Day 1
Arrival (Finger food and drinks) 18:00 - 19:30
Overview Talks
Chair: Dino Novko
19:30 - 20:15
Branko Gumhalter
20:15 - 21:00
Beyond ultrafast: what happens on the trajectory to a topologically ordered state?
Dragan Mihailović (via ZOOM)
Day 2
Scientific Session 1 09:00 - 10:30
Chair: Antonija Grubišić-Čabo
09:00 - 09:30
Energizing transient quantum states in black phosphorus and MoS2 by ultrafast optical field
Shijing Tan
09:30 - 10:00
Aaron Kelly
10:00 - 10:30
Floquet Valleytronics in 2H-WSe2
Samuel Beaulieu
Coffee Break 10:30 - 10:50
Scientific Session 2 10:50 - 12:20
Chair: Jin Zhao
10:50 - 11:20
Tracking light-induced states in materials: harnessing quantum pathway interference
Michael Schüler
11:20 - 11:50
Marcel Reutzel
11:50 - 12:20
Direct observation of ultrafast currents in black phosphorus
Maciej Dendzik
Lunch Break 12:30 - 14:00
Scientific Session 3 14:00 - 15:30
Chair: A. Molina-Sánchez
14:00 - 14:30
Phonon dynamics in perovskites
Paul Erhart
14:30 - 15:00
Ab-initio theory of coherent lattice dynamics in light-driven solids
Fabio Caruso
15:00 - 15:30
Theory of non-linear electron-phonon coupling and its first-principles implementation
Raffaello Bianco
Coffee Break 15:30 - 15:50
Scientific Session 4 15:50 - 17:20
Chair: Ivor Lončarić
15:50 - 16:20
Strong Coupling with Electromagnetic Resonators for Enhanced Plasmonic Catalysis
Christian Schäfer
16:20 - 16:50
Beyond-dipole light-matter interactions in the self-consistent Maxwell-TDDFT framework: nanoplasmonics and magneto-optical effects
Franco P. Bonafé
16:50 - 17:20
Machine-learning temperature dependent band gaps of graphene nanostructures
Bernhard Kretz
Discussion Session 1 17:20 - 17:50
Chair: Antonija Grubišić-Čabo & Ivor Lončarić
Dinner 18:30 - 20:00
Poster Session 1 20:00 - 21:30
Day 3
Scientific Session 5 09:00 - 10:30
Chair: Michael Schüler
09:00 - 09:30
The photoexcitation induced quasiparticle dynamics in solids - a perspective from first principles calculations
Jin Zhao
09:30 - 10:00
Ultrafast dynamics of non-equilibrium electron distributions in laser-excited metals
Bärbel Rethfeld
10:00 - 10:30
Ab initio modelling of ultrafast dynamics of excitons in layered materials
Alejandro Molina-Sánchez
Coffee Break 10:30 - 10:50
Scientific Session 6 10:50 - 12:20
Chair: Reinhard Maurer
10:50 - 11:20
THz-lightwave scanning tunneling microscopy of nonequilibrium dynamics in quantum materials: status and prospects
11:20 - 11:50
Ultrafast spectroscopy and microscopy of organic microcavity polaritons
Raj Pandya
11:50 - 12:20
Advances in atomically resolved optical microscopy and spectroscopy
Discussion Session 2 12:20 - 12:30
Chair: Reinhard Maurer
Lunch Break 12:30 - 14:00
Short Presentations of Posters 14:00 - 15:00
Free Time/City Tour 15:00 - 19:00
Conference Dinner 19:00 - 21:00
Day 4
Scientific Session 7 09:00 - 10:30
Chair: Hrvoje Petek
09:00 - 09:30
Vibronic Excitation Beyond Single Molecules
Min Feng
09:30 - 10:00
Towards atomic-scale imaging with attosecond electron pulses
Yuya Morimoto
10:00 - 10:30
Subcycle terahertz nanoscopy of ultrafast electron dynamics in semiconducting quantum materials
Markus Huber
Coffee Break 10:30 - 10:50
Scientific Session 8 10:50 - 12:20
Chair: Aaron Kelly
10:50 - 11:20
Ultrafast dynamics at metal-oxide interfaces: traps everywhere?!
Julia Stähler
11:20 - 11:50
Light-induced coupled electron-lattice ordering
Sheng Meng
11:50 - 12:20
Metastable phases in photo-doped Mott insulators
Denis Golež
Lunch Break 12:30 - 14:00
Scientific Session 9 14:00 - 15:30
Chair: Dino Novko
14:00 - 14:30
Exotic transversal plasmons in 2D semiconductors
Vito Despoja
14:30 - 15:00
Ultrafast lattice responses in TMDC bilayers upon photoexcitation
Fang Liu
15:00 - 15:30
Charge trapping and exciton dynamics in CVD-grown atomically thin two-dimensional semiconductors
Nataša Vujičić
Coffee Break 15:30 - 15:50
Scientific Session 10 15:50 - 17:20
Chair: Vito Despoja
15:50 - 16:20
Selective electron-phonon coupling strength from nonequilbrium optical spectroscopy: the case of MgB2
Selene Mor
16:20 - 16:50
Photo-induced superconductivity: an overview of experimental and theoretical efforts
Marios H. Michael
16:50 - 17:20
Towards a real-space description of energy transfer in molecule-surface dynamics
Ryan Requist
Discussion Session 3 17:20 - 17:50
Chair: Hrvoje Petek & Dino Novko
Dinner 18:30 - 20:00
Poster Session 2 20:00 - 21:00
Day 5
Scientific Session 11 09:00 - 10:30
Chair: Ivor Lončarić
09:00 - 09:30
Ultrafast quantum molecular dynamics in stochastic dissipative media
Jean Christophe Tremblay
09:30 - 10:00
Simulating ultrafast molecular photodynamics: from initial conditions to observables
Antonio Prlj
10:00 - 10:30
Insights into the Photo-induced CO Desorption and CO Oxidation on Ru(0001)
Iñaki Juaristi
Coffee Break 10:30 - 10:50
Scientific Session 12 10:50 - 12:20
Chair: Jean C. Tremblay
10:50 - 11:20
Orientational isomerization in CO/NaCl(100): Insights into tunneling-dominated kinetics and vibrational dynamics
Shreya Sinha
11:20 - 11:50
Substrate and coverage effects in the photodesorption of CO from Pd(111)
Maite Alducin
11:50 - 12:20
Do we understand Dynamics of Hydrogen Scattering from Surfaces?
Alexander Kandratsenka
Discussion Session 4 & Closing Remarks 12:20 - 12:30
Chair: Ivor Lončarić & Dino Novko
Lunch & Departure 12:30 - 14:00