Seminars & Events
Special Seminar (MCQST):
Prof. Per Delsing, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
"Artificial atoms coupling to light and sound"
Date: MONDAY 04.05.2026; 2:00 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar (MCQST):
Prof. Gitte Wichmann-Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark
"Effective Collaboration in Doctoral Supervision"
Date: 21.04.2026; 2:00 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
DOUBLE FEATURE Seminar:
M.Sc. Leonardo Rusico AND Dr. Marco Rigobello, MPQ
"Loss-Tolerant Photonic Qubit" & "Scattering in lattice gauge theory via tensor networks"
Date: 14.04.2026; 2:30 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar (MCQST):
Prof. Alyssa Ney, LMU München
"Wheeler’s Abomination (1956-2026): Unifying the Copenhagen and Everett Interpretations"
Date: 10.03.2026; 2:00 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar (MCQST):
Prof. Cheng Chin, University of Chicago, USA
"Atoms as Quantum Laboratories: From the Origins of the Universe to Future Chemistry"
Date: 26.02.2026; 2:00 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar (MCQST):
Prof. Maria Chekhova, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen
"Flat-optics’ generation of entangled photons"
Date: 10.02.2026; 2:00 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar:
Prof. Jérome Beugnon, Collège de France, Paris, France
"Superfluidity and Soliton Dynamics in Bose-Einstein Condensates"
Date: 27.01.2026; 2:30 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar: Wednesday 3:00pm!
Prof. Rupert Huber, Universität Regensburg
"Subcycle anatomy of quantum materials"
Date: 21.01.2026; 3:00 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar:
Prof. Sven Höfling, Universität Würzburg
"Semiconductor quantum dots emitting at 1550 nm for photonic quantum technologies"
Date: 20.01.2026; 2:30 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar:
Prof. Florian Marquart, Max Planck Inst. for the Science of Light, Erlangen
"Physical Devices that Learn"
Date: 13.01.2026; 2:30 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar:
Prof. Paul French, Imperial College, London, UK
"OpenScopes: an open, modular platform to widen access and capabilities in microscopy
and high content analysis"
Date: 16.12.2025; 2:30 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar MCQST Colloquium :
Prof. Jean Dalibard, Collège de France, Paris, France
"Coherence and Superfluidity: The Two Sides of the Same Coin, really?"
Date: 18.11.2025; 2:00 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar:
Prof. Mohammad Hafezi, University of Maryland, USA
"A New Era in Quantum Optics: Probing and manipulating correlated materials"
Date: 11.11.2025; 2:30 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar MCQST Colloquium :
DOUBLE FEATURE Dr. Silke Stähler-Schöpf and M.Sc. Gianvito Chiarella
Attosecond Physics Division, MPQ and Quantum Dynamics Division, MPQ
"PhotonLab – The students Lab at MPQ &
A source of heralded atom-photon entanglement for quantum networking "
Date: 04.11.2025; 2:30 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar MCQST Colloquium :
Prof. Peter Hommelhoff; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen & LMU München
"Approaching the quantum regime in ultrafast control of electrons"
Date: 28.10.2025; 2:30 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar MCQST Colloquium :
Dr. Pavel Kos and M.Sc. René Villela: Theory Division, MPQ and LMU
"Quantum and Classical Dynamics with Random Permutation Circuits & A new Ytterbium quantum simulation experiment with state-dependent control"
Date: 21.10.2025; 2:30 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar MCQST Colloquium :
Prof. Roger Melko; University of Waterloo, Ontario, Kanada
"Language Models for Quantum Simulation"
Date: 14.10.2025; 2:00 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar MCQST Colloquium :
Prof. Jonathan Simon, Stanford University. USA
"Quantum science in cavity arrays"
Date: 25.07.2025; 3:00 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar MCQST Colloquium :
Prof. Yiwen Chu, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
"Quantum control of massive mechanical objects"
Date: 23.07.2025; 2:30 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar MCQST Colloquium :
Prof. Nergis Mavalvala MIT, Cambridge, USA
"Listening to the Universe above the quantum din"
Date: 22.07.2025; 2:00 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar MCQST Colloquium :
Prof. Anne Nielsen; Aarhus University, Denmark
"Quantum many-body scars"
Date: 15.07.2025; 2:30 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar MCQST Colloquium :
Prof. Botond Roska; IOB Basel, Switzerland
"Restoring Vision Using Optogenetics"
Date: 08.07.2025; 2:30 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar MCQST Colloquium :
DOUBLE FEATURE M.Sc. Simon Karch and M.Sc. Renhao Tao
"Probing quantum many-body dynamics using subsystem Loschmidt echos &
A universal gate set for metastable qubits in 88 strontium"
Date: 24.06.2025; 2:30 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar MCQST Colloquium :
Prof. David Wineland, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
"Quantum Computers and Raising Schrödinger's Cat"
Date: 17.06.2025; 2:30 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ
Special Seminar MCQST Colloquium :
DOUBLE FEATURE Dr. Zhiyuan Wang and Dr. Vitaly Wirthl
"The R-matrix theory of parastatistics & Standard Model test below 1ppt with the 2S-6P transition frequency measurement in atomic hydrogen"
Date: 10.06.2025; 2:30 PM; Herbert-Walther-Lecture Hall, MPQ