We have been very happy to host this event honouring Robin Kaiser's 60th birthday. Throughout his career, Robin has been working with a very large number of collaborators, and it was a great pleasure to invite some of them to celebrate his achievements.
Download here the poster of the symposium.
Program
Monday, 9 October
Chair : Patrizia Vignolo9h00 - 9:30: Patrizia Vignolo - Welcome & introduction
9:30 - 10:30: Alain Aspect - Hanbury Brown and Twiss correlations: from photon to atom quantum optics
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30: Nathalie Westbrook - Manipulating with light: from atoms to biological objects
11:30 - 12:00: Joachim von Zanthier (on-line) - 25 years of light scattering
12:00 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 14:30: Christophe Jurczak (on-line) - From the lab to startups: the opportunities and challenges with quantum technologies
14:30 - 15:00: Pierre Azam - Quantum fluids of light with hot atomic vapors
15:00 - 15:30: Vanderlei Bagnato (on-line) - Turbulence, matter-wave speckles and more
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30: Diederik Wiersma (on-line) - Light walking and catching
16:30 - 17:00: Bruno Desruelles (on-line) - Quantum gravity sensors: recent achievements and perspectives
17:00 - 17:30: Christian Miniatura - Coherent backscattering and internal structure: When cold atoms settled on the French Riviera
Tuesday, 10 October
Chair : Mathilde Hugbart9:30 - 10:00: Thorsten Ackemann (on-line) - Beautiful structures in optically dense atomic clouds with light-mediated coupling
10:00 - 10:30: Guillaume Labeyrie - 1993-2023: 30 years of collaboration with Robin Kaiser !!!
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30: William Guerin - 16 years with Robin Kaiser: From the random laser to the stars
11:30 - 12:00: Jook Walraven - On revient toujours...
12:00 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 14:30: Tito Mendonça - Happy-hour at the Promenade: Photon bubbles and cold atoms
14:30 - 15:00: Taha Rouabah - Multiple scattering of light by dilute disordered atomic clouds
15:00 - 15:30: Romain Bachelard - 12 years of collaboration between Nice and São Carlos: from single- to many-photon physics
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30: Eric Akkermans (on-line) - Hydrodynamic description of non equilibrium radiation
16:30 - 17:00: Farrokh Vakili - From Calern to Paranal and beyond: Quantum Optics and Astrophysics
Pictures
Organization committee
William GuerinMathilde Hugbart
Patrizia Vignolo
... with the initial help of Dilleys Ferreira.
Many thanks also to Elvire Di Concetto, Magali Varlet-Dusaucy and Nicole Tcherniavsky for the administrative support.