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, May 4, 2026 (8:15 AM) to Wednesday, May 6, 2026 (5:30 PM)

Monday, May 4, 2026

8:15 AM Registration and Coffee
Registration and Coffee
8:15 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Albano 3: 4205 - SU Conference Room (40 seats)
9:00 AM Monday Morning
9:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Albano 3: 4205 - SU Conference Room (40 seats)
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome and Introduction

9:05 AM The Many Faces of Strong Light–Matter Interactions: From Non-Thermal Aging to Quantum Twin Polaritons - Norah Hoffmann (New York University)

9:35 AM Quantum dynamics and electronic structure of polaritonic Hamiltonians with MCTDH: things we learned so far - Oriol Vendrell (University of Heidelberg)

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

11:15 AM Stimulated cooling in non-equilibrium Bose–Einstein condensate - Anton Zasedatelev (Aalto University)
12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Restaurant Proviant
1:30 PM Monday Afternoon
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Albano 3: 4205 - SU Conference Room (40 seats)
Contributions

1:30 PM Cavity-Mediated Long-Range Cooperative Coupling between Localized Plasmons and Molecular Excitons - Tal Schwartz (Tel Aviv University)

2:00 PM Hybrid Light–Matter States and Energy Flow in Molecular Systems - Tönu Pullerits (Chemical Physics, Lund University)

2:30 PM Cavity-modified exciton-exciton annihilation in disordered molecular systems - Ilia Sokolovskii (University College London)

3:50 PM Resonant modification of Van der Waals interactions under vibrational strong coupling - Marit Fiechter (ETH Zürich)

4:20 PM Dynamic Fabry–Pérot Cavities for Rigorous Study of Chemical Reactivity Under Vibrational Strong Coupling - Blake S. Simpkins (Naval Research Laboratory, Chemistry Division)

4:50 PM Rotational polaritons in the gas phase - Tamás Szidarovszky (Eötvös Loránd University)

5:10 PM 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)
6:00 PM Poster session: Poster session
Poster session
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Albano 3: 4205 - SU Conference Room (40 seats)
Contributions

6:00 PM Indirect Probing of Light-Induced Nonadiabatic Dynamics in Lossy Nanocavities - Gábor Halász (University of Debrecen)

6:00 PM 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)

6:00 PM Energy Transfer in Optical Microcavities: Theory Meets Experiment - Ilmari Rosenkampff (Division of Chemical Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden)

6:00 PM Rotational polaritons of the HCl dimer - János Sarka

6:00 PM Excited state electron transfer reaction under strong coupling conditions - Thrisha Swaminathan (University of Gothenburg)

6:00 PM Towards experimental observation of vibrational dynamics under Strong Coupling conditions by non-linear IR spectroscopy - Helena Poulose (University of Potsdam)

6:00 PM Polariton Composition in a Dispersive Tavis-Cummings Mode - Mathis Noell (University of Potsdam)

6:00 PM Efficient charge transfer dynamics inside a cavity - a dynamical perspective - Priyam Kumar De

6:00 PM Introducing vibrational quantization in classical molecular dynamics under strong light-matter coupling - Shivani Verma (University of Jyväskylä)

6:00 PM Quantum dynamics simulation of exciton-polariton transport - Niclas Krupp (University of Heidelberg)
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
9:00 AM Tuesday Morning
9:00 AM - 12:05 PM
Room: Albano 3: 4205 - SU Conference Room (40 seats)
Contributions

9:00 AM Vibrational dynamics of vibropolaritons formed by organic molecules - Henrike M. Müller-Werkmeister (Institute for Chemistry, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany)

9:30 AM Multiscale simulation of molecular excitations strongly coupled to localized surface plasmons - Stefano Corni

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

11:15 AM Atomistic Simulations of Polaritonic Dynamics in Realistic Optical Cavities - Carlos Bustamante (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter)
12:05 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:05 PM - 1:05 PM
Room: Restaurant Proviant

1:05 PM Free time
Free time
1:05 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM Social activity: Social activity and Conference Dinner.
Social activity and Conference Dinner.
4:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
9:30 AM Wednesday Morning
9:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Albano 3: 4205 - SU Conference Room (40 seats)
Contributions

9:30 AM Frame Dissipative molecular cavity quantum dynamics - Agnes Vibok (University of Debrecen)

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

11:15 AM 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 AM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Room: Restaurant Proviant
1:15 PM Wednesday Afternoon
1:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Albano 3: 4205 - SU Conference Room (40 seats)
Contributions

1:15 PM 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)

1:45 PM Multiqubit state preparation with nanophotonics tools - Antonio I. Fernández Domínguez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

2:45 PM Interference-induced cavity resonances and imaginary Rabi splitting - Anael Ben-Asher (Tel Aviv University)

3:15 PM Non-equilibrium cavity pumping effects for electronic molecular polaritons - Yassir El Moutaoukal (Norwegian University of Science and Technology – Trondheim, Norway)

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