October 29 - Simon White
2026 "Ν. Κυλάφης" Lecture
Non-Hermitian impurity problem
In this article, Emmanouil Kokkinakis (Ph.D. Student), Ioannis Komis (Postdoctoral Researcher) and Prof. Konstantinos G. Makris, investigate wave dynamics in two-dimensional nonlinear non-Hermitian photonic lattices. Their work, recently published in Communications Physics, explores how nonlinearity and non-Hermiticity jointly shape light localization and transport in higher-dimensional systems.
Constraining axion-like dark matter with a radio-frequency atomic magnetometer
Adrien Rigoulet, an MSc student from the University of Rennes-Lannion (France), spent six months at the University of Crete carrying out his master's thesis research in the lab of D. Antypas. Working together with S. Nanos, I. Kominis, and D. Antypas, he performed a search for axion-like dark matter using a radio-frequency atomic magnetometer based on spin-polarized rubidium atoms.


