Lectures & Talks
December
Diffractive Optical Networks & Computational Imaging Without a Computer
Virtual Lecture
Abstract:
We will discuss diffractive optical networks designed by deep learning to all-optically implement various complex…
November
October
Towards integrated optical gyroscopes
Hybrid Lecture
Abstract:
Counter-propagating lightwaves within a closed rotating loop enable rotation measurement as a result of the Sagnac…
September
IMPRS Monthly Meeting
Title: Recent progress in quantum optical coherence tomography and in sub-MHz photon pair generation
Time and Place: Thursday September 30th, 2021, 3…
IMPRS Monthly Meeting
Title: Theory and modelling of Brillouin interactions in high-contrast materials
Time and Place: Wednesday September 22nd, 2021, 9:15 am, Hybrid…
August
July
Frequency Comb Development for the Extremely Large Telescope
Virtual Lecture
Abstract:
I discuss the underpinning comb technology and the prospects for addressing the 0.37–2.5-µm range demanded by HIRES, the…
The Revolution of Silicon Photonics
Virtual Lecture
Abstract:
In the past decade the photonic community witnessed a complete transformation of optics. We went from being able to…
Comparing Optical and Acoustic Trapping for Biomedical Applications
Hybrid Lecture
Abstract:
Many biomedical investigations require to move, stretch or mechanically probe a biomedical sample by exerting controlled…
June
IMPRS Monthly Meeting June
Title: Ultrafast light for and from graphene
Time and Place: Tuesday June 8th, 2021, 3 pm, Virtual Meeting
Speaker: Dr. Klaas-Jan Tielrooij…
May
IMPRS Monthly Meeting May
Title: Our personal experience about finding a job (alumni talks)
Time and Place: Friday May 28th, 2021, 2 pm, Virtual Meeting
Speaker: Two former…
Non-linear integrated quantum optics with pulsed light
Virtual Lecture
Lecture available on YouTube
Abstract:
Quantum technologies promise a change of paradigm for many fields of application, for…
DLS Special: Three decades riding the photonic crystal fibre wave
Virtual Lecture
Lecture available on YouTube
Abstract:
Thirty years ago I proposed that a hair-thin glass fibre perforated along its length with…
April
IMPRS Monthly Meeting April
Title: Machine Learning of Physics Theories
Time and Place: Thursday April 29th, 2021, 5:30 pm, Virtual Meeting
Speaker: Dr. Tailin Wu (Stanford…
Towards a blueprint for a quantum internet
Virtual Lecture
Lecture available on YouTube
Abstract:
Building the first large-scale quantum network is a highly challenging endeavor. Not only…
Ultrafast Measurements and Extreme Events in Nonlinear Fibre Optics
Virtual Lecture
Lecture available on YouTube
Abstract:
The year 2021 represents 60 years since the birth of nonlinear optics, and with continued…
March
IMPRS Monthly Meeting March
Title: Fundamental Limits in Computational 3D Imaging – From Novel 3D Cameras to Looking around Corners
Time and Place: Wednesday March 24th, 2021,…
February
Translational biophotonics – from ideas to instruments
Virtual Lecture
Lecture available on YouTube
Abstract:
The use of optical approaches outside specialized laboratories directly at the end user…
January
Photonic Chip based Frequency Combs
Virtual Lecture
Lecture available on YouTube
Abstract:
The development of optical frequency combs1, and notably self-referencing, has…
IMPRS Monthly Meeting January
Title: Simulation of Solid-State Lasers and Amplifiers
Time and Place: Thursday January 28th, 2021, 10 am, Virtual Meeting
Speaker: Prof. Dr.…
Quantum mechanics in the negative mass reference frame
Virtual Lecture
Lecture available on YouTube
Abstract:
According to textbook quantum mechanics, a measurement of the position of an object…
December
Programming Complexity: Large-Scale Photonics for Quantum Information and Machine Learning
Virtual Lecture
Lecture available on YouTube
Abstract:
After several decades of intensive theoretical and experimental efforts, the field of…
IMPRS Christmas Gathering
