Programme

08:30 - 08:55     Welcome Coffee & Registration

08:55 – 09:10    Opening Remarks from Organizing Committee

Session I | Chair: Prof. Stefan Scheel, University of Rostock, Germany. 

09:10 – 09:35    Prof. Jörg Main, Universität Stuttgart, Germany. "Classical and semiclassical studies on excitons in quantum wells."

09:35 – 10:00    Prof. Francesca Maria Marchetti, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. "Very strong light-matter coupling in patterned GaAs heterostructures."

10:00 – 10:25    Prof. Valentin Walther, Purdue University, USA. "Surface Polaritons and Strongly Interacting Rydberg Excitons."

10:25 – 10:50    Dr. Julian Heckötter, TU Dortmund, Germany. "Two-dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy on excitons in Cu2O."

10:50 – 11:10    Morning Refreshments (20 min) 

Session II | Chair: Prof. Thomas Boulier, National Institute of Applied Sciences of Toulouse, France. 

11:10 – 11:35    Dr. Nobuko Naka, Kyoto University, Japan. "Acceptor-bound excitons in diamond."

11:35 – 12:00    Mr. Omar Hazem Mashaal, Purdue University, USA. "Microwave Control of Optical Fields in Cuprous Oxide."

12:00 – 12:25    Dr. Armando Genco, University of Pisa, Italy. "Ultrafast dynamics of Rydberg and layer-hybridized excitonic species in transition metal dichalcogenides mono- and bilayers."

12:25 – 12:50    Prof. David Ziemkiewicz, Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, Poland. "Interactions between plasmons and Rydberg excitons."

12:50 – 14:20    Lunch Break & Poster Session

Session III | Chair: Prof. Matthew Jones, Durham University, UK.

14:20 – 14:45    Dr. Hamid Ohadi, University of St Andrews, UK. "Making useful single photons with weak nonlinearities."

14:45 – 15:10    Mr. Simon Siegeroth, TU Dortmund, Germany. "Rydberg exciton polaritons in an open fiber cavity."

15:10 – 15:35    Dr. Patric Rommel, Universität Stuttgart, Germany. "Impact of the valence band on Rydberg excitons in cuprous oxide quantum wells."

15:35 – 15:55    Afternoon Refreshments (20 min)

Session IV | Chair: Francesca Maria Marchetti, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.

15:55 – 16:20    Prof. Sylwia Zielinska-Raczynska, Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, Poland. "The dynamics of Rydberg blockade in Cu2O."

16:20 – 16:45    Dr. Pavel Belov, Universität Stuttgart, Germany. "Classical and semiclassical studies on excitons in quantum wells."

16:45 – 17:00    Closing Remarks & Announcements

19:00 onwards   Conference Dinner 

08:30 – 09:00    Welcome Coffee 

Session I | Chair: Prof. Marc Aßmann, TU Dortmund, Germany.

09:05 – 09:30    Prof. Wolfgang Langbein, Cardiff University, UK. "Machining of localized strain defects to trap excitons in Cuprite using picosecond infrared laser pulses."

09:30 – 09:55    Prof. Sufei Shi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

09:55 – 10:20   Dr. Paul Walker, University of Sheffield, UK. "Temporal dynamics of polariton condensation and coherence in disordered high-Q microcavities."

10:20 – 10:45    Dr. Krzysztof Sawicki, Durham University, UK. "Nonlinear spectroscopy of Rydberg excitons in optical microcavities."

10:45 – 11:10    Mr. Christoforos Iakovou, University of Cambridge, UK. "Large Rydberg excitons in synthetic Cu2O thin films."

11:10 – 11:40    Morning Refreshments (20 min) 

Session II | Chair: Dr. Hamid Ohadi, University of St Andrews, UK. 

11:40 – 12:05    Dr. Shiva Kant Tiwari, Purdue University, USA. "Low-Energy Purification of Crystal Defects by Rydberg Excitons."

12:05 – 12:30   Mr. Reuben Sorsbie, University of St Andrews, UK. "Sideband luminescence lineshape and surface interactions of 1s excitons in confined structures of Cu2O."

12:30 – 12:55    Ms. Madeleine Fisher, Durham University, UK. "Microwave-to-optical conversion via Rydberg excitons in cuprous oxide."

12:55 – 13:20    Mr. Xiang Long, National Institute of Applied Sciences of Toulouse, France. "Electrical Readout of Rydberg Excitons in Cu2O."

13:30 – 13:45    Closing Remarks 

13:45 – 15:30    Lunch Break & Poster Session 

15:30 – 17:30    Lab Tour with Prof. Dmitry Krizhanovskii