talks

American Chemical Society (ACS), New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2024 – Strain-induced photonic pseudomagnetism in colloidal assemblies (invited)

Progress in Quantum Electronics (PQE), Snowbird, Utah, January 2024 – Pseudomagnetism in Photonic Crystals (invited)

Sandia National Labs / CINT, Colloquium, October 2023 – Pseudomagnetism in Photonic Crystals (invited)

ARO-MURI review, Princeton, NJ, September 2023 – Experiments on Photonic Hyperuniform Systems

AFOSR-MURI review, College Park, MD, September 2023 – State of the MURI, Rapsydy in Q

ICIAM Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, August 2023 – Quantized Nonlinear Thouless Pumping (invited)

Photonica 2023, Belgrade, Serbia, August 2023 – Nonlinear Topological Photonics (invited)

Mathematical Aspects of Condensed Matter Physics, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2023 – Nonlinear Topological Photonics (invited)

META Conference, Paris, France, July 2023 – Nonlinear Topological Photonics (keynote)

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering Department Colloquium, Haifa, Israel, June 2023 – Photonic Landau levels and Quantized photonic Thouless pumping (invited)

Topological Photonics 2023, Madrid, Spain, May 2023 – Nonlinear Topological Photonics (keynote)

Caltech, Physics Department Colloquium, May 2023 – Nonlinear Topological Photonics (invited)

Simons Satellite Workshop, New York, NY, October 2022 – Nonlinear Topological Photonics (invited)

Boston University, Physics Department Seminar, October 2022 – Nonlinear Topological Photonics (invited)

NANOP 2022, Paris, France, October 2022 – Nonlinear Topological Photonics (plenary)

Metamaterials 2022, Siena, Italy, September 2022 – Fractionally Quantized Nonlinear Thouless Pumping (invited)

The Pennsylvania State University, Physics Department Colloquium, September 2022 – Quantized Nonlinear Thouless Pumps (invited)

Virtual Science Forum Floquet Summer School, September 2022 – Floquet Topological Photonics (invited)

25th Congress of the International Commission for Optics, September 2022 (plenary, declined due to conflict)

Packard Fellows Meeting, Monterey, CA, September 2022 – Nonlinear Topological Photonics (invited)

AFOSR MURI Kick-off Meeting (held virtually), September 2022 – Photons in SYnthetic, DYnamical, and INteracting Quantum matter (RAPSYDY IN Q)

ARO MURI on Hyperuniform Networks Kickoff Meeting, Princeton, NJ, August 2022 – Topological Photonics (invited)

AFOSR MURI Review Meeting, Arlington, VA, August 2022 – Reimagining Atoms and Photons in SYnthetic, DYnamical, and INteracting Quantum matter (RAPSYDY IN Q) (invited)

Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering MURI Review Meeting, held virtually, July 2022 –  Photonic High Order Topological Insulators (invited)

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Physics Department Seminar, June 2022 – Nonlinear Topological Photonics (invited)

University of Michigan,  Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar, April 2022 – Nonlinear Topological Photonics (invited)

Harvard University,  Applied Physics Seminar, April 2022 – Nonlinear Topological Photonics (invited)

March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Chicago, IL, March 2022 – Quantized Nonlinear Thouless Pumping (invited)

March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Chicago, IL, March 2022 – Tutorial on Nonlinear Topological Photonics (invited)

McMaster University, Engineering Physics Department Seminar, Hamilton, Ontario, February 2022 – Nonlinear Topological Photonics (invited)

Institute for Optical Science Webinar Series, The Ohio State University, December 2021 – Topological Photonics (invited)

University of Crete, Physics Department Colloquium, October 2021 – Nonlinear Aspects of Topological Photonics (invited)

Metamaterials 2021, New York, NY (held virtually), September 2021 – Nonlinear Topological Photonics (invited)

3D Nano Workshop (Sponsored by the Army Research Office), California Institute of Technology (held virtually), September 2021 – Topological Photonics in Three Dimensions (invited)

Metanano Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia (held virtually), September 2021 – Nonlinear Topological Photonics (invited)

KITP meeting on Interacting Topological Matter: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Systems, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics of UCSB (held virtually), July 2021 – Nonlinear Topological Photonics (invited)

Topology Meets Quantum Optics, Centro de Ciencias de Benasque (held virtually), June 2021 – Nonlinear Topological Photonics (invited)

