholtz Institute Mainz / Cun-Zheng Ning, Tsinghua University and Ari- Barry Walker, University of Delaware, Zhenrong Zhang, Baylor University, “Photo- UC Berkeley, “Efficient polarization of high- zona State University, “Optical properties and “Molecular ionization in ultrastrong fields: the Reaction of Monolayer MoS2 in Air” angular-momentum systems” lasing of 2D molybdenum ditelluride” ‘nearest neighbor’ gateway to highly charged ion formation” 10:10 Pavel Nagornykh, University of Texas at Mercedeh Khajavikhan, University of Central Ulf Saalmann, MPIPKS Dresden, “Strong-field Edward Fry, Texas A&M University, “Integrat- Austin, “Magneto-optical (MOP) cooling of Florida- CREOL, “Generating structured light control with an adiabatic-passage technique” ing Cavities, Ring-Down Spectroscopy and the Atoms” using metallic nanolaser arrays” First Reliable UV Absorption Data for Pure Wa- ter” — Break — Morning Plenary Session 2; Yuri Shvyd’ko, Chair 10:50 Markus Pollnau, University of Surrey, “A few disturbing thoughts about the laser linewidth” 11:20 Ralf Röhlsberger, DESY, “Collective strong coupling of x-rays and nuclei” Spectral Coherence in Resonators and Lasers X-Ray Optics Biosensing with Nanodiamonds Trends in Quantum Optics 1 Markus Pollnau, Chair Ralf Röhlsberger, Chair Alexey Akimov, Chair Svetlana Malinovskaya, Chair

12:00 Florian Siegrist, MPI of Quantum Optics, “At- Jörg Evers, MPIK Heidelberg, “Sudden shifts Phil Hemmer, Texas A&M University IQSE, Shiyao Zhu, Zhejiang University, “Topological tosecond energy transfer dynamics in transpar- sharpen x-ray pulses” “Biosensing with nanodiamonds and other non- quantum optics: from the simulation of the Hal- ent solids” bleaching particles” dane model to applications in quantum information” 12:20 Emir Salih Magden, Massachusetts Insti- Kai Sven Schulze, University Jena, “High- Quan Li, The Chinese University of Hong Vladimir Malinovsky, US Army Research Lab- tute of Technology, “Ultra-Narrow-Linewidth purity x-ray polarimetry for precision tests of Kong, “Anchoring Nanodiamond onto bacteria oratory, “Entanglement enhanced telescopic in- Al2O3:Er3+ Lasers with a Wavelength- fundamental physics” and beyond” terferometry” Insensitive Waveguide Design on a Wafer-Scale Silicon Nitride Platform” 12:40 Cornelia Denz, University of Muenster, “Non- Mariano Trigo, SLAC/Stanford, “Structural dy- Ren-Bao Liu, The Chinese University of Hong Ana María Cetto, Instituto de Física, UNAM, linear integrated optics on lithium niobate for namics in materials from thermally squeezed Kong, “Diamond sensing of magnetic ﬂuctua- “How ’quantum’ is the free radiation ﬁeld?” sensing applications” phonons” tions in nanoparticles” Thursday, January 11, 2018 — Evening Evening Plenary Session; Ian Osborne, Chair 19:00 Alexei Sokolov, Texas A&M University, “Applying molecular coherence to ultrafast optics” 19:30 John Howell, Hebrew University , “Precision and quantum measurement” 20:00 Joachim von Zanthier, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, “Quantum imaging with X-rays”

— Break — Molecular Modulation Precision and Quantum Measurement Quantum Imaging with Incoherent Light Semiconductor Quantum Optics Totaro Imasaka, Chair John Howell, Chair Joachim von Zanthier, Chair Stephan Reitzenstein, Chair

