Past Events
April 2023
IMEC Visit in Belgium
The EPFL and ETH optics chapter invite you to join us on a highly subsidized 3-day trip to IMEC in Belgium. The cost per person is 50 CHFs for PhDs and only 25 CHFs for students thanks to funding from IMEC and OPTICA, making it an excellent opportunity to network with your peers and meet leading researchers from the industry.
Date: 23.03 - 25.03
Location: Leuven, Belgium
Thursday (23.03)
10:00 – 17:00 Travel to Leuven by Bus
19:00 – 00:00 Organized Dinner by IMEC
Friday (24.03)
09:00 – 17:00 IMEC Visit
- Introduction by Joe de Boek
- Technical Talks about Quantum, Moore’s Law and Silicon Photonics (Kristian De Greve, Kurt Ronse, Paul Hermans and many more)
- Fab tour and characterization lab tour
- Invited lunch
17:00 – 19:00 BREAK
19:00 – Open End Dinner with Leuven Chapter (organized by IMEC)
Saturday (25.03)
10:00 – 13:00 Sightseeing in Leuven
13:00 – 20:00 Travel back to Zurich by Bus
March 2023
Optics and Drinks!
The role of optics&photonics in the industry and its job opportunities
We are looking forward to meeting you at our ‘Optics and Drinks’ event. We are so excited to present the seminar talk by Dr. Barbara Buades about job opportunities in Optics&Photonics. The seminar is open to all students and faculty members, and will be followed by an Apero (free drinks, cheers 😉).
Date: Wednesday, March 1st – 17:15
Location: HG Room E 42 – Zentrum
Programme:
Since the discovery of the laser in 1960, photonics has vastly grown in number of applications, from autonomous diving, VR&AR and quantum technologies. Every day new engineers and researchers join our industry to apply light to the development of new technologies that will shape our future. In this seminar we will go through some of the most prominent optics & photonics applications and discover what professional roles are needed in the industry to make this growth successful.
Bio:
Dr. Barbara Buades, the CEO of MEETOPTICS, holds a PhD in Ultrafast Optics from ICFO (Barcelona), with a bachelor in Physicist and a Master in Optics and Photonics from Imperial College Longon. After finishing her PhD she started the company MEETOPTICS. MEETOPTICS has developed the first AI-powered Optics&Photonics Search to help engineers and researchers easily find and compare Optics, Light Sources, Optomechanics, Fibers... from trusted manufacturers in our industry. Since 2022, Barbara is a OPTICA ambassador and has a large experience/network in the scientific and industrial community.
December 2022
Join us for Optics and Drinks!
Ursula Keller & her successful career
We are looking forward to meeting you at our ‘Optics and Drinks’ event. We are so excited to present the seminar talk by Prof. Ursula Keller on her successful career!
The seminar is open to all students and faculty members, and will be followed by an Apero (free drinks, cheers 😉).
Date: Wednesday, December 7th – 17:30
Location: HCI Room E 8 – Hönggerberg
Bio: Ursula Keller was appointed an Associate Professor in March 1993 and in October 1997 she became a Full Professor in the Physics Department at ETH Zurich. Her research interests are exploring and pushing the frontiers in ultrafast science and technology. She invented the semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) which enabled passive modelocking of diode-pumped solid-state lasers and established ultrafast solid-state lasers for science and industrial applications. Pushed the frontier of few-cycle pulse generation and full electric field control at petahertz frequencies. Pioneered frequency comb stabilization from modelocked lasers, which was also noted by the Nobel committee for Physics in 2005. In time-resolved attosecond metrology she invented the attoclock which resolved the electron tunneling delay and observed the dynamical Franz-Keldysh effect in condensed matter for the first time. The physics professor Ursula Keller has received the Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist for her pioneering work in ultrafast lasers.
ECOC 2022: IONS Event!
IONS+ Supercharge Your Conference Experience
As ETH Zurich and EPFL Optics student chapters have been working on IONS+, a student event to elevate your conference experience during ECOC 2022.
IONS+ is an event from students for students. We envisioned this event to revolve around student networking and seminars to guide us through our PhDs. The flagship event will be a panel discussion themed “What can I do after my PhD?” with select speakers from the industry and academia. This will be followed by a presentation workshop given by TEDx Speaker tutor Magda Kern. Also, the event is sponsored by Optica Foundation, so it is entirely free! Check out the full program below.
You can also participate in the “Optics in Micro- and Macroscale” photo contest. During this contest, we can celebrate our hard work in optics by presenting them with an artistic twist. You can make a submission with few easy steps and top ranked submissions will receive prizes! You can find more details regarding the contest in our external pagewebpage or make a submission.
Date: 18.09.2022, 09:00 – 17:45
Location: Room Kairo, Congress Center Basel
Program:
09:00 – 10:15: Welcome & Introduction
10:15 – 11:30: Image Contest & Networking
11:30 – 13:30: Lunch (organised)
13:30 – 15:30: What Can I Do After My PhD? Inputs from Successful People
Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Assistant Professor, EPFL, Switzerland
Christian Haffner, Group Leader, imec, Belgium
Niels Quack, Associate Professor, University of Sydney, Australia
Claudia Hoessbacher, CEO, Polariton Technologies Ltd., Switzerland
Fabio Bottoni, Optical Hardware Engineer, Cisco, Italy
15:30 – 17:30: Pimp your Presentation! – Workshop
Magda Kern-Fialkowska, Head of Speakers, TEDxZurich, Switzerland
17:30 – 17:45: Award Ceremony