Topological Charge and Spin Pumping with Synthetic Quantum Systems, U. of Frankfurt (held virtually), May 2021 –  Nonlinear Dynamics of Topological Photonic States (invited)

Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Physics Department Colloquium, May 2021 – Nonlinear Aspects of Topological Photonics (invited)

University of Cambridge,  Theory of Condensed Matter Seminar, March 2021 – Nonlinear Topological Photonics (invited)

TopDyn Conference, Mainz, Germany (held virtually), October 2020 – Nonlinear aspects of Topological Photonics (invited)

25th General Congress of the International Commission on Optics (ICO-25), Dresden, Germany, August 2020 (invited, postponed)

Topological Phenomena in Atomic and Photonic Systems, Zagreb, Croatia, June 2020 (invited, postponed)

Rank Prize Symposium, Grasmere, England, UK, June 2020 (invited, postponed)

Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 2020 – Topological Nonlinear Optics (invited)

Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 2020 (invited) – Topological Nonlinear Optics [group members A. Cerjan, J. Noh, J. Guglielmon, S. Vaidya, S. Mukherjee gave contributed talks]

March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Denver, Colorado, March 2020 (invited, cancelled) – Topological Slow Light and Solitons

Penn State University, Physics Department Colloquium, University Park, PA, November 2019 (invited) – Aspects of Topological photonics

US/Middle East Conference on Photonics, Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY, New York, NY, November 2019 (invited): Topological solitons and slow light

Topological Quantum Matter: From Fantasy To Reality, KITP, Santa Barbara, CA, October 2019 (invited): Topological solitons and slow light

Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, September 2019 (invited): Topological Photonics

Weyl Fermions in Condensed Matter, Natal, Brazil, August 2019 (invited): Realization of Weyl Exceptional Rings [talk given by Alexander Cerjan]

Recent Advances in Topological Photonics, IBS, Daejeon, Korea, June 2019 (invited): Corner modes in higher-order topological insulators [talk given by Jiho Noh]

International Workshop on Topology, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan, June 2019 (invited): Topological Slow Light and Photonic Weyl Points

NSF/DOE/AFOSR Quantum Science Summer School, University Park, PA, June 2019 (invited): Introduction to Topological Photonics

International Nanophotonics School, AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2019 (invited): Introduction to Topological Photonics

Synthetic Topological Matter, Max Planck Institute for Complex Matter, Dresden, Germany, May 2019 (invited): Topological Slow Light and Photonic Weyl Points

TopoLyon, ENS Lyon, France, May 2019 (invited): Topological Slow Light and Photonic Weyl Points

SBQMI Workshop on Synthetic Topological Matter, Vancouver, Canada, February 2019 (invited) – Topological Slow Light and Optical Weyl Points

Novel Concepts in Photonics Research, Ein Gedi, Israel, February 2019 (invited) – Topological Slow Light and Optical Weyl Points

CEA-Grenoble, Physics Department seminar, Grenoble, France, December 2018 (invited) – Topological photonics

Nature Conference: Topological Photonics – from Concepts to Devices, St. Louis, MO, November 2018 (invited) – Observation of optical Weyl points and exceptional rings

Dickinson College, Physics Department colloquium, Carlisle, PA, October 2018 (invited) – Topological photonics

Packard Fellows Reunion, San Diego, CA, October 2018 (invited) – Topological photonics

Workshop on Quantum Simulations with Atoms and Light, Aarhus, Denmark, August 2018 (invited) – Observation of optical Weyl points and exceptional rings

ToCoTronics2018, Würzburg, Germany, July 2018 (invited) – Observation of Optical Weyl Points

IEEE Summer Topicals on Non-Hermitian and Topological Photonics, Waikaloa, Hawaii, July 2018 (invited) – Observation of Optical Weyl Points

Workshop on Topological Protection in Messy Matter, Atlanta, GA, May 2018 (invited) – Observation of optical Weyl points and other topics in topological photonics

Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 2018 – Weyl exceptional ring in a helical waveguide array [Talk given by Alexander Cerjan]

Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 2018 – Photonic Parity-Time Symmetric Topological Edge States in a Two-Dimensional Lattice [Talk given by Jiho Noh]

University of Pennsylvania, Physics Department seminar, Philadelphia, PA, January 2018 (invited) – Topological photonics