20:50 Deniz Yavuz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Andrew Jordan, University of Rochester, “Ar- Henry Chapman, CFEL DESY, “Atomic imag- Andreas Knorr, Technical University Berlin, “Continuous-wave modulation of a femtosecond row of time for continuous quantum measure- ing of molecules with coherent and incoherent “Quantum feedback in quantum dot - waveguide Ti:sapphire oscillator” ment” X-rays” structures” 21:10 Fetah Benabid, GPPMM group, XLIM, CNRS, Hagai Eisenberg, The Hebrew University of Andreas Kaldun, Stanford University, “Non- Kartik Srinivasan, NIST, “Heterogeneous in- France, “Self-optically-nanostructuring Raman Jerusalem, “Multiphoton entanglement from a linear nuclear optics: first experimental results tegration for quantum photonics with quantum gases” single single-photon source” and future challenges” dots” 21:30 David Novoa, Max Planck Institute for the Sci- Avi Pe’er, Bar Ilan University, “Lifting the Anton Classen, Universität Erlangen, “Struc- Peter Michler, University of Stuttgart, “Slow ence of Light, “Enhanced control of molecular Bandwidth Limit of Optical Homodyne Mea- tured illumination quantum correlation mi- light and two-photon interference between modulation in hollow-core fibers” surement” croscopy” atomic vapour delayed and un-delayed single photons from a quantum dot” 21:50 Masayuki Katsuragawa, University of Electro- Onur Hosten, Stanford University, “Quantum Pieter Kok, University of Sheffield, “Optimal Ruth Oulton, University of Bristol, “Low Q- Communications, “Tailor made nonlinear opti- phase magnification” Quantum Imaging of Distant Black Bodies” factor quantum dot micropillars for spin-photon cal frequency mixing and its application to opti- entanglement and quantum switching” cal devices” 22:10 Mariia Shutova, Texas A&M University, “Co- Ronen Rapapot, The Hebrew University of Mathilde Fouché, CNRS - INPHYNI, “Revival Gregor Weihs, University of Innsbruck, “Three herent Raman generation with wavefront shap- Jerusalem, “Heralded single photon harvesting of intensity interferometry in astronomy” photons – efficient and interfering” ing” from a bi-exciton state in room temperature nano-emitters using nano-antennas” Friday, January 12, 2018 — Morning Morning Plenary Session 1; Anatoly Svidzinsky, Chair 7:30 Yasuhiko Arakawa, University of Tokyo, “Advances in quantum dots for lasers and single photon sources” 8:00 Ji-Xin Cheng, Boston University, “Molecular Spectroscopic Imaging for Medicine: from Physics to Treatment” 8:30 Luiz Davidovich, Instituto de Física - Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, “Quantum Metrology” Applications of Semiconductor Micro- and New Frontiers in Medical Photonics Quantum Metrology: Toward the Ultimate Modern Optics Nanolasers Ji-Xin Cheng, Chair Precision Limit Phil Hemmer, Chair Yasuhiko Arakawa, Chair Luiz Davidovich, Chair

9:10 Jesper Moerk, Technical University of Den- Jesse Wilson, Colorado State University, Ruynet L. de Matos Filho, Universidade Fed- Vaclav Spicka, Institute of Physics, ASCR, mark, “Photonic crystal Fano lasers for short “Excited-state dynamics of heme proteins for eral do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, “Quantum En- Prague, “Relation between full NEGF, Non- pulse generation and extreme modulation band- molecular imaging contrast” hanced Sensing from Hyper-Entanglement” Markovian and Markovian Transport Equa- width” tions” 9:30 Fabrice Raineri, C2N-CNRS, “Nanobeam laser Darren Roblyer, Boston University, “Fre- Sebastien Gleyzes, LKB - CNRS, “Quantum Peter Keefe, University of Detroit Mercy, “Re- diodes on Si” quency Domain Diﬀuse Optics for Real-Time metrology with Rydberg atoms” laxation Phenomena in the Adiabatic Phase Imaging of Cancer Treatment Response” Transition of a Type I Mesoscopic Superconduc- tor” 9:50 Shinji Matsuo, NTT Corporation, “Integrated Fang Huang, Purdue University, “Revealing Enno Giese, University of Ottawa, “SPDC for Barnabas Kim, Texas A&M University, “En- nanocavity lasers” Subcellular Structures with Live-cell and 3D spectrometer calibration: An alternative to black tropy of the BEC Ground State: Correlation vs Fluorescence Nanoscopy” body radiation” Ground State Entropy” 10:10 Xiangeng Meng, Qilu University of Tech- Ji Yi, Boston University School of Medicine, Kater Murch, Washington University in St. Alexander Giles, US Naval Research Labora- nology, “Nananolasers enabled by metallic “Multi-model volumetric imaging to quantify Louis, “Quantum enhanced frequency metrol- tory, “Ultra Low Loss Polaritons in Hexagonal nanoparticles: from spasers to random lasers” retinal capillary functions” ogy with time dependent Hamiltonians” Boron Nitride” — Break — Morning Plenary Session 2; Andrius Baltuška, Chair 10:50 Aleksei Zheltikov, Texas A&M University, “Optical solitons in air” 11:20 Jian-Wei Pan, University of Science and Technology of China, “Global Quantum Communication Network and Future Prospect” Ultrafast Optical Science Quantum Phenomena and Applications in Trends in Quantum Optics 2 Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics Aleksei Zheltikov, Chair Many-Body Bosonic and Fermionic Systems Deniz Yavuz, Chair Vaclav Spicka, Chair Bicai Pan, Chair

