Latest revision as of 20:13, 25 December 2025

Waiting for the apocalypse

Much is new under the Sun!

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

You can also browse our 2025 diary for notable things that have been already happening.

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.
23 December (2025): I completed my fiction 百合子.
25 December (2025): Elena and myself part way.
12–16 January: Fabrice gives an invited talk at the ICSCE-13, in the Canary Islands.
20–24 April (2026): Fabrice gives an invited talk at the 3rd Excitonics and Polaritonics International Conference (EPIC), at the Tsinghua University in China.

Tweets

From Fabrice's twitter (now 𝕏) feed. Not news per se but things that happen at the given timestamp.

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-You can also check out our news in Fabrice’s blog or browse our [[old news|news archives]].
+Much is new under the Sun!
-= News =
+You can also <!--check out our news in Fabrice’s blog or--> browse our [[old news|news archives]] if you're interested in old news as well as new news.
-Past and future.
+You can also browse our [[2025|2025 diary]] for notable things that have been already happening.
-# (31 October) After about one month disruption, our website is back online and [[Blog:Fabrice/The Bliki way|going the bliki way]].
+* {{thisday|1|January|2025}}: I'm back to archiving our news here after ten years of interruptions!
-# '''(29 October) Ambre Laussy is born!''' (my [[Lionel|brother]]'s third child [http://laussy.org/blog/2010/bienvenue-a-bord-ambre (see here)]).
+* {{thisday|5|January|2025}}: My [[Blog:Fabrice/The Children of Gaza and the year 2025|New Year's greetings]].
-# (25-30 July) We participate to the [http://www.icps2010.org 30th ICPS] in Seoul (two talks).
+* {{thesedays|8|13|April|2025}}: I attend the ''[https://events.mifp.eu/PLMCN-2025/ PLMCN25]''' in [[Xiamen]], [[China]], with an Invited Talk.
-# (21-26 June) We participate to the [http://www.ioffe.ru/NANO2010/ 18th International Symposium Nanostructures: Physics and Technology] in Saint-Petersburg (two talks).
+* {{thesedays|28|April|2|May|2025}}: I attend the [https://pcs.ibs.re.kr/PCS_Workshops/PCS_ESQO_Home_2025.html 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]].
-# (12-16 April) We participate to the [http://plmcn10.phys.soton.ac.uk PLMCN10] conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico (one invited talk, one poster).
+* {{thesedays|26|30|May|2025}}: I teach at the [https://qoqm.nanotec.cnr.it/ Quantum Optics and Quantum Materials] summer school in [[Lecce]], [[Italy]].
-# (19 March) Our paper ''Effect of pure dephasing on the Jaynes-Cummings nonlinearities'' by A. Gonzalez-Tudela ''et al.'' is published as [http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.007002 Opt. Express '''18''', 7002 (2010)].
+* {{thesedays|28|September|4|October|2025}}: I give [[Medellin_Lectures_of_Quantum_Optics_(2025)|four lectures on emerging trends of quantum optics]] for the [https://quantumcolombia.net/catedra_quantumunal/ Cátedra Nacional de Colombia en Tecnologías Cuánticas] and a Colloquium on the Physics of Light-Matter interactions, in [[Medellin]], [[Colombia]].
-# (16 February) We attend the ''Newton International Fellowship Day'' in Carlton House Terrace, London, where [[Elena]] presents a poster.
+* {{thesedays|8|9|October|2025}}: I organize the [[MULTIPHOTONICS (2025)|2nd edition of MULTIPHOTONICS]] in [[Madrid]].
-# (5 January) Our paper ''Two-photon lasing by a single quantum dot in a high-Q microcavity'', by del Valle ''et al.'', is published as [http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.81.035302 Phys. Rev. B '''81''', 035302 (2010)].
+* {{thisday|23|December|2025}}: I completed my fiction [[Yuriko (book)|百合子]].
-# (4 January) Our papers ''Quantitative Description of Strong-Coupling of Quantum Dots in Microcavities'' by Laussy ''et al.''&nbsp;[http://link.aip.org/link/?APCPCS/1199/359/1] and ''Observation of Quantum Hydrodynamic Effects in Microcavity Polaritons'' by Amo ''et al.''&nbsp;[http://link.aip.org/link/?APCPCS/1199/173/1], presented and featured at the [http://www.icps2008.org/ ICPS 29] conference, are finally published after two years of delay (the time it took the editors of this huge conference to chase all the referees and authors).
+* {{thisday|25|December|2025}}: [[Elena]] and myself [[Blog:Fabrice/My_twenty_years_with_Elena|part way]].
-# (January) Our paper ''Anticrossing in the PL spectrum of light–matter coupling under incoherent continuous pumping'', by Gonzalez-Tudela ''et al.'', is published as [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spmi.2009.06.010 Superlatt. Microstruct., '''47''' 16 (2010)].
+* {{thesedays|12|16|January|}}: Fabrice gives an invited talk at the [https://icsce13.qphysics.org/ ICSCE-13], in the [[Canary Islands]].
+* {{thesedays|20|24|April|2026}}: Fabrice gives an invited talk at the 3rd Excitonics and Polaritonics International Conference (EPIC), at the Tsinghua University in [[China]].
-== [[Elena]]'s news ==
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-* (7 May) My paper ''Strong and weak coupling of two coupled qubits'' is published as [http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.81.053811 Phys. Rev. A, '''81''', 053811 (2010)].
+{{pet}} From [[Fabrice]]'s [[twitter]] (now {{X}}) [http://twitter.com/fplaussy feed]. Not news per se but things that happen at the given timestamp.
-== [[Fabrice]]'s news ==
-* (9 November) I give a talk, entitled ''Cavity QED under incoherent pumping: the case of quantum dots in microcavities'' in the [http://www-solidstate.physik.uni-bremen.de/festksem.php Arbeitsgruppe Theoretische Festkörperphysik] of [http://www.physik.uni-bremen.de/ Universität Bremen].
-* (8 October) I give a talk, entitled ''Nonlinear regime of strong-coupling of a quantum dot in a microcavity'', in the [http://qurope.eu/content/solid-fall-workshop-interfacing-solid-state-qip-systems SOLID Workshop], [http://www.wsi.tum.de WSI], [[Munich]].
-* (9 March) The paper ''Exciton-Polariton Mediated Superconductivity'' by Laussy, Kavokin and Shelykh is published as [http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.106402 Phys. Rev. Lett. '''104''', 106402 (2010)].