Program

​8:45-9:30 - Gathering at the coffee carts (Lobby of the Porter building)

LMI opening session

9:30-9:40 - Prof. Ady Arie:                             Presentation of the center

9:40-9:45 - TAU Rector - Prof. Yaron Oz:     Greetings

9:45-10:15 - Prof. Ori Cheshnovski:            Fifty years of LMI research at TAU: A personal perspective

10:15-11:00 - Prof. Michal Lipson:              Next generation silicon photonics

11:00-11:20 - Coffee break

11:15-11:40 - Dr. Yuval Ebenstein:              Single-molecule dynamics under confinement

11:40-12:05 - Prof. Natan Shaked:              Seeing invisible biological cells: New horizons in cancer diagnosis and in-vitro fertilization

12:10-13:30 - Lunch

13:30-14:15 - Prof. Franz X. Kärtner:           How to shrink an accelerator? From the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser to compact X-ray                                                                               sources

14:15-14:40 - Dr. Ishay Pomerantz:            Shedding New Intense Light on Nuclei

14:40-15:05 - Dr. Alon Bahabad:                 Optical temporal super-resolution through super-oscillations

15:05-15:30 - Dr. Haim Suchowski:             Ultrafast hot carrier dynamics in plasmonic systems

​15:30-15:50 - Coffee break

15:50-16:35 - Prof. Alex L. Gaeta:                Combs and Computing Based on Optical Parametric Oscillators

16:35-17:00 - Prof. Shimshon Bar-Ad:        Shock waves, caustics and analogue gravity with local and non-local photon fluids

17:00-17:25 - Dr. Tal Schwartz:                    Chemistry in a quantum-optical flask

17:25-17:50 - FLASH POSTER SESSION - Short talks by students presenting posters

17:50-19:30 - Poster session (Beer & Snacks)