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Invited talks at long workshops and physics schools:

• One + many fermions, or how to swim in muddy waters
  KITP Program "Universality in Few-Body Systems"
  Santa Barbara, California, USA, November 2016
  
  
• Quantum Brownian Motion in ultracold gases
  Summer School on "Disorder in Condensed Matter and Ultracold Atoms"
  Cargèse, France, July 2016
  
  
• Synthetic gauge fields in synthetic dimensions (blackboard talk in the garden, Aspen style)
  Summer Workshop on "Ultra-Cold Quantum Matter with Atoms and Molecules"
  Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, Colorado, USA, July-August 2015
  
  
• Dressed impurities in an ideal Fermi gas:
  an (N+1)-body problem, with N>>1
  INT Program on "Universality in few-body systems"
  Institute for Nuclear Theory, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, April 2014
  Recorded talk available on the INT webpage
  
  
• Synthetic gauge fields in synthetic dimensions
  Summer Programme on "Synthetic Gauge Fields for Photons and Atoms"
  BEC Center, Univ. of Trento, Italy, July 2013
  
  
• Topological Superfluids in Optical Lattices
  NORDITA Program "Pushing the boundaries with cold atoms"
  Stockholm, Sweden, February 2013
  
  
• Upper branch physics in Fermi gases (blackboard talk in the garden, Aspen style)
  Summer Workshop on "Few- and Many-Body Physics in Cold Quantum Gases Near Resonances"
  Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, Colorado, USA, June 2011
  
  
• Topological Superfluids in optical lattices
  KITP Program "Beyond Standard Optical Lattices"
  Santa Barbara, California, USA, December 2010
  
  
• Efimov states
  "Trimester on Quantum Gases" at Institut Henri Poincaré
  Paris, France, May 2007
  
  
• Viscosity and collective modes in strongly-interacting fermions
  "Strong correlations in Fermi systems" at NORDITA
  Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2006
  
  

Invited talks at international conferences:

• Macroscopic coherent dressing of Bose polarons
  Barcelona Cold Atoms Meeting
  ICFO, Barcelona, Spain, February 2020
  
  
• Detecting topological features in real space and time
  9th International Conference on "Quantum Simulation and Quantum Walks"
  Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques, Marseille, France, January 2020
  
  
• Topological phases in condensed matter and photonic systems
  Annual Research Meeting of the Dept. of Physics of UPC
  Inst. for Catalan Studies, Barcelona, Spain, January 2019
  
  
• Bose polarons at finite temperature and strong coupling
  Workshop on "Quantum Simulations with Atoms and Light"
  AIAS, Aarhus, Denmark, August 2018
  
  
• Real time detection of topological invariants
  Workshop on "Synthetic Dimensions in Quantum Engineered Systems"
  ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, November 2017
  
  
• Real time detection of topological invariants
  International Conference on "Quantum Simulation"
  École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, November 2017
  
  
• 1D quantum mixtures in a harmonic potential
  Topical meeting on "Ultracold quantum mixtures"
  Maria Waldrast, Innsbruck, Austria, September 2015
  
  
• Strong coupling Ansatz for 1D Fermi Gases in a harmonic potential
  Conference on "Quantum gases of microcavity polaritons and ultra-cold atoms", ESF Research Network POLATOM
  Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany, June 2015
  
  
• Synthetic gauge fields for ultracold atoms in synthetic dimensions
  Workshop on "New Trends in Topological Insulators (NTTI 2014)" at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW)
  Berlin, Germany, July 2014
  
  
• Efimov trimers under strong confinement
  Conference on "Cold atoms and beyond" at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS)
  Århus, Denmark, June 2014
  
  
• Synthetic gauge fields for ultracold atoms in synthetic dimensions
  Workshop on Coherent Control of Complex Quantum Systems
  OIST, Okinawa, Japan, May 2013
  
  
• Trapped impurities in a lattice: confinement induced resonances and Anderson localization
  Joint ILP(Hamburg)-ICFO meeting
  Hamburg, Germany, October 2012
  
  
• Polarons and molecules at narrow s- and p-wave resonances in ultracold gases
  ESF POLATOM Network Conference: Cold Atoms, Excitons, Polaritons, Bose-Einstein condensates
  Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 2012
  
