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Gregory D. Scholes – Coherence Phenomena and Quantum-Like States

Tracy Northup – Levitated nanoparticles: a route to the quantum regime

Isabelle Staude – Tailoring light fields with active semiconductor metasurfaces

Mercedeh Khajavikhan – Guiding Trojan Beams Using Lagrange Points

Wolfram Pernice - Photonic computing architectures for machine learning acceleration

Yiwen Chu – The quantum world of massive mechanical objects

Michelle Simmons - CANCELLED

Claudia Felser – Chirality and Topology

Marin Soljacic –Photonics & fast-electrons and Photonics & AI

Shanhui Fan – Synthetic frequency dimensions: from topological physics to optical computation

Amir H. Safavi-Naeini – Integrated Quantum Optical Circuits in Thin Film Lithium Niobate

Douglas Stone - "Time-reversing a Laser: What it means and Why it's Important"

Cornelia Denz - Complexity by light - from topologies to light-driven swarming

Petra Schwille - Life as a matter of function

Rainer Blatt - The Quantum Way of Doing Computations, Simulations and Measurements

Donna Strickland - From Nonlinear Optics to High-Intensity Laser Physics

Joyce Poon - Silicon integrated photonics for future “computing”

Steven M. Girvin - Efficient Programmable Quantum Simulation of Correlated Bosons and Lattice Gauge Theories

Fiorenzo G. Omenetto - Living materials – manipulating light with forms of the past?

Konstantin Novoselov - Van der Waals heterostructures

Aydogan Ozcan - Diffractive Optical Networks & Computational Imaging Without a Computer

Kerry Vahala - Towards integrated optical gyroscopes

Derryck Reid - Frequency Comb Development for the Extremely Large Telescope

Michal Lipson - The Revolution of Silicon Photonics

Monika Ritsch-Marte - Comparing Optical and Acoustic Trapping for Biomedical Applications

Nathalie Picqué - Frequency comb interferometry and spectroscopy

Christine Silberhorn - Non-linear integrated quantum optics with pulsed light

DLS Special: Philip Russell - Three decades riding the photonic crystal fibre wave

Stephanie Wehner - Towards a blueprint for a quantum internet

John Dudley - Ultrafast Measurements and Extreme Events in Nonlinear Fibre Optics

Jürgen Popp - Translational biophotonics – from ideas to instruments

Tobias J. Kippenberg - Photonic Chip based Frequency Combs

Eugene Polzik - Quantum mechanics in the negative mass reference frame

Dirk Englund - Programming Complexity: Large-Scale Photonics for Quantum Information and Machine Learning

Jelena Vuckovic - Scalable photonics: an optimized approach

Mischa Bonn - Graphene Terahertz Photonics

Tuomas Knowles - Biophysics of protein aggregation

Federico Capasso - Flat Optics based on Metasurfaces

Pete Vukusic - Evolutionary Photonics: natural designs for manipulating the flow of light and colour

Demetri Psaltis - Learning, neural networks and optics

Atac Imamoglu - Many-body optical excitations in solid-state systems

Howard Milchberg - Spatio-temporal Optical Vortices

Mete Atature - Solid-State Quantum Emitters: Old Friends & New

Franz X. Kärtner - How to shrink Accelerators and Light Sources?

James Hough - Ripples from the Dark Side of the Universe

Mordechai Segev - Topological Photonics and Topological Insulator Lasers

Jacqueline Bloch - Simulating Condensed Matter Physics with Light

Ursula Keller - Optical Frequency Combs: Generation and Dual-Comb Applications

Wolfgang P. Schleich - The Riemann Zeta Function and Quantum Mechanics

Dan Stamper-Kurn - Magnetism in Quantum Gases

Jack Harris - Quantum effects in the motion of surprisingly large objects

Gerhard Rempe - Quantum Internet: Vision or Fiction?

