| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 21.05.2014 | Alan D. Bristow, West Virginia University, USA | Coherent Spectroscopy for Quantum Control of Matter |
| 24.06.2014 | Nitipat Pholchai, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand | Light-matter Interaction in Sub-wavelength Nano-photonic Structures |
| 07.07.2014 | Timur Iskhakov, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), Erlangen | Quantum Optics: from single Photons to macroscopic entangled States of Light |
| 09.07.2014 | Matthias Kleinmann, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil | Tricks und Fallstricke bei der Auswertung von Quantenexperimenten |
| 11.07.2014 | Andreas Jechow, University of Potsdam | Towards nonlinear Optics with "few" Photons - Applications in Biophotonics and beyond |
| 16.07.2014 | Sabine Wölk, University of Siegen | Multipartite Entanglement: Characterization and Application |
| 16.07.2014 | Tim Bartley, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder,USA | Integrated Multiphoton Quantum Optics with superconducting Detectors |
| 29.09.2014 | John. E. Sipe, University of Toronto, Canada | Measuring and Calculating Quantum States of Light: Two Suggestions |
| 27.10.2014 | Gábor Corradi, Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary | From crystal defects to resonant nonlinear optical phenomena: studies in LiNbO3 and related oxide crystals |
| 12.11.2014 | Anna Rodina, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, Russia | Theory of second harmonic generation on excitons in ZnO |
| 13.11.2014 | Elisabeth Giacobino, CNRS, Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel, Paris, France | Quantum dynamics of microcavity polaritons |
| 26.11.2014 | Roman V. Pisarev, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia | Semiconductor spectroscopy by means of second- and third optical harmonic generation in external magnetic fields |
| 03.12.2014 | Lingling Huang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China | Three-dimensional metasurface holography |
| 28.04.2015 | Yu-Chieh Cheng, Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya Barcelona, Spain | Flat focusing mirrors: Beam focusing in reflection without optical axis |
| 05.05.2015 | Stefan Schmult, TU Dresden | High-mobility two-dimensional electron gases in GaN/AlGaN heterostructures-From basic research to a competitive device technology |
| 25.06.2015 | Alan D. Bristow, West Virginia University, USA | Two-dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy of a Semiconductor Microcavity |
| 22.07.2015 | Nitipat Pholchai, King Mongkuts's University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand | Energy Transfer for improved Exciton Harvesting in organic Solar Cells |
| 20.08.2015 | Vladimir Korenev, Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia | Nonlinear Properties of an Electron-Nuclear Spin System of AlGaAs Crystals in a Strong Magnetic Field |
| 04.09.2015 | Ruth Oulton, University of Bristol, UK | Coupling Electron Spin and Light Spin: The Surprising Results of Doing Cavity QED with Artificial Atoms |
| 30.09.2015 | Polina Sharapova, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia | Quantum correlations and entanglement in non-classical states of light and atomic systems interacting with them |
| 07.12.2015 | Hui Hu, Shandong University, China | Integrated optics on single-crystal lithium niobate thin film: some recent progress |
| 01.03.2016 | Nuno Braz, University College London, UK | Towards plasmonic-enhanced tuneable second-harmonic-generation from isotropic non-centrosymmetric materials |
| 08.03.2016 | Atsushi Ishikawa, Okayama University, Japan | Metamaterial-enhanced IR absorption of molecular self-assembled monolayers |
| 12.04.2016 | Peter Lodahl, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark | Quantum information processing with solid-state single photon sources |
| 02.05.2016 | Agata Branczyk, PSI Fellow Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada | Customizing the joint spectrum of quantum light generated via nonlinear optics |
| 04.05.2016 | Ahmer Naweed, Islamabad, Pakistan | Analogs of Atomic Coherence Effects in Photonic Microstructures |
| 24.05.2016 | Rolf Binder, University of Arizona, USA | Formation and optical control of polaritonic density and spin patterns |
| 08.06.2016 | Stefan Schulz, University College, Cork, Ireland | Electronic and optical properties of nitride-based heterostructures: carrier localization effects in wurtzite InGaN and InAIN systems |
| 07.07.2016 | Nitipat Pholchai, King Mogkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand | Light-matter Interaction in Subwave-length Nano-photonic Structures |
| 08.07.2016 | Xiaohong Song, Shantou University, Guangdong, China | Applications of generalized quantum-trajectory Monte Carlo Method: From Atoms, Molecules to Solids |
| 11.07.2016 | John E. Sipe, University of Toronto, Canada | The Nonlinear Optics of Graphene: Welcome to the Wild West! |
