Paris Week at MPZPM

Physics meets Medicine – Scientific Symposium

The 30th Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics 2026

Michele Giunta – Advances in Frequency Metrology with Optical Frequency Combs

How Do You Feel – Symposium in Memory of Jochen Guck

Public Event: Summer event hosted by our support association

Bernd Steffen – Laser-based longitudinal diagnostics of femtosecond electron bunches at free electron lasers

Anna Dawid – How to learn from neural networks?

Symposium Celebrating the 75th Birthday of Professor Gerd Leuchs

Vera Titze – Bio-Based and Living Matter for Adaptive Nanophotonics

Klaus Ensslin – Bilayer graphene: rich in physics and good for devices

Girls'Day 2026

Scott Diddams – Squeezing and Quantum Metrology with Optical Frequency Combs

Elina Sendonaris – Characterizing temporally multimode squeezed states using frequency-resolved optical gating

Jakob Hüpfl – Control and Information Flow in Complex Optomechanical Scattering Systems

Eliska Greplova – Autonomous Quantum Control in the Age of AI

Keren Bergman – Scaling Energy-Efficient AI Systems Performance with Photonic Connectivity

Giuseppe Leo – Metasurfaces: a new platform for nonlinear optics

Anna M. Seiler – Tunable Many-Body Interactions in Two-Dimensional Quantum Materials

Natalia Berloff – Computing by Selection: Timing-Native Routing and Lookup Without Memory

Dan Oron – Nonclassical photon statistics as a resource in microscopy

Marin Bukov – Learning to stabilize nonequilibrium phases of matter with active feedback using partial information

Peter Rabl – Autonomous entanglement distribution in squeezed and thermal reservoirs

Kazuki Hashimoto – Broadband mid-infrared time-stretch spectroscopy exploiting frequency conversion techniques

Tobias Heindel – Recent Advances in Quantum Dot Technology: About GHz-clocked Quantum Light Sources and Quantum Cryptography Beyond QKD

Public Event: Get to know our Support Association

Silvia Vignolini – Light management in living organisms and bio-hybrids

Aritra Lahiri – Non-equilibrium Josephson dynamics, and neural quantum states for disordered Bose-Hubbard-Hofstadter models

Gustavo Wiederhecker – Integrated Nonlinear and Optomechanical Photonics: Harnessing Light–Sound–Matter Interactions On-Chip

Natalia Ares – Machine learning-based control of quantum devices and nanoscale thermodynamics

Alexander Blum – Light and Radiation in the History of Quantum Mechanics

Sourav Chatterjee – Quantum sensing explorations at TCS for creating impactful industrial applications

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2025

Nergis Mavalvala – Gravitational Waves: Opening a new window to the universe

MPZPM celebrates its first Anniversary

Andrew Barentine – Detection Limits of Stimulated Emission Imaging

Martina Hentschel – Complex optical microcavities: a non-Hermitian perspective

Symposium on Near-Field Cell Biology

Henning Schomerus – Physical manifestations of non-Hermiticity and topology in photonic systems

Symposium on Virus Entry and Egress

Cheng Li – Cross-degree-of-freedom influences in entanglement generation via parametric down-conversion

Markus Heyl – Active quantum flocks

Public event: The MPL Support Association introduces itself

Nader Engheta - Near-Zero-Index Optics

Renato Renner – Artificial Agents as Probes of Quantum Foundations

Jonathan Simon – Making Matter from Light: Mott Insulators to Topological Fluids

Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop - Sculpted Light in Nano and Microsystems and Quantum Biotechnology

Florian Willomitzer – Computational Imaging through Scattering Media and on Challenging Surfaces – About the Fun of Utilizing Nature’s Limits

Laura Waller - Computational Aberration Correction

Milan Delor – Realizing lossless energy flow in semiconductors at room temperature

Colin Sheppard – Image Formation in Coherent and Partially Coherent Image Scanning Microscopy

Diego Porras – Topological amplification in linear and non-linear systems

Peter Maurer - From diamond defects to protein-based qubit sensors

Guilherme Testa Silva – Protein-Based Photodetectors from Near-Infrared to Visibility for Broadband Vision Restoration

Giulio Cerullo - Novel approaches to broadband coherent Raman microscopy

Wolfram Pernice – Embracing uncertainty: a photonic approach to probabilistic computing

Megan Lord – Towards improved drug delivery via the bloodstream

International Day of Light 2025 | 16. May

Celebrate together with the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light & the Zukunftsmuseum | Deutsches Museum Nürnberg and join our [...]

