The „international Nano-Optoelectronics Workshop (iNOW 2025)” conference has begun at the Wrocław Tech. Prominent specialists from various fields related to nano-optoelectronics are taking part.

The iNOW conference has been organised since 2006 in top academic centres around the world, including Stanford (USA), Berlin (Germany), Shenzhen (China), Stockholm (Sweden) and Tokyo (Japan). This year, the event, which will run until 31 July, is hosted by Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

- We are meeting in a magnificent city, which is one of the most important academic centres in Europe," said Professor Arkadiusz Wójs, rector of Wrocław University of Science and Technology, at the opening of the conference. - Wrocław has a rich tradition when it comes to physics and the history of science. It is here that Max Born, Erwin Schrödinger or Otto Stern lived and studied. I wish you all fruitful deliberations and encourage you - at your leisure - to visit the places connected with science in Wrocław, as we really have a lot of them.

The event is a school dedicated to photonics and optoelectronics. It is primarily aimed at students, doctoral students and young scientists.

- The iNOW conference has a rich, 20-year history and I am very proud that this year we are organising this important event at Wrocław University of Science and Technology,' said Professor Grzegorz Sęk from the Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, chairman of the organising committee. - It is an honour for us, but also a challenge, as we have worked hard for a year to prepare such an interesting and interesting scientific programme, following the example of our predecessors. I believe that we have succeeded in doing so, and it will be significantly complemented by a few things we have added from ourselves, i.e. a poster session, a tour of the university's laboratories and visits to companies that cooperate with us,' adds prof. Sęk.

The conference organisers have scheduled lectures by nearly 60 speakers. These include Prof. Yasuhiko Arakawa (University of Tokyo), Prof. Dieter Bimberg (Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics CAS, China & Technical University of Berlin) or Prof. James Harris (Stanford University).

Speakers will include not only scientists, but also representatives from companies working in semiconductor nanotechnologies, various branches of optoelectronics and photonics, as well as those working on quantum optical communication or quantum information processing.

Conference participants will also have the opportunity to present their own achievements (in the form of poster presentations preceded by short oral presentations). An additional important aspect will be the opportunity to discuss their research and results with all the experts present at the conference.