Schedule of future visitors & seminar speakers (2023):

• Xuezhi Zheng (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
  FWO visiting scientist (January 15 - April 21, 2023)

Visiting scientists, extended stays:

• Prof. Sergey Menabde (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea),
  visiting scientist (August 5-25, 2022)
• Jacob Terndrup Heiden (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea),
  visiting PhD student (August 5-17, 2022)
• Minsoo Jang (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea),
  visiting PhD student (August 5-21, 2022)
• Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri (ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain),
  visiting PhD student (July 6-24, 2022)
• Artyom Assadillayev (Technical University of Denmark),
  visiting PhD student (Sep. 1. - Oct. 1., 2021)
• João Henriques (University of Minho, Braga, Portugal),
  visiting undergraduate student (Jan. 20 - Feb. 10, 2020)

• Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri (ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain),
  visiting PhD student (Sep 2 - Dec 31, 2019)
• Prof. Joel K.W. Yang (Singapore University of Technology and Design/SUTD, Singapore),
  visiting professor (May 15 - June 15, 2019)
• Sandra de Vega Esteban (ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain),
  visiting PhD student (May 20 - June 3, 2019)
  
  

Visitors & seminar speakers (2022):

• Prof. Ulla Gro Nielsen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
  "Low dimensional magnetism in a chemical framework"
  CNO seminar (November 28, 2022)
• Nikos Kyvelos (Technical University of Athens, Greece)
  "Amplification of quantum interference in three-level quantum emitters
  in the presence ofdimers of bismuth-chalcogenide microparticles"
  CNO seminar (November 23-25, 2022)
• Francesco Todisco (CNR Lecce, Italy)
  CNO seminar (November 19-23, 2022)
• Luka Zurak (University of Würzburg, Germany)
  

  "Electrically driven plasmonics: From inelastic electrontunneling to surface-response functions"

  CNO seminar (November 3, 2022)
• Prof. Mark Brongersma (Stanford University, CA, US)
  "Metasurfaces for future sensing, imaging and display technologies"
  SDU Honorary Doctor Lecture (October 28, 2022)
• Prof. H. Caglayan (Tampere University, Finland)
  "Light controlling light: ultrafast all-optical switching"
  CNO seminar (October 17, 2022)
• P.A.D.Gonçalves (ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain)
  "Electron–light interactions in nanophotonics"
  CNO seminar (August 15, 2022)
• J.T. Heiden (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea)
  "Design framework for polarization-insensitive multifunctional achromatic metalenses"
  CNO seminar (August 10, 2022)
• Prof. S.G. Menabde (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea)
  "Image polaritons in van der Waals crystals"
  CNO seminar (August 10, 2022)
• P. Ninhos (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
  "Transport through driven systems - Application to Floquet topological states"
  CNO seminar (July 11, 2022)
• Á.R. Echarri (ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain)
  "Nonlinear and nonlocal plasmonic response of crystalline atomically-thick films"
  CNO seminar (July 7, 2022)
• Prof. J. Khurgin (Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore)
  "Epsinol (and mu) near zero materials: Photonics on Steroids?"
  CNO seminar (June 2, 2022)
  "Excited carriers in metals: from icy cold to comfortably warm to scalding hot"
  CNO seminar (June 3, 2022)
  
  

Visitors & seminar speakers (2021):

• Prof. K. Busch (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
  "Multiphoton dynamics in tight-binding lattices"
  CNO seminar (November 24, 2021)
• Prof. G.P. Acuna (Univ. Fribourg, Switzerland)
  "DNA-mediated self-assembly of optical antennas for single-photon emitters"
  CNO seminar (October 28, 2021)
• Prof. U. Hohenester (Uni. Graz, Austria),
  Habilitation thesis defence of C. Tserkezis (September 2, 2021)
• Prof. L. Martín-Moreno (Uni. Zaragoza, Spain),
  Habilitation thesis defence of C. Tserkezis [online](September 2, 2021)
• Prof. Alexander Boltesseva (Pudue University, IND, US)
  "Advanced Photonic Design with Machine Learning"
  CNO seminar (June 23, 2021)
• Prof. Vladimir Shalaev (Pudue University, IND, US)
  "Quantum Photonics Empowered by Plasmonics and Machine Learning"
  CNO seminar (June 23, 2021)
• Prof. Uriel Levy (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
  "Metalenses"
  CNO online seminar (June 14, 2021)
  
  

Visitors & seminar speakers (2020):