| 22.09.2016 | Birgit Stiller, University of Sydney, Australia | Phonon-photon interaction for on-ship light storage |
| 27.09.2016 | Youngmin Martin Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea | Overcoming inhomogeneous broadening of III-Nitrides non-classical light sources in nano-pyramid apex quantum-dots |
| 05.10.2016 | Ian Farrer, The University of Sheffield, UK | Growth of self-assembled quantum dots, approaches to site control and novel materials |
| 19.10.2016 | Pongthep Prajongtat, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand | Organic-Inorganic hybrid perovskites for photovoltaic applications |
| 25.10.2016 | Olga Tikhonova, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia | Coherent control of spectral and spatial features of bright squeezed vacuum states of light |
| 15.11.2016 | Hubert Krenner, University of Augsburg | Rocking at the nanoscale: Controlling optically active nanostructures by sound |
| 23.11.2016 | Denis Sych, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen | Shaped single photons: generation, characterisation and applications |
| 24.11.2016 | Shayan Mookherjea, University of California, San Diego, USA | Using silicon photonics for quantum and nonlinear optics |
| 06.12.2016 | Guiseppe Patera, Laboratoire PhLAM, Villeneuve d'Ascq | Temporal imaging with squeezed light |
| 07.12.2016 | Isabelle Staude, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena | Mie-resonant dielectric nanostructures as a platform for functional nanophotonics |
| 07.12.2016 | Yuri Kapitonov, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia | Resonant diffraction gratings made by focused ion beam irradiation of InGaAs/GaAs single quantum wells |
| 09.12.2016 | Roman Pisarev, Laboratoire PhLAM, Villeneuve d'Ascq | Close relations between magnetic and optical phenomena in a complex multisublattice antiferromagnet CuB204 |
| 07.02.2017 | Alessandra Gatti, Istituto Fotonica e Nanotecnologie del CNR Milano, Università dell'Insubria, Como | Quantum properties of backward parametric downconversion |
| 13.02.2017 | Maria Chekhova, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen | Bright squeezed vaccuum in a nonlinear interferometer |
| 17.05.2017 | Fuyong Yue, Heriot-Watt University, Edinbourgh, UK | Nanorod structures for optical devices with unusual properties |
| 19.06.2017 | Nicolas Quesada, Macquarie University Sydney, Australia | Very nonlinear quantum optics: Generation of bright squeezed light using parametric down-conversion |
| 21.06.2017 | Gwanho Yoon, Pohang Institute of Science & Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea | Metasurface-based reconfigurable visible light absorber |
| 29.06.2017 | Salia Cherifi- Hertel, IPCMS, CNRS & University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France | Non-ising ferroelectric domain walls: Insights from nonlinear optical microscopy |
| 17.07.2017 | Austin Lund, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia | Quantum sampling problems, boson sampling and quantum supremacy |
| 19.07.2017 | Michael R. Vanner, University of Oxford, Imperial College London, UK | Quantum optomechanics in single photons |
| 24.10.2017 | Roman Pisarev, Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, Russia | Excitation of multiple phonon modes in copper metaborate CuB2O4 via nonresonant impulsive stimulative Raman scattering |
| 16.11.2017 | Luis Lorenzo Sanchez-Soto, Computense University of Madrid, Spain | Superresolution as a multiparameter quantum estimation |
| 29.11.2017 | Susumu Yanagisawa, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan | First-principles investigation of electronic properties of molecular crystals relevant to organic electronics materials |
| 22.12.2017 | Didier Belobo Belobo, African Center for Advanced Studies, Yaounde, Cameroon | Nonlinear wave generation in condensates with spin-orbit interaction |
| 11.01.2018 | Ursula Wurstbauer, WSI Technische Universität München | Semiconducting 2D crystals and their heterostructures |
| 15.03.2018 | Sven Höfling, Universität Würzburg | Integrated Quantum Photonics on GaAs |
| 20.03.2018 | Sergey Kruk, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia | Meta-optics: engineering optical magnetism with dielectric nanostructures |
| 09.04.2018 | Alan D. Bristow, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA | Coherent Spectroscopy of a Semiconductor Microcavity |
| 28.05.2018 | Varun Verma, National Institute for Standards and Technology, Boulder, USA | Progress in single photon imaging from the UV to the mid infrared using superconducting nanowire detectors |
| 05.06.2018 | Nicolas Treps, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Sorbonne Université Paris, France | Tailored Non-Gaussian Multimode States |
| 11.06.2018 | Roberto Rosati, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster | Spatiotemporal evolution of inhomogeneous electronic wave packets |
| 13.06.2018 | Jelmer Renema, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands | Theoretical and experimental aspects of multiphoton interference |
