Highlights of the summer school programme include:

Presentations by

  • Mário Ziman, Slovak Academy ofSciendes, Solowakei
  • Monika Leibscher, FU Berlin
  • Thomas Zentgraf, Universität Paderborn
  • Marco Ornigotti, Tampere University
  • Henning Schomerus, Lancaster University
  • André Staudte, University of Ottawa
  • Aisha Kaushik, Imperial College London
  • Tobias Strauß, University of Rostock
  • Jan Klaiber, CEO at Digital Innovationszentrum Rostock & ProMed Tec Germany 

Poster Session Presentations and Welcome Party


Short presentations by IRTG PhD students in which they present their research

  • Samaneh Shahab
  • Tom von Scheven
  • Marvin Krupp
  • Alexander Enders

The intro of the IRTG newbies (9 x 5 Min) with posters 


Excursions and conference dinners

  • Guided tours in Rostock – a Hanseatic city shaped by centuries of seafaring and scholarship – including the university's zoological collection

28. May 2026, from 6:30 p.m.

  • Conferenz dinner (Adress: xxx)

Detailed programme

Day 1 - Wednesday, 27. May 2026

09:00 Uhr - 09:20 Uhr Welcome Speech: Stefan Scheel, University of Rostock

09:20 Uhr - 10:20 Uhr André Staudte, University of Ottawa

10:20 Uhr - 11:20 Uhr Mário Ziman, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slowakai

11:20 Uhr - 11:30 Uhr Photo session

Coffee break 

12:00 Uhr - 12:20 Uhr Samaneh Shahab, IRTG University of Rostock
Decoding Vitreous Collagen by FLIM and SHG

12:20 Uhr - 12:40 Uhr Tom von Scheven, IRTG University of Rostock 
NIR-laser induced dressing signatures in helium nanodroplets probed by coherent diffractive imaging

Lunch 

14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr Monika Leibscher, FU Berlin
Quantum dynamics and control of chiral molecules

15:00 Uhr - 16:00 Uhr Thomas Zentgraf, University Paderborn
Tailoring Light Fields with Nonlinear Optical Metasurfaces

Coffee break 

16:45 Uhr - 18:30 Uhr Poster Session Presentations and Welcome Party 

Day 2 - Thursday, 28 May 2026

09:00 Uhr - 10:00 Uhr Marco Ornigotti, Tampere University
 A Chern-Simons Action for Paraxial Vector Beams

10:00 Uhr - 10:20 Uhr Marvin Krupp IRTG, University of Rostock 

Coffee break 

11:00 Uhr - 12:00 Uhr Henning Schomerus, Lancaster University 

12:00 Uhr - 12:20 Uhr Alexander Enders, IRTG University of Rostock 
One-stage hollow-core fiber-based compression of Yb:KGW lasers to the single-cycle regime

Lunch 

14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr Jaemin Lim, Universität Ulm
 Quantum biology and non-perturbative simulations of molecular dynamics and spectroscopy

15:10 Uhr - 16:00 Uhr The intro of the IRTG newbies (9 x 5 Min)

17:00 Uhr - 18:20 Uhr Visit of the exhibitation in the Treasury of the University of Rostock (Main Building, Universitätsplatz 1) & Visit of the lecture hall of the University of Rostock & visit the university's zoological collection 

from 18:30 Uhr Conferenz dinner

Day 3 - Friday, 19. May 2026 "Industry Day"

09:00 Uhr - 10:00 Uhr Aisha Kaushik, Imperial Collage London

10:00 Uhr - 11:00 Uhr Tobias Strauß, University of Rostock 
AI in theory and practice

Coffee break 

11:45 Uhr - 12:30 Uhr Jan Klaiber, Digital Innovationszentrum Rostock

The detailed programme, which you can download and print out, will be available online shortly.