Schedule

 
Sunday 16/02

Arrival to Ein-Gedi

18:30 Dinner

Monday 17/02

8:45-9:00 Opening and greetings, Prof. Patrick Sebbah.

Session Chair: Hui Cao

9:00-9:45 Mathias Fink: Reflection Matrix Approaches for Imaging Random Media: From Ultrasound to Optics.

9:45-10:30 Nimrod Moiseyev: Counterintuitive phenomena in atomic  molecular and optical systems controlled by exceptional points.

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

Session Chair: Pepjin Pinkse

11:00-11:45 Sebastien Guenneau: Controlling seismic waves thanks to transformation optics.

11:45 -12:15 Sushil Mujumdar: Discrepant transport characteristics under Anderson localization at the two limits of disorder.

12:15 -12:45 Tom Sperber: Adaptive Pumping for Control of Multimode Fiber Amplifiers and Lasers.

12:45-14:15 Lunch break

Session Chair: Stefan Rotter

14:45-15:30 Sebastien Popoff: Wavefront shaping in complex media for analog computation.

15:30-16:00 Pritam Pai: Speckle intensity statistics of single transmission channels.

16:00 -16:30 Gary Georgi Rozenman: Quantum-Classical Analogies of Wave Phenomena in Surface Gravity Waves.

16:30-17:00 Coffee break
Session Chair: Ori Katz

17:00-17:45 Marian Florescu: Hyperuniformity and Local Self-Uniformity in Photonic Systems.

17:45-18:15 Matthias Kühmayer: Random Anti-Lasing through Coherent Perfect Absorption in a Disordered Medium.

18:30 Dinner

20:00 poster session. Beers and drinks.

Tuesday 18/02

Session Chair: Mathias Fink

9:00-9:45 Hui Cao: Coherent Control of Pulse Propagation in a Multimode Fiber.

9:45-10:30 Stefan Rotter: Designing optimal states of light with the Wigner-Smith operator.

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

Session Chair: Eric Akkermans

11:00-11:30 Simon Mahler: Imaging through scattering media by using all optical feedback.

11:30 -12:00 Ilya Starshynov: Speckle correlation imaging beyond memory the effect using deep learning.

12:00-16:30 Trip to Masada +Lunch.

16:30-17:00 Coffee break

Session Chair: Azriel Genack

17:00-17:45 Eric Akkerman: Fluctuating Forces Induced by Non Equilibrium and Coherent Light Flow.

17:45-18:15 Matthieu Davy: Controlling modes and delay times in complex systems for enhanced light-matter interaction.

18:30 Dinner

Wednesday 19/02

Session Chair: Mordechai (Moti) Segev

9:00-9:45 Pepijn Pinkse: Quantum Light Scattering and Authenticated
Communication.

9:45-10:30 Fabrice Devaux: Imaging position and momentum entanglement of bi-photon states of high Schmidt number through a scattering medium.

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

Session Chair: Dan Oron 

11:00-11:45 Hugo Defienne: Quantum optics in complex media.

11:45 -12:15 Adi Pick: Robust mode conversion in NV centers using exceptional points.

12:15 -12:45 Ohad Lib: Generating entangled photons with tailored
correlations for real-time quantum wavefront shaping.

12:45-14:15 Lunch break

Session Chair: Nir Davidson

14:45-16:15 Memorial session in honor of Memorial of Yaron Silberberg:  Mordechai (Moti) Segev, Uri Levy, Dan Oron, Ori Katz, Yaron Bromberg.

16:15-16:45 Coffee break

Session Chair: Marian Florescu

16:45-17:30 Nir Davidson: Beam shaping and control with optical feedback.

17:30-18:15 Tsampikos Kottos: Light Propagation in Disordered Multimode Fibers.

18:30 Dinner

Thursday 20/02

Session Chair: Tsampkos Kottos 

9:00-9:45 Azriel Genack: Probing the nature of wave propagation with transmission times.

9:45-10:30 Dan Oron: Projection, focusing and imaging behind a scattering screen.

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

Session Chair: Fabrice Devaux  

11:00-11:45 Ori Katz: Non-invasive Imaging with Scattered Light.

11:45 -12:15 Gal Shmuel: Anomalous energy flow in passive elastic layers with exceptional points. 

12:15 -12:45 Anael Ben-Asher: Laser control of resonance tunneling via an exceptional point.

12:45-14:15 Lunch break

Session Chair: Nimrod Moiseyev 

14:15-15:00 Mordechai (Moti) Segev: Topological Photonics.

15:00-15:30 Gal Amit: Utilizing atomic wavepacket shaping for resisting the Casimir-Polder force.

15:30-16:00  Vassos Achilleos: Transmission enhancement through symmetric diffusive slabs: effects of the losses and of the symmetry breaking.

16:00-16:30 closing remarks, coffee and departure.