Scientific Calendar Event



Description The purpose of the Workshop is to bring together researchers working on various aspects of disordered systems and those working on spontaneous coherence effects in optical systems, in particular Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons and random lasing. TOPICS:

• Polariton BEC in disorder;
• Atomic BEC in disorder;
• Disordered photonics and random lasing;
• Anderson localization;
• Disordered superconductors;
• Glasses.

In addition to the invited talks, contributed oral presentations and posters by participants are also most welcome. Should you be interested, kindly submit a short one-page abstract along with your online application form. 
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  • Monday, 26 May 2014
    • 08:00 - 20:30
      • 08:00 Registration Leonardo Building Entrance 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
      • 09:00 Opening Address 10' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: V.E. KRAVTSOV, D. BASKO, I. CARUSOTTO, G. LABEYRIE, S. SKIPETROV
      • 09:10 Anderson Localization in Disordered Systems: From single-particle to Many-body 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: B. ALTSHULER (Columbia Univ., New York, U.S.A.)
      • 10:10 How Nonlinear Interactions Challenge the Anderson Transition 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: N. CHERRORET (Lab.Kastler Brossel, ENS, Paris, France)
        Material: CHERRORET.abstract.pdf
      • 10:40 Coffee break 20' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
      • 11:00 Chaos, Relaxation and Thermalization in Isolated Quantum Systems of Interacting Particles 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: F. IZRAILEV (Instituto de Fisica, Univ. Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico)
        Material: IZRAILEV.abstract.pdf lecture notes
      • 12:00 Vortex Dynamics in Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Rotating Double-well Trap Potential and Co-rotating Optical Lattice 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: M. THUDIYANGAL (Pondichery Univ., Physics, Puducherry, India)
        Material: THUDIYANGAL abstract.pdf
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 Non Equilibrium Dynamics in "Electron Glasses" 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: T. GRENET (CNRS, Institut Neel, Grenoble, France)
        Material: GRENET abstract.pdf lecture notes
      • 15:00 Spontaneous Vorticity in Polariton Lattices 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: P. LAGOUDAKIS (Univ. Southampton, Hybrid Photonics Group, U..K.)
      • 16:00 Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
      • 16:30 Unconventional Quantum Phases in Kicked Rotors 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Chushun TIAN (Inst. Advanced Studies, Tsinghua Univ., China)
        Material: TIAN abstract.pdf lecture notes
      • 17:30 Superfluid stiffness of a driven dissipative condensate with disorder 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: A. JANOT (Inst. Theoretical Physics, Univ. Leipzig, Germany)
        Material: JANOT abstract.pdf lecture notes
      • 19:00 WELCOME RECEPTION at Leonardo Building Cafeteria 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Cafeteria )
  • Tuesday, 27 May 2014
    • 09:00 - 18:00
      • 09:00 Ultracold Atoms in Disorder: 3D Anderson Localization and Coherent Backscattering 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: V. JOSSE (Institut d'Optique, Palaiseau, France)
        Material: JOSSE abstract.pdf lecture notes
      • 10:00 Measurement of the Mobility Edge for 3D Anderson Localization 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: G. MODUGNO (LENS, Univ. Firenze, Florence, Italy)
        Material: MODUGNO abstract.pdf lecture notes
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
      • 11:30 Momentum Space Signatures of Anderson Localization 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: C.A. MUELLER (Univ. Konstanz, Physics, Germany)
        Material: MUELLER abstract.pdf lecture notes
      • 12:30 Replica Symmetry Breaking in the Bose Glass 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: S.J. THOMSON (School of Physics & Astronomy, Univ. St. Andrews, U.K.)
        Material: THOMSON abstract.pdf
      • 13:00 Lunch break 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
      • 14:30 Tunneling Spectroscopy of Fluctuating and Localized Preformed Coopers Pairs in Highly Disordered Superconducting Films 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: C.P.L. CHAPELIER (INAC/SPSMS/LaTEQS, CEA Grenoble, France)
        Material: CHAPELIER abstract.pdf lecture notes
      • 15:30 Universal Scaling of the Order-parameter Distribution in Strongly Disordered Superconductors 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: G. LEMARIE' (LPT Toulouse, France)
        Material: LEMARIE abstract.pdf
      • 16:00 Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
      • 16:30 Strongly Disordered Superconducting Films: Tunneling Spectra and Electromagnetic Response 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: M.A. SKVORTSOV (MIPT Dolgoprudny and Skolkovo Institute, Russian Federation)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 17:30 Coherence Properties and Excitation Spectrum of Weakly Interacting Bose Gases Across the Superfluid-Bose-Glass Transition 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: P. LUGAN (Inst. Theoretical Physics, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
        Material: LUGAN abstract.pdf