| 21.06.2018 | Jan Wiersig, Otto von Guericke Universität Magdeburg | Non-Hermitian optics in microcavities: from exceptional points to exceptional sensors |
| 04.07.2018 | Munise Cobet, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria | Optical non-linearities from longitudinal excitons and plasmon propagation in zero-index media |
| 16.07.2018 | Jean-Phillipe MacLean, Institute for Quantum Computation, Waterloo, Canada | Direct characterization of ultrafast energy-time entangled photon pairs |
| 20.08.2018 | John E. Sipe, University of Toronto, Canada | Why you should not use the electric field to quantize in nonlinear optics |
| 25.10.2018 | Mladen Kotur, Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the RAS St. Petersburg, Russia | Low temperature nuclear spin-lattice relaxation in n-GaAs |
| 22.11.2018 | Dmitry V. Azamat, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic | Pulsed EPR in wideband gap semiconductors |
| 29.11.2018 | Min-Sik Kwon, Quantum and Nanobio Photonics Laboratory KAIST, Korea | Direct transfer of light’s orbital angular momentum onto non-resonantly excited polariton superfluid |
| 17.12.2018 | Vitaly Ivanov Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland | Optically-detected magnetic resonances in nanostructures of semiconductors compounds |
| 13.02.2019 | Christoph Becher,Universität des Saarlandes | Quantum frequency conversion of single photons as tool for quantum networks |
| 13.03.2019 | Carlton M. Caves, University of New Mexico, USA | Quantum-limited measurements: One physicist's crooked path from relativity theory to quantum optics to quantum information |
| 14.03.2019 | Yuri Kivshar, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia | All-dielectric resonant nanophotonics and meta-optics |
| 26.03.2019 | Robert Hadfield, Glasgow University, UK | Infrared single-photon detection with superconducting nanowires |
| 12.06.2019 | Kambiz Jamshidi, TU Dresden | Silicon Photonic Devices for Communications and Computing |
| 25.06.2019 | Marcio P.F. de Godoy, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos UFSCar, Brazil | Functionalization of ZnO by Cadmium and Cobalt doping |
| 27.06.2019 | Igor Savochkin, Moscow State University, Russia | Magnon dynamics in iron-garnets excited by a train of femtosecond laser pulses |
| 09.07.2019 | Xiaohong Song, Shantou University, China | Time resolved strong-field ultrafast electron dynamics in atoms and semiconductors |
| 23.07.2019 | Kirill Koshelev, Australian National University (ANU) Canberra, Australia | Meta optics and bound states in the continuum |
| 09.10.2019 | Michael Rüsing, Technische Universität Dresden | Thin film lithium niobate for integrated (nonlinear) optics: Fabrication of highly uniform periodic domain structures |
| 23.10.2019 | Alistair J. Brash, University of Sheffield, UK | Solid-state nanophotonics with quantum dots |
| 04.12.2019 | Rupert Huber, University of Regensburg | Ultrafast single-molecule videography and choreography |
| 18.02.2020 | Zhiyuan Du, Beijing Institute of Technology, China | Enhanced Localized Surface Plasmonic - Resonance of Graphene Nano-ribbons |
| 18.06.2020 | Heejae Kim, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research Mainz | Ultrafast resonant and non-resonant manipulations of optical properties in hybrid perovskites |
| 25.03.2021 | Frank Setzpfandt, Friedrich Schiller University Jena | Parametric frequency conversion in micro- and nanostructured lithium niobate: Towards the generation of tailored photon pairsof tailored photon pairs |
| 22.04.2021 | Nicolae C. Panoiu, University College London, UK | Nonlinear optics in topological photonic structures and clusters of nanoparticles |
| 29.04.2021 | Laura Vittadello, Osnabrueck University | A polaron hopping approach to lithium niobate charge transport |
| 06.05.2021 | Carsten Rockstuhl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Duality, Helicity, Chirality - and how it’s all intertwined |
| 20.05.2021 | Zhipei Sun, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University, Finland | Two-dimensional layered materials for nonlinear photonics |
| 27.05.2021 | Moritz Cygorek, Heriot-Watt University, Edingburgh (UK) | Phonon effects on non-classical light generation in solid-state cavity-QED systems |
| 10.06.2021 | Robert Fickler, Tempere University, Finland | Complex Structuring of Light for High-Speed Spectroscopy and High-Dimensional Quantum Optics |
| 17.06.2021 | Young-Sik Ra, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Korea | Non-Gaussian quantum states of multimode light fields |
| 21.06.2021 | Yuping Huang, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA | Lithium Niobate Nanophotonics for Quantum: Progress, Problems, and Prospects |
| 01.07.2021 | Emma Wollman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA | Advances in large-scale arrays of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors |
| 13.07.2021 | Sonia Buckley, National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), USA | Beyond Moore with superconducting and opto-electronic circuits |