  
• Topological fermionic superfluids in optical lattices
  Workshop on "Advances in Quantum Technology: From Quantum Information to Quantum Devices"
  IIP - International Institute of Physics, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil, August 2012
  
  
• The impurity problem at narrow s- and p-wave resonances
  Conference on "Unequal Mass Mixtures and Dipolar Molecules"
  ITAMP-Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, April 2012
  Recorded talk available on YouTube
  
  
• News on imbalanced Fermi mixtures
  Joint LENS-ICFO meeting
  Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain, March 2012
  
  
• News on imbalanced Fermi mixtures
  Topical meeting on "Imbalanced Fermi-Fermi mixtures"
  Maria Waldrast, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2012
  
  
• Polarons and molecules close to narrow Feshbach resonances
  Topical meeting on "Coherent quasiparticle spectroscopy in Fermi-Fermi mixtures"
  Maria Waldrast, Innsbruck, Austria, July 2011
  
  
• Dressed impurities in an ideal Fermi gas
  IFRAF-FERMIX Meeting
  Paris, France, April 2011
  
  
• Impurities in a Fermi sea
  Topical meeting on "Strongly-imbalanced Fermi-Fermi mixtures"
  Maria Waldrast, Innsbruck, Austria, March 2011
  
  
• Impurities in a Fermi sea
  MPQ-ICFO joint meeting "New Trends in Quantum Information and Quantum Optics"
  Sant Benet, Spain, December 2010
  
  
• Impurities in a Fermi sea: polarons vs. molecules
  KITP Program "Beyond Standard Optical Lattices"
  Santa Barbara, USA, November 2010
  Recorded talk available in streaming as: Flash, QuickTime, RealMedia, or to download here
  
  
• Decay of polarons and molecules in a strongly-polarized Fermi gas
  International Symposium on "Cold Atoms and Condensed Matter"
  Vedbaek, Denmark, October 2010
  
  
• Topological superfluids in optical lattices
  XXVI Trobades Científiques de la Mediterrània: "Correlations in Quantum Gases"
  Maó, Menorca, September -October 2010
  
  
• Topological superfluids in optical lattices
  "Theory of quantum gases and quantum coherence"
  Nice, June 2010
  
  
• Efimov states close to a Feshbach resonance with large background scattering length
  "Efimov states in molecules and nuclei"
  Rome, October 2009
  
  
• Spin polarons and molecules in strongly interacting Fermi gases
  "FerMix" meeting
  Trento, June 2009
  
  
• Twin peaks in rf spectra
  "Physics@FOM" meeting
  Veldhoven, January 2008
  
  
• Efimov states close to a Feshbach resonance
  Spring meeting of the Dutch Physics Society
  Lunteren, April 2007
  
  
• Ions in a BEC
  "Ultracold Plasmas And Rydberg Systems"
  Paris, March 2005
  
  

Lectures and selected seminars:

• Superfluid vortex dynamics on peculiar surfaces
  Seminar at Columbia University
  New York, U.S.A., August 2018
  
  
• Real time detection of topological invariants
  Seminar at Aalto University
  Helsinki, Finland, July 2018
  
  
• Superfluid vortex dynamics on peculiar surfaces
  Seminar at Federico II University
  Naples, Italy, December 2017
  
  
• Bose polarons at finite temperature and strong coupling
  Seminar at Lund University
  Lund, Sweden, September 2017
  
  
• Detection of bulk topological features in real time
  Seminar at JILA
  Boulder (CO), USA, June 2017
  
  
• Measuring Chern numbers in narrow Hofstadter strips
  Group seminar at ICFO
  Barcelona, Spain, May 2017
  
  
• Swimming in muddy waters: impurities and quasiparticles in ultracold quantum gases
  Tutorial at the "International Max Planck Research School on Quantum Dynamics"
  Heidelberg, Germany, June 2015
  
  
• Strong coupling Ansatz for 1D Fermi Gases in a harmonic potential
  Seminar at the Heidelberg University
  Heidelberg, Germany, June 2015
  
  
• Strong coupling Ansatz for 1D Fermi Gases in a harmonic potential
  Seminar at the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS)
  Florence, Italy, June 2015
  
  
• Few strongly-interacting fermions in a 1D harmonic potential
  Seminar at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  Berlin, Germany, April 2015
  