• Dr. Petros Pantazopoulos (National and Kapodisrian Univ. Athens, Greece)
  "Dynamic control of light with spin waves in planar optomagnonic structure"
  Group seminar (August 20, 2020)
• João Henriques (University of Minho, Braga, Portugal),
  "Excitons in 2D Materials: A Semi-Analytical Approach",
  Group seminar (January 21, 2020)
  
  

Visitors & seminar speakers (2019):

• Dr. Jose Caridad (DTU, Denmark),
  "Exploring unconventional quantum ballistic transport phenomena in graphene",
  Group seminar (November 20, 2019)
• Dr. Vahagn Mkhitaryan (ICFO, Spain),
  "Nanophotonics with periodic arrays and ultrathin metal films",
  Group seminar (November 12, 2019)
• Dr. Birgit Stiller (MPI Erlangen, Germany),
  "Coherent light-sound interactions at the micro- and nanoscale",
  Group seminar (November 4, 2019)
• Dr. Tobias Stauber (ICMM, CSIC, Madrid, Spain),
  "2D Plasmonics: Chirality and local field effects",
  Group seminar (October 28, 2019)
• Dr. Sergii Morozov (Imperial College, UK),
  

  "Electric and photonic control of single photon emission from individual quantum dots",
  Group seminar (October 21, 2019)

• Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri (ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain),
  "Acoustic graphene plasmons in atomically thin heterostructures",
  Group seminar (Sep. 2, 2019)
• Prof. F. Javier García de Abajo (ICFO, Spain),
  PhD defense of P.A.D. Gonçalves (August 29, 2019)
• Prof. Peter Nordlander (Rice Univ., TX, US),
  PhD defense of P.A.D. Gonçalves (August 29, 2019)
• Prof. Nuno M.R. Peres (UMinho, Portugal),
  PhD defense of P.A.D. Gonçalves (August 29, 2019)
• Prof. Pierre Bérini (University of Ottawa, Canada),
  "Active plasmonics: gain, amplification, lasing and exceptional point structures",
  PhD Summer School (May 23-26, 2019)
• Prof. Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain),
  "Quantum optics in plasmonic nanocavities",
  PhD Summer School (May 23-26, 2019)
• Prof. Bert Hecht (University of Würzburg, Germany),
  "High-end nano-optics: Electro-plasmonics, strong coupling, spin-optics",
  PhD Summer School (May 23-26, 2019)
• Prof. Maiken H. Mikkelsen (Duke University, NC, US),
  "Extreme nanophotonics from ultrathin metallic gaps",
  PhD Summer School (May 23-26, 2019)
• Prof. Olivier J.F. Martin (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne/EPFL, Switzerland),
  "Interplay of optical modes in plasmonic systems",
  PhD Summer School (May 23-26, 2019)
• Prof. Thomas Søndergaard (Aalborg University, Denmark),
  "Green's function integral equation methods in nano-optics",
  PhD Summer School (May 23-26, 2019)

• Prof. Din Ping Tsai (Academia Sinica, Taiwan),
  "Meta-device: advance and application ",
  PhD Summer School (May 23-26, 2019)
• Prof. Joel K.W. Yang (Singapore University of Technology and Design/SUTD, Singapore),
  "Nanofabrication Approaches Tailored for plasmonics and photonics",
  PhD Summer School (May 23-26, 2019)

• Prof. Mikael Käll (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden),
  "Nanoplasmonic molecular sensing and actution",
  PhD Summer School (May 26, 2019)
• Prof. Jacob Sherson (Aarhus University, Denmark),
  "Beyond AI: Using games to create human-machine intelligence",
  D-IAS lecture (May 8, 2019)
• Prof. Ole Sigmund (Technical University of Denmar, Denmark),
  

"Geometric Design Optimization – From Mega-Planes to Nano-Optics",
D-IAS lecture (February 27, 2019)

• Prof. Vladimir Bordo (MCI Sønderborg, University of Southern Denmark),

"Quantum plasmonics of metal nanoparticles",
group seminar (February 7, 2019)

Visitors & seminar speakers (2018):

• Dr. Michael J.A. Smith (University of Manchester, UK),
  "Composites for the control of optical, mechanical, and opto-mechanical processes",
  group seminar (November 8, 2018)

• Prof. Naomi Halas (Rice University, TX, USA),
  "Sustainable Plasmonics and Plasmonics for Sustainability",
  D-IAS Lecture (October 10, 2018)

• Prof. Peter Nordlander (Rice University, TX, USA),
  "Plasmon-Induced Hot Carrier Generation and Applications",
  D-IAS Lecture (October 10, 2018)

• Prof. Joel K. W. Yang (Singapore University of Technology and Design/SUTD, Singapore)
  "2D and 3D Structural Color Printing",
  group seminar (September 25, 2018)

