Summer School 2018

6 November, 2017
Past Years Summer Schools

XXV International Summer School ‘Nicolás Cabrera’

Manipulating Light and Matter at the Nanoscale

Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid, Sept. 10-14, 2018

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Thank You!

A big thanks to all the attendants and speakers who made the school a success! The recorded talks are now available on YouTube.
Here are the group photos (courtesy of the BBVA Foundation):

The school has also generated a considerable amount of media attention in Spain, with several large newspapers performing interviews with John Pendry (El País, ABC, El Confidencial, El Español) and Ursula Keller (El País, ABC, El Confidencial, El Español). In addition, our main sponsor, the BBVA Foundation, has produced a report about the school, as well as video interviews with John Pendry (also available in the original English version) and Ursula Keller (English version).

Scope and goals

Light is an ideal probe of nature due to the ease of controlling and measuring its properties, which allows reaching extremely high temporal and energy resolution. However, the spatial resolution of photons is limited to the wavelength for most traditional approaches. Over the last few decades, the drive to surpass this constraint and advances in fabrication and characterization techniques have led to the development of the field of nanophotonics, focused on beating the diffraction limit of classical optics. Nowadays, an unprecedented control over light at sub-wavelength scales is possible, which in addition to improved resolution leads to an exceptional enhancement of light-matter interactions. This provides novel mechanisms for the manipulation of the quantum states of light through matter and the quantum states of matter through light, which opens new avenues for the development of materials science and photonic technologies operating at the nanoscale.

The objective of this Nicolás Cabrera Summer School is to provide a general and comprehensive view of the field of quantum nanophotonics, with special emphasis on the physical phenomena which emerge from microscopic strong light-matter coupling. With this purpose, the School will gather a group of leading scientists, both experimentalists and theoreticians, working within this extremely active research area and related topics.

Topics

Near-field photonics
Plasmonics
Metamaterials
Quantum Optics
Quantum Optomechanics
Bio-photonics
Ultrafast Lasers

Confirmed Keynote speakers

Jeremy Baumberg, Cambridge University
Shanhui Fan, Stanford University
Ursula Keller, ETH Zürich
Luis Martín Moreno, Universidad de Zaragoza
John Pendry, Imperial College London
Niek Van Hulst, ICFO
Martin Wegener, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Confirmed Invited speakers

Pablo Alonso, Universidad de Oviedo
Hatice Altug, EPFL Lausanne
Juan Carlos Cuevas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Simone De Liberato, University of Southampton
Rubén Esteban, Donostia International Physics Center
Juanjo García Ripoll, IFF-CSIC
Ulrich Hohenester, University of Graz
Jonathan Keeling, University of St. Andrews
Laura Na Liu, University of Heidelberg
Ferry Prins, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Said R.-K. Rodriguez, AMOLF
Michael Ruggenthaler, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
Himadri Shekhar Dhar, Vienna University of Technology
Roy Shiloh, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Mário Silveirinha, University of Lisbon
Päivi Törmä, Aalto University
Jana Zaumseil, University of Heidelberg

History and venue

The International Summer School “Nicolás Cabrera”, funded by the BBVA Foundation, deals with current topics in materials science, condensed matter physics, nanophysics and biophysics since 1994. The School is a meeting point for numerous scientists all over the world, who share a few days in Madrid in a particularly pleasant and interacting environment.

The School is organized in the residence “La Cristalera” in Miraflores de la Sierra, a small village in the mountains near Madrid. There will be a welcome reception on Sunday, Sep 9, with lectures taking place from the morning of Monday, Sep 10, until lunch on Friday, Sep 14. Bus transport from Madrid airport and back will be provided on Sunday, Sep 9, and Friday, Sep 14, respectively.

Dates

September 10th-14th, 2018

Schedule and Abstracts

schedule

The schedule and abstracts can be viewed online. You can also download the book of abstracts as a pdf. The conference excursion will take us to the beautiful town of Segovia and include a traditional dinner there.