The objective of this workshop is to bring together experts in the field of wave propagation in topologically non-trivial and/or disordered materials. It will provide an opportunity for physicists exploring the topological aspects of wave physics or the role of disorder correlations in various systems, ranging from solid-state electronics to cold atoms, optics, and acoustics, to exchange ideas.

A call for a few contributed talks is open (priority will be given to PhD students), and a poster session will be organized during the workshop.

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• Alberto Amo (PhLAM, France)
  ⤳ PDF Topology and noise in networks of photonic unitary operators
• Bloch Jacqueline (C2N, France)
• David Carpentier (ENS Lyon, France)
  ⤳ PDF What can topology teach us about the mechanics of metamaterials ? (and vice versa)
• Alexander Cerjan (Sandia Nat. Lab., USA)
  ⤳ PDF An operator-based approach to classifying topology in open and nonlinear systems
• Antonin Coutant (LMA, France)
  ⤳ PDF Topological waves in acoustic networks with sublattice symmetry
• Matthieu Davy (Université de Rennes, France)
• Pierre Delplace (ENS Lyon, France)
  ⤳ PDF Anomalous Edge States in Disordered Non-Reciprocal Scattering Networks… stronger than Chern!
• Clément Dutreix (LOMA, France)
  ⤳ PDF Ripples in the LDOS: When Defects reveal the Band Structure
• William Faugno (Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel, France)
  ⤳ PDF Quantum Many Body Scars in the Presence of Density-Dependent Hopping
• Anuradha Jagannathan (LPS, France)
  ⤳ PDF Topological connections between quasicrystals and the Quantum Hall problem
• Ivan Khaymovich (NORDITA, Sweden)
  ⤳ PDF PPTX Effects of correlations in disorder on localization and ergodicity breaking in long-range systems
• Guilhem Madiot (INPHYNI, France)
• Yan Pennec (IEMN, France)
  ⤳ PDF Topological modes in 1D PhoXonic crystals for Optomechanical applications
• Felipe Pinheiro (UFSP, Brazil)
  ⤳ PDF Non-ergodic extended phase and fractal states in wave transport: from aperiodic to disordered optical systems
• Sébastien Popoff (Institut Langevin, France)
  ⤳ PDF Harnessing disorder and symmetries in multimode fibers
• Camelia Prodan (Fordham U., USA)
• Emil Prodan (Yeshiva U., USA)
• Sylvain Ravets (C2N, France)
• Luis-Alberto Razo-López (Institut Langevin, France)
  ⤳ PDF Experimental characterization of topological systems: from microwave to optics
• Raphaël Saint-Jalm (INPHYNI, France)
  ⤳ PDF Observation of edge states in topological Floquet systems
• Grazia Salerno (Università di Pisa, Italy)
  ⤳ PDF Topology of light polarization vortices in photonic crystals
• Frank Scheffold (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland)
• Clivia Sotomayor Torres (INL, Portugal)
  ⤳ PDF Impact of variability in a topological non-trivial phononic waveguide
• Aaron Shih (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland)
  ⤳ PDF Gyromorphs: A New class of functional correlated disordered materials
• Simon Yves (Institut Langevin, France)
• Matteo Zaccanti (LENS Florence, Italy)
  ⤳ PDF Anomalous diffusion and emergent localization of light atoms in an ideal heavy fermion gas

The Scientific Institute of Cargèse (IESC) was founded in the 60s under the impetus of theoretical physicist Maurice Levy. Since then, it has grown steadily to host a number of internationally renowned thematic schools. It is located on the edge of the small Corsican village of Cargèse. Informations to reach the workshop are available in the "Venue" section.

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Interrested candidates need to apply by performing a pre-registration on the IESC platform https://iesc-inscriptions.fr. Scroll down until finding "17/11/2025 - 21/11/2025 Topology and Disorder in Wave Physics - 2025", and click on "".

⤳ Registration fees and housing will be entirely covered by our sponsors.

⤳ Application deadline: 30/09/2025 ‼️12/10/2025‼️

Abstract for the talks/posters need to be uploaded by clicking on Submit an abstract.

• Geoffroy Aubry (INPHYNI, Nice, France)
• Fabrice Mortessagne (INPHYNI, Nice, France)
• Sergey Skipetrov (LPMMC, Grenoble, France)

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This workshop was funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Grant No. ANR-20-CE30-0003 LOLITOP)