École Centrale de Lyon, Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon Departmental Seminar, Lyon, France, December 2017 (invited talk) – Topological protection of photons

École National Supérieure de Lyon (ENS-Lyon) Physics Department Colloquium, Lyon, France, December 2017 (invited colloquium) – Topological protection of photons

Indiana University Physics Department Colloquium, Bloomington, IN, November 2017 (invited colloquium) – Topological protection of photons

Topological Dynamics: Quantum and Classical, Newark, NJ, November 2017 (invited talk) – Topological Photonics: Going beyond Edge States

Center for NanoScience Workshop, Venice, Italy, September 2017 (invited talk) – Topological Photonics

DARPA Workshop on Exotic Materials Achieved by Non-Equilibrium Activation, Arlington, VA, August 2017 (invited talk) – Topological Photonics: Past Results, Future Ideas

EP2DS-22 / MSS-18, University Park, PA, August 2017 – Photonic Realization of a Floquet-Driven Transition Between Phases of the Haldane Model [Talk given by Jonathan Guglielmon]

EP2DS-22 / MSS-18, University Park, PA, August 2017 (invited talk) – Observation of Photonic Topological Valley Transport [Talk given by Jiho Noh]

Panel participant on The Future of Photonics, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, June 2017

Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics (CLEO-Europe), Munich, Germany, June 2017 (invited talk) – Optical Weyl points and Fermi arc-like surface states

Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 2017 (invited talk) – Optical Weyl points and Fermi arc-like surface states

Raytheon-BBN Corporation – Seminar, Cambridge, MA, April 2017 (invited talk) – Photonic topological insulators

Workshop on Mathematical and Physical Aspects of Topologically Protected States, Columbia University, New York, NY, May 2017 (invited talk) – Topological photonics in two and three dimensions

Emerging Optical Materials Workshop, Boston Chapter of the IEEE Photonics Society, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, April 2017 (invited talk) – Photonic topological insulators

Emerging Topics in Optics, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2017 (invited talk) – Topological photonics in two and three dimensions

New York University Physics Department Colloquium, New York, NY, March 2017 (invited colloquium) – Photonic topological phenomena in two and three dimensions

March Meeting of the American Physical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2017 (invited talk) – Photonic topological phenomena in two and three dimensions

Novel Optical Materials, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2017 (invited talk) – Experimental Observation of Optical Weyl Points and Fermi arc-like surface states

Topological Metamaterials and Beyond, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO, January 2017 (invited talk) – Experimental Observation of Optical Weyl Points

City College of the City University of New York – ASRC Seminar, New York, NY, November 2016 (invited talk) – Photonic topological phenomena in two and three dimensions

Mathematical and Physical Models of Nonlinear Optics, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2016 (invited talk) – Experimental Observation of Optical Weyl Points

University of Chicago Physics Department Seminar, Chicago, Illinois, November 2016 (invited talk) – Photonic topological materials in two and three dimensions

Physics of Light-Matter Interactions and Excited State Dynamics, Northrop Grumman NG Next, Los Angeles, California, October 2016 (invited talk) – Experimental Observation of Optical Weyl Points

Frontiers in Optics, Rochester, New York, October 2016 (invited talk) – Topological protection of zero modes in a time-reversal invariant photonic topological insulator

Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium, Shanghai, China, August 2016 (invited talk) – Protecting entanglement in a photonic topological insulator

Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium, Shanghai, China, August 2016 (invited talk) – Zero modes in a two-dimensional photonic topological insulator

Beyond Standard Quantum Gases 2016, Qinhuangdao, China, August 2016 (invited talk) – Photonic topological insulators

Conference on Synthetic Topological Quantum Matter, Beijing, China, August 2016 (invited talk) – Zero modes in a two-dimensional photonic topological insulator

International Workshop on Non-Hermitian Photonics in Complex Media: PT-symmetry and beyond, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 2016 (invited talk) – Zero modes in a two-dimensional photonic topological insulator

Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, June 2016 – Dirac physics via Photonic Boron Nitride

Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, June 2016 – Majorana zero modes in a two-dimensional photonic topological insulator [Talk given by J. Noh]

Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics Departmental Colloquium, Garching, Germany, May 2016 (invited colloquium) – Aspects of topological photonics

