The Series brings leading minds in all areas relevant to the science of light to Erlangen. It presents the unique opportunity for scientific exchange with the speakers to a broad audience.
The topics range from terahertz optics with graphene, over self-organising proteins to particle accelerators on a chip. One special highlight will be the talk of the Canadian optical physicist Donna Strickland, Nobel laureate of 2018 (re-scheduled to 1 February 2022).
All lectures will start at 15.00 CET and will be transmitted via stream. If you would like to attend, please register here for our DLS newsletter. You will then receive the link for the zoom conference by e-mail shortly before the presentation.
If you missed a lecture, have a look at our Youtube channel: If we have the speaker's consent for publishing, you can find the lecture's recording on the DLS Youtube playlist.
Combs of light
Prof. habil. Tobias Kippenberg, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Translational biophotonics – from ideas to instruments
Professor Dr. Jürgen Popp, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology Jena, Germany
Towards a blueprint for a quantum internet
Professor Dr. Stephanie Wehner, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands
From nonlinear optics to high-intensity laser physics
Professor Dr. Donna Strickland, University of Waterloo, Canada, Nobel Laureate Physics 2018
Past lectures:
Quantum mechanics in the negative mass reference frame
Professor Dr. Eugene S. Polzik, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Programming Complexity: Large-Scale Photonics for Quantum Information and Machine Learning
Professor Dirk Englund, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Graphene Terahertz Photonics
Professor Dr. Mischa Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
Scalable photonics: an optimized approach
Professor Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University, USA
Biophysics of protein aggregation
Professor Dr. Tuomas Knowles, University of Cambridge, UK
Flat Optics based on Metasurfaces
Professor Federico Capasso, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Evolutionary Photonics: natural designs for manipulating the flow of light and colour
Professor Pete Vukusic, University of Exeter, UK
Learning, neural networks and optics
Professor Demetri Psaltis, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Many-body optical excitations in solid-state systems
Professor Atac Imamoglu, Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Spatio-temporal Optical Vortices
Professor Howard Milchberg, Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Solid-State Quantum Emitters: Old Friends & New
Professor Mete Atature, Cambridge University, UK
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 & The Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI), University of Hamburg, Germany
Ripples from the Dark Side of the Universe
Professor Sir James Hough FRS, Associate Director, Institute for Gravitational Research, University of Glasgow, UK
Topological Photonics and Topological Insulator Lasers
Prof. Mordechai Segev, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Simulating Condensed Matter Physics with Light
Prof. Jacqueline Bloch, Centre De Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, Palaiseau, France
Optical Frequency Combs: Generation and Dual-Comb Applications
Prof. Ursula Keller, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
The Riemann Zeta Function and Quantum Mechanics
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang P. Schleich, Institut für Quantenphysik und Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology (IQST), Universität Ulm, Germany
Magnetism in Quantum Gases
Prof. Dan Stamper-Kurn, Berkeley University, California, USA
Quantum effects in the motion of surprisingly large objects
Prof. Jack Harris, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Quantum Internet: Vision or Fiction?
