<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><font face="HelveticaNeue">Dear Soft Matter & Complex Systems Colleagues and Friends,</font></div><div><font face="HelveticaNeue"><br></font></div><div><div><font face="HelveticaNeue">On Friday 4 April 2024 at 9:30 AM at the UW Faculty of Physics (Pasteura 5, Warsaw; room 1.40) we are hosting a seminar during which </font></div><div><font face="HelveticaNeue"><br></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue"><b>Michał Matuszewski </b>(Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue"><br></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">who will give a talk</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><font face="HelveticaNeue"><br></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><div><h2 style="margin: 6px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-weight: 400; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">Quantum and classical computing with exciton-polaritons</font></span></h2></div><h2 style="margin: 6px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><b><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 12px;">Abstract</font></b></h2><div><font face="HelveticaNeue">Exciton-polaritons are quantum quasiparticles that appear in the regime of strong light-matter coupling. They can be realized in a wide range of semiconductor materials, including inorganic semiconductors such as GaAs and CdTe, organic semiconductors, two-dimensional materials and perovskites. Their uniqueness lies in that they combine the properties of both light and matter, resulting in excellent transport and strong interparticle interactions. In this talk I will discuss the applications of exciton-polaritons in classical and quantum computing, including reservoir computing, all-optical systems, and quantum neural networks.</font></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">We warmly welcome everyone to attend the talk and the Soft Matter Coffee Break after the seminar, held in room 2.63 (2nd floor).</font></div></div><div><font face="HelveticaNeue"><br></font></div><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">Maria Ekiel-Jeżewska</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">Maciej Lisicki</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">Piotr Szymczak</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">Panagiotis Theodorakis</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue">Marek Trippenbach</font></div></div></div></body></html>