Christian Heide – Controlling Electrons with Attosecond Precision: Towards ultrafast (quantum) control

Mario Chemnitz – Towards Computing with Nonlinear Schrödinger Systems: Mimicking neuromorphic capabilities with information-loaded femtosecond pulses and nonlinear fibers

Aephraim M. Steinberg – Asking photons and atoms what they’ve been up to: post-selectively probing atom tunneling and photon propagation

Marc Serra Garcia – Computing with unconventional physical phenomena

Hakan Türeci – Computing with Physical Systems: Opportunities and Fundamental Limits

Philippe Djorwé – Exceptional points in opto/electromechanical systems: applications and sensing challenges

Thomas Metzger – Ultrafast Thin-Disk Amplifiers and Nonlinear Pulse Compression

Jorge Campos Gonzalez Angulo – Flipping Spins and Scaling Simulations: From Singlet-Triplet Inversion to Quantum Algorithms for Photochemical Dynamics

Girls´ Day 2025

MPL and MPZPM are each inviting 15 girls interested in science as part of Girls´ Day 2025 on April 3 to offer them exciting insights into [...]

Antonio Acín – From Bell’s theorem to the device-independent quantum information scenario

Brigitte Falkenburg – Causal-Mechanistic Explanation in Astroparticle Physics

Babak Rahmani – Dynamics in Computation: From the Analog Optical Computer to Iterative Language Models

Jacob Daniel Benestad – Real-time Hamiltonian estimation in single qubit experiments

Zakari Denis – Towards simulating quantum-optical systems with neural quantum states

Miguel A. Pleitez – Looking and listening to the good vibrations of biomolecules: mid-infrared optoacoustic and optothermal microspectroscopy for label-free biomedical imaging and non-invasive biosensing

Jannes Nys – Neural Representations of Correlated Quantum Matter in and Out of Equilibrium

Fei Meng – Quantum thermodynamic advantage in data compression and replication

Sara Mouradian – Engineering (Useful) Trapped-Ion Quantum Technologies

Christoph A. Haselwandter – Emergent functional structures in cell membranes

Rumen Dangovski – Large Language Models Through the Lens of Science

Mohammed Th. Hassan – Harnessing the Attosecond Science: From Attomicroscopy to Ultrafast Quantum Light

Gerard Milburn – Quantum Learning Machines

Florian Kanitschar – High-Dimensional Quantum Key Distribution

Florian Kanitschar – Finite-Size Security Proof for DM CV-QKD Protocols

Vivek Karmarkar – Solving Quaternion Differential Equations (QDEs) for Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) Orientation Estimation using Physics-informed Neural Networks (PINNs)

Deciphering how complex organ form emerges in development

Magdalena Schneider – Machine Learning and Neural Representations for Enhancing Phase Diversity-based Adaptive Optics

Hamid Reza Khalesifard – Optical remote sensing of atmospheric mineral particles in Northwest Iran

"Machine Learning for Quantum Technologies" workshop

This fall there will be a 3.5 day in-person workshop at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL). It is called "Machine [...]

Sampreet Kalita – Deep reinforcement learning for the thermal cooling of oscillator networks

Eugene Tsao – Fundamental Limits of Optical Frequency Comb Interferometry and Spectroscopy with Coherent, Thermal, and Quantum Light

Shigeki Takeuchi – Ultra-broadband Quantum Infrared Spectroscopy

Maxine McCarthy – Exact topological properties of finite structures

Ashley J. Shin – Toward liquid cell quantum sensing: Ytterbium complexes with ultranarrow absorption

Lingzhen Guo – Engineering Fault-tolerant Bosonic Codes with Quantum Lattice Gates

Gregory D. Scholes – Coherence Phenomena and Quantum-Like States

Grand Opening Symposium 2024 | Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin

GRAND OPENING SYMPOSIUM on the occasion of the new Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin in Erlangen 18-19 September 2024.  [...]

