Die Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden des von der DFG geförderten Graduiertenkollegs GRK1664 und einige Lehrende waren vom 21.-24.März  zur viertägigen "Spring School 2017" in Sitges bei Barcelona (Spanien) eingeladen.

Professor Shuji Nakamura, Nobel laureate in physics 2014, will give a lecture at the University of Paderborn on November 30th, 2016.

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Center of Optics and Photonics Paderborn (CeOPP), the special research area TRR 142 and the graduate program GRK 1464 have invited Professor Nakamura as special guest. In his lecture entitled: “The invention of high efficient blue LEDs and future Solid State lighting”, Professor Nakamura will highlight his invention and the role of high efficient blue LEDs which is regarded as a breakthrough in lighting technology.

Location:             University of Paderborn, Auditorium Maximum

Date/Time:        November 30th, 2016, 6 p.m.

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Die Doktoranden des von der DFG geförderten Graduiertenkollegs GRK1664 und einige Lehrende waren Ende März zur viertägigen Europhotonics Spring School 2016 auf der französischen Mittelmeerinsel Ile de Porquerolles eingeladen. Das Tagungsprogramm umfasste verschiedenste Aspekte der Licht-Materie-Wechselwirkung, von Verhalten kalter Atome in photonischen Strukturen über das Lichtmanagement in Solarzellen und Flüssigkristallen bis zu biomimetischen photonischen Strukturen. Die etwa einhundert Teilnehmer kamen überwiegend aus Frankreich, Spanien und Deutschland. Das Foto zeigt einige Doktoranden auf der Rückreise beim Zwischenstopp an der Strandpromenade von Nizza.

Preis des Präsidiums für ausgezeichnete Dissertationen:
Dr. Christian Wiebeler (Department Physik)

Preis der Universitätsgesellschaft e.V. für herausragende Abschlussarbeiten:
Michael Rüsing (Department Physik)

The 13th Convention of GRK 1464 was held in Paderborn, organized by Katharina Brassat and Thorsten Meyers.

Markus Wahle (Department of Chemistry, Paderborn) received a best presentation award at the Optics of Liquid Crystals Conference (OLC '15) for his talk entitled "Electrically tuneable waveguide properties in hybrid guiding liquid crystal photonic crystal fibers".

Dominik Breddermann (Department of Physics) received a best presentation award at the  "4th Europhotonics Spring SChool 2015" in Paderborn (13.-16.04.15) for his talk entitled
"Optical frequency tuning of quantum-dot single-photon emission from a partly stimulated two-photon transition"

Venue:

The 4th Europhotonics Spring School 2015 will be held in the modern Hotel Aspethera in Paderborn. Accommodations for the visiting participants will be available in the same hotel.
The Ph. D. students participating in the school are expected to share a double room.

Further information:  location and access, expenses, schedule and program

Excursion (Tuesday, 1:30 p. m. – 4:30 p. m.): Open-Air Museum Detmold

Dr. Olga Kasdorf is awarded the Zonta Club Paderborn Award 2014 as a highlight of the annual PACE Ceremony.

Photo: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Schäfer (chair of PACE) and Bärbel Meerkötter (president of the Zonta Club Paderborn) award the Zonta Club Paderborn Award 2014 to Dr. Olga Kasdorf. (Photo: PACE)

At the 25th International Liquid Crystal Conference 2014, Dublin, Ireland, Dr. Martin Urbanski receives the Glenn Brown Prize 2014 awarded by the International Liquid Crystal Society.

3^rd Europhotonics Spring School

(10^th Convention of the Research Training Group)

At the New Year Reception 2014 Dr. Martin Urbanski received one of four prizes of the presidium of the University of Paderborn for an outstanding PhD-thesis submitted in 2013.

