Heraeus Programm

• Prof. Dr. Sir Michael Berry: Asymptotics and singularities in optics at different levels of description
• Prof. Dr. Alexander Kaplan: Quantum hidden traps in non-confining potential
• Prof. Dr. Marlan Scully: Enhancing the performance of quantum heat engines by Fano interference
• Prof. Dr. Wojciech Zurek: Quantum theory of the classical

• Prof. Astrid Lambrecht: The Casimir effect: quantum optics in vacuum
• Prof. Dr. Ulf Leonhardt: Transformation optics
• Prof. Dr. William Unruh: Measurement of Hawking radiation in an analog
• Prof. Dr. Martin Wegener: Photonic metamaterials: recent progress

• Prof. Dr. Serge Haroche: Quantum feedback in Cavity QED experiment
• Prof. Dr. Fedor Jelezko: Manipulating diamond's impurities
• Prof. Dr. Jeff Kimble: Quantum networks enabled by quantum optics
• Prof. Dr. Dietrich Leibfried: Towards scalable quantum information processing and quantum simulation with trapped ions
• Prof. Dr. Paulo Nussenzveig: Bright and colorful quantum optical entanglement
• Prof. Dr. Martin Plenio: Sensing spins with diamond
• Prof. Dr. Vahid Sandoghdar:  On single molecules and single photons
• Prof. Dr. A. Zeilinger: Tba

• Prof. Dr. Markus Aspelmeyer: Quantum-optomechanics: a new 'twist' to quantum optics...
• Prof. Dr. Immanuel Bloch: Exploring strongly correlated quantum matter with ultracold atoms
• Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Giacobino: Microcavity polaritons: from quantum optics to quantum fluids
• Prof. Dr. Berhard Keimer: Towards a quantitative understanding of high-temperature superconductivity
• Prof. Dr. Giovanna Morigi: Self-organized crystals of ultracold atoms in optical cavities
• Prof. Dr. Tilman Pfau: Coherent control of long range interacting quantum systems
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Wallraff: Tomography and correlation function measurements of propagating microwave photons
• Prof. Dr. Martin Weitz: Bose-Einstein condensation of photons

• Prof. Dr. Paul Corkum: High harmonic generation: What we learn by converting many photons into one

• Prof. Dr. Gerd Leuchs: Quantum optics in a telecommunication environment
• Prof. Dr. Christine Silberhorn: Integrated quantum optics and communication