  • Wednesday, 28 May 2014
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Disorder Effects on Microcavity Polaritons: An Overview 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: V. SAVONA (Inst. Theoretical Physics, Nanosystems, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 10:00 Coherence Length of a Weakly Interacting One-Dimensional Polariton Condensate: Competition between Lifetime and Disorder 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: M. RICHARD (CNRS, Institut Neel, Grenoble, France)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
      • 11:30 Microcavity Polaritons in Periodic and Aperiodic Lattices 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: A. AMO (LPN, CNRS, Marcoussis, France)
      • 12:30 Quantization of Angular Momentum in Rotating Polariton Systems 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: T. BOULIER (Lab.Kastler Brossel, ENS, Paris, France)
        Material: BOULIER abstract.pdf
      • 13:00 Lunch break 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
      • 14:30 Coherence of One-dimensional Nonequilibrium Polariton Condensates 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: M. WOUTERS (Univ. of Antwerp, Physics, Belgium)
      • 15:30 Population Inversion and Mesoscopic Fluctuations in Strongly Driven Artificial Atoms 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: M.J. SANCHEZ (CNEA, CAB, SC Bariloche, Argentina)
        Material: SANCHEZ M.J. abstract.pdf
      • 16:00 Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
      • 16:30 POSTER SESSION 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
  • Thursday, 29 May 2014
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Non-equilibrium physics in coupled light-matter systems 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: H. TURECI (Princeton Univ., Electrical Engineering, U.S.A.)
      • 10:00 Statistics of Bipartite Entanglement in Disordered Media 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: M. CANDE' (LPMMC, CNRS, Grenoble, France)
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
      • 11:00 Random Lasers, Physics and Applications 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Hui CAO (Yale Univ., Applied Physics, New Haven, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 12:00 Tailoring the spectral properties of the random distributed feedback fiber laser 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: S. SUGAVANAM (Aston Univ., Inst. Photonic Technologies, Birmingham, U.K.)
        Material: SUGAVANAM abstract.pdf
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 New Insights on Coherent Wave Transmission through Disordered Systems 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: S. ROTTER (Vienna Univ. Technology, ITP, Austria)
        Material: ROTTER abstract.pdf lecture notes
      • 15:00 Statistical Properties of Random Lasers: Toward an ab initio and Analytic Theory 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: A. GOETSCHY (Univ. Paris Diderot, Paris, France)
        Material: GOETSCHY abstract.pdf
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
      • 16:00 A Cold-atom Random Laser: From Atomic to Astrophysics 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: R. KAISER (INLN, Valbonne, France)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 17:00 Slow-light Propagation in Photonic Nano-Structures 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Jin HOU (South-Central Univ. for Nationalities, Electronics & Information, Wuhan, China)
        Material: HOU Jin abstract.pdf lecture notes
  • Friday, 30 May 2014
    • 09:00 - 16:00
      • 09:00 Non-equilibrium States of Couples Cavity Arrays 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: J. KEELING (School of Physics & Astronomy, Univ. St Andrews, U.K.)
        Material: KEELING abstract.pdf lecture notes
      • 10:00 A Quantum-Langevin Model for Non-equilibrium Condensates 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: A. CHIOCCHETTA (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
        Material: CHIOCCHETTA abstract.pdf
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
      • 11:00 Localized Mode and Propagating Quasi-mode in 2D Acoustic Inhomogeneous Media 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Xin ZHANG (School of Physics & Optoelectronic Engg, Guangdong Univ., Guangzhou, China)
        Material: ZHANG Xin abstract.pdf
      • 11:30 Nonlinear Excitations of Bose-Einstein Condensates with Higher-order Interaction 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: E. WAMBA (Univ. Yaounde & African Inst.of Mathematical Sciences, Rep. of Cameroon)
        Material: WAMBA abstract.pdf lecture notes
      • 12:00 Spectrum of Emission and Photocount Statistics of Laser with Overlapping Modes 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: C. VIVIESCAS RAMIREZ (Univ. Nac. De Colombia, Bogota D.C., Colombia)
        Material: VIVIESCAS RAMIREZ abstract.pdf
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 Bose Condensation Phenomena in Driven Open Quantum Systems 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: S. DIEHL (Univ. Innsbruck, IQOQI, Austria)
        Material: DIEHL abstract.pdf
      • 15:00 Theory of Anderson Localization of Light in Real World Disordered Samples 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: R. FRANK (Univ. Tubingen, Theoretical Physics, Germany)
        Material: FRANK abstract.pdf
      • 15:30 Closing Remarks 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: V.E. KRAVTSOV, D. BASKO, I. CARUSOTTO, G. LABEYRIE, S. SKIPETROV