News from Leuchs Division
Aephraim M. Steinberg - Asking photons and atoms what they’ve been up to: post-selectively probing atom tunneling and photon propagation
Prof. Aephraim M. Steinberg, University of Toronto, Canada
Leuchs-Russell-Auditorium, A.1.500, Staudtstr. 2
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If there are two problems you would think quantum mechanicists & opticians had beaten to death, they might be quantum tunneling and the propagation of photons…
The Commission of Experts on Nuclear Fusion presents its final report with the participation of Prof. Gerd Leuchs
Our society's energy needs continue to increase. Not least due to the introduction of new technical applications such as artificial intelligence, the question of new technologies for energy supply is becoming one of the most pressing of our time. There is great hope in nuclear fusion as a clean…
Prof. Dr. Hamid Reza Khalesifard - Optical remote sensing of atmospheric mineral particles in Northwest Iran
Prof. Dr. Hamid Reza Khalesifard, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan, Iran
Library, A.2.500, Staudtstr. 2
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The Iran plateau is located over the Earth dust belt and Northwest of Iran is a mountainous semiarid region with average annual…
Quantum technology simply explained: Gerd Leuchs gives the Leopoldina lecture
In front of over 200 science enthusiasts – including the Prime Minister of the State of Saxony-Anhalt and physicist Dr. Reiner Erich Haseloff – Prof. Gerd Leuchs spoke recently at the Leopoldina Academy. Held on the occasion of the presentation of certificates to the newly elected Class-I members of…
Max Planck School of Photonics Autumn School in Erlangen
The Max Planck School of Photonics (MPSP) kicks off its annual Autumn School Retreat with a visit to the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light.
Founding Director Gerd Leuchs becomes Vice President of the scientific organisation Optica
The membership of Optica, formerly OSA, the leading organization for the advancement of optics and photonics worldwide, has elected Gerd Leuchs, director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany, as the society’s 2022 Vice President.