CUPS: Chirality and Ultrafast Phenomena

CUPS brings together the forefront of chirality and ultrafast science. It spotlights emerging areas such as attosecond and femtosecond probes of chiral dynamics, chiral nanomaterials and metasurfaces, and structured light for imprinting and detecting chirality. The symposium aims to exchange critical scientific insights across these areas, develop interconnections between them, and spark interdisciplinary collaborations.

The programme will showcase cutting-edge research in chiroptical and structured-light phenomena, including chiral molecules and nanoparticles, plasmonic and metasurface architectures, orbital angular momentum and spin–orbit photonics, and their extension into strong-field, attosecond, and quantum-optical regimes.

Topics covered include (but are not limited to):

• Chiral nanoparticles and plasmonic nanostructures
• Chiroptical spectroscopy and time-resolved measurements
• Ultrafast and attosecond probes of chiral dynamics
• Structured light: orbital angular momentum, vector beams, and spin–orbit photonics
• Metasurfaces and nanophotonic platforms for structured and chiral light
• Ultrafast electron–light coupling and photoemission
• Squeezed and quantum light
• Time-resolved and nonlinear spectroscopy
• Nanoparticles for biomedical and sensing applications

Open for Abstract Submissions 

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