Polaritonics Seminar Series

The Polaritonics Seminar Series aims to showcase the best research activities of the global polaritonics community. The seminar series is organized by the University of Southampton on a bi-monthly basis and hosted online. All seminars are public and opened to the broader scientific community. Seminars typically last 45 mins, followed by an extensive Q&A session.

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Title:  "Probing and controlling excitons in 2D semiconductors under weak and strong light-matter coupling"

Speaker: Dr. Vasily Kravtsov, ITMO University (Russia)

Date/time:  09/02/2023, 10:00 CET

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Title:  "Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality in  exciton-polariton condensates"

Speaker: Prof. Léonie Canet, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble Alpes (France)

Date/time:  09/02/2023, 10:00 CET

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Title:  "Exciton-polariton full Bloch beams and ultrafast Rabi-oscillating photonic vortices"

Speaker: Prof. Nina Voronova,  National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Russia)

Date/time:  17/11/2022, 10:00 CET

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Title:  "GHz Optomechanics with Microcavity Polaritons"

Speaker: Dr. Paulo Santos,  Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics, Berlin (Germany)

Date/time:  27/10/2022, 11:00 CET

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Title:  "Solving computational problems with coupled lasers"

Speaker: Prof. Nir Davidson,  Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)

Date/time:  08/09/2022, 11:00 CET

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Title:  "Topological photonics and topological lasers with coupled vertical resonators"

Speaker: Prof. Sebastian Klembt,  Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg (Germany)

Date/time:  30/06/2022, 11:00 CET

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Title:  "Meta-atoms and chiral resonators for new optical vacua"

Speaker: Dr. Denis G. Baranov, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Russia)

Date/time:  21/04/2022, 11:00 CET

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Title:  "Bose-Einstein Condensation of Photons and a Non-Hermitian Phase Transition"

Speaker: Prof. Martin Weitz, Universität Bonn, Bonn (Germany)

Date/time:  10/03/2022, 10:00 CET

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Title:  "Room-temperature exciton polaritons in monolayer WS2"

Speaker: Prof. Elena Ostrovskaya, The Australian National University, Canberra (Australia)

Date/time:  24/02/2022, 10:00 CET

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Title:  "Polariton vortices: creation and control"

Speaker: Dr. Xuekai Ma, Paderborn University (Germany)

Date/time:  10/02/2022, 10:00 CET

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Title:  "Strong light-matter coupling: from transition metal dichalcogenides to Casimir self-assembly"

Speaker: Prof. Timur O. Shegai, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)

Date/time:  27/01/2022, 10:00 CET

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Title:  "Superfluorescence in Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystal Assemblies"

Speaker: Dr. Thilo Stöferle, IBM Research Zurich (Switzerland)

Date/time:  16/12/2021, 10:00 CET

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Title:  "Exciton-polaritons with 2D materials, from cryogenic to ambient conditions"

Speaker: Dr. Carlos Anton-Solanas, Oldenburg Carl von Ossietzky University (Germany)

Date/time:  09/12/2021, 10:00 CET

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Title:  "Lasing from non-separable states: optical gain in a liquid crystal optical microcavity in the Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling regime"

Speaker: Prof. Jacek Szczytko, University of Warsaw (Poland)

Date/time:  25/11/2021, 10:00 CET

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Title:  "Polariton chemistry: molecules in optical cavities"

Speaker: Prof. Joel Yuen-Zhou, University of California San Diego (USA)

Date/time:  18/11/2021, 10:00 CET

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Title:  "Manipulating polariton condensates by Rashba-Dresselhaus coupling at room temperature"

Speaker: Dr. Tingge Gao, Tianjin University (China)

Date/time:  10/11/2021, 10:00 CET

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