Invited speakers

For this edition of SEL2025, we are pleased to offer 18 three-hour lectures on the following topics, presented by the speakers listed below:

Photo-magnetic recording: from thermodynamics to terra incognita beyond the conventional approximation
Alexey Kimel (Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Fundamentals of picosecond laser ultrasonics
Vitalyi Gusev (Le Mans, France)

Picosecond ultrasonics with x-rays - applications to engery transport and magnetisation dynamics
Matias Bargheer (Potsdam, Germany)

Thermal transport by phonons on micro/nano scale
Alexei Maznev (Cambridge, MA, USA)

Ultrafast switching of magnetic and crystallographic order via phononic resonances
Andrei Kirilyuk (Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Picosecond acoustics for the determination of thermo-elastic properties of solids and liquids at high pressure and high temperature
Silvia Boccato (Paris, France)

Nonlinear spectroscopy and collective coherent control near to and far from equilibrium
Keith Nelson (Cambridge, MA, USA)

Topology and non-hermiticity in acoustics
Vassos Achilleos (Le Mans, France)

Optomechanics and phononics: from quantum physics to metrology
Remy Braive (Paris, France)

Optical near-field nanoscopy and nanospectroscopy
Rainer Hillenbrand (San Sebastian, Spain)

Acousto-plasmonics and surface acoustic waves
Andrea Bragas (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Ultrasonic phased array engineering using light for non-destructive evaluation
Theodosia Stratoudaki (Glasgow, UK)

Bringing sound waves to life on surfaces and nanostructures: Exploring crystals, phononic crystals, waveguides, nanorod arrays,  metamaterials, cavities, and nanostructures
Oliver Wright (Hokkaido/Osaka, Japan)

Phononics and photonics in 2D materials
Klaas-Jan Tielrooij (Eindhoven, Netherlands)

Spatially resolved acoustic spectroscopy imaging
Wenqi Li (Nottingham, UK)

Brillouin light scattering for biology
Thomas Dehoux (Lyon, France)

Dynamic optical coherent elastography: Principles and applications
Ivan Pelivanov (Seattle, WA, USA)

Polariton time crystals with a mechanical clock
Alex Fainstein (Bariloche, Argentina)