The 2nd International Conference on Nonequilibrium and Ultrafast Quantum States will 　　be held from October 22 to 26, 2024, co-organized by the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory. , NUQS-2024) was successfully held in the new campus of Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory. More than 120 experts and students from the United States, Europe, Japan and other countries and regions participated in this conference to discuss non-equilibrium states of matter and ultrafast Cutting edge research progress in the field of dynamics.

The opening ceremony of the conference was hosted by researcher Meng Sheng from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Zhang Guangyu, researcher at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and deputy director of the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, delivered an opening speech and extended a warm welcome to the participants. Professor Lu Peixiang from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Professor Zhong Dongping from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Professor Theo Rasing from Radboud University in the Netherlands, Professor Angel Rubio from the Max Planck Institute in Germany, Professor Kazuhiro Yabana from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and Hardy from the Hebrew University of Israel. Professor Gross, Professor Wang Xijie from the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, Professor Tong Limin from Zhejiang University, Professor Simon Wall from Aarhus University in Denmark, Professor Wu Jian from East China Normal University (lecturing by Li Hui), and Gregory Fiete from Northeastern University in the United States. The professors gave special keynote speeches at the conference, reviewing the research challenges of non-equilibrium and ultrafast quantum states of matter and reporting on the latest cutting-edge research progress.

This conference has received extensive support and response from domestic and foreign research institutions and universities. More than 30 experts from well-known domestic and foreign research institutions such as the Max Planck Institute in Germany and the University of Tokyo in Japan gave invited reports at the meeting. Among them, Angela Montanaro from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, Marios Michael from the Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics in Germany, Naotaka Yoshikawa and Kaishu Kawaguchi from the University of Tokyo, Dominik Juraschek from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, Regens from Germany Simon Maier from the University of Hamburg, John McGuire from the Shanghai University of Science and Technology, and Fabian Scheiba from the University of Hamburg were invited to give speeches at the conference, introducing their latest research progress in non-equilibrium and ultrafast fields. Experts and scholars from relevant institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and universities such as Peking University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University also introduced the remarkable results achieved in related fields, fully demonstrating the achievements of Chinese scientists in non-equilibrium and ultrafast quantum states of matter. scientific research achievements and future potential in the field. The conference also attracted young teachers, postdocs, and doctoral students from multiple research institutes to study, communicate, and post posters.

Participants had in-depth exchanges during the five-day meeting and visited the advanced attosecond laser facility under planning and construction. They jointly discussed non-equilibrium phenomena in condensed matter physics, excited state dynamics, and nonlinear optics in quantum materials. , high-order harmonic generation, strong field physics, ultrafast and high-dimensional spectroscopy, coherent states and nonlinear phonons, development of experimental and theoretical means, and many other key research directions, future trends and challenges. At the end of the meeting, Meng Sheng gave a closing speech, summarizing the wonderful reports and fruitful results of this meeting. He expressed the hope that every NUQS meeting can become a bridge for scientists from various countries to maintain long-term academic exchanges and cooperation, and jointly promote non-equilibrium and ultrafast quantum matter. development of ecological science research.

This conference is hosted by the Center for Ultrafast Material Science, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. As one of the regular academic exchange activities held by the center, the successful holding of this conference is of great significance to carrying out more cutting-edge scientific research and promoting broader and in-depth international cooperation relying on the center and advanced attosecond laser facilities in the future.