EurOP­TICA Meetup 2024 – Women in STEM and EDI

From 7th to 9th of August, the first EurOP­TICA Meetup under the motto “Women in STEM and EDI” is taking place in Jena. We have pre­pared a rich and diverse pro­gram. It includes talks by OPTICA and SPIE ambassa­dors and local indus­try repre­sen­ta­ti­ves, a work­shop at our local maker­space as well as lab and com­pany tours.

To enable bet­ter plan­ning for us and the hos­ting insti­tu­ti­ons, we ask all par­ti­ci­pants of the invi­ted chap­ters to regis­ter for the event using the form below.

Kindly regis­ter here by 31.07..

For Thurs­day, you can choose to attend dif­fe­rent com­pany tours based on your inte­rests. Please decide alre­ady now which two tours you want to attend.

 

What com­pany tours can I attend?

Mor­ning tours (Thurs­day, 9–11am)

In the mor­ning, we will visit ZEISS, one of the world’s lea­ding manu­fac­tu­r­ers of opti­cal sys­tems and elec­tro-opti­cal com­pon­ents, foun­ded here in Jena. You can choose bet­ween two spe­cia­li­zed tours:

1. ZEISS Semi­con­duc­tors & optics pro­duc­tion ››SIGN UP‹‹
2. ZEISS Medi­tec ››SIGN UP‹‹

After­noon tours (Thurs­day, 1–3pm)

1. Fraun­ho­fer Insti­tute for Applied Optics and Pre­cis­ion Engi­nee­ring (IOF) ››SIGN UP‹‹
   A rese­arch insti­tute cove­ring a wide range of topics inclu­ding laser and fiber optics, micro- and nanos­truc­tu­red optics, quan­tum com­mu­ni­ca­tion and quan­tum ima­ging technologies.
2. Leib­niz Insti­tute of Pho­to­nic Tech­no­logy (IPHT) ››SIGN UP‹‹
   A rese­arch insti­tute with a spe­cial focus on bio­pho­to­nics, fiber optics and pho­to­nic detection.
3. Active Fiber Sys­tems (AFS) – MASTER+ tour ››SIGN UP‹‹
   A small num­ber of par­ti­ci­pants may also join local stu­dents of the Mas­ter+ pro­gram on a com­pany tour at AFS, a tech­no­logy lea­der in high-power, fem­to­se­cond fiber lasers.

Please note that your regis­tra­tion is bin­ding, as the hos­ting com­pa­nies need to know in advance who will be joi­ning their tours.

 

Agenda EurOP­TICA Meetup 2024 – Women in STEM and EDI:

Wed­nes­day (07.08.2024)

Time	Topic	Loca­tion
09:30 – 11:00	Wel­come and Talks – Part 1 Women in STEM, Yann Amou­roux Career at Edmund Optics,  Agnes Hüb­scher & Lati­fah Maasarani	Albert-Ein­stein-Straße 6
11:00 – 13:00	Abbe Cen­ter of Pho­to­nics lab tours	Albert-Ein­stein-Straße 6
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch break, Mensa Carl-Zeiss-Promenade	Mensa Carl-Zeiss-Pro­me­nade
14:00 – 15:30	Talks – Part 2 Pho­to­nics Indus­tries in Thu­rin­gia, Anke Sieg­meier, Opto­Net Free­form Optics, Ulrike Fuchs, aspher­icon StartUp-Talk, Tors­ten Feigl, optiX fab	Albert-Ein­stein-Straße 6
15:30 – 16:00	Cof­fee Break	Albert-Ein­stein-Straße 6
16:00 – 17:30	Talks – Part 3 Tech­T­alk, Elfi Töp­fer, micro­flui­dic ChipShop StartUp-Talk, Patrick Wes­ter­mann, Ser­gey  Tur­taev, DeepEn Mul­ti­mo­dal Spec­tro­scopy in Medi­cal Dia­gno­stics, Katar­zyna Komo­li­bus, Tynd­all Natio­nal Insti­tute Irish Pho­to­nic Inte­gra­tion Centre	Albert-Ein­stein-Straße 6
From 17:30	Net­wor­king and BBQ	Albert-Ein­stein-Straße 6

Thurs­day Com­pany Tours (08.08.2024)

Time	Topic	Loca­tion
09:00 – 11:00	First Tour (Choose one)
	a) ZEISS Micro­scopy / Semi­con­duc­tors ››SIGN UP‹‹	Carl-Zeiß-Pro­me­nade 10
	b) ZEISS Medi­tec ››SIGN UP‹‹	Gösch­wit­zer Str. 51–52
11:00 – 13:00	Tran­sit and Lunch at Mensa Carl-Zeiss-Promenade	Mensa Carl-Zeiss-Pro­me­nade
13:00 – 15:00	Second Tour (Choose one)
	a) Fraun­ho­fer IOF ››SIGN UP‹‹	Albert-Ein­stein-Straße 7
	b) Leib­niz IPHT ››SIGN UP‹‹	Albert-Ein­stein-Straße 9
	c) Active Fiber Sys­tems (AFS) ››SIGN UP‹‹	Ernst-Ruska-Ring 17
15:00 – 15:30	Tran­sit
15:30 – 17:00	Quiz	Albert-Ein­stein-Straße 6
17:00 – 18:00	City Tour	Holz­markt
From 18:00	Din­ner	City-Cen­ter

Fri­day (09.08.2024)

Time	Topic	Loca­tion
10:00 – 11:30	Optics Work­shop	Albert-Ein­stein-Straße 6
11:30 – 12:30	Lunch break, Mensa Carl-Zeiss-Promenade	Mensa Carl-Zeiss-Pro­me­nade
12:30 – 14:00	Optics Work­shop	Albert-Ein­stein-Straße 6
14:00 – 15:00	Clo­sing Ceremony	Albert-Ein­stein-Straße 6

 

Points for the Registration:

• Name (Frist name, surname)
• Email
• Stu­dent Chap­ter / Institution
• Optica Mem­ber (y/n)
• Takes part in Net­wor­king and BBQ on Wed­nes­day (07.08.2024) (y/n)
• BBQ: omnivore/vegetarian/vegan (*if you have any food all­er­gies or into­le­ran­ces you can let us know via the com­ment field)
• Com­pany tours on Thurs­day (bin­ding regis­tra­tion separately) 
  • 1st Tour: ZEISS Micro­scopy / Semi­con­duc­tors OR ZEISS Meditec
  • 2nd Tour: Fraun­ho­fer IOF OR Leib­niz IPHT OR  Active Fiber Systems
• Com­ment field

 

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NOTE

By sub­mit­ting the regis­tra­tion form, you agree to be lis­ted on an atten­dee list which will be available to other atten­dees. Fur­ther­more, you agree to allow pic­tures of the event to be shown on our web­sites and our social media accounts, unless you expli­citly object before the event.