Martin Weitz - Bose-Einstein Condensation of Light

Roel Baets - Sensing and biosensing enabled by silicon photonics: opportunities and challenges

Rupert Huber - Subcycle quantum physics

Martin Quack - Parity Violation in Chiral Molecules: From Theory towards Spectroscopic Experiment and Evolution of Biomolecular Homochirality

Jeremy Baumberg - Watching and sensing single molecules by confining light to the atom scale

Charles Adams - Contactless photon-photon interactions

Harald Giessen - 3D Printing of Complex Microoptics – Merging with Plasmonic Nanooptics

Alex Gaeta - Microresonator-Based Combs and Random Number Generators

Benoit Deveaud - Polariton condensates: interactions and superfluidity

Michael Weinhold - Trends and innovations in the digital energy world

Sune Svanberg - Laser spectroscopy applied to environmental and ecological research

Katarina Svanberg - Applications of Laser Spectroscopy to Meet Challenges in Medicine

Holger Müller - Atom interferometers measuring the fine structure constant and probing the dark sector

Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler - Quantum optics and quantum information with trapped ions

Ignacio Cirac - Quantum simulations with atoms in nano-structures

Edward A. Hinds - Probing physics at TeV by measuring aeV

Jonathan Finley - Semiconductor devices for quantum technologies

Florian Marquardt - Topological Phases of Sound and Light

Dieter Meschede - From electric quantum walks to the quest for exactly two interacting quantum atoms

Anton Zeilinger - Quantum Imaging and the Role of Information

Peter Zoller - Quantum Optics with Cold Atoms

Christophe Salomon - Superfluid Fermi gases

Andreas Wallraff - Quantum microwave photonics

Rainer Blatt - The quantum way of doing computations

Serge Haroche - Juggling with photons and raising Schrödinger cats of light in a cavity

Henry van Driel - Spin Hall Effect for Electrons and Photons

Anne L'Huillier - From Extreme Nonlinear Optics to Ultrafast Atomic Physics

Jérôme Faist - Quantum cascade lasers comb spectrometers

Robert L. Byer - Fiber-Laser Driven Accelerators and the path to Attosecond X-ray Lasers

Shanhui Fan - Nanophotonics: gauge field for photons and control of heat

Elisabeth Giacobino - Quantum optics with excitons in semiconductors

Philip Bucksbaum - Atomic and Molecular Processes in Strong Fields at the LCLS X-ray Laser

Philippe Grangier - Rydberg blockade for manipulating atomic and photonic qubits

Andreas Tünnermann - Green Photonics – optical solutions for the future

Paul Corkum - Attosecond Photonics: What we learn by transforming many photons into one

Alain Aspect - Coherent Back Scattering and Anderson Localization of Ultra Cold Atoms

Immanuel Bloch - Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter

Peter Nordlander - Plasmonics: From quantum effects to fano interference and light harvesting

Erich Ippen - Femtosecond Optics: More Than Just Really Fast

Thomas Ebbesen - Dressing Molecules and Materials with the Vacuum Field

Mikhail Lukin - Exploring new frontiers of quantum optical science

Jörg Wrachtrup - Magneto-optics of quantum systems and nano-imaging

Harry Paul - Classical radiation theory and Planck's constant

Jean-Jacques Greffet - Controlling spontaneous emission with surface waves

Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler - Quantum optics and quantum information with trapped ions

Ignacio Cirac - Quantum simulations with atoms in nano-structures

Edward A. Hinds - Probing physics at TeV by measuring aeV

Jonathan Finley - Semiconductor devices for quantum technologies

Florian Marquardt - Topological Phases of Sound and Light

Dieter Meschede - From electric quantum walks to the quest for exactly two interacting quantum atoms

Christophe Salomon - Superfluid Fermi gases

Andreas Wallraff - Quantum microwave photonics

Rainer Blatt - The quantum way of doing computations

Serge Haroche - Juggling with photons and raising Schrödinger cats of light in a cavity

Henry van Driel - Spin Hall Effect for Electrons and Photons

Anne L'Huillier - From Extreme Nonlinear Optics to Ultrafast Atomic Physics

Jérôme Faist - Quantum cascade lasers comb spectrometers

Monika Ritsch-Marte - Comparing Optical and Acoustic Trapping for Biomedical Applications

