Applications are now open for the Summer School
“New Frontiers in Ultrafast Quantum Optics”
(Lake Como, July 27–31, 2026)
📍 Villa del Grumello, Lake Como, Italy
🎓 Maximum 40 participants – advanced students and researchers with a background in physics or engineering (MSc, PhD, postdocs, early-career researchers)
📅 Application deadline: 31 May 2026
Apply here: https://ufqp.lakecomoschool.org/application/
On the shore of Lake Como, a week dedicated to the emerging interface between ultrafast photonics and quantum science, with lectures from leading researchers in the field, including speakers from ICFO, Politecnico di Milano, Technion, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, and MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, among others.
New Frontiers in Ultrafast Quantum Optics is a summer school dedicated to the emerging topics arising from the rapidly converging fields of ultrafast photonics and quantum science, which together are revolutionizing our ability to probe, measure, and control quantum dynamics at electronic time scales.
On the one hand, electric-field-resolved sensing, empowered by developments in ultrafast science, has pierced a hole into the quantum realm, revealing novel effects that eluded standard quantum optical approaches. On the other hand, quantum states of light are providing novel tools for the manipulation of electronic states down to the attosecond time scale, in turn advancing well-established applications of ultrafast photonics, such as spectroscopy and imaging.
The interplay between these two disciplines is leading to new investigation tools and raising fundamental questions, advancing our understanding of light-matter interactions. We have therefore planned to cover a range of topics at the interface between quantum mechanics and ultrafast optics:
• Sub-Cycle Quantum Electrodynamics and Field Domain Spectroscopy
• Ultrafast Quantum Spectroscopy and Imaging
• Attosecond Quantum Phenomena and Free-Electron Quantum Optics
• Ultrafast Quantum Chemistry and Photonics; Fundamental Fluctuations in Condensed Matter
Lecturers:
• Jens Biegert (ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain)
• Maria Chekhova (Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light & Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
• Daniele Faccio (University of Glasgow, UK)
• Daniele Fausti (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany & Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy)
• Peter Hommelhoff (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München & Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
• Michael Krüger (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
• Alfred Leitenstorfer (University of Konstanz, Germany)
• Maciej Lewenstein (ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain)
• Mauro Nisoli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
• Ioachim Pupeza (RPTU Kaiserslautern, Leibniz-IPHT, Fraunhofer ITWM)
• Frank Schlawin (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter & Universität Hamburg, Germany)
• Ron Tenne (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Detailed information: https://ufqp.lakecomoschool.org
