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The Winter School starts on Tuesday, 27th of January 2026 @ 09:55 and ends on Wednesday, 28th of January 2026 @ 16:35.
All tutorials will take place in Lecture Theatre 2 (ground level) at The Wave.
Registration, poster sessions, exhibitions, refreshment breaks and lunch will take place in the foyer area immediately outside Lecture Theatre 2. See list of Poster Presentations.
Draft Programme
Draft Programme
Tuesday, 27 January 2026
Tuesday, 27 January 2026
09:55 - 10:00
Welcome - Alexander Tartakovskii (University of Sheffield, UK)
10:00- 11:00, Tutorial 1
Barbara Pietka (University of Warsaw, Poland) "Optical neural networks"
11:00 - 12:00, Tutorial 2
Leonardo Midolo ( Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark) "Photonic integrated circuits with quantum dots"
12:00 - 13:40
Lunch and Posters Session
13:40 - 14:10, Industry Talk 1
Thomas Produit (ID Quantique, Genève, Switzerland) "Opportunities for ultrafast and photon-number resolving SNSPDs"
14:10 - 15:10, Tutorial 3
Thalia Dominguez Bucio (University of Southampton, UK) "Silicon nitride photonics for integrated applications across the visible to NIR spectrum"
15:10 - 15:40
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:40, Tutorial 4
Raj Patel (Imperial, UK) "Gaussian Boson Sampling: Concept to Applications"
20:00 - 22:00, Social event
Science Slam @The Red Deep Pub
Wednesday, 28 January 2026
Wednesday, 28 January 2026
09:00 - 10:00, Tutorial 5
Florian Dirnberger (TU Munich, Germany) "Optics and excitations in 2D magnetic materials"
10:00 - 11:00, Tutorial 6
Jeroen Beeckman (Ghent University, Belgium) "Electro-optic thin films in integrated photonics: current status and prospects for novel materials"
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30, Tutorial 7
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"
12:30 - 14:10
Lunch and Posters Session
14:10 - 14:40, Industry Talk 2
Ramsey Selim (Cornerstone, Southampton, UK), talk title TBC
14:40 - 15:10, Industry Talk 3
Evi Kesapidou (Single Quantum, Delft, Netherlands) "Single Quantum Detector Applications"
15:10 - 15:40
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:40, Tutorial 8
Mathias Van Regemortel (Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Belgium), "Photonic Quantum Machine Learning"
16:40 - 16:50
Closing remarks
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