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Jena impressions 2024

Past Events

Throughout the academic year, ASP and partners organize and support exclusive workshops and events for and together with the ASP students.

Jena impressions 2024

Image: Johannes Kretzschmar

2024

Image: Fraunhofer IOF
Visit of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier 2024 The Bundespräsident visited Jena on February 22nd and met students and researchers of the Abbe School of Photonics.
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Jena Alliance Talent Fair 2024 This event offered advice and 1:1 interviews for PhD candidates.
Image: Canan Gallitschke
EMIMEO Summer School 2024 Last week, the Abbe School of Photonics hosted its much-anticipated EMIMEO Summer School, featuring the highlight of the year of this EU Joint Master Program. Alltogether, the School counted more than 70 participants.
Image: Privat
DoKDoK 2024 Jena's famous and by now traditional "Doctoral Students' Conference for the Discussion of Optical Concepts" - a conference series by doctoral students for doctoral students. This DokDok was scheduled 26th to 30th August 2024.
Image: Fraunhofer IOF
Photonics Days Jena 2024 The Photonics Days 2024, a career and networking event, took place in late September in Jena with a Nobel Prize winner and 180 international participants.
Image: Johannes Kretzschmar
Jena LIGHT Conference 2024: Photonics meets AI The first conference in the upcoming conference edtion Jena LIGHT, funded and facilitated by the profile line LIGHT of the University of Jena was devoted to the topic "Photonics meets AI". It was held at the Abbe Center of Photonics (ACP) in Jena from September 3 to 6, 2024.
Image: Funkemedien Thüringen | Bernd Jentsch
Photonics Innovation Pitch 2024 Six young companies can draw on the expertise of research institutions in Jena as they implement their business ideas.
Image: David Zakoth (FSU Jena)
Hannover Faire 2024 Our University was present with many different innovative projects and alliances at the Hannover Messe 2024.
Image: VDI Technologiezentrum
Lichtwerkstatt @Maker Faire Hannover 2024 The Maker Faire, Germany's largest do-it-yourself (DIY) festival, invited people to Hannover over the weekend to create, experiment, and learn. Numerous projects funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) were present.
Image: Johannes Kretzschmar
Long Night of Sciences 2024 Concluding a successful evening where the world of light and nanotechnology was brought to life through hands-on exploration.

2023

Image: Lichtwerkstatt, Jena Digital e.V., Stadt Jena
Hack the Paradise! 2023 On June 17th, Jena gathered for a large Hackathon at the Lichtwerkstatt of the Abbe Center of Photonics.
Image: Privat
DoKDoK 2023 Jena's famous and by now traditional "Doctoral Students' Conference for the Discussion of Optical Concepts" - a conference series by doctoral students for doctoral students.
Image: Leibniz IPHT Jena.
Molecular Photonics Conference 2023 From May 11 to 13, 2023 Leibniz IPHT hosted the Molecular Plasmonics conference, which brought together more than 110 nanotechnology experts and interested guests from all over the world in Jena.
Image: IRTG Meta-Active
Meta-Active Autumn School 2023 In October 2023, the IRTG Meta-Active organized an Autumn School.
Image: David Zakoth, Uni Jena.
Photonics Online Meetup (POM) 2023 Organized by the OPTICA-SPIE Student Chapters, Jena was one local POM hub in this exciting international, hybrid experience.
Image: Phys. Med. Biol., 65(7): 075007 (2020).
Guest Lectures by Igor Melinski 2023 Restart of the ACP guest professor program by two Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung Honorary Lectures on dynamic light scattering in biomedical applications.

2022

2021

2020

Image: Anna Schroll
NOA Spring School 2020 The SFB 1375 "NOA - Nonlinear Optics down to Atomic scales" invited all doctoral researchers and friends to its first, one-week spring school at the Normannenhaus in Jena.
Image: Fraunhofer IOF
Photonics Days 2020 The Photonics Days during the pandemic 2020 took place virtually for the first time on September 21 and 22. A virtual event that offered many virtual possibilities!
Image: Jürgen Scheere (University of Jena)
Alliance Workshop on Interdisciplinary Communication 2020 In this workshop, we addressed the different ways in which interdisciplinary cooperation both creates new ideas and perspectives and sharpens your sense for your own discipline and research.
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Alliance Career Evening 2020 The Jena Alliance Career Evening „Taking the Next Career Step” explored the transition from doctorate to the business world.
Image: ETH Zurich / D-PHYS Heidi Hostettler
ETH 1st Photonics Online Meetup 2020 The first online conference in the field of photonics organized by our partner ETH Zurich, even before the onset of the pandemic.

2019

Image: Malte Siems
DoKDoK 2019 This DokDok edition took place in Eisenach at the great hotel "Alte Fliegerschule".
Image: FSU/LichtwerkstattJena
Photonics Makeathon 2019 At the Makeathon, the participants of the Photonics Days 2019 had the chance to become active themselves and develop individual concepts for questions relating to photonics.
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Photonics Academy 2019 The Photonics Academy is an annual event funded by the BMBF and takes place in alternating cities in Germany. This year's Photonics Academy was in Jena, and the focus was on the open innovation approach.

2018

Image: Malte Siems
DoKDoK 2018 Another splendid DokDok in beautiful Friedrichroda.
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Optics Design Course 2018 This special workshop on optical design was built on the common Zemax software and was offered by Prof. Herbert Gross.

2016 and 2017

2015

Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Optics Design Course 2015 This special workshop on optical design was built on the common Zemax software and was offered by Prof. Herbert Gross.
Image: Dorit Schmidt
Autumn school 2015 A special ASP workshop dedicated to transferrable skills and freeform optics design.
Image: Dorit Schmidt
DoKDoK 2015 Our DokDok series welcomed Prof. Silvana Botti, newly appointed at our University, for the first time.
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Photonics career day 2015 At ASP's Photonics Career Day, Master's degree candidates and doctoral students come into direct contact with our industry partners.

2014

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Photonics and Physics Alumni Workshop 2014 We were proud to welcome some of our most highly distinguished research alumni to share their perspectives on science and industry.
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Photonics Career Day 2014 Master's degree and doctoral students of the Abbe School of Photonics met our Industry partners at our Photonics Career Day.

2013

2012

Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Multiphoton microscopy workshop 2012 In this workshop, Jun.Prof. Dr. Rachel Grange provided a hands-on overview on multiphoton micro-imaging techniques.
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DoKDoK 2012 The second DokDok edition – the start of our tradition.
Image: Private
Photonics career day 2012 Master's degree and doctoral students of the Abbe School of Photonics met our Industry partners at our Photonics Career Day.
Image: Dorit Schmidt.
Zemax Optics Design Course 2012 This special workshop on optical design was built on the common Zemax software and was offered by Prof. Herbert Gross.
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Winter school 2012 This Winter school – hosted by the Graduate Research Schools OMiTec, Green Photonics, and Abbe School of Photonics – complemented technical contents with targeted training of essential soft skills.

2011

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DoKDoK 2011 The exciting start of a success story – DoKDok was born in 2011.
Image: Dorit Schmidt
Photonics Career Day 2011 Our ASP doctoral students met our industry partners at our Photonics Career Day.