  
• Stochastic processes
  3rd Pyrenees meeting on Quantum Information
  Setcases, Spain, March 2015
  
  
• Efimov trimers under strong confinement
  Seminar at IST (Institute of Science and Technology)
  Vienna, October 2014
  
  
• Efimov trimers under strong confinement
  Topical meeting on "Few-body physics" at Physikalisches Institut, University of Heidelberg
  Heidelberg, Germany, September 2014
  
  
• Synthetic Gauge Field in Synthetic Dimensions
  Guest Lecture at AIAS (the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies)
  Århus, Denmark, November 2013
  
  
• Strongly-interacting ultracold quantum mixtures
  Seminar at the University of Tokyo
  Tokyo, Japan, May 2013
  
  
• Activities of the QOT group @ ICFO:
  Ultracold Atoms, Quantum Optics, and Quantum Information
  Meeting of groups working on ultracold atoms in Barcelona
  Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, March 2013
  
  
• Strongly-interacting ultracold quantum mixtures
  Seminar at the Institut Non Linéaire de Nice (INLN)
  Sophia Antipolis, Nice (France), January 2013
  
  
• Impurities in ultracold systems
  General public talk at the ICONS seminar series
  ICFO, Barcelona, July 2012
  
  
• Polarons and molecules close to narrow Feshbach resonances
  Seminar at the TCM laboratory
  Cambridge, UK, December 2011
  
  
• Attractive polarons, repulsive polarons, and molecules in heteronuclear Fermi-Fermi mixtures
  Institut d'Optique
  Palaiseau, October 2011
  
  
• The fate of an impurity in a Fermi gas: polaron or molecule?
  Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute
  Amsterdam, November 2010
  
  
• p-wave superfluids and topological excitations in optical lattices
  Lund University
  Lund, November 2009
  
  
• Pairing and spin polarons in imbalanced Fermi gases
  ICFO
  Barcelona, October 2008
  
  
• Anderson localization
  Imperial College
  London, July 2006
  
  
• 1D model for cigar-shaped BECs
  NORDITA
  Copenhagen, March 2003
  

Slides of selected posters:

• Dropping an impurity into a Chern insulator: A polaron view on topological matter
  BEC 2019: "Frontiers on Quantum Gases"
  Sant Feliu, Spain, September 2019
  
  
• Observation of Topological Anderson & Floquet Insulators
  Workshop on "Ultra Quantum Matter II"
  Simons Foundation, New York, U.S.A., August 2018
  
  
• Bose polarons at finite temperature and strong coupling
  BEC 2017: "Frontiers on Quantum Gases"
  Sant Feliu, Spain, September 2017
  
  
• Repulsive Fermi polarons in a resonant Fermi-Fermi mixture
  Barcelona meeting on ultracold atoms
  Barcelona, Spain, February 2017
  
  
• 1D quantum mixtures in a harmonic potential
  "Few-body Physics in Cold Atomic Gases"
  Beijing, China, April 2016
  
  
• Efimov trimers under strong confinement
  BEC 2015: "Frontiers on Quantum Gases"
  Sant Feliu, Spain, September 2015
  
  
• Efimov trimers under strong confinement
  Emergence 2014: Ruperto Carola Symposium on "Shedding light on emergent quantum phenomena"
  Heidelberg, Germany, March 2014
  
  
• Synthetic gauge fields in synthetic dimensions
  BEC 2013: "Frontiers on Quantum Gases"
  Sant Feliu, Spain, September 2013
  
  
• Glass to superfluid transition in dirty bosons on a lattice
  DISQUANT: Intenational Trimester on Disordered Quantum Gases
  Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, June 2012
  
  
• Polarons and molecules close to narrow Feshbach resonances
  BEC 2011: "Frontiers on Quantum Gases"
  Sant Feliu, Spain, September 2011
  
  
• Dressed impurities in an ideal Fermi gas with narrow Feshbach resonances
  POLATOM conference on "Cold Atoms, Semiconductor Polaritons and Nanoscience"
  Χερσóνησος (Chersonissos), Crete, Greece, May 2011
  
  
• Energy-dependent effective interaction
  "Meeting on Strong correlations in Fermi systems"
  Copenhagen, June 2006