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As part of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) acts as an interdisciplinary hub for research on photonics and optical technologies in Erlangen. SAOT provides an Education Program of Excellence for national and international doctoral candidates, including Workshops, Seminars, and Academies. Furthermore, SAOT increases Science Communication and the Scientific Outreach to the general public in the fields of photonics and optical technologies.
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Last year, doctoral students from Princeton Materials Institute (PMI) in Princeton visited SAOT in Erlangen for a Summer School on lasers and photonics. Recently this year, young SAOT researchers visited the US in return. During their one-week stay in Princeton, they presented their own research and...
On May 13th, we hosted a public science evening in our panOPTICUM as part of #FAUwissenwollen. In his talk on the physics of colors, Dr. Max Gmelch also shed a light on the scientific background of the recent polar lights.
The talk was complemented by a guided tour through the interactive panOPTI...
Dynamic Light Scattering and Cross-Country Skiing: Our doctoral candidates spent one week in Oberhof at the SAOT Winter Academy 2024. On the one hand, they learned how to determine diffusion coefficients and viscosities of liquids. On the other hand, they learned about the sliding properties of narr...
Using light as a high precision mesuring tool: on December 4th and 5th, we had our 34th SAOT Workshop - Optical sensing in Turbid Media.
Thank you again to our invited speakers, namely Igor Meglinski, Peter Andersen, Zeev Zalevsky, André C. Stiel, Fanuel Mehari, Dr.-Ing, Vincent Motto-Ros, Hasan ...
The book series "Experimentalphysik" by Wolfgang Demtröder is well known among students.
SAOT will contribute to the next edition of the second volume of this series. We therefore visited three optics labs for exclusive video insights into research related to the book topics. Those videos will be...
