Our events
Event management
One of the main activities of the Candela Foundation is the organization of events that support and help the development of young scientists and provide an opportunity to present the results of locally conducted scientific research projects to an international community. The Foundation organizes scientific conferences, workshops, summer schools and webinars.
The Foundation uses its experience in organizing international scientific events also as part of its business activity, organizing conferences not directly related to optics and photonics. Such activities enable the Foundation to raise funds for its statutory activity, which directly supports the optics and photonics community in Poland.
Conferences organized by Candela Foundation
2025
II Conference on Recent Advances in Translational Eye Research (CRATER 2.0)
Date: 15-17 October 2025
Place: Copernicus Science Center, Warszawa
Webpage: crater.icter.pl
Co-organisers: International Centre for Translational Eye Research (ICTER), Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS
19th International Conference on Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems (OECS 19)
Date: 14-18 July 2025
Place: Copernicus Science Center, Warszawa
Webpage: oecs19.pl
Co-organisers: Center for Theoretical Physics PAS
VIII Polish Optical Conference (PKO’2025)
Date: 30 June – 3 July 2025
Place: TBA
Webpage: konferencja-optyczna.pl
2024
Warsaw Summer School on Advanced Optical Imaging
Date: 3-5 September 2024
Place: University of Warsaw Library
Webpage: advanced-optical-imaging.candela.org.pl
Co-organizers: International Centre for Translational Eye Research (ICTER), Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS
IMAMPC’2024 – 13th International Meeting on Atomic and Molecular Physics and Chemistry
Date: 9-12 July 2024
Place: University of Warsaw Biological and Chemistry Research Center
Webpage: imampc2024.pl
Co-organizers: University of Warsaw, Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS
2023
SCALARS 2023
Date: 13-16 September 2023
Place: Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
Webpage: scalars2023.fuw.edu.pl
Co-organizer: Physics of Fundamental Interactions Section of the Polish Physical Society
CRATER 2023 – Conference on Recent Advances in Translational Eye Research
Date: 7-8 September 2023
Place: Copernicus Science Center, Warsaw
Webpage: crater2023.icter.pl
Co-organizers: International Centre for Translational Eye Research, Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS
QBIC-VI – The 6th Quantum Bio-Inorganic Chemistry Conference
Date: 29 August – 1 September 2023
Place: Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS, Warsaw
Webpage: qbicvi.sciencesconf.org
Co-organizer: Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS
Early Career Workshop 2023
Date: 23–24 July 2023
Place: Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
Webpage: https://indico.jlab.org/event/696
EICUG 2023 – Electron-Ion Collider User Group meeting
Date: 25–31 July 2023
Place: Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
Webpage: indico.cern.ch/e/EICUG2023
Co-organizers: National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw University of Technology
PKO2023 – VII Polish Optical Conference
Date: 4-7 July 2023
Place: Toruń, Poland
Webpage: konferencja-optyczna.pl
Co-organizer: Optics Division of Polish Physical Society
Symposium for prof. Iwo Białynicki-Birula
Date: 14 June 2023
Place: Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
Co-organizer: Center for Theoretical Physics PAS
PLANCK 2023 – The 25th International Conference From the Planck Scale to the Electroweak Scale
Date: 22-26 May 2023
Place: University of Warsaw Biological and Chemistry Research Center
Webpage: planck2023.fuw.edu.pl
2022
OPTO2022 – Warsaw
Co-organisers: University of Warsaw Student Association of Optics and Photonics, SPIE Student Chapter Warsaw University of Technology
Workshop on Cold Hybrid Ion-atom Systems 2022
Co-organiser: University of Warsaw
PSAS2022 – International Conference on Precision Physics of Simple Atomic Systems
Summer schools
MiniModes Photonics School 2022
Co-organizer: KNOF-UW – The Student Association of Optics and Photonics
Optica Siegman International School on Lasers 2022
MiniModes Photonics School 2021
Co-organizer: KNOF-UW – The Student Association of Optics and Photonics
Webinars
Should I stay or should I go? Akademia or industry? Career paths in optics and photonics
Date: 2 September 2021
Place: online
Recording (in PL): YouTube
Other
International Conference “Eco-Forum 2021. Polish-German Green Deal?”
Date: 16 November 2021
Place: online
Webpage: ecoforum.uni.wroc.pl
Co-organiser: University of Wrocław