We are delighted to announce the scientific conference “Taming Light and Matter for Novel Quantum Systems,” taking place from August 29th to 31st, 2025, at ETH Zürich. This conference will feature distinguished speakers from diverse research areas, including ultracold atoms, cavity QED, trapped ions, cold molecules, and solid-state physics. Our goal is to bring together researchers from various fields for an engaging and inspiring meeting, fostering meaningful discussions and interdisciplinary collaboration. We hope the conference will provide a platform for fruitful exchanges and spark creative new ideas.

Friday, 29.08.2025

13:00 - 13:30	Registration and welcome coffee
13:30 - 13:45	Welcome
13:45 - 15:15	Session 1 (Chair: Tobias Donner) T. Giamarchi – Mesoscopic transport and beyond in cold atomic gases R. Grimm – The moving Fermi polaron L. Tarruell – Microscopy of strontium Bose and Fermi-Hubbard system
15:15 - 15:45	Coffee break
15:45 - 17:45	Session 2 (Chair: Michael Köhl) Surprise – TBA I. Bloch – From Shared Foundations to New Frontiers: Exploring the Quantum World with Tilman V. Vuletić – From Atomic Clocks to Quantum Computers N. Cooper – Nonlinear Light Scattering from Atomic Arrays
19:00	Dinner - Linde Oberstrass

Saturday, 30.08.2025

8:45 - 9:00	Welcome coffee
09:00 - 10:30	Session 3 (Chair: Jean-Philippe Brantut) C. Kollath – Controlling the cold atomic gases via the coupling to a dissipative cavity R. Chitra – Pauli strasse, Pauli and crystals G.M. Graf – What is the reference frame for light taming matter
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30	Session 4 (Chair: Henning Moritz) G. Jotzu – Floquet Engineering in Quantum Materials A. Soter – Precision experiments with exotic atoms and antimatter P. Törmä – Quantum geometry in quantum materials
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:30	Session 5 ( Chair: Thilo Stöferle) F. Merkt – Precision measurements in TE atoms V. Sandoghdar – Replacing Atoms by Molecules in Quantum Optics A. Imamoglu – Quantum optics and fractional Chern insulators
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30	Session 6 (Chair: Leticia Tarruell) Y. Chu – A mechanical qubit D. Leibfried – Quantum physics in a triangular microtrap array J. Home – Dissipative quantum optics with trapped ions
19:00	Dinner - ETH Zentrum Dozentenfoyer

Sunday, 31.08.2025

8:45 - 9:00	Welcome coffee
09:00 - 10:30	Session 7 (Chair: Jean-Philippe Brantut) W. Zwerger – Long-range interactions: some basic points J. Dalibard – Dark optical lattices: a route towards Landau levels E. Demler – Exploring dynamics with ultracold atoms
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30	Session 8 (Chair: Tobias Donner) S. Huber – Partial suppression of magnetism in the square lattice SU(3) Hubbard model H. Ritsch – Quantum simulation with atoms in multimode cavities K. Mølmer – Yet another Jaynes-Cummings talk
12:30 - 12:45	Final remarks

The event will take place at ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HIT E51
8093 Zürich
Switzerland

•  Jean-Phillippe Brantut
•  Tobias Donner
•  Michael Köhl
•  Henning Moritz
•  Thilo Stöferle
•  Leticia Tarruell

•  Stefanie Ackermann
•  Tobias Donner (contact: donner (at) phys.ethz.ch)

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