the talks' abstracts


Sunday, April 14
Monday, April 15
Tuesday, April 16
Wednesday, April 17
Thursday, April 18
Friday, April 19




Sunday, April 14

18.00 - 20.00 Registration
   
19.00 Reception with food and beverages
   
   
Monday, April 15

08.45 - 09.00 Roderich Moessner (MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme) &
  Scientific Coordinators
  Opening
   
  Chairman: Jörg Götte
09.00 - 09.40 Etienne Brasselet (Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d'Aquitaine, CNRS)
  Interplay between material and optical topological defects
   
09.40 - 10.20 Aristide Dogariu (University of Central Florida)
  Optical Action in Complex Fields
   
10.20 - 10.40 Daniel Leykam (The Australian National University)
  Nonlinear wave dynamics in photonic Lieb lattices: The role of pseudospin
   
10.40 - 11.00 Coffee break
   
  Chairman: Aristide Dogariu
11.00 - 11.40 Natalia Litchinitser (University at Buffalo)
  Structured Light in Linear and Nonlinear Nanostructures
   
11.40 - 12.20 Byoungho Lee (Seoul National University)
  Plasmonic vortex generation and its characteristics
   
12.20 - 12.40 Jörg Götte (MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme)
  Singularimetry
   
12.45 - 14.00 Lunch break
   
   
  Chairman: Wolfgang Löffler
14.00 - 15.30
Poster flash talks
   
15.30 - 16.30 Coffee break
   
  Chairman: Jörg Götte
 
16.30 - 17.30
SOILM13-Colloquium
  Erez Hasman (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
  Spinoptical metamaterials: Spin-controlled photonics
   
18.00 - 19.00 Supper
   
19.30 - 21.00
Poster session I
   
   
Tuesday, April 16

  Chairman: Konstantin Bliokh
09.20 - 10.00 Jo Verbeeck (University of Antwerp)
  Electron vortices interacting with matter
   
10.00 - 10.20 Sophia Lloyd (University of York)
  Mechanical and electromagnetic properties and interactions of electron vortices
   
10.20 - 11.00 Coffee break
   
  Chairman: Mark Dennis
11.00 - 11.40 Lorenzo Marrucci (Universita' di Napoli Federico II)
  Orbital angular momentum from a spin rotation: The optical and electron-beam cases
   
11.40 - 12.20 Mohamed Babiker (University of York)
  Spin-orbit effects in optical and electron vortices
   
12.20 - 12.40 Giulio Guzzinati (University of Antwerp)
  Observing Image Rotations induced by Larmor and Gouy phase in Electron Vortices
   
12.45 - 14.00 Lunch break
   
  Chairman: Johan Verbeeck
14.00 - 14.40 Jun Yuan (University of York)
  Recent experimental progress on Electron Vortex Beams in York
   
14.40 - 15.20 Ebrahim Karimi (University of Ottawa)
  Generation of an electron spin-polarisiation filtering based on spin-to-orbit conversion
   
   
15.20 - 16.00 Coffee break
   
  Chairman: Lorenzo Marrucci
16.00 - 16.40 Steve Barnett (University of Strathclyde)
  Optical helicity and spin angular momentum
   
16.40 - 17.20 David Andrews (University of East Anglia)
  Multipole emission and multipole detection: Spin and orbital selection rules
   
17.20 - 17.40 Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton (Macquarie University)
  Spin to orbital angular momentum transfer: A revision based on symmetries
   
18.00 - 19.00 Supper
   
   
   
Wednesday, April 17

  Chairman: David Andrews
08.40 - 09.20 Konstantin Bliokh (RIKEN Advanced Science Institute)
  Dual electromagnetism: Helicity, spin, momentum, and angular momentum
   
09.20 - 10.00 Gabriel Molina-Terriza (Macquarie University)
  Electromagnetic duality and optical helicity
   
10.00 - 10.05 Group photo (to be published on the event's webpage)
10.05 - 10.40 Coffee break
   
  Chairman: Wolfgang Löffler
10.40 - 11.20 Marco Ornigotti (MPI für die Physik des Lichts)
  Goos-Hänchen and Imbert-Fedorov shifts for bounded wavepackets of light
   
11.20 - 11.40 Michele Merano (Universitá di Padova)
  Role of spatial coherence in the Goos-Hänchen shift
   
11.40 - 12.20 Vladimir Fedoseyev (Tartu University)
  Transverse forces related to the transverse shifts of the reflected and transmitted light beams
   
12.20 - 12.40 Jan Korger (MPI für die Physik des Lichts)
  Direct measurement of a novel geometric spin Hall effect of light
   
12.45 - 14.00 Lunch break
   
14.00 - 22.00
Excursion and Conference Dinner in Meissen
   
Thursday, April 18

  Chairman: Andrea Aiello
09.20 - 10.00 Mark Dennis (University of Bristol)
  The analogy between optical beam shifts and quantum weak measurements
   
10.00 - 10.20 Graciana Puentes (ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences)
  Weak Measurements with Orbital-Angular-Momentum Pointer States
   
10.20 - 11.00 Coffee break
   
  Chairman: Stephen Barnett
11.00 - 11.40 Gerard Nienhuis (Universiteit Leiden)
  Linear operators and conserved quantities in classical and quantum optics
   
11.40 - 12.20 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula (Polish Academy of Sciences)
  Geometry underlying the polarization-orbit coupling of photons
   
12.20 - 12.40 Chunfang Li (Shanghai University)
  On the angular momentum of photon: Canonical quantization of radiation field in the inner reference frame
   
12.45 - 14.00 Lunch break
   
  Chairman: Wolfgang Löffler
14.00 - 14.40 Maarten de Kieviet (Universität Heidelberg)
  Exploring geometric phases
   
14.40 - 15.20 Klaus Morawetz (FH Münster)
  Quantum transport and response to electric fields in non-Abelian systems with spin-orbit coupling and magnetic fields
   
15.20 - 15.40 Llorens Serra (University of the Balearic Islands)
  Spin-orbit interation and Majorana modes in semiconductor wires
   
15.40 - 16.20 Coffee break
   
  Chairman: Mohamed Babiker
16.20 - 17.00 Sonja Franke-Arnold (University of Glasgow)
  Trans-spectral quantum imaging
   
17.00 - 17.40 Manuel Valiente Cifuentes (Heriot-Watt University)
  Effective single-branch theory for interacting ultracold Fermi gases with artificial spin-orbit coupling
   
17.40 - 18.00 Zachary Walters (MPIPKS Dresden)
  Quantum Dynamics of the Avian Compass
   
18.00 - 19.00 Supper
   
19.30 - 21.00
Poster session II
   
Friday, April 19

  Chairman: Gabriel Molina-Terriza
08.40 - 09.20 Andrea Aiello (MPI für die Physik des Lichts)
  Surface spin angular momentum
   
09.20 - 10.00 Pepijn Pinkse (University of Twente)
  Spin-Orbit coupling in a Fabry-Perot resonator
   
10.00 - 10.20 Antonio Khoury (Universidade Federal Fluminense)
  Quantum and nonquantum entanglement in spin-orbit optical modes
   
10.20 - 11.00 Coffee break
   
  Chairman: Jörg Götte
11.00 - 11.40 Peter Banzer (MPI für die Physik des Lichts)
  Demonstration of a state of the light field with purely transverse angular momentum
   
11.40 - 12.00 Miles Padgett (University of Glasgow)
  The orbital angular momentum of light scattered from a spinning object
   
12.00 - 12.10 Closing Remarks
   
12.10 Lunch break
   


Last updated: April 2 2013