Soft Matter Macro and Micro-Photonics workshop

8:55 - 9:00
Welcome by the organiser

Session chair: Igor Muševič
9:00 - 9:45
Stephen M. Morris (invited speaker)
Laser writing reconfigurable optics into liquid crystals

9:45 - 10:30
Masanori Ozaki (invited speaker - online from Japan)
Ultrafast photonic functions in polymer-structured liquid crystals: From nanocomposite electro-optics to blue-phase ferroelectric nematic

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break

Session chair: Sara Nocentini
11:00 - 11:45
Oleg D. Lavrentovich (invited speaker)
Electro-optics of chiral heliconical and ferroelectric nematics

11:45 - 12:30
Nerea Sebastian (invited speaker)
Self-organization and polar order in ferroelectric nematics for nonlinear optics

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break

Session chair: Etienne Brasselet
14:30 - 15:15

Igor Muševič (ERC LOGOS talk)
Microscale generation and control of nanosecond light by light in a photonic soft matter

15:15 - 16:00
Xinzheng Zhang (invited speaker)
Soft matter-based topological lasers

16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break

Session chair: Filippo Cardano
16:30 - 17:15
Stefano Luigi Oscurato (invited speaker)
Holographic photomorphing of polymer surfaces for reprogrammable diffractive optics

Session chair: Miha Ravnik
9:00 - 9:45
Ivan Smalyukh (invited speaker)
Time-crystalline order in chiral nematic liquid crystals

9:45 - 10:30
Matjaž Humar (invited speaker)
All-optical programmable liquid-crystal photonic circuits

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break

Session chair: Stephen M. Morris
11:00 - 11:45
Markus A. Schmidt (invited speaker)
Bridging nanophotonics and optical fibers through 3D nanoprinting: A novel approach for tailored light control

11:45 - 12:30
Gregor Posnjak (invited speaker)
DNA origami for 3D photonic structures

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break

Session chair: Oleg D. Lavrentovich
14:30 - 15:15

Miha Ravnik (ERC LOGOS talk)
Modelling of soft matter photonic structures

15:15 - 16:00

Wei Hu (invited speaker)
Microstructured liquid crystal planar optics

16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break

Session chair: Markus A. Schmidt
16:30 - 17:15
Tomasz R. Woliński (invited speaker)
Enhancing light-matter interactions with gold nanoparticles in tunable photonic liquid crystal fiber microstructures

Session chair: Ivan Smalyukh
9:00 - 9:45
Etienne Brasselet (invited speaker)
Topological shaping of light in spatial, spectral and temporal domains from self-organized liquid crystal textures

9:45 - 10:30
Filippo Cardano (invited speaker)
Free-space photonic circuits for spatially structured light

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break

Session chair: Matjaž Humar
11:00 - 11:45
Zhigang Chen (invited speaker)
Soft-matter platforms for nonlinear and topological photonics

11:45 - 12:30
Sara Nocentini (invited speaker)
Light-programmable 3D microphotonics with liquid crystalline polymers

12:30 - 12:35
Igor Muševič
Closing remarks

14:00 at Jožef Stefan Institute (Jamova 39, Ljubljana)
Uroš Jagodič, Jaka Pišljar
Soft Mater Photonics Lab Tour