External Events: Conference & Exhibition

Being Europe’s city of light, Jena has been pushing the frontiers of
photonics for more than a century. Recently, the potential of photonic
systems to create the fastest and most energy efficient artificial
intelligence (AI) platforms has been recognized. Therefore, the experts
of photonics and AI technology will gather to exchange their view on the
future of this emerging field in research and applications in an
interdisciplinary conference in Jena.

The conference “Jena LIGHT – Photonics meets AI” takes place on 3-6 September 2024, hosted by the Abbe Center of Photonics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany.

The conference “Jena LIGHT – Photonics meets AI” particularly aims to
bring together world-leading researchers in the field of neuromorphic
photonic systems, quantum photonic technologies, nanooptics, and
computer science, to explore and discuss the current challenges and
future potentials in the field of neuromorphic photonics. With this
perspective, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Diffractive and integrated photonic neural networks
• High-dimensional photonic information processing
• Machine-learning and other
  computational methods (also with the potential) for training and design
  of photonic neuromorphic systems
• Photonic quantum information processing platforms with potential application for neuromorphic photonic realizations
• Quantum machine learning and quantum neural networks
• Photonic reservoir computing

Within these topics, different aspects on the physics, fabrication,
characterization, and programming of relevant photonic hardware
platforms and also relevant computational and design methods are
included in the scope of the symposium.

Further information and registration