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