Light!

Scientific Program

Introduction: the nature of light

• Quantum Light : a Brief Introduction
  Philippe Grangier (Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique, Palaiseau, France)
• Quantum Optics and Quantum Communications using Non-Gaussian States of Light
  Philippe Grangier (Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique, Palaiseau, France)
• Light, horizons, and the geometry of space-time
  Matthias Bartelmann (Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, Universität Heidelberg)

Interactions between light and matter

• Light for medicine: photodynamic therapy
  Mauricio Baptista (University of São Paulo)
• The production of *light* by matter – From light bulbs to monolithic blue LEDs
  Mathieu Gallart (Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg)
• Synchrotron light for various applications in material sciences
  Jean Daillant (SOLEIL, CEA Saclay)

Light as a messenger

• Large scales: stars and the universe
  • Spectroscopic diagnostics in astronomy and astrophysics
    Nadine Afram (Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Freiburg)
  • What spectropolarimetry adds
    Svetlana Berdyugina (Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Freiburg)
  • Interferometry
    Oskar von der Lühe (Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Freiburg)
  • Detecting exoplanets: a subtle usage of light
    Daniel Rouan (LESIA, Observatoire de Paris)
• Small scales
  • New microscopies
    Brahim Lounis (LP2N, Institut d’Optique, Bordeaux)

Manipulating light

• Negative refraction - bending light the wrong way
  Sylvain Lecler (ICube, Strasbourg)
• Getting light to propagate where one thought it wouldn't: plasmonics, strong coupling
  Jérôme Wenger (Institut Fresnel, Marseille)
• Ultra-fast laser spectroscopy: probing matter dynamics on ultra-short time scales
  Marie Barthelemy (Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg)

Public evening lecture:<br><b><a href="https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/11077/session/25/contribution/19">Light! Glorious atmospheric phenomena</b></a><br>Jürgen Rendtel (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik, Potsdam)

Scientific activities

• Poster presentations by the participants
• Visit to the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics (Freiburg) and to the Solar Observatory at Schauinsland (near Freiburg)
• Visit of experimental laboratories on the Strasbourg scientific campus (Université de Strasbourg and CNRS)
• Experiments with an optical telescope at Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory (weather permitting)

Social programme

• Welcome reception at the Hôtel de Ville
• Conference dinner followed by a trip around the town in a "bateau mouche"
• Illumination of the Cathedral
• One excursion to the Vosges, with a walk, a visit of a touristic highlight and a traditional meal of Alsace
• Visit to the Council of Europe