Organised by the University of Bath’s Physics Department, this is a three-day meeting which will take place at the Apex City of Bath Hotel. The conference will focus on emerging new science, as well as new technology that is not mature yet but has significant potential to be.
The topics covered by the conference will include: specialty optical fibres, quantum photonics, two dimensional materials and application, functional and quantum materials and devices, lasers and emitters, nano and photonic platforms, sensing technology, nonlinear photonics, biosensing methods, etc. We would particularly welcome submissions on the topics of advanced energetics, advanced structures and materials, autonomy, navigation, control, seekers and sensors, aerodynamics, semiconducting (nano)materials, such as gallium nitride, single photon processes.
This international conference aims to bring together academia, industry and other stake holders, such as fund-managers, scientific editors and policy makers. The program will include talks, poster sessions and an industrial exhibition. There will be a best poster competition, judged by the Awards Committee.
The first day will begin with plenary talks and will end with social events (trip to Stone Henge and welcome dinner). There will be three parallel sessions running on the second and third day.
The industrial exhibition will run from the second day of the conference (set up will be during the afternoon of the first day). The exhibition is free to access for conference attendees. The organisers aim for this exhibition to be an excellent forum for discovering new products, for seeking industrial involvement and collaboration, as well as for discussing potential discounts.
Sponsors
We are grateful to the following sponsors for supporting this event:
- Toptica
- Thorlabs
- NKT Photonics
- EKSPLA
- HORIBA
- Laser 2000
- Nanoscale Horizons Journal, Royal Society of Chemistry
- Nanoscale Journal, Royal Society of Chemistry
- Nanoscale Advances, Royal Society of Chemistry
Programme
A downloadable copy of the Eureka 2025! Physics for Security programme is available at this link: Eureka 2025! Physics for Security programme.
Monday 7 July 2025
| Start | Finish | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | 10:00 | Arrival and Coffee | |
| 10:00 | 12:00 | Plenary Talks | Lansdown Suite 1 |
| 12:00 | 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:45 | 17:30 | Visit to Stonehenge | Departing from and returning to the Apex City of Bath Hotel |
| 18:00 | - | Delegate Dinner | The Orange Artichoke, Apex City of Bath Hotel |
Tuesday 8 July 2025
| Start | Finish | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | 10:00 | Arrival and Coffee | |
| 10:00 | 12:00 | First Parallel Sessions | |
| - | - | Novel Optical Fibres | Camden Room |
| - | - | Materials in Quantum Technologies | Walcot Room |
| - | - | Exhibition | Lansdown Suite 1 |
| 12:00 | 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | 15:30 | Second Parallel Sessions | |
| - | - | Quantum Systems and Future Networks | Camden Room |
| - | - | New Phenomena in 2D Materials: Theory and Experiments | Walcot Room |
| - | - | Exhibition | Lansdown Suite 1 |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Break | |
| 16:00 | 18:00 | Third Parallel Sessions | |
| - | - | Poster Session and Presentation | Lansdown Suite 1 |
| - | - | Exhibition | Lansdown Suite 1 |
Wednesday 9 July 2025
| Start | Finish | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | 10:00 | Arrival and Coffee | |
| 10:00 | 12:00 | Fourth Parallel Sessions | |
| - | - | Advances in Nanophotonics, Quantum Materials, and Light-Matter Interactions | Camden Room |
| - | - | Remote sensing, machine learning and fluid dynamics: astronomers’ toolkit for industrial collaboration | Walcot Room |
| - | - | Organic Electronic Materials and Devices | Kingsmead 1 |
| - | - | Exhibition | Lansdown Suite 1 |
| 12:00 | 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | 15:30 | Fifth Parallel Sessions | |
| - | - | Advances in Nanophotonics, Quantum Materials, and Light-Matter Interactions | Camden Room |
| - | - | Materials and novel imaging techniques for security and defence | Walcot Room |
| - | - | Bioelectronics | Kingsmead 1 |
| - | - | Exhibition | Lansdown Suite 1 |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Break | |
| 16:00 | 18:00 | Sixth Parallel Sessions | |
| - | - | Advanced Materials and Structures | Kingsmead 1 |
| - | - | Exhibition | Lansdown Suite 1 |
Confirmed Speakers: Monday 7 July 2025
Confirmed Speakers: Tuesday 8 July 2025
- Patrick Gill (National Physics Laboratory)
- Ruth Oulton (University of Bristol)
- Ian Davidson (University of Southampton)
- Austin Taranta (University of Southampton)
- Hannah Stern (University of Oxford)
- Jan Tomczak (King’s College London)
- Michele Pizzochero (University of Bath)
- Akhil Rajan (University of St Andrews)
Confirmed Speakers: Wednesday 9 July 2025
- Anatoly Zayats (King’s College London)
- Ortwin Hess (Trinity College Dublin)
- Alexander Tartakovskii (University of Sheffield)
- Soraya Caixeiro (University of Bath)
- Said Ergoktas (University of Bath)
- Hendrik Van Eerten (University of Bath)
- Rebecca Huffee (Space West)
- Philippe Blondel (University of Bath)
- Robert Simpson (University of Birmingham)
- Mark Farries (University of Nottingham)
- Ken McEwan (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory)
- James Almond (Cambridge Consultants)
- Henning Sirringhaus (University of Cambridge)
- Christian Nielsen (Queen Mary University of London)
- Saverio Russo (University of Exeter)
- Kamal Asadi (University of Bath)
- Rylie Green (Imperial College London)
- Monica Craciun (University of Exeter)
- Adelina Ilie (University of Bath
- Alain Nogaret (University of Bath)
- Matthew Cole (University of Bath)
- James Roscow (University of Bath)
- Xiaoze Pei (University of Bath)
- Pedro Estrela (University of Bath)
