This year, the Institut Courtois will hold its first conference at the Université de Montréal on October 15 and 16th, 2025.
It will be an opportunity to hear presentations from world-renowned experts on matter-light processes for materials discovery.

Our guest of honor will be Prof. Anne L’Huillier, laureate of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for her research in attosecond science. Her talk is titled The world of atoms at the attosecond time scale.

We will also have the privilege of hearing from several other distinguished guests and domain experts.

 

Program

 

Day 1 – Wednesday October 15th, 8am – 6pm

  • Plenary Speaker Prof. Anne L’Huillier (Lund University, Department of Physics, Sweden)
  • Prof. Keith Nelson (MIT, Department of Chemistry, USA)
  • Prof. Paul Corkum ( Université d’Ottawa, Department of Physics)
  • Dr. Estelle Inack (Co-Founder & CTO @ yiyaniQ | Research Scientist  at the Perimeter Institute)
  • Prof. Dwayne Miller (University of Toronto, Department of Chemistry)
  • Prof. Tamar Pereg-Barnea (McGill University, Department of Physics)
  • Prof. Philippe St-Jean (Université de Montréal, Department of Physics)
  • Networking and poster session
  • Cocktail

 

Day 2 – Thursday October 16th

  • Workshops (details to come)

 

Registration costs:

 

Regular members and associate members of the Institut Courtois: free

Students (non-member): 62$

Regular fee (non-member):  122$

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Registration deadline: October 3rd, 2025

 

Date and Location

 

October 15-16th, 2025

Université de Montréal – Roger Gaudry, Hall d’honneur (K-500)

2900 Bd Édouard-Montpetit

Montreal, Quebec H3T 1J4 Canada

 

 

Complete program available soon