4th Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics Winter School

27 - 28 January 2026 - University of Sheffield, UK

At the end of the Winter School 2024

First day of Winter School 2025

Søren Stobbe (DTU, Denmark) "The diffraction limit for optical cavities: Why breaking a limit that does not exist may lead to novel quantum light sources"
Jeroen Beeckman (Ghent, Belgium) "Electro-optic thin films in integrated photonics: current status and prospects for novel materials"
Barbara Pietka (Warsaw, Poland) "Optical Neural Networks"
Chiara Trovatello (Milan, Italy) "Ultracompact nonlinear platforms based on layered semiconductors for classical and quantum states of light"
Florian Dirnberger (TU Munich, Germany) "Optics and excitations in 2D magnetic materials"
Thalia Dominguez Bucio (University of Southampton, UK) "Silicon nitride photonics for integrated applications across the visible to NIR spectrum"
Raj Patel (Imperial, UK) "Gaussian Boson Sampling: Concept to Applications"
Ramsey Selim (Cornerstone, Southampton, UK), talk title TBC
Thomas Produit (ID Quantique, Genève, Switzerland) "Opportunities for ultrafast and photon-number resolving SNSPDs"
Evi Kesapidou (Single Quantum, Delft, Netherlands) "Single Quantum Detector Applications"

more speakers TBC by early October

This 2-day Winter School is organised by the Quantum Physics and Technology Group at the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Sheffield Quantum Centre (SQC) at the University of Sheffield.
The Winter School will focus on generation, control and detection of quantum light; novel materials for (quantum) nanophotonics; strong light-matter interaction; spins and spin-photon interface in semiconductor quantum dots and solid state defects and other related topics.
The school will consist of lectures by leading researchers, industry talks and poster sessions by the school attendees - see details in the Programme.
The school is open for all researchers from a PhD student level.

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