The CESQ (Centre Européen de Sciences Quantiques, aka ISIS3), to which our LIMACS subgroup is attached, will be inaugurated next week, on 16th and 17th of October. After an official ceremony, the scientific program will start by an opening conference of Jean Dalibard at CESQ on Monday 16 at 5.30pm, followed by a full day of conferences at ISIS on Tuesday 17.
Anoop Thomas, former postdoc in our group, now assistant professor at IISc Bengaluru (India) will visit us this end of the week and will give a seminar entitled
“Exploring electrical conductance of amorphous non-conducting polymers under strong-coupling”
on Friday 6th of october, in the meeting room of ISIS, at 2pm.
Shahana Nizar Nizar-Shyla will defend her phD work, entitled
Characterization of chiral supramolecular assemblies using Mueller polarimetry
and performed under the supervision of Cyriaque Genet, tomorrow September 20, at 9am in the seminar room of ISIS2 (2nd floor).
On this occasion, we will have this afternoon a minisymposium at 3pm (same place) “Chirality, from molecular engineering to high resolution chiroptical spectroscopy“, welcoming Jeanne Crassous from Rennes University and Anne Zehnacker-Rentien from Paris-Saclay University. Please have a look here for the abstracts of their talks.
Last Thursday, Shahana Nizar, phD student in our group, took part to the Young Scientist Seminar of ISIS, at 9.30am, in the conference room, see flyer here below. 
Today, Bianca Patrahau, phD student in our group, is leading the Young Scientist Seminar of ISIS, at 9.30am, in the conference room, see flyer here below.
Next Thursday, September 22, we organize a (mini) symposium on light-matter coupled materials that will take place at 2pm in the salle de Conférences of ISIS, with the following speakers :
(3.30pm Coffee break)
For more details about the talks, you can download the program here.
Today, we have the pleasure to welcome Pr Hiroshi Fukumura (KU Leuven, Belgium, & Tohoku University, Japan) who will give a talk at 11am in the Salle de Conférence of ISIS, entitled
“Liquid-liquid phase separation dynamics: hierarchy from molecular level to continuous bulk”
Here below you can find the abstract of his talk :
Pulsed laser induced liquid-liquid phase separation has been studied with various time-resolved techniques. Time-resolved Raman spectroscopy and fluorescence spectroscopy revealed molecular level changes immediately after the laser pulses up to 1 . Ultrafast imaging under conventional microscopes showed macroscopic changes started 10 after the laser pulse. The macroscopic phase separation seemed to follow spinodal decomposition described by Kahn-Hilliard theory. It is, however, yet unclear what occurs in the time range between 1 and 10 . Recently we have succeeded in observing this time range with time-resolved structured illumination as well as optical diffraction techniques. Possible explanation of our results would be that mesoscopic entities like micelle-like structures mediate between molecular level changes and macroscopic spinodal decomposition. Related topics like liquid-liquid phase separation in living cells, critical Casimir force in binary liquids, laser ablation and implantation of polymer surfaces may be introduced.
Kevin Kubarych, from the University of Michigan, is visiting our lab today and tomorrow with two of his collaborators. He will give a seminar entitled
Exploring Vibrational Polariton Dynamics with Ultrafast Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy
this afternoon, October 8, at 2.30pm in the meeting room of ISIS.
This week, we will have the pleasure to receive Pr. George Thomas from IISER Thiruvananthapuram for the second time. He will give a conference at ISIS on Wednesday, the 15th of May at 4.30pm, entitled
Coupling of Elementary Excitations : Drawing Parallels Between Excitons and Plasmons
that will take place in the salle de conférence of ISIS.
Pr Wybren Jan Buma, from Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences in Amsterdam University will be visiting our lab next week, on March 28th and 29th. He will give a conference on March 28th at 4.30pm in the salle de conférence, entitled
Tailoring Photoactive Materials : Light on the dark side of the force
Don’t forget your lightsaber…