Invitation to ICTP Colloquium on Wednesday 27 September 2017: "Light and Motion at the Nanoscale", by Prof. Florian Marquardt

[ICTP Director]

Dear All,

ICTP is pleased to announce that the forthcoming ICTP Colloquium, "Light 
and Motion at the Nanoscale", by Prof. Florian Marquardt, Max Planck 
Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen (Germany), will take place 
*next week, on Wednesday 27 September  at 16:30 hrs*, in the Budinich 
Lecture Hall, Leonardo Building, ICTP.

BIOSKETCH: Florian Marquardt leads the theory division at the Max Planck 
Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) in Erlangen, Germany. He had 
studied in Bayreuth, Germany, before doing his PhD at the university of 
Basel, Switzerland. From 2003 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral fellow at 
Yale University, USA, after which he took up a junior research group 
leader position at the LMU Munich (2005-2010). In 2009 he was awarded 
the Walter Schottky prize of the German Physical Society for his work on 
the theory of cavity optomechanics. In 2010, he moved to a tenured 
(chair) position at the university of Erlangen. He was appointed a 
director at the MPL in 2016. His research interests generally lie at the 
intersection of nanophysics and quantum optics, including cavity 
optomechanics and nanomechanics, decoherence, quantum transport, quantum 
electrodynamics in superconducting circuits, quantum computation, and 
quantum many-body physics.

ABSTRACT: During the last ten years, a new research frontier has been 
explored at the interface between nanophysics and quantum optics: in the 
field of cavity optomechanics, one aims to exploit the interaction 
between radiation and vibrational motion, often at the nanoscale. 
Possible applications range from foundational studies of quantum physics 
via sensitive measurements to quantum communication. In this talk, I 
will first give an overview of the current status of this field and then 
highlight two recent research topics: the study of the topological 
transport of photons and phonons, and the optomechanics of superfluid 
helium.

The abstract of the talk is available at http://indico.ictp.it/event/8288/

The Colloquium will be livestreamed at http://video.ictp.it/livestream

The poster is attached.

Light refreshments will be served after the lecture.

You are all very warmly invited to attend.

Office of the Director, ICTP