Time and Place: Monday December 14th, 2020, 5 pm, Virtual Meeting
Organization: Jasmin Graf
What:
Christmas poster session
November
Graphene Terahertz Photonics
Virtual Lecture
Lecture available on YouTube
Abstract:
Graphene is an attractive candidate for many optoelectronic applications because of its…
Scalable photonics: an optimized approach
Virtual Lecture
Lecture available on YouTube
Abstract:
Classical and quantum photonics with superior properties can be implemented in a variety…
Biophysics of protein aggregation
Professor Dr. Tuomas Knowles, University of Cambridge, UK
Virtual Lecture
Abstract:
This talk describes our efforts to elucidate the molecular…
IMPRS Monthly Meeting November
... and soft skill course
Title: MPCDF Online Course on "Python for HPC"
Time and Place: November 11th-13th, 2020 , Virtual Seminar
Organization:…
October
September
IMPRS Monthly Meeting September
Title: Hot atom quantum optics
Time and Place: Monday, September 14, 2020, 10 am, Virtual Meeting
Speaker: Dr. Robert Löw, 5th Institute of…
August
IMPRS Monthly Meeting August
Title: Physics Improv
Time and Place: Monday, August 10th, Virtual Meeting
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Florian Marquardt
Organization: Jasmin Graf, MPL
July
IMPRS Monthly Meeting July
Title: Probing plasmons with photons and electrons
Time and Place: Wednesday July 8th, 2020, 10:00 am
Speaker: Dr. Joachim Krenn, Nano-Optics…
June
IMPRS Monthly Meeting June
Title: Experience of an IMPRS-Alumni on the Job Market
Time and Place: Friday, June 26th
Speaker: Dr. Pooria Hosseini
Organization: Sona Davtyan,…
May
IMPRS Monthly Meeting in Jena
Cancelled!
Title: Quantum Imaging
Time and Place: Thursday, May 14th, 2020; Jena
Speaker: Dr. Markus Gräfe, IOF
Organization: Thorsten Albert…
April
March
IMPRS Monthly Meeting
Title: Entangled two-photon absorption spectroscopy
Time and Place: Monday, March 2nd 2020, 11:00 am, Bibliothek A.2.500, MPL, Staudtstr. 2
Speaker:…
February
January
IMPRS Monthly Meeting
Title: Recording ultrafast signals using temporal imaging and time-stretch ADCs
Time, place: 14:00, Friday, January 24th, 2020 ; Leuchs-Russell…
Flat Optics based on Metasurfaces
Professor Federico Capasso, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Leuchs-Russell Auditorium, A.1.500, Staudtstr. 2
Location details
Abstract:
Subwave…
December
IMPRS Christmas Meeting
Title: IMPRS/OSA joint Christmas Gathering
Time and Place: Friday, December 6th, 2019; Erlangen Christmas Market
Organization: Mallika Irene Suresh,…
IMPRS Monthly Meeting
Title: Innovative Approaches for Improved 3-d Visualization of Cerebrovascular Pathologies
Time and Place: Friday, December 6th, 2019; Bibliothek…
November
Evolutionary Photonics: natural designs for manipulating the flow of light and colour
Professor Pete Vukusic, University of Exeter, UK
Leuchs-Russell Auditorium, A.1.500, Staudtstr. 2
Location details
Abstract:
The study of…
Learning, neural networks and optics
Professor Demetri Psaltis, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Leuchs-Russell Auditorium, A.1.500, Staudtstr. 2
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Engineering multipartite entanglement in nonlinear photonic crystals
Prof. Alessandra Gatti, Università dell’ Insubria, Como, Italy
Leuchs-Russell Auditorium, A.1.500, Staudtstr. 2
Location details
Abstract:
This…
Many-body optical excitations in solid-state systems
Professor Atac Imamoglu, Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Leuchs-Russell Auditorium, A.1.500, Staudtstr. 2
Location details
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October
On a problem of quantum interface between light and neutral atoms in dipole traps
Dr. Leonid Gerasimov, Quantum Technologies Center, MSU, St. Petersburg, Russia
Leuchs-Russell Auditorium, A.1.500, Staudtstr. 2
Location details
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IMPRS Monthly Meeting
Title: Can we extrapolate? Deep learning for equation identification from data.
