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On Thursday June 22nd, during the morning, we will celebrate our friend and collaborator Prof. Albert Ferrando’s 60th anniversary.

Details can be found below. We will have a mini-workshop and we will join for lunch afterwards. Online attendance/participation will be possible.

Dr. Albert Ferrando is Full Professor at the department of Optics and Optometry and Vision Sciences in the University of Valencia. He has a full curriculum in both theoretical particle physics and optics. The former includes a doctoral thesis and three postdoctoral periods including a postdoc at the Institut für theoretische Physik, Universität Bern (Switzerland), a re-incorporation contract at the Dept. of Theoretical Physics of the Universitat de València (precedent of the Ramón y Cajal programme) and another at the Center for Theoretical Physics of the MIT (USA). This period lasted from 1986 to 1996. In this year he joined his current department, which included a career from Assistant Professor to University Professor (2011), making a complete and very fruitful change of area. In the field of optics he continued to make short scientific visits to MIT (1998, 1999, 2001) within the ultrafast optics group of Prof. Hermann Haus where he was introduced in the field of non-linear optics, currently the most representative of his work. However, his peculiar and broad training has allowed him to develop his activity in a wide range of research lines. In theoretical physics: quantum field theory in two dimensions, quantum chromodynamics and non-perturbative methods in quantum field theory and condensed matter. In optics and electromagnetics: modelling of photonic crystal and microwave fibres, temporal non-linear optics (solitons and supercontinuum generation) and spatial non-linear optics (solitons in periodic media), phase singularity optics (optical vortices with discrete symmetries). In cold atoms: Bose-Einstein condensation. In transverse lines: non-linear quantum electrodynamics. Recently, he has started two new lines of research: topological photonics and non-linear photonics of perovskites and he is one of the directors and the main driving force behind the UV-UPV Joint QMP Seminars.