Minicolloquium Link: http://myumi.ch/AxgeZ

Control and understanding of light and matter coupling are ubiquitous and of fundamental importance in modern science and technology. Recently developments in materials, photonics and condensed matter physics have opened doors to exciting new opportunities to create light-matter coupled systems unavailable before, which on one hand may provide an experimental testground of novel nonlinear, many-body and/or quantum phenomena, and on the other hand may serve as a bridge between such phenomena and better technology for the future. I will discuss a few recent work and some possible future topics under this theme, using unconventional semiconductor exciton-polariton systems and two-dimensional materials.