Waiting for the apocalypse

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You can also browse my news archives if you're interested in old news as well as new news.

You can also browse my 2026 diary for things that have been happening (possibly in sickening amounts of details).

• 1 January (2025): I'm back to archiving our news here after ten years of interruptions!
• 5 January (2025): My New Year's greetings.
• 8–13 April (2025): I attend the PLMCN25' in Xiamen, China, with an Invited Talk.
• 28 April–2 May (2025): I attend the Exciton-Polaritons in Semiconductor Microstructures and Quantum Optics workshop, from the Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems (PCS) of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in Daejeon, South Korea.
• 26–30 May (2025): I teach at the Quantum Optics and Quantum Materials summer school in Lecce, Italy.
• 28 September–4 October (2025): I give four lectures on emerging trends of quantum optics for the Cátedra Nacional de Colombia en Tecnologías Cuánticas and a Colloquium on the Physics of Light-Matter interactions, in Medellin, Colombia.
• 8–9 October (2025): I organize the 2nd edition of MULTIPHOTONICS in Madrid.
• 25 December (2025): Elena and myself part way.
• 12–16 January: I give an invited talk at the ICSCE-13, in the Canary Islands.
• 20–24 April (2026): I give an invited talk at the 3rd Excitonics and Polaritonics International Conference (EPIC), at the Tsinghua University and then at the TNT2026 in Beijing, China.
• 1–8 June (2026): I visit for one week the Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik group of Prof. Sven Höfling
• 15–27 June (2026): I visit Russia (Moscow and Saint-Petersburg) for the ICLO Conference and give four talks there.
• 16–18 October (2026): I give an invited talk at the 2nd Summit on Frontiers of Quantum Technology, in Hangzhou, China.

(Mega-)Tweets

I went sileto on 𝕏 (former twitter feed) but became very verbose on 𝕐 instead. Not news per se but things that happen at the given timestamp.