Workshop on Topological Matter at hbar=0 – Lorentz center, University of Leiden, Netherlands, May 2016 (invited talk) – Exotic states in topological photonics

State University of New York – Stony Brook AMO seminar, Stony Brook, NY, May 2016 (invited talk) – Aspects of topological photonics

‘Topodays’ conference, Trento, Italy, April 2016 (invited talk) – Exotic states in topological photonics

Kavli Frontiers of Science Meeting: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation/US National Academy of Sciences German-American Symposium, Potsdam, Germany, March 2016 (invited talk) – Protecting transport with topological insulators

University at Buffalo Electrical Engineering Seminar, Buffalo, NY, March 2016 (invited talk) – Aspects of topological photonics

Case Western Reserve University condensed matter seminar, Cleveland, OH, February 2016 (invited talk) – Aspects of topological photonics

University of Maryland Condensed Matter Physics Colloquium, College Park, MD, February 2016 (invited talk) – Aspects of topological photonics

Quantum Simulation with Cold Atoms and Photons, Brussels, Belgium, February 2016 (invited talk) – Exotic states of photonic topological insulators

PQE conference: Progress in Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, Utah, January 2016 (invited talk) – Exotic states of photonic topological insulators

Boston University Physics Department Colloquium, Boston, MA, December 2015 (invited colloquium) – Aspects of photonic topological insulators

Queen’s College of the City University of New York, Physics Department Colloquium, Queens, NY, October 2015 (invited colloquium) – Aspects of photonic topological insulators

Penn State Department of Electrical Engineering Colloquium, University Park, PA, October 2015 (invited colloquium) – Photonic topological insulators

Synthetic Gauge Fields Workshop, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, September 2015 (invited talk) – Aspects of photonic topological insulators

META conference: Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals, Plasmonics, August 2015 (keynote talk) – Topological Anderson Insulators and Quasicrystals

Quantum Correlated Matter and Chaos, Dresden, Germany, June 2015 (invited talk) – Aspects of photonic topological insulators

Workshop on Quantum Science and Technology, Ascona, Switzerland, June 2015 (invited talk) – Aspects of photonic topological insulators

Ecole Centrale Lyon Physics Department seminar, Lyon, France, June 2015 (invited talk) – – Aspects of photonic topological insulators

CLEO conference 2015, San Jose, CA, May 2015 – Topological protection of path entanglement in a photonic quantum walk.

Materials Research Society Meeting, San Francisco, California, April 2015 (invited talk) – Disordered photonic graphene to topological insulators.

“Topolight” Photonics Winter School, Fai Della Paganella, Italy, March 2015 (invited talk) – Photonic topological insulators in propagating geometries.

APS March meeting, San Antonio, Texas, March 2015 (invited talk) – Aspects of photonic topological insulators.

SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, California, February 2015 (invited talk) – Photonic Topological Anderson Insulators.

University of Vienna Physics Department Colloquium, Vienna, Austria, January 2015 (invited talk) – Artificial gauge fields in optics: topological protection and pseudomagnetism.

Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, Utah, January 2015 (invited talk) – Photonic Floquet topological insulators.

University of Stuttgart Physics Department Colloquium, Stuttgart, Germany, November 2014 (invited talk) – Artificial gauge fields in optics: topological protection and pseudomagnetism.

Quantum Correlations Out of Equilibrium conference, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, November 2014 (invited talk) – Aspects of photonic topological insulators (Hermitian to non-Hermitian).

IPS IEEE conference, La Jolla, CA, October 2014 (invited talk) – Aspects of photonic topological insulators.

National Technical University of Singapore, Physics department seminar, Singapore, July 2014.

CLEO conference 2014, San Jose, CA, June 2014 – Measuring topological invariants in optical systems from bulk quantities.

Photonics North 2014, Montreal, Canada, May 2014 (invited talk) – Aspects of photonic topological insulators.

SPIE Photonics Europe, Brussels, Belgium, April 2014 (invited talk) – Photonic topological insulators.

University of Cambridge, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory seminar, Cambridge, UK, April 2014.

University of Michigan, Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar, Ann Arbor, MI, April 2014.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar, Urbana, IL, April 2014.

Purdue University, Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar, West Lafayette, IN, April 2014.

OSA Incubator Meeting on Topological Order with Photons, Washington, DC, April 2014 (invited talk) – Aspects of photonic Floquet topological insulators

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science special seminar, Cambridge, MA, March 2014.

