The Herbert-Walther-Prize and the Dissertation Prize of the Atomic, Molecular, Quantum Optics and Photonics Section will be awarded at this session, and two of the DPG prize winners will give there prize talks there.

Programme

Welcome

by Prof. Dr. Klaus Richter
President of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e.V.

Awarding of the

Herbert-Walther Prize 2026
to Prof. Antoine Browaeys, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut d‘Optique, Palaiseau, France

Prize talk

Herbert-Walther Prize 2026
by Prof. Antoine Browaeys, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut d‘Optique, Palaiseau, France
"Assembling quantum matter one atom at a time: Many-body physics with arrays of Rydberg atoms."

Awarding of the

SAMOP Dissertation Prize 2026
The laureate will be announced at the award ceremony.

Prize talk

Gustav-Hertz-Prize 2026
by Dr. Clara Wanjura, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany
"Complex scattering systems: from non-Hermitian topology to neuromorphic computing."

Honoring Prof. Dr. Dieter Röß

by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Mlynek, Board Chairman of the Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Foundation and
Prof. Dr. Klaus Richter, President of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e.V.

Ceremonial talk

by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT, Department of Physics, Cambridge, USA
"How one, two and many atoms scatter light"

 

The Ceremonial Session will be in English.

This session is open to all conference participants and the interested public. Admission is free and registration for the conference is not necessary.