Projects funded from the state budget or special purpose funds
Ministry of Science and Higher Education
VIII Polish Optical Conference (PKO’2025)
Program name: Excellence Science II – support for science conferences (co-funded from state budget)
Implementation period: November 1, 2024 – December 31, 2025
Grant value: 361,240.00 PLN
Total project cost: 517,240.00 PLN
Agreement signing date: November 21, 2024
Project website: https://www.konferencja-optyczna.pl/in-english/
Project description:
The main goal of the project “PKO’2025 – VIII Polish Optical Conference” is to organize a conference dedicated to the Polish optical and photonic community. The event will serve as a platform for exchanging knowledge and experiences among scientists, engineers, industry representatives, and young researchers.
The conference will cover a wide range of topics related to optical sciences and technologies, including:
- Classical and quantum optics,
- Photonics,
- Optoelectronics,
- Functional materials,
- Applications of optical technologies in science and industry.
The program will feature plenary lectures, thematic sessions, poster presentations, and activities supporting the development of young scientists, such as specialized courses and networking sessions.
One of the key outcomes of the project will be the publication of the “Dictionary of Optical Terms” (English-Polish), aimed at facilitating communication within the scientific and industrial community and supporting the development of Polish optics and photonics.
Ministry for Science and Education
Warsaw Summer School on Advanced Optical Imaging
Time:: 15th November 2022 – 14th November 2024
Subsidy: 245 000 PLN
Project website: https://advanced-optical-imaging.candela.org.pl/
Project description:
The main objective of the proposed Project is to organise an international and interdisciplinary scientific conference called “Warsaw Summer School on Advanced Optical Imaging”, concerning broadly understood optical imaging techniques, i.e. techniques enabling the creation of images of investigated objects using light and its unique physical properties. These techniques currently form the basis of, among other things, modern medical diagnostic systems, machine learning and experimental biology. Modern implementations of microscopic imaging techniques are examples of interdisciplinary research, and their implementation requires a combination of the latest advances in physics, statistics, biology, chemistry, mechanical engineering as well as software engineering. Understanding the fundamental and technical limitations of advanced imaging techniques is essential to ensure their further development, to conduct applied as well as basic research and to commercialise the results obtained. The Warsaw Summer School on Advanced Optical Imaging will include lectures by leading experts in the field of optical imaging, poster sessions to facilitate the exchange of ideas and knowledge, short presentations selected by the scientific committee from the submissions, networking meetings and visits to local laboratories.