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Matthias Plock successfully defends his dissertation "On Methods for Bayesian Optimization of Least Squares Problems and Optimization of Nanophotonic Devices" on 15.07.2025 at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @zuseinstitute.bsky.social, @mathplusberlin.bsky.social #MachineLearning Congratulations!

MP after successful defense of the PhD thesis.

July 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM

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Convergence results for the numerical realization of the approach, scripts, and data, can be found in the corresponding data publication at the Zenodo EU Open Research Repository, doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Spectrum and its convergence with number of support points in the AAA Rational Approximation, from data publication https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14651612 , corresponding to the article Betz et al., https://doi.org/10.1002/lpor.202500811 .

July 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM

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Opening of #FUBIC @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social‬ 16.06.2025 & Research Campus MODAL 3 at FUBIC: CNO presents the NanoLab of @fc-modal.bsky.social‬. #photonics @jcmwave.bsky.social @zuseinstitute.bsky.social #FUHUB FUBIC: "Business and Innovation Centre next to Freie Universität Berlin Campus"

June 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM

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Save the date: 18th Annual Meeting Photonic Devices 28-30 April 2026, Berlin, #AMPD2026, www.zib.de/workshop-pho... @zuseinstitute.bsky.social @mathplusberlin.bsky.social

May 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM

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Social event: #AMPD2025 visits the Allied Museum www.alliiertenmuseum.de/en/

#AMPD2025 Inside an original Hastings airplane. This was the largest transport plane deployed by the Royal Air Force during the Berlin Airlift.
Photo by courtesy of P. Lalanne

April 9, 2025 at 7:25 AM

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Thanks to all participants of #AMPD2025! 71 nanophotonics presentations and 110 participants at the 17th Annual Meeting Photonic Devices in Berlin! @zuseinstitute.bsky.social , @mathplusberlin.bsky.social . Looking forward to #AMPD2026!

April 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM

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Eyecatching illustration for this article in better resolution! AI-generated and provided by @solartube.bsky.social

Schematic image visualizing challenges, achievements, and perspectives for optics for terawatt scale photovoltaics. Image by K. Jäger, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin.

March 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM

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Propagation modes in photonic crystal fibers: efficient computation using #AAARationalApproximation: Article in @degruyterbrill.bsky.social Nanophotonics: doi.org/10.1515/nano...
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Fundamental mode in a photonic crystal fiber, PCF, computed using AAA rational approximation. See also: data publication: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14202408, method: https://doi.org/10.1002/lpor.202400584, https://doi.org/10.1002/adts.202400989

March 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM

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Resonances on different Riemann sheets greatly impact optical response in #photonic systems with #BranchCuts: Preprint doi.org/10.48550/arX... collab. @crockstuhl.bsky.social at KIT, Koenderink group @amolf-nl.bsky.social, @jcmwave.bsky.social, #AAARationalApproximation @mathplusberlin.bsky.social

Optical response function in the complex frequency plane, featuring three resonances a,b,c. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.03549

March 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM

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17th Annual Meeting Photonic Devices 02-04 April 2025, Berlin,
!preliminary program online! www.zib.de/workshop-pho...
with more than 60 talks and poster presentations #AMPD2025
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AMPD meeting at ZIB https://www.zib.de/workshop-photonic-devices/ampd2025.html

February 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM

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Easy sharing of T-matrices for optical scattering by using a standard data format: Joint effort of 25 groups active in the field, headed by @crockstuhl.bsky.social - Published in J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transf.: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jq...

Schematics: optical scattering for an arbitrary scatterer in free space. Ref.: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2024.109310

January 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM

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Design of wavefront-shaping devices with Poles and Zeros: Collaborative work with groups of Patrice Genevet, Shanhui Fan, Andrea Alù, published in Optica @optica.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1364/OPTI... @zuseinstitute.bsky.social @jcmwave.bsky.social @cuny.bsky.social @coschoolofmines.bsky.social

December 6, 2024 at 4:47 PM

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Optimizing Color Appearance of Perovskite Solar Cells! Congrats @jonasschaible.bsky.social! Collaboration with HZB, @fraunhoferise.bsky.social, @jcmwave.bsky.social, @zuseinstitute.bsky.social published in Solar RRL! #BayesianOptimization #MachineLearning @www.helmholtz.de doi.org/10.1002/solr...

Model of a Perovskite solar cell with morphocolor color filter coating and optimization results

December 5, 2024 at 10:44 AM

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Chiral far field emission from a point source coupled to a plasmonic helix: Collaborative work with K. Höflich, T. Feichtner, #JCMwave, et al., published in Appl. Phys. Lett. @aip.bsky.social @zuseinstitute.bsky.social #photonics #numerics doi.org/10.1063/5.02...