University of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics seminar, Madison, WI, March 2014.

Georgia Institute of Technology, Department of Physics colloquium, Atlanta, GA, March 2014.

Brown University, Department of Physics colloquium, Providence, RI, February 2014.

The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Physics seminar, State College, PA, February 2014.

California Institute of Technology, Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science seminar, Pasadena, CA, February 2014.

University of Washington – Seattle, Department of Physics colloquium, Seattle, WA, February 2014.

Emory University, Department of Physics colloquium, Atlanta, GA, February 2014.

Princeton University, Electrical Engineering departmental seminar, Princeton, NJ, January 2014.

The Pennsylvania State University, condensed matter seminar series, State College, PA, September 2013 (invited talk) – Fictitious fields in photonics.

University of British Columbia, condensed matter seminar, Vancouver, BC, September 2013 – Photonic Floquet topological insulators.

SPIE Active Photonic Materials V, San Diego, CA, August 2013: Photonic Floquet topological insulators

Synethetic Gauge Fields conference, Trento, Italy (BEC Center), July 2013: Artificial gauge fields in photonics

Nonlinear Schršdinger equation: theory and applications, Heraklion, Crete, May 2013: Photonic Floquet topological insulators

Workshop on Quantum Simulations on the occasion of the award of the Wolf prize to Peter Zoller and Ignacio Cirac, Haifa, Israel, May 2013: Photonic Floquet topological insulators

ISF / Batsheva workshop on light-matter interaction, Ein Gedi, Israel, April 2013: Photonic Floquet topological insulators

Cornell University, Department of Applied and Engineering Physics, departmental seminar, Ithaca, NY, March 2013: Fictitious fields in photonics and their applications

University of California, San Diego, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, departmental seminar, San Diego, CA, March 2013: Fictitious fields in photonics and their applications

Meeting on Topological Phenomena in Quantum Dynamics and Disordered Systems, Banff, February 2013: Photonic Floquet topological insulators

Crystal and Graphene Science Symposium, Boston, September 2012: Strain-induced magnetism and novel edge states in optical graphene

SIAM conference on nonlinear waves, San Jose, June 2012: Strain-induced Landau levels in photonic crystal slabs: linear and nonlinear properties

Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO), San Jose, May, 2012: Strain-induced Band Gap and Effective Magnetic Field in Photonic Crystals

Yale University Applied Physics Department seminar, New Haven, February 2012: Disorder-enhanced transport in photonics quasicrystals

University of Quebec (INRS Varennes) colloquium, October 2011: Disorder-enhanced transport in photonic quasicrystals and band gaps in amorphous photonic lattices

University of Toronto, ECTI Lectureship, October 2011: Disorder-enhanced transport in photonic quasicrystals and band gaps in amorphous photonic lattices

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, applied mathematics colloqium, September 2011: Nonlinear optics of microstructures: recent results and open problems

Information Photonics 2011, Ottawa, May, 2011: Magnetic field effects and solitons in strained photonic graphene

IMACS Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena, Athens, GA, April, 2011: Disorder-enhanced transport in photonic quasicrystals: Anderson localization and delocalization

SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Philadelphia, August, 2010: Band gaps in amorphous photonic lattices

Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO), San Jose, May, 2010: Band gaps in amorphous photonic lattices

Dartmouth University Applied Math Seminar, November, 2009: Upper bounds on photonic bandgaps

Applied mathematics colloquium, Columbia University, April 2009: Upper bounds on photonic bandgaps

Wave propagation seminar, New Jersey Institute of Technology, April 2009: Upper bounds on photonic bandgaps

Soft matter seminar series, NYU Center for Soft Matter Research, March 2009: Upper bounds on photonic bandgaps

Applied math days workshop, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, November 2008: Optimizing photonic quasicrystals

Solid state physics seminar, Brooklyn College, November 2008: Optimizing photonic quasicrystals

Applied Mathematics Seminar, Courant Institute, September 2008: A few inverse problems in statistical mechanics and photonics

Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, June 2008: Upper bounds on photonic bandgaps

“Dynarum” (DARPA collaboration on robust uncertainty management) Kickoff Meeting, January, 2007, Caltech, Pasadena, CA: Inverse Problems and Optimization Techniques for Designed Materials