The 7^th IMPRS Physics of Light annual meeting was held on September 26 -29, 2016 in Behringersmühle, Gößweinstein. The 4-day programme included four invited talks, two block lectures, student talks, a panel discussion, posters presentation and get-together. It was our pleasure to have Pierre Berini…

From April 24th-26th 2016, MPL hosted a two-day symposium organised by students in the two International Max Planck Research Schools in Erlangen (IMPRS-Physics of Light) and Munich (IMPRS-Advanced Photonic Science), as well as the Max Planck/University of Ottawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum…

The sixth annual meeting of the IMPRS Physics of Light took place in Gößweinstein from October 5-8, 2015. Invited lectures were given by Anne Sentenac (L’Institut Fresnel), Jean-Michel Gérard (Institute for Nanoscience and Cryogeny, CEA), Mikael Käll (Chalmers University of Technology) and Albert…

The fifth Annual Meeting of IMPRS Physics of Light took place in Egloffstein September 22-25, 2014. Invited lectures were given by Prof. Monika Ritsch-Marte (Medical University of Innsbruck), Prof. Michael Downer (University of Texas), Prof. Markus Aspelmeyer (University of Vienna) and Kobus Kuipers…

The fourth Annual Meeting of the Erlangen IMPRS took place in Gößweinstein 16-19 September 2013. Invited lectures were given by Arno Rauschenbeutel (TU Wien), Allard Mosk (University of Twente), Alexander Rohrbach (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) and Oskar Painter (MPL). The program also…

The third IMPRS Annual Meeting took place 17-20 September 2012 in Schnaittach-Osternohe, a small town deep in the countryside some 30 km east of Erlangen. We had a great line-up of invited speakers: Paul Corkum from the University of Ottawa, Claude Fabre from the Ecole National Supérieure in Paris,…

The second IMPRS Annual Meeting was held 26-31 September 2011 at the Welcome Hotel in Bamberg. Invited lecturers included Miles Padgett (Glasgow University), Daniel Rückert (Imperial College), Eberhard Riedle (LMU, Munich), and Femius Koenderink (AMOLF, Amsterdam). Students and advisors took part in…

The 1st IMPRS Annual Meeting took place from October 4th-8th, 2010 in the hotel Behringersmühle near Gößweinstein. Invited talks were given by Prof Arno Rauschenbeutel (University of Mainz), Prof Stefan Maier (Imperial College, London), Dr Fabio Biancalana (MPL), Prof Martin Wegener (Karlsruhe…

In 2009 the IMPRS-PL (then IMPRS-OPTIM) students were invited to attend the IMPRS symposium “New Frontiers in Science” which consisted of a series of interdisciplinary talks aimed at the PhD students from several IMPRSs. In total about 20 IMPRS students from Erlangen attended this meeting in Munich…