Irina Kabakova – Brillouin microscopy: From data processing to photonic integration

Roland Wedlich-Söldner – Negative feedback via product inhibition limits global actin turnover

Jonathan D. Hood – Cold and ultracold molecules for QI

Elena Goi – Hybrid nanoprinted neural networks

Michael Steel – Revisiting two old friends: interrogating femtosecond laser-written fibre gratings and exploring anti-resonant guiding for elastic waves

Jure Derganc – Deformability Cytometry of Jurkat Cells Exposed to Injectable Lipid Emulsions

Daniele De Bernardis – Light-matter interactions in the vacuum of ultra-strongly coupled systems: cavity modifications of materials from a simple quantum optics viewpoint

OPTICAL PHYSICS MEETS MEDICINE

Scientific Symposium on July 30 and 31 Fundamental research in interdisciplinary physics for new stimuli in medicine  [...]

Tracy Northup – Levitated nanoparticles: a route to the quantum regime

Gladys Jara Schulz – Exploring robust phenomena in out-of-equilibrium systems: from granular media to coupled MEM resonators

Matthew Brown – Demonstration of interferometric imaging using a path-entangled single photon

Natalie Fardian-Melamed – Lighting Up the Force: Remote Detection of Multiple Scales of Force by Photon-Avalanche

Isabelle Staude – Tailoring light fields with active semiconductor metasurfaces

Marco Knisper – Deep Learning-Based Spatiotemporal Multi-Event Reconstruction for Delay Line Detectors

Fouad Chahrour – Thermalization in highly multimoded nonlinear optical systems

Luis Colmenarez – Accurate optimal quantum error correction thresholds from coherent information

Mercedeh Khajavikhan – Guiding Trojan Beams Using Lagrange Points

Fabian Voigt – Expanding the bag of optical tricks for neuroscience

LIGHT a Multifaceted Phenomenon

Celebrate the International Day of Light ​of Light with us – 16 May @ MPL.

Axel Schülzgen – Laser beam delivery through anti-resonant hollow core fibers

Girls'Day 2024

The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen is once again inviting 15 girls interested in science as part of Girls' Day [...]

Vernissage - at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

In their collaboration, the artists Johannes Brunner and Raimund Ritz have created an unusual and site-specific work, adeptly responding to [...]

Christoph Heyl – Moulding light - From Quasi-Guided Nonlinear Optics to Gas-Phase Sono-Photonics

Vincent Barb – From the measurement of fundamental constants to tests of quantum electrodynamics: precision physics at LaserLaB Amsterdam

Florian Ströhl – Microscopy with a tilt

Wolfram Pernice - Photonic computing architectures for machine learning acceleration

Maciej Koch-Janusz – Effective descriptions of statistical and dynamical systems through the lens of compression theory

Vladimir V. Kornienko – Spurious reflections in target detection with entangled photons

Johannes Brandtstetter – Is it the network, or is it the data? Quo vadis, scientific research?

– Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Properties of Graphene-based Nanostructures with a Little bit of a Twist

Wei Xiong – Ultrafast dynamics of molecular polaritons

Yiwen Chu – The quantum world of massive mechanical objects

Daniel Burgarth – Strong Error Bounds for Trotter & Strang-Splittings and Their Implications for Quantum Chemistry

Michelle Simmons - CANCELLED

Robert M. Gray – Quadratic Solitons: from Enhanced Sensing to Single-Cycle Pulses

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften am 21. Oktober 2023

Die elfte Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften findet am Samstag, den 21. Oktober, statt, und wir sind wieder dabei!  [...]

Claudia Felser – Chirality and Topology

‘Frontiers of Neuromorphic Computing’ workshop

Marin Soljacic –Photonics & fast-electrons and Photonics & AI

Shanhui Fan – Synthetic frequency dimensions: from topological physics to optical computation

Amir H. Safavi-Naeini – Integrated Quantum Optical Circuits in Thin Film Lithium Niobate

Douglas Stone - "Time-reversing a Laser: What it means and Why it's Important"

Marcello Henrique Marques Passos – Light engineering in resource theory protocols, imaging, and sensing

Cornelia Denz - Complexity by light - from topologies to light-driven swarming

Michele Celebrano – Controlling and steering the nonlinear emission in nanoantennas and metasurfaces

Petra Schwille - Life as a matter of function

Elena Goi – Integrated diffractive neural networks performing near-infrared inference

Rainer Blatt - The Quantum Way of Doing Computations, Simulations and Measurements

