Friday Light Talks
Friday Light Talks is more than just a series of scientific presentations. It is a supportive community of early career researchers, brought together by a shared passion for knowledge and connection. Hosted by physicists working in quantum optics and nanophotonics at Humboldt University, these regular events provide a welcoming context for students and young researchers to meet, interact, and learn from one another over a drink. Whether discussing scientific topics or exploring issues of career development, mental health, and diversity in academia, the Friday Light Talks are a platform for empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.
Format: 20-30 min presentation followed by a get together with drinks
Where? At the Physik Institute - NewtonStr. 15, 12489.
The talks take place either at the Main Lecture Hall or at Room 1,202, depending on availability. The room is announced together with the speaker previous to each talk.
When? Every second Friday at 5pm
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Coming up...
May 12
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Day of Light
In occasion of the UNESCO International Day of Light, we are hosting Danilo Flores, co-founder of Mimotype, a Berlin based startup developing bio-inspired materials for ambient light sources. He will tell us about their scienceprenuer journey and will drive into the dark side of light bulb industry.
May 26
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Mental Health in Academia
Katharina Bögl (Scholar Minds, Charité) and Luisa Esguerra (PhD student) will introduce us to the often-overlooked topic of mental health challenges among PhD and postdoc. With this event we aim to provide a safe and supportive space to initiate a dialogue and encourage open discussions to work together towards creating a healthier academic community.
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Archive
2023
28.04.2023: Marco De Pas (Fritz-Haber-Institut): The extreme conditions of a scientific Antartic campaign: a photographic journey
14.04.2023: Julien Kluge (AG IQS, HU), Small Clock, Big Imact: A Spaceborn Atomic Clock the Size of a Shoebox with an Instability of 0.000000000000001
31.03.2023: Ananga-Mohan Datta (AG TOP, HU), Generating Schrödinger-cat-like states by means of photon subtraction on a waveguide-trimer
17.03.2023. Christian Liedl (AG GOP, HU), From flashing fireflies to quantum choirs: spontaneous synchronization in superradiance
03.03.2023: Jan Kirchhoff (AG Bolotin, FU), Tunable Graphene Phononic Crystals
10.02.2023: Laura Orphal-Kobin (AG IQP, HU), Optically coherent nitrogen-vacancy defect centers in diamond nanostructures
27.01.2023: Julian Bopp (AG IQP, HU), Near-unity cavity-to-fiber coupling mediated by ‘Sawfish’ photonic crystal cavities – or: which animal confines light best?
13.01.2023: Simon Kanthak (AG IQS, HU), Engineering of matter-wave lenses for quantum sensing and information
2022
16.12.2022: Luisa Esguerra Rodríguez (AG Wolters, DLR), Laser Luisa and the quest for the lost photons
02.12.2022: Kathinka Gerlinger (AG Eisebitt, MBI), Of Hedgehogs and Lightsaber/s - Manipulating Magnetism with Light
18.11.2022: Lucas Rickert (AG Heindl, HU), Semiconductor Quantum Dots for Quantum Information Technologies: 101 ways of how to not get a perfect quantum light source
21.10.2022: Special Event: Friday Light Show
To celebrate the Day of Photonics we are setting up a special Friday Light Talk with hands-on experiments and light games. Join us for the "Friday Light Show - a journey through the spectrum" with Daniel Lechner (AG GOP, HU) and Luisa Esguerra (AG Wolters, DLR)
07.10.2022: Francesco Arzani (AG Eisert, FU), Can crystals and pendulums heal quantum computers? An introduction to Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill codes
23.09.2022: Special Event: PostDoc Appreciation Week 2022
To celebrate the PostDoc Appreciation Week 2022 we are thrilled to welcome Dr Petya Jordan, the coordinator of the newly established PostDoc Center Adlershof that will talk about "PostDoc Center: what is it and why we need it". Afterwards, Giulia Carini will present her PhD project in the group of Pr Paarmann at the Fritz Haber Institute. To best conclude the day, we will have a get-together with pizza kindly offered by the PostDoc Center Adlershof.
29.07.2022: Gabriela Luna Amador (AG Reich, FU), Light-matter coupling in plasmonic platforms
01.07.2022: Philip Albrodt (Trumpf), From academia to R&D in the laser industry
17.06.2022: Pablo Hernández López (AG PLD, HU), Strain engineering and hybridization of excitons in 2D semiconductors
03.06.2022: Felix Tebbenjohanns (AG GOP, ETH Zurich), Quantum optomechanics with optically levitated particles
20.05.2022: Gregor Pieplow (AG IQP, HU), Coherent Optical control of group IV vacancies in diamond
06.05.2022: Esteban Gómez López (AG Nanoptik, HU), Storing light in warm vapors at single photon level
22.04.2022: Luke Masters (AG GOP, HU), A photon-pair source from a single atom