Winter Semester 2025/ 26
Compact course on „Numerical Modelling of Nanophotonic Structures“
Sven Burger, Felix Binkowski and Philipp Schneider
The course will take place on January 22 and 23, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m, in person.
Address:
Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)
Room 2006 (seminar room at the ground floor)
Takustrasse 7, 14195 Berlin
Course description: In this compact course we provide an overview of various topics in numerical modelling for nanophotonic design optimization. This includes a brief introduction to finite element methods for solving Maxwell’s equations, efficient interpolation algorithms, and optimization methods, based on machine learning and on other algorithms. Applications of these methods to topical nanophotonic setups will be discussed. The course will be given by F. Binkowski, S. Burger, and P.-I. Schneider.
Summer Semester 2025
Compact Course by Nir Rotenberg on „Coherent quantum nanophotonics“
Nir Rotenberg (Queen’s University, CA), a guest of Tim Schröder’s group, will give a short course on coherent quantum nanophotonics.
The course takes place on July 7, 8 and 10, 2025:
- at the campus Berlin – Adlershof, CSMB (formerly IRIS), Zum Großen Windkanal 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
- Monday, 07.07. 2025, 9 AM to – 12 PM in room 1.121
- Tuesday, 08.07.2025, 9 AM to 12 PM in room 1.207
- Wednesday, 10.07.2025, 9 AM to 12 PM in room 1.221
- each 3 hours including two hours of lecture and one hour of discussion.
Please register for the course via the following link: registration
Further information:
Nir Rotenberg and a short description of his research interests
Course description: This short course will focus on coherent quantum light-matter interactions, specifically for a quantum emitter coupled to a photonic waveguide. The first lecture will cover the basic theory of this system, developing a model of the interaction, scattering, and transmission from first principles. In the second lesson, this will be extended to cover both the photon statistics of these interactions and the basics of chiral quantum optics. The final lecture will focus on examples and applications, specifically highlighting recent work with semiconductor quantum dots and discrete variable quantum photonic neural networks.