Donna Strickland - From Nonlinear Optics to High-Intensity Laser Physics

Joyce Poon - Silicon integrated photonics for future “computing”

Steven M. Girvin - Efficient Programmable Quantum Simulation of Correlated Bosons and Lattice Gauge Theories

Internationales Jahr des Glases

Girish Kulkarni – A classical model of spontaneous parametric down-conversion

Wombat 2022

4th Workshop on Optomechanics and Brillouin Scattering

Jessica R. Kramer – Synthetic mucins: from new chemical routes to engineered cells

Fan Yang – Optical fibres and gases: some new tools for photonics

Konstantin Novoselov - Van der Waals heterostructures

Aydogan Ozcan - Diffractive Optical Networks & Computational Imaging Without a Computer

G'scheid schlau: Das Lange Wochenende der Wissenschaften

Kerry Vahala - Towards integrated optical gyroscopes

Derryck Reid - Frequency Comb Development for the Extremely Large Telescope

Michal Lipson - The Revolution of Silicon Photonics

Monika Ritsch-Marte - Comparing Optical and Acoustic Trapping for Biomedical Applications

Artificial Scientific Discovery Online Workshop

Wombat 2021 - Online event

4th Workshop on Optomechanics and Brillouin Scattering: Online event

Nathalie Picqué - Frequency comb interferometry and spectroscopy

Christine Silberhorn - Non-linear integrated quantum optics with pulsed light

DLS Special: Philip Russell - Three decades riding the photonic crystal fibre wave

Stephanie Wehner - Towards a blueprint for a quantum internet

Symposium Series Physics and Medicine (8)

John Dudley - Ultrafast Measurements and Extreme Events in Nonlinear Fibre Optics

Symposium Series Physics and Medicine (7)

Symposium Series Physics and Medicine (6)

Symposium Series Physics and Medicine (5)

Symposium Series Physics and Medicine (4)

Symposium Series Physics and Medicine (3)

Symposium Series Physics and Medicine (2)

Symposium Series Physics and Medicine (1)

Jürgen Popp - Translational biophotonics – from ideas to instruments

Tobias J. Kippenberg - Photonic Chip based Frequency Combs

Eugene Polzik - Quantum mechanics in the negative mass reference frame

Dirk Englund - Programming Complexity: Large-Scale Photonics for Quantum Information and Machine Learning

Jelena Vuckovic - Scalable photonics: an optimized approach

Mischa Bonn - Graphene Terahertz Photonics

Tuomas Knowles - Biophysics of protein aggregation

Michael Woodley – The Nonlinear Interaction of Counter-Propagating Light: Symmetry Breaking, Chaos, and Instability - online seminar

Mario Krenn – Conceptual understanding through efficient inverse-design of quantum optical experiments - online seminar

Workshop on Interferometric Scattering Microscopy

Now as an online workshop!

Farid Khalili – Sub-standard-quantum-limit performance of gravitational wave detectors using a negative-mass spin system

Alessandro Romito – Topological and localization transitions from variable strength quantum measurements

Aashish Clerk – Driven-dissipative quantum Kerr resonators: new exact solutions, photon blockade and quantum bistability

Janne Ruostekoski – Light propagation beyond standard optics in a uniform-density polarizable medium

Federico Capasso - Flat Optics based on Metasurfaces

Jens Biegert – Opportunities for Light Science in Quantum Dynamics: Coherent X-rays and Applications

Sylvain Gigan – A sneak peek with light into opaque materials

Physik und Medizin

Marin Buko – Reinforcement Learning to Manipulate Quantum Matter

Alexey Melnikov – Machine learning in quantum experiments and technologies

Hoi-Kwan (Kero) Lau – Assembling bosonic quantum computers

Jeff Thompson – Towards quantum networks and strongly interacting spin systems with rare earth ions

Christine Silberhorn – Quantum technologies with integrated optics and pulsed light

Pete Vukusic - Evolutionary Photonics: natural designs for manipulating the flow of light and colour

Ewold Verhagen – Topological photons and phonons in nanophotonic systems

Demetri Psaltis - Learning, neural networks and optics

Alessandra Gatti – Engineering multipartite entanglement in nonlinear photonic crystals

Gregor Jotzu – Inducing new states of matter in real and artificial solids using Floquet engineering

Atac Imamoglu - Many-body optical excitations in solid-state systems