Photo: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Schäfer (frtl) congratulates Dr. Cornelia Wächter, Dr. Christian Ikenmeyer, Dr. Martin Urbanski and Dr. Philipp Heitmann on their outstanding PhD theses. (Photo: Vanessa Dreibrodt)

H. Mühlenbernd and Prof. Zentgraf authored a publication in Nature Communications:

L. Huang, X. Chen, H. Mühlenbernd, H. Zhang, S. Chen, B. Bai, Q. Tan, G. Jin, K.-W. Cheah, C.-W. Qiu, J. Li, T. Zentgraf and S. Zhang "Three-dimensional optical holography using a plasmonic metasurface" Nature Communications 4, 2808 (2013).

At the 15th International Conference on Density Functional Theory and its Applications, Durham, UK, Christian Wiebeler is awarded with the Best Poster Award

Photo: Prof. Dr. David. J. Tozer, Organizer of the DFT 2013 Conference, handing out the Poster Award to Christian Wiebeler (Photo: DFT2013)

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Jens Förstner,

former head of the DFG Emmy Noether junior research group on "Computational Nanophotonics" in the Department of Physics and GRK-project leader,

accepted in June 2013 the position of a full Professor of Theoretical Electrical Engineering at the University of Paderborn

April 8th – 10th, 2013: 2nd Europhotonics Spring School in Hohenwart Forum close to Pforzheim (Black Forest, Germany). (8th Convention of the Research Training Group)

                               March 22nd, 2013: 

                     Topical Meeting on Liquid Crystals:

                       Dr. Martin Urbanski receives the

                              "Young Scientists Award"

                                            of the

                        German Liquid Crystal Society

The 40^th Topical Meeting on Liquid Crystals of the research training group took place in Paderborn from March 20^th - 22^nd, 2013.

On December 7^th, 2012 Stephan Krapick receives the “Best presentation award” of the year 2012 awarded by the PACE-Paderborn Institute of Advanced Studies in Computer Science and Engineering.

Photo (fltr): Prof. Dr. Schäfer, Marie-Christin Platenius (SFB 901)
Ekaterina Kaganova (IGS), Stephan Krapick (CeOPP GK),
Prof. Dr. Eckhard Steffen (Foto: M. Decking)

On March 9th, the on-site review of the graduate programm was held in Paderborn. In May 2012, DFG has decided that financial funding of the doctoral research training group GRK1464 "Micro-and Nanostructures in Optoelectronics and Photonics" will be continued until spring 2017.

The winner of the PACE-prize “Best presentation award” of the year 2011 is Dr. Stefan Declair. The laudation takes place at the “Fakultätsfeier der Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften“ (26.11.2011).

The 5^th convention of the research training group tooks place in Paderborn organized by the PhD-students Martin Kim and Martin Urbanski. (05.-06.07.2011)

The 4^th external meeting of the GRK was combined with a visit at the chemical company Merck, Damstadt (18.-19.11.2011). It was planned by Martin Kim and Martin Urbanski.

The 3^rd meeting was held at the University of Paderborn. The organizers were Christoph Claßen and Torsten Frers. (27.-28.05.2010)

2nd GRK Convention (Bad Karlshafen), organized by Olga Kasdorf and Marc Zöller:    The forthcoming convention will be held on 26th and 27th November 2009 in Hotel Zum Schwan, Bad Karlshafen at the Weser river.

1st GRK Convention (Schloss Gehrden), organized by Marc Zöller and Frank Bayer (lower pictures)

Mrs. Marina Panfilova receives the PACE "Best Presentation Award"

Foto (Universität Paderborn, Martin Decking): Flanked by managing director Prof. Dr. Eckhard Steffen and PACE Chair Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Schäfer: these doctoral students held the best PACE presentations: Stefanie Naewe, Stefan Wolf, Simon Altemeier and Marina Panfilova (from left)

Dr. Anna Grodecka receives the Zonta Prize 2009

Foto (Universität Paderborn, Martin Decking): Annette Hollander, Zonta Club Paderborn President (2nd from left) and Dr. Anna Grodecka, Zonta Club Paderborn Award winner, together with PACE Chair Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Schäfer and CeOPP Chair Prof. Dr. Heinz Kitzerow (from left)

Opening Ceremony of the Graduate Program

First meeting of Ph. D. students of the Graduate Program.

Start of the Graduate Program.