Highlights of the summer school programme include:
Presentations by
- Hyeonsoo Bae, Leibniz-IPHT, Jena
- Aisha Kaushik, Imperial College London
- Jan Klaiber, CEO at Digital Innovationszentrum Rostock & ProMed Tec Germany
- Monika Leibscher, FU Berlin
- Marco Ornigotti, Tampere University
- Henning Schomerus, Lancaster University
- André Staudte, University of Ottawa
- Tobias Strauß, University of Rostock
- Thomas Zentgraf, Universität Paderborn
- Mário Ziman, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Solowakei
Poster Session Presentations and Welcome Party
Short presentations by IRTG PhD students in which they present their research
- Alexander Enders
- Marvin Krupp
- Samaneh Shahab
- Tom von Scheven
The intro of the IRTG newbies (9 x 5 Min) with posters
Excursions and conference dinners
- 17:00 Uhr: Guided Tour of the Main Building of the University of Rostock
The tour includes the Treasury, the visible storage collection featuring the Atlas Clock, the Rectors’ Portrait Gallery, the historic Assembly Hall, and the Council Chamber of the University, as well as drawings by Paul Mönnich.
- 18:00 Uhr Guided Tour of the Zoological Collection
The collection includes marine, brackish-water, and freshwater animals, as well as fish, molluscs, birds, and insects. Highlights include the famous “Arrow Stork” of Rostock from 1822, the male polar bear “Churchill” from Rostock Zoo, and the skeleton of “Sara”, the zoo’s last elephant, displayed in the biodiversity exhibition area, together with additional taxidermied animal specimens on display.
28. May 2026, from 7:00 p.m.
- Conference Dinner im Wirtshaus Hopfenkeller Rostock
(Adress: Kröpeliner Str. 18, 18055 Rostock)
Detailed program
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
Imaging small quantum system with photoelectron holography
10:20 Uhr - 11:20 Uhr Mário Ziman, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slowakei
Introduction to quantum incompatibility
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
Coherent phonons in 1L-TMDCs and coupling to the electronic system
Coffee break
11:00 Uhr - 12:00 Uhr Henning Schomerus, Lancaster University
Monitoring noisy many-body quantum systems
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
15:00 Uhr - 16:00 Uhr Hyeonsoo Bae, Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien, Jena
Presentation of studies on multimodal, nonlinear endoscopy using CARS, TPEF, and SHG
17:00 Uhr - 18:30 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 19:00 Uhr Conferenz dinner
Restauarant “Wirtshaus Hopfenkeller” (Adresse: Kröpeliner Str. 18, 18055 Rostock)
Day 3 - Friday, 29. May 2026 "Industry Day"
09:00 Uhr - 10:00 Uhr Aisha Kaushik, Imperial Collage London
Quantum sensors: from lab to spin out
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
Starting a Startup