Excitons (bound pairs of electrons and holes in a semiconducting material) can be produced in excited internal states by means of laser excitation. More than 60 years after their discovery in cuprous oxide semiconductors, the investigation of such Rydberg excitons is currently attracting increasing world-wide interest due to their vastly exaggerated properties. Just like for their atomic counterparts, the enhanced external-field sensitivity and strong mutual interactions of such Rydberg states makes them attractive systems for fundamental studies of basic quantum phenomena and suggests exciting opportunities for future applications, such as nonlinear optical interfaces. The workshop will bring together international researchers to share latest results, to discuss current challenges, and to explore future perspectives and new opportunities in this growing and vibrant field of research.

• Workshop is from Monday 16/06 to Wednesday 18/06 (lab visits, discussions and departures on Wednesday afternnon).
• Registration deadline is Friday 16/05.
• Speakers and Posters: Please submit a short abstract by Friday 23/05.
• Speakers: Please send you presentation pptx of pdf file to rydexc8@sciencesconf.org before 16/06.

• Hadiseh Alaeian (Purdue University, USA)
• Pavel Belov (Universität Rostock, Germany)
• Poulab Charkrabarti (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Toulouse, France)
  
• Stewart Clark (University of Durham, UK)
• Hong-Hua Fang (Tsinghua University, China)
• Mikhail Glazov (Ioffe Institute, Russia)
• Julian Heckötter (TU Dortmund, Germany)
• Dmitry Krizhanovskii (School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Sheffield, UK)
• Jörg Main (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
• Francesca Maria Marchetti (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
• Angela Montanaro (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
  
• Nobuko Naka (Kyoto University, Japan)
• Valentin Walther (Purdue University, USA)
• David Ziemkiewicz (Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, Poland)