Name: Polaritonic Chemistry - Coherent Quantum Control of Molecules with Modified Vacuum Fields
Start: 2026-05-04T08:15:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-06T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Albano Building 3

Polaritonic Chemistry - Coherent Quantum Control of Molecules with Modified Vacuum Fields

from Monday, 4 May 2026 (08:15) to Wednesday, 6 May 2026 (17:30)

Monday, 4 May 2026

08:15 Registration and Coffee
Registration and Coffee
08:15 - 09:00
Room: Albano 3: 4205 - SU Conference Room (40 seats)
09:00 Monday Morning
09:00 - 11:45
Room: Albano 3: 4205 - SU Conference Room (40 seats)
Contributions

09:00 Welcome and Introduction

09:05 The Many Faces of Strong Light–Matter Interactions: From Non-Thermal Aging to Quantum Twin Polaritons - Norah Hoffmann (New York University)

09:35 Quantum dynamics and electronic structure of polaritonic Hamiltonians with MCTDH: things we learned so far - Oriol Vendrell (University of Heidelberg)

10:45 Raman scattering of phonon polaritons under nanoscale confinement: the role of structure and environment - Timur Shegai (Chalmers University of Technology)

11:15 Stimulated cooling in non-equilibrium Bose–Einstein condensate - Anton Zasedatelev (Aalto University)
12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:30
Room: Restaurant Proviant
13:30 Monday Afternoon
13:30 - 17:30
Room: Albano 3: 4205 - SU Conference Room (40 seats)
Contributions

13:30 Cavity-Mediated Long-Range Cooperative Coupling between Localized Plasmons and Molecular Excitons - Tal Schwartz (Tel Aviv University)

14:00 Hybrid Light–Matter States and Energy Flow in Molecular Systems - Tönu Pullerits (Chemical Physics, Lund University)

14:30 Cavity-modified exciton-exciton annihilation in disordered molecular systems - Ilia Sokolovskii (University College London)

15:50 Resonant modification of Van der Waals interactions under vibrational strong coupling - Marit Fiechter (ETH Zürich)

16:20 Dynamic Fabry–Pérot Cavities for Rigorous Study of Chemical Reactivity Under Vibrational Strong Coupling - Blake S. Simpkins (Naval Research Laboratory, Chemistry Division)

16:50 Rotational polaritons in the gas phase - Tamás Szidarovszky (Eötvös Loránd University)

17:10 Understanding Resonance‑Enabled Polaritonic Control of Hydrogen Transfer Dynamics and Relaxation - Richard Gundermann (University of Potsdam, Institute of Chemistry, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24 - 25 D-14476 Potsdam Germany)
18:00 Poster session: Poster session
Poster session
18:00 - 20:00
Room: Albano 3: 4205 - SU Conference Room (40 seats)
Contributions

18:00 Indirect Probing of Light-Induced Nonadiabatic Dynamics in Lossy Nanocavities - Gábor Halász (University of Debrecen)

18:00 Entangled Polariton States in the Visible and Mid-Infrared Spectral Ranges - Vladislav Shishkov (Macroscopic Quantum Optics (MQO) Labs, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University School of Science, FI-00076 Espoo, Finland)

18:00 Energy Transfer in Optical Microcavities: Theory Meets Experiment - Ilmari Rosenkampff (Division of Chemical Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden)

18:00 Rotational polaritons of the HCl dimer - János Sarka

18:00 Excited state electron transfer reaction under strong coupling conditions - Thrisha Swaminathan (University of Gothenburg)

18:00 Towards experimental observation of vibrational dynamics under Strong Coupling conditions by non-linear IR spectroscopy - Helena Poulose (University of Potsdam)

18:00 Polariton Composition in a Dispersive Tavis-Cummings Mode - Mathis Noell (University of Potsdam)

18:00 Efficient charge transfer dynamics inside a cavity - a dynamical perspective - Priyam Kumar De

18:00 Introducing vibrational quantization in classical molecular dynamics under strong light-matter coupling - Shivani Verma (University of Jyväskylä)

18:00 Quantum dynamics simulation of exciton-polariton transport - Niclas Krupp (University of Heidelberg)
Tuesday, 5 May 2026
09:00 Tuesday Morning
09:00 - 12:05
Room: Albano 3: 4205 - SU Conference Room (40 seats)
Contributions

09:00 Vibrational dynamics of vibropolaritons formed by organic molecules - Henrike M. Müller-Werkmeister (Institute for Chemistry, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany)

09:30 Multiscale simulation of molecular excitations strongly coupled to localized surface plasmons - Stefano Corni

10:45 Polaritons in complex nanophotonic structures - Johannes Feist (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

11:15 Atomistic Simulations of Polaritonic Dynamics in Realistic Optical Cavities - Carlos Bustamante (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter)
12:05 Lunch
Lunch
12:05 - 13:05
Room: Restaurant Proviant

13:05 Free time
Free time
13:05 - 16:30

16:30 Social activity: Social activity and Conference Dinner.
Social activity and Conference Dinner.
16:30 - 20:30
Wednesday, 6 May 2026
09:30 Wednesday Morning
09:30 - 11:45
Room: Albano 3: 4205 - SU Conference Room (40 seats)
Contributions

09:30 Frame Dissipative molecular cavity quantum dynamics - Agnes Vibok (University of Debrecen)

10:00 Collective Electron Correlations and Novel Phases Under Vibrational Strong Coupling - Dominik Sidler (ZHAW School of Engineering)

11:15 Quantifying the Number of Dark, Gray, and Bright States as a Function of Spectral Overlap in Polaritonic Systems - Karl Börjesson (the University of Gothenburg)
11:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
11:45 - 13:15
Room: Restaurant Proviant
13:15 Wednesday Afternoon
13:15 - 15:45
Room: Albano 3: 4205 - SU Conference Room (40 seats)
Contributions

13:15 Classical analogues to chiral light matter interactions in optical cavities: from the Foucault pendulum to the Spyrograph game - Rémi Avriller (IPCMS, CNRS and University of Strasbourg)

13:45 Multiqubit state preparation with nanophotonics tools - Antonio I. Fernández Domínguez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

14:45 Interference-induced cavity resonances and imaginary Rabi splitting - Anael Ben-Asher (Tel Aviv University)

15:15 Non-equilibrium cavity pumping effects for electronic molecular polaritons - Yassir El Moutaoukal (Norwegian University of Science and Technology – Trondheim, Norway)

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