Robert L. Byer - Fiber-Laser Driven Accelerators and the path to Attosecond X-ray Lasers

Michal Lipson - The Revolution of Silicon Photonics

Shanhui Fan - Nanophotonics: gauge field for photons and control of heat

Elisabeth Giacobino - Quantum optics with excitons in semiconductors

Philip Bucksbaum - Atomic and Molecular Processes in Strong Fields at the LCLS X-ray Laser

Philippe Grangier - Rydberg blockade for manipulating atomic and photonic qubits

Andreas Tünnermann - Green Photonics – optical solutions for the future

Paul Corkum - Attosecond Photonics: What we learn by transforming many photons into one

Alain Aspect - Coherent Back Scattering and Anderson Localization of Ultra Cold Atoms

Immanuel Bloch - Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter

Peter Nordlander - Plasmonics: From quantum effects to fano interference and light harvesting

Erich Ippen - Femtosecond Optics: More Than Just Really Fast

Thomas Ebbesen - Dressing Molecules and Materials with the Vacuum Field

Mikhail Lukin - Exploring new frontiers of quantum optical science

Jörg Wrachtrup - Magneto-optics of quantum systems and nano-imaging

Harry Paul - Classical radiation theory and Planck's constant

Jean-Jacques Greffet - Controlling spontaneous emission with surface waves

Jacqueline Bloch - Simulating Condensed Matter Physics with Light

Ursula Keller - Optical Frequency Combs: Generation and Dual-Comb Applications

Wolfgang P. Schleich - The Riemann Zeta Function and Quantum Mechanics

Dan Stamper-Kurn - Magnetism in Quantum Gases

Jack Harris - Quantum effects in the motion of surprisingly large objects

Gerhard Rempe - Quantum Internet: Vision or Fiction?

Martin Weitz - Bose-Einstein Condensation of Light

Roel Baets - Sensing and biosensing enabled by silicon photonics: opportunities and challenges

Rupert Huber - Subcycle quantum physics

Martin Quack - Parity Violation in Chiral Molecules: From Theory towards Spectroscopic Experiment and Evolution of Biomolecular Homochirality

Jeremy Baumberg - Watching and sensing single molecules by confining light to the atom scale

Michael Weinhold - Trends and innovations in the digital energy world

Anton Zeilinger - Quantum Imaging and the Role of Information

Peter Zoller - Quantum Optics with Cold Atoms

Mordechai Segev - Topological Photonics and Topological Insulator Lasers

Federico Capasso - Flat Optics based on Metasurfaces

Demetri Psaltis - Learning, neural networks and optics

Atac Imamoglu - Many-body optical excitations in solid-state systems

Howard Milchberg - Spatio-temporal Optical Vortices

Mete Atature - Solid-State Quantum Emitters: Old Friends & New

James Hough - Ripples from the Dark Side of the Universe

Nathalie Picqué - Frequency comb interferometry and spectroscopy

Christine Silberhorn - Non-linear integrated quantum optics with pulsed light

Stephanie Wehner - Towards a blueprint for a quantum internet

John Dudley - Ultrafast Measurements and Extreme Events in Nonlinear Fibre Optics

Jürgen Popp - Translational biophotonics – from ideas to instruments

Tobias J. Kippenberg - Photonic Chip based Frequency Combs

Eugene Polzik - Quantum mechanics in the negative mass reference frame

Dirk Englund - Programming Complexity: Large-Scale Photonics for Quantum Information and Machine Learning

Mischa Bonn - Graphene Terahertz Photonics

Charles Adams - Contactless photon-photon interactions

Harald Giessen - 3D Printing of Complex Microoptics – Merging with Plasmonic Nanooptics

Tuomas Knowles - Biophysics of protein aggregation

Alex Gaeta - Microresonator-Based Combs and Random Number Generators

Pete Vukusic - Evolutionary Photonics: natural designs for manipulating the flow of light and colour

Benoit Deveaud - Polariton condensates: interactions and superfluidity

Franz X. Kärtner - How to shrink Accelerators and Light Sources?

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