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Programme for the Graduate Days 2019

The Graduate Days 2019 will take place from March 18 (Monday) to March 21 (Thursday).

The scientific courses are organised as parallel block lectures, with the morning lectures taking place from 9:30 to 12:30 and the afternoon lectures from 14:00 to 15:30, including breaks. Note that each course runs either in the morning or in the afternoon from Monday to Wednesday. On the other hand, the practical and soft skills workshops will take place only on Thursday from 9:30 to 17:00.

In addition to those courses, there will be a colloquium, which will take place on Tuesday, and an industry event on Wednesday. On Tuesday and on Wednesday evening finger food will be provided, which will be free to all participants.

The Graduate Days will be held at the Bahrenfeld campus (DESY), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, both in The Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL, Bld. 99), and the Center for Optical Quantum Technologies (ZOQ, Bld. 90). How to get to the venue, please see here.

The programme can be downloaded here: poster (A1, A2, A3, and A4) and booklet.

Programme overview: scientific and practical- and soft-skills courses.

 

Scientific course programme

Note that further information about the lectures can be found here.

Morning long courses (Mon-Wed, 09:30-12:30)

  • Prof. Klemens Hammerer and Dr. Sahand Mahmoodian (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)
    Light-matter quantum interfaces: Optomechanics and chiral quantum optics
    (ZOQ, Building 90, Seminar room, Ground floor)
  • Prof. Jens Bredenbeck (Institute of Biophysics, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany)
    2D-IR spectroscopy: Protein dynamics, ultrafast structure determination and steering photochemistry
    (CFEL, Building 99, Seminar room I, Ground floor)
  • Dr. Klaas Giesbertz (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    Density functional theory
    (CFEL, Building 99, Seminar room II, Ground floor)

Afternoon short courses (Mon-Wed, 14:00-15:30)

  • Dr. Richard Schmidt (Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany)
    Polaron physics in ultracold atoms and solid-state materials
    (ZOQ, Building 90, Seminar room, Ground floor)
  • Prof. Wilfried Wurth (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science CFEL, Universität Hamburg, and DESY Photon Science, Germany)
    Femtochemistry and surface physics
    (CFEL, Building 99, Seminar room I, Ground floor)
  • Dr. Thomas Braun (Center for Cellular Imaging and Nanoanalytics, Universität Basel, Switzerland)
    Cellular imaging and nanoanalytics to study neurodegeneration: From nanomechanical sensors to single cell visual proteomics
    (CFEL, Building 99, Seminar room II, Ground floor)

Practical- and soft-skills workshop programme

Note that further information about the lectures can be found here.

Morning and afternoon courses (Thu, 09:30-17:00)

  • Bernd Klein (Bodenseo, Singen, Germany)
    Machine Learning in Python: A Step-By-Step Hands-On Introduction
    (Building 61, Rechnerraum/CIP-Pool, Ground floor)
  • Prof. Gerwald Lichtenberg (Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Hamburg, Germany)
    Multidimensional data analysis with MATLAB
    (Building 3, Room 3, Ground floor)
  • Dr. Andrew Wold (Project Manager at GRASP, Linköping University, Sweden)
    Scientific presentation skills
    (CFEL, Building 99, Seminar room V (O1.109), First floor)
  • Dr. Sabine Baars (Universität Hamburg, Germany)*
    Options for third party funding and how to apply
    (CFEL, Building 99, Seminar room O1.060, First floor)

* This workshop will take place from 09:30 to 12:30 only.

 

Colloquium 

New perspectives on quantum geometry, superconductivity and Bose-Einstein condensation

Prof. Päivi Törmä (Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Finland)

The colloquium will take place on Tuesday, March 19, 2019, at 17:00 at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science in the seminar rooms I-II-III (Building 99, Ground floor). Abstract can be read here.

Afterwards, food and beverages will be provided in the foyer of the CFEL building (ground floor).

Poster: A1, A2, and A4.

 

Industry event

Quantum Technologies: from basic research to industry

Dr. Stephan Ritter (TOPTICA Photonics AG, Gräfelfing / Munich, Germany)

The presentation will take place on Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at 16:30 at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science in the seminar rooms I-II (Building 99, Ground floor). Abstract can be read here.

Afterwards, food and beverages will be provided in the foyer of the CFEL building (ground floor).