Dec 17 – 19, 2025
The George Washington University, Washington D.C.
America/New_York timezone

Invited speakers

David Andrews (U East Anglia - ret ) (online) Circular Vortex Dichroism: Theory Foundations

Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic (USNA), Experiments with vectorial vortex beams propagating underwater

Ravi Bhardwaj (U Ottawa), Twisted light-matter interactions beyond the dipole limit

Nicholas Bigelow (U Rochester), Topological atom optics and beyond:  Knotting quantum wave functions using twisted light 

Konstantin Bliokh (Donostia Int Physics Center) (online), Vortices, Skyrmions, Möbius Strips: From Nanooptics to Ocean Waves

Carl Carlson (William & Mary), Vortex-Core Spin Skyrmions of Spinor Waves

Pierre Clade (LKB/Sorbonne), Probing the spatial distribution of optical k-vectors in situ with Bose-Einstein condensates

Paul Corkum (U Ottawa),"Flying Doughnut Pulses" – a Route to Isolated gigaGauss Magnetic Fields

Liang Feng (UPenn), On-chip manipulation of photonic quantum topology towards a resilient quantum internet

Niels Geerits (TU Wien), Generation and Detection of Neutron OAM for Quantum Information

Mohammad Hafezi (U Maryland), Optical pumping of electronic quantum Hall states with vortex light

Jonathan Hood (Purdue U), Quantum light with nanophotonics, Cs atoms, and DBT molecules

Neil Johnson (GWU) (online), Twisted light drives chiral excitations of interacting electrons in nanostructures with a magnetic field

Olga Korotkova (U Miami), Orbitalization Ellipsometry

Thu Le (AIST, Japan), Engineering Orbital and Spin Angular Momentum of Light via Metasurfaces

Natalia Litchinitser (Duke U), Structuring light-matter interactions: from knots to skyrmions

Norbert Linke (Duke U), Quantum Networking with an E2 Strontium Ion Qubit

Karan K Mehta (Cornell), Trapped-ion laser cooling and gates in phase-stable standing waves

Howard Milchberg (U Maryland), Spatiotemporal Optical Vortices: From Linear to Relativistic Intensities

Irina Novikova (William and Mary), Using vector beams for vector field measurements

Clara Piekarski (LKB/Sorbonne), Quantum fluids of light: vortices, mixtures and instabilities

Victor Podolskiy (UMass Lowell)Primordial Metamaterials

Laurence Pruvost (Sorbonne University), Four-wave mixing with vortex beams
 

Dmitry Pushin (U Waterloo), Advancing Neutron Optics: Harnessing Structured Neutrons for Quantum Applications

Siddarth Ramachandran (Boston U), Breaking the information capacity barrier of optical fibers via topological confinement of “forbidden” states

Dusan Sarenac (U Buffalo)Twisted Light Applications in Retinal Diagnostics and Polarization Vision

Riaan Schmidt (PTB), Theoretical Predictions for Atomic Magnetometers Employing Vector Vortex Beams

Mike Snow (Indiana U)Neutron OAM, p-wave neutron-nucleus resonances, and the neutron-nucleus weak interaction

Stephan Sponar (TU Wien)Fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics studied in neutron interferometry

Sophia Strnat (U Tampere), Inelastic scattering of vortex electrons by atomic targets

Robert Spreeuw (U Amsterdam) (online), Optical tweezers beyond the paraxial approximation

Andrey Surzhykov (PTB)Atomic parity violation studies with structured light

Yulung Tang (U Berkeley)Coherent Transfer of Orbital Angular Momentum to a Trapped-Ion Planar Rotor

Alan Willner (USC), Longitudinally-Structured Light Fields for Sensing and Communications

Anatoly Zayats (King’s College London)Spin topologies in evanescent fields and anisotropic metamaterial

 

The list is still being updated.