• MSc Dongha Kim (KAIST, Korea)
  "Nanophotonics with Magneto-optics",
  group seminar (August 15, 2018)

• MSc Donghyeong Kim (KAIST, Korea)
  "Quantitative and Isolated Measurement of Far-Field Scattering by a Single Nanostructure",

group seminar (August 15, 2018)

• Prof. Mordechai Segev (Israel Institute of Technology/Technion, Israel),
  "Topological Photonics",
  Workshop Lecture (May 29, 2018)

• Prof. Mercedeh Khajavikhan (University of Central Florida/CREOL, FL, USA),
  "Non-Hermitian Photonics: Optics at an Exceptional Point",
  Workshop Lecture (May 29, 2018)

• Prof. Vladimir Shalaev (Purdue University, IN, USA),
  "Nanophotonics with metamaterials: Making light work at nanoscale",
  Workshop Lecture (May 29, 2018)

• Prof. Sebastian Hofferberth (University of Southern Denmark),
  "Rydberg quantum optics in ultra cold atomic gasses",
  Workshop talk (May 29, 2018)

• Dr. Sergey Nechayev (Max Planck Institute, Erlangen, Germany),
  "Weak measurements of polarization singularities of a dipolar emitter",
  Workshop talk (May 29, 2018)

• Prof. Demetrios Christodoulides (University of Central Florida/CREOL, FL, USA),
  "Non-Hermiticity in Optics and Photonics: PT symmetry and beyond",
  Workshop Lecture (May 28, 2018)

• Prof. Mark Brongersma (Stanford University, CA, USA),
  "Non-Hermitian and Dislocated Structures for Photodetection",
  Workshop Lecture (May 28, 2018)

• Prof. Nimrod Moiseyev (Israel Institute of Technology/Technion, Israel),
  "Effects of exceptional points in PT-symmetric waveguides",
  Workshop Lecture (May 28, 2018)

• Prof. Hrvoje Buljan (University of Zagreb, Croatia),
  "Engineering Weyl fermions and anyons",
  Workshop Lecture (May 28, 2018)

• Prof. Alexander Szameit (University of Rostock, Germany),
  "Non-Hermitian Topological Photonics",
  Workshop Lecture (May 28, 2018)

• Prof. Søren Raza (Technical University of Denmark),
  "In situ electron energy spectroscopy for nanoscale optical devices",
  Workshop talk (May 28, 2018)

• Dr. Adi Pick (Israel Institute of Technology/Technion, Israel),
  "Polariztion dependence of the propagation of leaky guided modes",
  Workshop talk (May 28, 2018)

• Prof. Henrik M. Rønnow (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne/EPFL, Switzerland),
  "Quantum Magnetism – Neutrons in the Quasi-particle zoo",
  D-IAS Lecture (May 16, 2018)

• Dr. Saskia Fiedler (University of Technology Sydney, Australia),
  "CL studies of metal-coated ZnO",
  group seminar (April 25, 2018).

• Prof. Alexander Dmitriev (Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden),
  "Light-steering by ‘fridge magnets’ in nanoscale landscapes",
  D-IAS Lecture (March 14, 2018)

• Dr. Philip T. Kristensen (Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany),
  "Quasinormal modes in optical micro cavities and plasmonic nanoresonators"
  group seminar (February 28, 2018)

• Prof. Luis Martín-Moreno (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón, Spain),
  "Quantum Nanophotonics at the Institute for Materials Science of Aragon"
  group seminar (February 27, 2018)

Visitors & seminar speakers (2017):

• Prof. Timur Shegai (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden),
  "Modified excited states dynamics in the localized plasmon - molecular exciton hybrids" (December 11, 2017)
• Prof. Maiken H. Mikkelsen (Duke University, NC, USA),
  "Ultra-small Plasmonic Cavities for Tailored Light-Matter Interactions" (November 13, 2017)
• Prof. Uriel Levy (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel),
  "Controlling light matter interactions at the nanoscale" (November 3, 2017)
• Prof. Mark Stockman (Georgia State University, GA, USA),
  "Condensed-Matter in Ultrafast and Superstrong Laser Fields" (November 1, 2017)
• Dr. Francesco Todisco (University of Salento, Italy),
  "Mixing Light and Matter in Nanoplasmonic Systems" (August 30, 2017)
• Prof. Jian Zi (Fudan University, China),
  "Structural-color production in amorphous photonic crystals" (August 28, 2017)
• Prof. Oliver Benson (Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany),
  "Hybrid Quantum Technology Based on Quantum Emitters in Condensed Phase" (August 22, 2017)