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Waterville Valley Resort
Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, USA
May 31-June 5, 2026

Topics

  • Dynamics in Quantum Materials
  • Charge Dynamics and Energy Transfer at Interfaces and in Materials
  • Ultrafast Magnetism
  • Strongly Driven Materials and Interfaces
  • Spatiotemporal Dynamics
  • Ultrafast Plasmonics
  • Photo-induced Phase Transitions

Confirmed Invited Speakers

  • Michael Bauer (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
  • Samuel Beaulieu (CELIA, Université de Bordeaux, France)
  • Fabio Boschini (INRS, Montreal, Canada)
  • Hui Deng (University of Michigan, USA)
  • Geoffrey Diderich (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
  • Christian Heide (University of Central Florida, USA)
  • Saw-Wai Hla (Ohio University, USA)
  • Libai Huang (Purdue University, USA)
  • Rupert Huber (Universität Regensburg, Germany)
  • Yousoo Kim (IBS, Korea)
  • Sarah King (University of Chicago, USA)
  • Zhi-Heng Loh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
  • Sebastian Loth (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
  • Vidya Madhavan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
  • Fahad Mahmood (University of Illinois, Urban-Champaign, USA)
  • Ermin Malic (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
  • Stefan Matthias (Universität Göttingen, Germany)
  • James McIver (Columbia University, USA)
  • Vinod Menon (Vinod Menon, City College of New York, USA)
  • Oleg Prezhdo (University of New Mexico, USA)
  • Diana Qiu (Yale University, USA)
  • Marcel Reutzel (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
  • Angel Rubio (Max Planck for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Germany)
  • Michael Sentef (Universität Bremen, Germany)
  • Feng Wang (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
  • Bing Wang (University of Science and Technology, China)
  • Xioaji Xu (Lehigh University, USA)
  • Shuolong Yang (University of Chicago, USA)
  • Liuyan Zhao (University of Michigan, USA)
  • Yimei Zhu (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)

Local Organizing Committee

  • Nuh Gedik (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Edoardo Baldini (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Thomas Allison (Stony Brook)

Steering Committee

  • Stefan Mathias (University of Göttingen)
  • Marcel Reutzel (Marburg University)
  • Michael Bauer (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
  • Jens Biegert (ICFO, Barcelona)
  • Martin Aeschlimann (University Kaiserslautern) 
  • Uwe Bovensiepen (University of Duisburg-Essen) 
  • Pedro Echenique (University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian) 
  • Tony Heinz (Stanford University, Palo Alto) 
  • Ulrich Höfer (University of Marburg) 
  • Hrvoje Petek (University of Pittsburgh) 
  • Martin Weinelt (Freie Universität Berlin) 
  • Martin Wolf (Fritz-Haber-Institute, Belin) 
  • Xiaoyang Zhu (Columbia University, New York) 
  • Jin Zhao (University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei)