FLEET research has been highlighted at an important conference in Würzburg, Germany.
Eli Estrecho, a PhD student in Elena Ostrovskaya’s group at ANU, won the 1st “Gold” award (and €500) for the best poster presentation entitled ‘Single-shot imaging of exciton-polariton condensates’ and David Colas, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Matt Davis’ group won one of the 3rd “Bronze” prizes for his poster titled ‘Novel soliton dynamics in one dimensional open-dissipative polariton systems’.
Eli, David and Elena presented their research at one of the most important annual meetings in the field of strong light-matter interactions in excitonic and polaritonic systems: the 18th International Conference on Physics of Light-Matter Coupling in Nanostructures (PLMCN18), held in the Neubaukirche at Würzburg University. There were 170 posters in total, so the competition was tough.
Elena gave an invited oral presentation titled Optically confined microcavity exciton polaritons: from fragmented to uniform condensates.
Also presenting were Nobel Laureates Hiroshi Amano (2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, for the LED) and Serge Haroche (2012, laser spectroscopy).
Eli’s research is funded under a DP grant and travel was funded by the ANU’s RSPE Robert and Helen Crompton Travel Award.
Würzburg University is also a partner organisation of FLEET.