- New states of matter created under non-equilibrium conditions
- Photoinduced phase transitions in strongly correlated systems
- Ultrafast manipulation of dielectric and magnetic states(ferroelectrics, ferromagnets, and spin textures)
- Collective dynamics in charge/spin density wave and superconducting systems
- Photoinduced spin state transitions
- Photoinduced inhomogeneity and phase separations
- Ultrafast structural dynamics
- Macroscopic coherence in non-equilibrium electron-hole gas in semiconductors (BEC-BCS)
- Coherent control of cooperative systems
- Strong electric & magnetic field effects (Floquet, high-harmonic generations, etc.)
- Photoinduced effects and hot carriers in topological insulators and surfaces/ interfaces
- Ultrafast photo-chemical/ biological reactions
- New light source for PIPT (attosecond, XFEL…..)
- New measurement techniques, electron/X-ray diffraction, photoemission and 2D imaging (fs-STM, fs-PEEM, fs-elastic scattering etc.)
- Theories on photoinduced effects and related phenomena
