Science in Dialogue

From high-level scientific formats with international, leading researchers to groundbreaking keynote lectures and events for the general public – we offer a diverse range of science communication formats.

All DLS Seminars Events

We invite you to join our scientific talks with prestigious speakers from leading universities and institutions worldwide.

Upcoming Seminars / Talks

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

14.07.2025 10:00 - 11:30

15.07.2025 13:30 - 15:00

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

08.07.2025 13:30 - 15:00

25.06.2025 13:15 - 15:00

24.06.2025 14:00 - 15:30

17.06.2025 13:30 - 15:00

23.05.2025 09:30 - 10:30

21.05.2025 14:00 - 15:00

20.05.2025 11:00 - 12:00

06.05.2025 15:00 - 16:00

06.05.2025 13:30 - 14:30

29.04.2025 11:00 - 12:00

25.04.2025 13:30

23.04.2025 09:30

08.04.2025 11:00

03.04.2025 15:30

01.04.2025 16:00

27.03.2025 14:00

11.03.2025 13:30

11.03.2025 10:00

20.02.2025 17:00

20.02.2025 14:00

19.02.2025 16:00

19.02.2025 11:00

10.02.2025 11:00

07.02.2025 13:30

05.02.2025 11:00

16.01.2025 10:27

14.01.2025 15:00

08.01.2025 16:00 - 18:00

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

17.12.2024 15:30

Prof. Dr. Hamid Reza Khalesifard - Optical remote sensing of atmospheric mineral particles in Northwest Iran

12.12.2024 10:00

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

04.11.2024 14:00

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

31.10.2024 15:00

Ultra-broadband Quantum Infrared Spectroscopy

25.10.2024 11:00

Exact topological properties of finite structures

22.10.2024 11:00

Toward liquid cell quantum sensing: Ytterbium complexes with ultranarrow absorption

15.10.2024 11:00

Engineering Fault-tolerant Bosonic Codes with Quantum Lattice Gates

30.09.2024 11:00

Brillouin microscopy – from data processing to photonic integration

04.09.2024 15:00

Negative feedback via product inhibition limits global actin turnover

02.09.2024 15:00

Cold and ultracold molecules for QI

16.08.2024 11:00

Hybrid nanoprinted neural networks

13.08.2024 14:00

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

08.08.2024 14:00

Deformability Cytometry of Jurkat Cells Exposed to Injectable Lipid Emulsions

07.08.2024 11:00

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

06.08.2024 11:00

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

10.07.2024 11:00

Demonstration of interferometric imaging using a path-entangled single photon

08.07.2024 15:00

Lighting Up the Force: Remote Detection of Multiple Scales of Force by Photon-Avalanche

08.07.2024 11:15

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

02.07.2024 13:30

Thermalization in highly multimoded nonlinear optical systems

19.06.2024 15:30

Accurate optimal quantum error correction thresholds from coherent information

18.06.2024 13:30

Expanding the bag of optical tricks for neuroscience

17.05.2024 12:00

Laser beam delivery through anti-resonant hollow core fibers

29.04.2024 10:30

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

12.03.2024 14:00

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

08.03.2024 10:00

Microscopy with a tilt

28.02.2024 11:00

Effective descriptions of statistical and dynamical systems through the lens of compression theory

13.02.2024 13:30

Spurious reflections in target detection with entangled photons

09.02.2024 11:30

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

06.02.2024 13:30

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

06.02.2024 11:00

Ultrafast dynamics of molecular polaritons

26.01.2024 10:00

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

23.01.2024 13:30

Quadratic Solitons: from Enhanced Sensing to Single-Cycle Pulses

11.12.2023 11:00

Light engineering in resource theory protocols, imaging, and sensing

20.04.2023 13:00

Controlling and steering the nonlinear emission in nanoantennas and metasurfaces

14.02.2023 10:00

Integrated diffractive neural networks performing near-infrared inference

20.01.2023 14:00

A classical model of spontaneous parametric down-conversion

21.06.2022 11:00

Synthetic mucins: from new chemical routes to engineered cells

02.05.2022 11:00

Optical fibres and gases: some new tools for photonics

08.04.2022 11:00

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

26.06.2020 14:00

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

19.06.2020 16:00

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

10.03.2020 14:00

Topological and localization transitions from variable strength quantum measurements

07.02.2020 11:00

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

05.02.2020 15:00

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

05.02.2020 11:00

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

14.01.2020 16:00

A sneak peek with light into opaque materials

09.01.2020 15:00

Reinforcement Learning to Manipulate Quantum Matter

08.01.2020 15:00

Machine learning in quantum experiments and technologies

19.12.2019 15:00

Assembling bosonic quantum computers

13.12.2019 15:00

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

12.12.2019 15:00

Quantum technologies with integrated optics and pulsed light

04.12.2019 11:00

Topological photons and phonons in nanophotonic systems

27.11.2019 15:15

Engineering multipartite entanglement in nonlinear photonic crystals

12.11.2019 14:00

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

11.11.2019 15:00

Spin-photon interfaces of quantum emitter in nanometer-sized host matrix

28.10.2019 15:00

On a problem of quantum interface between light and neutral atoms in dipole traps

23.10.2019 14:00

Controlling Bosonic Modes in Circuit QED and the Application to Vibronic Molecular Simulations

21.10.2019 15:00

Quantum Correlation Measurements of Light

15.10.2019 16:30

BGnet: Background determination for arbitrary point-spread-function images with deep neural nets

24.09.2019 13:30

Metaphotonics and metasurfaces with Mie resonances

20.09.2019 13:00

Enhanced fluorescence from color centers via channeling through a diamond pyramid

19.09.2019 14:00

Operational quantum tomography

18.09.2019 11:00

Time-stamping single photons with nanosecond resolution for Quantum Information Science applications

16.09.2019 14:00

Mechanical forces in biology – On the physics of cells, gels and tissues

12.09.2019 15:30

Investigating biological materials at the mesoscale

12.09.2019 14:00

On-chip modular hybrid plasmonics

09.09.2019 14:00

Femtosecond Laser Inscription of Integrated Diamond Quantum Photonics

28.08.2019 15:00

Propagation and Inelastic Scattering of Light Involving 2D Materials

06.08.2019 14:00

Mixing microwave and light: up-conversion and frequency combs

23.07.2019 10:00

Recent trends in nonlinear optics and photonics: A mathematical modeling perspective

09.07.2019 14:00

Frontiers in nonlinear nanophotonic circuits

28.06.2019 14:00

An introduction to conventional particle accelerators, and paths towards tomorrow's

12.03.2019 14:00