12:00 Andrius Baltuška, TU Wien, “Scaling of short- Yu-Ao Chen, University of Science and Tech- Andrei Afanasev, George Washington Uni- Roland Allen, Texas A&M University, “A fresh and longwave parametric frequency conversion nology of China, “Observation of quantum tur- versity, “Quantum Selection Rules for Atomic perspective on black hole entropy and informa- via pulse burst recombination” bulence decay in the strongly interacting Fermi Transitions with Twisted Light: Theory vs Ex- tion” gas” periment” 12:20 Alexander Tarasevitch, University of Chaoyang Lu, University of Science and Tech- Hugo Deﬁenne, Princeton University, “Adap- Suzy Lidstrom, Texas A&M University, “Light, Duisburg-Essen, Germany, “Attosecond nology of China, “Racing classical computers tive quantum optics with spatially-entangled the universe, and everything – a global compi- pulses from solid surfaces” with quantum boson-sampling machines” photon-pairs” lation of the most fundamental questions in science and technology” 12:40 Pavel Polynkin, University of Arizona, “Chan- Fuli Li, Xi’an Jiaotong University, “Enhance- Baris Cakmak, Koç University, “Thermal pro- Andre Gontijo Campos, Max Planck Institute neling the dielectric breakdown of air by fem- ment of spatial resolution of ghost imaging with duction, protection and heat exchange of quan- for Nuclear Physics, “Unveiling new analytical tosecond laser ﬁlaments, revisited” illumination of single spots” tum coherences” solutions to the Dirac equation” Friday, January 12, 2018 — Evening Evening Plenary Session; Marlan Scully, Chair 19:00 Barry Garraway, University of Sussex, UK, “Atomtronics for Quantum Technology” 19:30 Yanhua Shih, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, “From ghost imaging to turbulence-free interferometer and camera” 20:00 Linda Young, Argonne / University of Chicago, “Realizing the potential of Ultrafast, intense x-ray lasers”

— Break — Atom Circuits and Atomtronics Turbulence-Free Camera and Interferometer Advances in X-Ray Optics Ultrafast Optics Barry Garraway, Chair Yanhua Shih, Chair Linda Young, Chair Alexei Sokolov, Chair

20:50 Luigi Amico, Dip. Fisica, Catania/CQT Singa- Thomas Smith, University of Maryland, Bal- Sharon Shwartz, Bar Ilan University, Totaro Imasaka, Kyushu University, “Phase pore, “Coherent effects in atomtronic circuits” timore County, “A Turbulence-free Double-slit “Parametric-Down Conversion of X-rays Lock in Four-Wave Raman mixing for the Gen- Interferometer” into the Optical Regime” eration of Ultrashort Optical Pulses” 21:10 Malcolm Boshier, Los Alamos National Labo- Tao Peng, Texas A&M University IQSE, “Imag- Yuri Shvyd’ko, Argonne National Laboratory, Eugene Frumker, Ben Gurion University, “Gas ratory, “Quantum Interference in an Atomtronic ing through turbid media via cross correlation “X-ray Echo Spectroscopy” jet tomography with a strong laser field” SQUID” measurement of optical beating frequency” 21:30 Stephen Eckel, NIST, “Cold-atom circuits: ex- Vincenzo Tamma, University of Portsmouth, Yu Zhang, SLAC National Accelerator Labora- Kai Wang, University of Michigan, “Control of ploring superfluid transport” “Thermal light interference beyond coherence tory, “Stimulated X-ray Emission in Transition Quantum Interference between Nonlinear Opti- and remote sensing applications” Metal Compounds” cal Absorption Processes in Semiconductors” 21:50 Mark Edwards, Georgia Southern University, Francesco Maria Di Lena, Università degli Saša Bajt, DESY, “Extreme X-ray Intensities Alexandra Zhdanova, Texas A&M University, “Producing Smooth Flow in Atomtronic Sys- Studi di Bari, “Plenoptic imaging at the diffrac- with Multilayer Optics” “Spatially Tailored Beams for Custom Super- tems” tion limit” continuum Generation” 22:10 Ron Folman, Ben-Gurion University, “Atom- Hui Chen, Xi’an Jiaotong Univ., China, Benjamin Strycker, Texas A&M University, Zhenhuan Yi, Texas A&M University IQSE, tronics without light” “Non-invasive dynamic and wide-field imaging “Differentiation of Mold Species via Raman “Driving FAST CARS” through strong scattering media” Spectroscopy”