Time, place: Friday, 4 October 2019, 14:00; Bibliothek A.2.500, MPL,…
September
Metaphotonics and metasurfaces with Mie resonances
Prof Yuri Kivshar, Nonlinear Physics Center, Australian National University, Canberra
Leuchs-Russell-Auditorium, Staudtstr. 2
Location details
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Enhanced fluorescence from color centers via channeling through a diamond pyramid
Dr. Leonid Krivitsky, A-Star, Singapore
Leuchs-Russell Auditorium, A.1.500, Staudtstr. 2
Location details
Abstract:
We study silicon-vacancy…
Operational quantum tomography
Olivia Di Matteo, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Leuchs-Russell Auditorium, Staudtstr. 2
Abstract:
As quantum processors become…
Time-stamping single photons with nanosecond resolution for Quantum Information Science applications
Dr. Andrei Nomerotski, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA
Leuchs-Russell Auditorium, A.1.500, Staudtstr. 2
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Mechanical forces in biology – On the physics of cells, gels and tissues
Stefan Münster, PhD - Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
Leuchs-Russell Auditorium, A.1.500, Staudtstraße 2
Loc…
Investigating biological materials at the mesoscale
Louise Jawerth, PhD, Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
Leuchs-Russell Auditorium, A.1.500, Staudtstraße 2
Loca…
On-chip modular hybrid plasmonics
Dr. Alessandro Tuniz, University of Sydney, Australia
Leuchs-Russell Auditorium, A.1.500, Staudtstr. 2
Location details
Abstract:
In this talk I…
August
Femtosecond Laser Inscription of Integrated Diamond Quantum Photonics
Dr Vibhav Bharadwaj, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Library, A.2.500, Staudtstr. 2
Location details
Abstract:
Apart from the outstanding…
Propagation and Inelastic Scattering of Light Involving 2D Materials
Prof Christian Wolff, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Leuchs-Russell Auditorium, A.1.500, Staudtstr. 2
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July
Mixing microwave and light: up-conversion and frequency combs
Dr Harald Schwefel, The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies and Department of Physics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Spatio-temporal Optical Vortices
Professor Howard Milchberg, Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Seminar room,…
Recent trends in nonlinear optics and photonics: A mathematical modeling perspective
Professor Alejandro Aceves, Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
Library, A.2.500, Staudtstr. 2
Location…
June
Frontiers in nonlinear nanophotonic circuits
Prof. Benjamin Eggleton, The University of Sydney Nano Institute, Sydney, Australia
Leuchs-Russell Auditorium, A.1.500, Staudtstr. 2
Location details
IMPRS monthly meeting
Title: Metamaterial platforms for nonlinear optics, imaging and biophotonic applications
Time and Place: Wednesday June 26th, 1:00 p.m.;…
IMPRS monthly meeting
Title: Testing the foundations of quantum mechanics with multi-path interferometers
Time and Place: Tuesday June 18th, 10:00 a.m.; SRLP 0.179 at…
Solid-State Quantum Emitters: Old Friends & New
Speaker:
Professor Mete Atature, Cambridge University, UK
Leuchs-Russell Auditorium, A.1.500, Staudtstr. 2
Location details
Abstract:
Optically…
May
How to shrink Accelerators and Light Sources?
Professor Dr.-Ing. Franz X. Kärtner, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Department of Physics &…
IMPRS monthly meeting in Jena
Time and Place: Thursday May 23rd, day trip to Jena
Title of talk: Digital holography: The (almost) complete picture of light
Speaker: Dr. Bryan…
Ripples from the Dark Side of the Universe
Professor Sir James Hough FRS
Associate Director, Institute for Gravitational Research, University of Glasgow, UK
Seminar room, A.1.500
Abstract:
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April
IMPRS monthly meeting
Title: X-ray quantum optics with Mössbauer nuclei
Time and Place: Wednesday April 24th, 2:15 p.m.; SRLP (00.179) at Staudtstraße 1
Speaker: Prof.…
March
IMPRS monthly meeting
Title: Thermalization in quantum spin models: A semi-classical perspective
Time and Place: Thursday March 21st, 3:00 p.m.; MPL library (2nd floor)
S…
An introduction to conventional particle accelerators, and paths towards tomorrow's
Dr Francois Lemery, DESY, Hamburg
Seminar room, A.1.500
Abstract:
Particle accelerators have become invaluable tools for the exploration of…
February
IMPRS monthly meeting
Title: Real or Fabricated? Detecting Manipulations in Images and Videos
Time and Place: Thursday February 28th, 10 a.m.; blue building/sky scraper,…
IMPRS monthly meeting
Title: The world of the microchip
Time and Place: Feb. 8th, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm, MPL library
Speaker: Dr. Ying-Jen Chen (ASML, The Netherlands)
Orga…
