Ceremonial Session with Award Ceremony

Special Plenary Session with Award Ceremony and Prize talk

Date                     Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Time                     10:30 – 12:30
Room                   53.01 (Audimax); 47.01, 47.02, 47.03 (video live stream)

The itinerary of the Ceremonial Act is as follows:

Address
Prof. Tilman Pfau, Local Conference Organizer

Ceremonial Session Invited Talk

Prof. Dr. Theodor Hänsch, LMU Munich

“Laser Spectroscopy of Hydrogen”

Music

Speech
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sandner, President of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft

Award Ceremony

Herbert-Walther-Prize 2012
Professor Alain Aspect, CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique, France

Gustav-Hertz-Prize 2012
Dr. Aldo Antognini, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Randolf Pohl, MPI for Quantum Optics, Garching

SAMOP Dissertation Prize
The laureate will be chosen after the SAMOP Dissertation Prize Symposium (SYAD).

Music

Prize talk

Prof. Dr. Rainer Blatt, University of Innsbruck (Austria);

Laureate of the Stern-Gerlach-Medaille 2012;
(Prize will be awarded at the DPG-Frühjahrstagung in Berlin March 25-30, 2012)
“The quantum way of doing computations”