Prof. Gerhard Rempe, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany
Bose-Einstein Condensation of Light
Prof. Martin Weitz, University of Bonn, Germany
Sensing and biosensing enabled by silicon photonics: opportunities and challenges
Prof. Roel Baets, Ghent University, Belgium
Subcycle quantum physics
Prof. Rupert Huber, University of Regensburg, Germany
Parity Violation in Chiral Molecules: From Theory towards Spectroscopic Experiment and Evolution of Biomolecular Homochirality
Prof. Martin, Quack ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Watching and sensing single molecules by confining light to the atom scale
Prof. Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge, UK
Contactless photon-photon interactions
Prof. Charles Adams, University of Durham, UK
3D Printing of Complex Microoptics – Merging with Plasmonic Nanooptics
Prof. Harald Giessen, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Microresonator-Based Combs and Random Number Generators
Prof. Alex Gaeta, Columbia University, New York, USA
Polariton condensates: interactions and superfluidity
Prof. Benoit Deveaud, École Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Trends and innovations in the digital energy world
Prof. Michael Weinhold, Chief Technology Officer, Siemens Energy Management Division, Siemens Erlangen, Germany
Laser spectroscopy applied to environmental and ecological research
Prof Sune Svanberg, Lund University, Sweden and South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
Applications of Laser Spectroscopy to Meet Challenges in Medicine
Prof Katarina Svanberg Lund University, Sweden and South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
Atom interferometers measuring the fine structure constant and probing the dark sector
Prof Holger Müller, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Quantum optics and quantum information with trapped ions
Prof Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, University of Mainz, Germany
Quantum simulations with atoms in nano-structures
Prof Ignacio Cirac, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany
Probing physics at TeV by measuring aeV
Prof Edward A. Hinds, Imperial College London, UK
Semiconductor devices for quantum technologies
Prof Jonathan Finley, Technische Universität München, Germany
Topological Phases of Sound and Light
Prof Florian Marquardt, FAU Erlangen, Germany
From electric quantum walks to the quest for exactly two interacting quantum atoms
Prof Dieter Meschede, University of Bonn, Germany
Quantum Imaging and the Role of Information
Prof Anton Zeilinger, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Vienna, Austria
Quantum Optics with Cold Atoms
Prof Peter Zoller, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Innsbruck, Austria
Superfluid Fermi gases
Prof Christophe Salomon, Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, Paris, France
Quantum microwave photonics
Prof Andreas Wallraff, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
The quantum way of doing computations
Prof Rainer Blatt, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Juggling with photons and raising Schrödinger cats of light in a cavity
Prof Serge Haroche, Collège de France, Paris, France
Spin Hall Effect for Electrons and Photons
Prof Henry van Driel, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Canada
From Extreme Nonlinear Optics to Ultrafast Atomic Physics
Prof Anne L'Huillier, Department of Physics, Lund University, Sweden
Quantum cascade lasers comb spectrometers
Prof Jérôme Faist, Quantum Optoelectronics Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Fiber-Laser Driven Accelerators and the path to Attosecond X-ray Lasers
Prof Robert L. Byer, Applied Physics, Stanford University, USA
Nanophotonics: gauge field for photons and control of heat
Prof Shanhui Fan, Stanford University, Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford, USA
Quantum optics with excitons in semiconductors
Prof Elisabeth Giacobino CNRS, École normale supérieure, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Atomic and Molecular Processes in Strong Fields at the LCLS X-ray Laser
Prof Philip Bucksbaum, Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, USA
Rydberg blockade for manipulating atomic and photonic qubits
Prof Philippe Grangier, Institut d'Optique, Palaiseau, France
Green Photonics – optical solutions for the future
Prof Andreas Tünnermann, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Jena; Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
Attosecond Photonics: What we learn by transforming many photons into one
Paul Corkum, University of Ottawa
Coherent Back Scattering and Anderson Localization of Ultra Cold Atoms
Prof Alain Aspect, Institut d'Optique, Palaiseau France
Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter
Prof Immanuel Bloch, Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Munich
Plasmonics: From quantum effects to fano interference and light harvesting
Prof Peter Nordlander, Department of Physics, Rice University, Houston
Femtosecond Optics: More Than Just Really Fast
Prof Erich Ippen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Dressing Molecules and Materials with the Vacuum Field
Prof Thomas Ebbesen, University of Strasbourg
Exploring new frontiers of quantum optical science
Prof Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University
Magneto-optics of quantum systems and nano-imaging
Prof Jörg Wrachtrup, Universität Stuttgart
Classical radiation theory and Planck's constant
Prof Harry Paul, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Controlling spontaneous emission with surface waves
Prof Jean-Jacques Greffet, Institut d‘Optique, Paris
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