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867.WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Quantum Electron‐Photon Interactions
Dates: September 21-24, 2026
Venue: Downtown Prague, Czech Republic
Dear colleague,
We cordially invite you to submit an abstract for consideration for the 867. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Quantum Electron‐Photon Interactions by May 31, 2026. Abstracts must be submitted via the indico website. Abstracts will be considered for poster presentation, and some posters might be upgraded to a hot-topic talk.
The seminar will consist of invited talks given by the leading experts in the field, hot-topic talks and a poster session. The poster session together with the discussion of the presented results will represent an essential part of the seminar. The number of participants is limited, and participants will be selected based on their abstract. With up to ≈80 participants and a good mix of seniority, we expect a highly fruitful seminar around a highly timely topic.
The scope of the seminar circles around electron-photon interactions. They represent a long-standing important tool in analytical microscopy, providing information about the local density of optical or plasmonic modes via cathodoluminescence and electron energy-loss spectroscopy. More recently, stimulated interactions involving incident optical radiation have enabled the coherent modulation of electron wave functions but also opened new pathways for studying a plethora of quantum effects such as entanglement, correlations, or decoherence. While the instrumentation has typically been based on transmission electron microscopes providing ultimate combination of spatial, energy and time resolution, recent years have seen a rapid development in the field of ultrafast scanning electron microscopy and other methods that utilize low- to moderate-energy electrons to investigate the electron-light coupling, time-resolved cathodoluminescence, ultrafast low-energy electron diffraction and quantum phenomena. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts from this newly emerging field focusing on low- and medium-energy electrons with experts from ultrafast transmission electron microscopy and other fields related to quantum free-electron-photon interactions. Invited speakers include a well-balanced mixture spanning from world-leading senior experts to younger colleagues just starting their labs and graduate students, from all over the world. We hope that experienced as well as young researchers will participate and enjoy flourishing discussions and interactions - in a beautiful setting in the historical center of Prague.
List of confirmed invited speakers:
Herman Batelaan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Peter Baum, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Armin Feist, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
Javier García de Abajo, ICFO, Spain
Philipp Haslinger, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
Thomas Juffmann, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
Ido Kaminer, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Ofer Kfir, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Oh-Hon Kwon, UNIST, Ulsan, South Korea
Michael Krüger, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Bolin L. Liao, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Sophie Meuret, CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Yuya Morimoto, RIKEN, Japan
Claus Ropers, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
Sascha Schäfer, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Bradley Siwick, McGill University, Montréal, Canada
Nahid Talebi, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Renske Van der Veen, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Berlin, Germany
Ding-Shyue Yang, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
Zhexin Zhao, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Never hesitate to reach out to us in case of any question – and please do consider submitting an abstract to this certainly exciting meeting. Generous support from the WE-Heraeus Foundation will be available, keeping the overall cost for each participant for this workshop low.
Yours faithfully,
Martin Kozák, Charles Univesity, Prague, Czech Republic
Andrea Konečná, University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
Peter Hommelhoff, LMU München, FAU Erlangen‐Nürnberg, Germany
Scientific organizers of 867. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Quantum Electron‐Photon Interactions