CoScaLi VIII - Workshop on Collective Scattering of Light
August 25 - 30, 2024 | Fernando de Noronha - PE Brazil

The role of coherences between atomic dipoles has gained an ever-increasing importance with the advent of ultracold atoms and large trapped ion systems. These allow to generate and manipulate correlations and entanglement between the particles, with many consequences for both applications (e.g., quantum information) and for the study of fundamental properties of matter. Light is the most important and versatile tool to manipulate matter in a controlled way, allowing today to address and manipulate single atoms and ions and their respective coherences.

This workshop addresses the properties of these many-body systems at the frontier between the microscopic and macroscopic realms. The coupling between light and an ensemble of classical or quantum scatterers, and the induced classical and quantum correlations, will be intensively discussed through lectures and informal discussions. The main topics of interest are listed below:

• Cooperative scattering

• Anderson localization of light

• Dicke super and subradiance

• Mesoscopic physics with cold atoms

• Multiple scattering of light

• Ab initio models for light scattering

• Collective optical forces

Organizers

• Romain Bachelard
  Physics Department, Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil

• André Cidrim
  Physics Department, Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil 

• Robin Kaiser
  INPHYNI, University of Côte d'Azur, Nice, France

Local organization

• Alexandre Jitsuo Fuzita
  Physics Department, Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil 

Invited Speakers

• Ana Asenjo Garcia - Columbia University, USA

• Ticijana Ban - Institute of Physics, Zagreb, Croatia

• Ana Cipris - University of São Paulo, Brazil

• Claudiu Genes - Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany

• Sebastião Padua - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

• Thorsten Peters - Technical University of Darmstadt

• Felipe Pinheiro - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Johannes Schachenmayer - Université de Strasbourg, France

• Frank Scheffold - University of Fribourg, Switzerland

• Ephraim Shahmoon - Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

• Felix Tebbenjohanns - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

• Sergey Skipetrov - Université Grenoble Alpes, France

• Lukáš Slodička* - Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic

• Saijun Wu - Fudan University

• Alexey Yamilov - Missouri S&T, USA

• Joachim von Zanthier - University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

• Johannes Zeiher - Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany

*To be confirmed

Program

A preliminary version of the program will be published here later.

Important dates

Registration opens: February 1, 2024

Registration deadline: May 31, 2024

Talk/Poster submission deadline: May 31, 2024

Venue

• Fernando de Noronha has among the most beautiful beaches, as well as a very rich wildlife: https://www.tripadvisor.com/TravelersChoice-Beaches. 

• The island of Fernando de Noronha can only be reached by connecting flights passing through Recife or Natal. Before entering the island, visitors must pay an "environmental preservation tax", which is calculated based on the length of the stay. Although the tax can be paid at the airport, one can do it in advance online [note that the website may not be available in all countries]. Similarly, some of the beaches require booking, and an extra fee.

• The workshop will be held at the auditorium of the TAMAR museum.

• The island is fairly compact. Most restaurants and hotels are located at "Vila dos Remédios", the downtown area, which is ~30 min away on foot from the workshop's venue.

Accommodation

• We have selected below a list of suggestions, with links to Booking.com. Most hotels provide their own website and might be open to negotiation for some discount on the booking fees. 

  • Raízes de Noronha (~$ 80): https://www.booking.com/hotel/br/raizes-de-noronha.pt-br.html 

  • Pousada Lenda das Águas (~$ 130): https://www.booking.com/hotel/br/pousada-lenda-das-aguas.pt-br.html 

  • Pousada da Maga (~$ 150): https://www.booking.com/hotel/br/pousada-da-maga.pt-br.html 

  • Pousada do Bita  (~$ 90): https://www.booking.com/hotel/br/pousada-do-bita-fernando-de-noronha.pt-br.html   

  • Pousada Fortaleza (~$ 130): https://www.booking.com/hotel/br/pousada-fortaleza-fernando-de-noronha.pt-br.html 

  • Pousada Varandinha (~$ 130): https://www.booking.com/hotel/br/varandinha-amp-casa-ecocharme.pt-br.html 

  • Pousada Estrela do Mar (~$ 210): https://www.booking.com/hotel/br/pousada-estrela-do-mar-fernando-de-noronha.pt-br.html 

  • Pousada Mar Atlântico (~$ 210): https://www.booking.com/hotel/br/casa-blue-mar-atlantico.pt-br.html 

  • Pousada do Marcílio (~$ 210): https://www.booking.com/hotel/br/pousada-do-marcilio.pt-br.html 

  • There are also many options for lodging via Airbnb.com. 

Contact

With regards to any query that you might have, please contact us: romain@ufscar.br