| 15.07.2021 | Sven Ramelow, Humboldt-University Berlin | Microscopy, spectroscopy and OCT with undetected mid-IR photons |
| 22.07.2021 | Prineha Narang, Havard University, USA | Predicting and Controlling Scalable Quantum Systems |
| 27.04.2022 | Patrick Görrn, Bergische Universität Wuppertal | Towards Ultrafast Broadband Optical Switching Inspired by Bound States in the Continuum (BIC) |
| 18.05.2022 | J.J. Renema, Universiteit Twente / Quix Quantum BV | Integrated photonic quantum information processing |
| 01.06.2022 | Mario Agio, University of Siegen | Ultrafast quantum optics with single emitters |
| 22.06.2022 | Markus A. Schmidt, Friedrich Schiller University Jena & Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies (IPHT) | Optical fibers meet nanophotonics: a platform for single-virus sensing, boosting incoupling efficiencies and single-fiber optical trapping |
| 29.06.2022 | Sven Burger, Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) | Modeling, simulation and optimization of nanophotonic devices |
| 13.07.2022 | Christian Schneider, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg | Exciton-Polaritons in microcavities loaded with atomically thin crystals - cancelled - |
| 20.07.2022 | Ruixin Zuo, Universität Paderborn | Tracking tunnel dynamics in solids using high-harmonic spectroscopy |
| 15.09.2022 | Ermin Malic, Philipps-Universität Marburg | Microscopic modelling of atomically thin semiconductors |
| 18.01.2023 | Alejandro Manjavacas Instituto de Optica - CSIC, Spain & University of New Mexico, USA | Collective response of periodic arrays of nanostructures |
| 15.02.2023 | Christian Schneider, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg; Fakultät V - Institut für Physik | Coupling Excitons in atomically thin crystals with widely tunable open cavities: A versatile platform for quantum - and topological photonics |
| 10.05.2023 | Iris Niehues, CIC nanoGUNE BRTA, ES | Nanoscale Optical Properties of 2D Materials |
| 31.05.2023 | Brian Gerardot, Heriot-Watt University, UK | Moiré Quantum Materials |
| 07.06.2023 | Zhe Yu Jeff Ou, City University of Hong Kong | Quantum Entangled Interferometers and Their Applications |
| 10.01.2024 | Andreas Wienke, Laserzentrum Hannover e.V. (LZV) | How quantum nanolaminates can revolutionize optical thin film manufacturing |
| 07.02.2024 | Cristian Manzoni, Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies (CNR), Milan (Italy) | Generation and application of ultrashort light pulses |
| 17.04.2024 | Thomas Bracht, TU Dortmund | Time-bin entangled photons from semiconductor quantum dots |
| 22.04.2024 | Ralf B. Wehrspohn, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg | The concept of hyperuniformity in optics |
| 22.04.2024 | Zhenda Xie, Nanjing University (China) | Lithium Niobate: from bulk to thin film |
| 24.04.2024 | Bijoy Krishna Das, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Indien) | Distributed Bragg Filters and Resonators for Silicon Quantum Photonic Circuits |
| 30.04.2024 | Anna Paterova, Quantum Technologies for Engineering, Singapore | Nonlinear Interferometry and its applications |
| 08.05.2024 | Nicholas Güsken, Stanford University (USA) | Towards tunable photon-emitter interfacesfor on-chip and free space emission control |
| 15.05.2024 | Jutta Schwarzkopf, Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. | Epitaxy of oxide thin films |
| 22.05.2024 | Klaus-Dieter Becker, TU Braunschweig | Optical Spectroscopy at High Temperatures: LN, LT & LNT |
| 04.07.2024 | Thomas Boulier, Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry of Nano-Objects | Time-resolved second harmonic generation on Cu2O Rydberg excitons |
| 24.09.2024 | Alejandro Manjavacas Instituto de Optica - CSIC, Spain & University of New Mexico, US | Polarons in motion: an excursion into defect-rich environments |
| 05.02.2025 | Helen Chrzanowski, Humboldt-Universität Berlin | Sensing with Undetected Photons in the Mid-Infrared |
| 10.06.2025 | Gregor Koblmüller, Walter-Schottky-Institute, Technical University Munich | Semiconductor nanowire heterostructures: from materials to advanced devices |
| 12.06.2025 | Martin Youngmin Kim, California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) | Harnessing 2D Materials for Quantum Applications and Workforce Development in AI Semiconductors & Quantum Technologies |
| 16.07.2025 | Tobias Gehring, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen (DK) | Squeezed Light from Lithium Niobate Photonic Integrated Circuits for Quantum Communication |
| 18.07.2025 | David Barton, Northwestern University, Illinois (USA) | Resonant electro-optic photonics for communications, computation, and sensing |
| 10.09.2025 | Carlota Canalias, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden) | Sub-Wavelength Domain Engineering in KTP: Unlocking Counter-Propagating Photons Nonlinear Interactions |
| 17.09.2025 | Andrew White, Quantum Technology Laboratory, University of Queensland, AUS | Better quantum science via better quantum technology |
