Ceremonial Session
During the DPG Spring Meeting the Herbert-Walther-Prize and the Dissertation Prize of the Atomic, Molecular, Quantum Optics and Photonics Section will be awarded in a ceremonial session. This session is open to all conference participants and the interested public. Admission is free and registration for the conference is not necessary.
This special session will take place on Tuesday, 3 March 2026 at 14:00 in the RW 1.
Programme
Welcome
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 Lecture
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.