On the 16th of January Andreas Christ successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Theory of ultrafast waveguided parametric down-conversion: From fundamentals to applications"

Xu Yang became the first student to finish the Master degree in the IQO group. On December, 14th, the defense of his master thesis entitled "Implementation of a waveguide based source of polarization entanglement" took place.

Sarah Leineweber and Thomas Nitsche received her B.Sc. degrees.

27 Nobelpreisträger und 580 Studierende aus 70 Ländern haben sich Anfang Juli zur 62. Tagung der Nobelpreisträger in Lindau versammelt. Mit dabei waren die beiden Paderborner Physik-Doktoranden Andreas Christ (28), Mitglied der IQO, und Christian Wiebeler (25) aus der theoretischen Physik.

Our paper "A 2D quantum walk simulation of two-particle dynamics" was published in the magazine SCIENCE.

In the last days of November the complete equipment from the labs in building P5 was moved into the seventh floor of the P1-building. This lab move was necessary because the labs in P5 will be completely refurbished and equipped with air-condition.