Dear colleagues and friends,

While hoping you had a nice starting of the year, it is with pleasure that we announce the upcoming CECAM Flagship school event:

"Ab Initio Quantum Electrodynamics for Quantum Materials Engineering"

Location: CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Date: 15th Apr 2024 to 19th Apr 2024
Website: https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/1294

This CECAM school is intended to provide an exhaustive introduction to this novel and exciting field of research at the interface of (quantum) optics, quantum information, (quantum) statistical physics, (quantum) chemistry and condensed-matter physics. The scope of this CECAM school is unique, it seamlessly combines lectures grounded in mathematical physics (on low-energy QED and foundations of ab initio QED), quantum chemistry and condensed-matter physics (on the development, implementation and application of ab initio QED methods) and quantum optics (on macroscopic QED and quantum-optical methods). While, commonly, schools are focused on a specific aspect of coupled light-matter systems, e.g., the transverse photons in quantum optics or the effect of the Coulomb interaction in electronic-structure theory, this school provides a holistic perspective of light and matter and highlights novel effects and synergies that arise between so far distinct fields of research. Indeed, the school addresses quantum materials in the broadest possible sense.

Check out the flyer in attachment!

Apply here:
https://members.cecam.org/workshops/participate/1294

Looking forward to seeing you at the school,
Simone, Michael and Angel.