October 11, 2022
Alfredo Rates

On the 27th and 28th of September, the first summer school “Optics Netherlands” was held at Enschede, hosted by COPS. On these two days, we had in-depth optics courses given by academic partners, industrial partners, and Postdocs. Plenty of knowledge to be gained- not only for the Ph.D. students- and ample opportunity to get to know other groups at the forefront of optical science.

This event was achieved by joint forces between 4 NWO perspective programs: LINX, SYNOPTICS, FFSO, and FREE. More details about the program of the event can be found here: https://www.aanmelder.nl/opticsnetherlandssummerschool2022/part_program

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