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
Group picture.The coherent-backscattering wizzards (among other things): Guillaume Labeyrie, Christian Miniatura, Robin Kaiser.
The (current and former) Institut d'Optique guys: William Guerin, Guillaume Labeyrie, Alain Aspect, Patrizia Vignolo, Robin Kaiser, Mathilde Hugbart, Nathalie Westbrook, Chris Westbrook.
The webmaster, who gave to himself the privilege to choose the pictures, and his former PhD advisor.
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.