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Aufgaben: Betreuung von Besuchergruppen im panOPTICUM (Röthelheimpark, Erlangen) Kurze Führungen und Erklärungen zu den Experimentierstationen Weiterentwicklung einzelner Experimentierstationen Anforderungen: Spaß am Erklären von Wissenschaft, speziell optischer Technologien In...

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...

On October 2nd, around 20 pupils aged eight to ten visited our panOPTICUM science center. Their visit was part of the Kinderuni Erlangen 2023, a new FAU format in which children get an insight into the work and research of the university. Dr. Max Gmelch gave a tour about the wonders of light a...

At the Long Night of Sciences last Saturday, more than 700 people visited our new Science Center panOPTICUM to learn about photonics and optical technologies. Thank you for your curiosity, and a big thank you to the SAOT doctoral candidates who explained all the experiments to the visitors. See y...

On Monday, October 10th we held the opening ceremony of our panOPTICUM. After short welcoming words by SAOT Coordinator Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Schmidt, Vice President Outreach Prof. Dr. Katrin Möslein and the creator of the Science Center Dr. Max Gmelch, the visitors had the chance to explore all...

On October 9th, we will open our Science Center on Photonics and Optical Technologies panOPTICUM. https://www.saot.fau.de/panopticum/

Last week, the SAOT Summer Academy 2023 was held at the Fraunhofer Research Campus Waischenfeld. Our doctoral candidates learned about current and future display technologies and enjoyed outdoor activities.

At the SAOT Innovation Day 2023, several SAOT investigators – some of them who have just recently joined the network – presented their research to colleagues and doctoral candidates of SAOT: Birgit Stiller: Light-sound interactions for quantum technologies and optical signal processing Hanie...

Leaving the pandemic behind, PhD students from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Princeton University met again to jointly learn about lasers and photonics. Erlangen, June 2023 – There’s nothing like personal exchange, especially in high complex fields like laser technolog...

On May 24, 2023, SAOT members and MAOT students visited the ASML headquarter Veldhoven and gained insights into the company, which is the world's largest supplier of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry.