FONTE Network-wide Training Events – A Timeline of All Events

In FONTE our ESRs are educated via a host of different training formats. Many of these events are Open-To-All (OTA) for the benefit of the scientific community.

FONTE Induction – see training material in Members only area

Winter School: Nonlinear Photonics NPL2019 (20-26 Jan 2019; Andalo, Italy)

Winter School at Nokia Bell Labs (18-19 Feb 2019; NBL; Stutgart; Germany) – see training material in Members only area

1st FONTE Annual Meeting and Transferable Skills Workshop TWS1 (1 July 2019, NBL, Stuttgart, Germany)

OTA Workshop at Conference: Machine Learning for Optical Communications (MALOC):  Workshop at ICTON2019 (Angers, France, July 9th-13th, 2019)

OTA Workshop at Conference: Machine Learning in Photonics Symposium at Photonica 2019 (Belgrade, Serbia, 26-27 Aug 2020)

2nd FONTE Annual Meeting and OTA Workshop: Non-Linear Fourier Transform Workshop  (TU Delft, Netherlands, 4-5 Feb 2020). Full schedule and details here

Transferable Skills Workshop TSW2 (Aston University; 27-28 Feb 2020). full schedule here. Some of the presentations are available in the website’s members-only area

OTA Workshop at Conference: Machine Learning for Optical Communications (MALOC):  Workshop at ICTON2020 (Bari, Italy, July 19-23 Jul, 2020)

OTA Mini-Symposium: Introduction to Machine Learning incl practical course‘ online 7-8 Sept 2020. Full schedule and details here

OTA Summer School: Machine Learning Photonics MLPH 2021Lake Como School of Advanced Studies (Como; Italy; 14-18 September 2020). POSTPONED due to COVID; Tentative new date 15 March, 2021

3rd FONTE Annual Meeting (co-located with ECOC2020, Brussels; 25 Sept 2020); VENUE change due to COVID: event online 09:30-14:00

OTA Mini-Symposium: Numerical implementation of Bayesian filtering for signal equalisation and demodulation; event online 28 October 2020. Full schedule and details here

OTA Event Day: Electrical Engineering Artificial Intelligence Day at TPT online 19 Nov  2020. Full schedule and details here; the lectures are available online here

Additional Soft Skills Training: Webinar Writing an Effective CV by Jean-Luc Doumont (Principae.be). Dec  3 Dec 2020; 20:00-22:00 Brussels time.

OTA Mini-Symposium: Introduction to Photonic Reservoir Computing online 24 Feb 2021

OTA Summer School and Workshop: Machine Learning Photonics MLPH 2021 online & onsite 15-19 March 2021

Transferable Skills Workshop TSW3 (22-24 March 2021; online due to COVID). Full schedule here.

OTA Workshop: Nano and Integrated Photonics Workshop (19-22 Apr 2021). Full details here

4th FONTE Annual Meeting (10 May 2021) online

OTA Summer School: Neuromorphic Photonics NMP2021 (20-26 Jun 2021) online

OTA Networking Event: WaveComplexity incl. International Networking Event WINE 2021. (1-2 Jul 2021) online

OTA Workshop: Digital Signal Processing in Optical Communication (25 Oct 2021) Paris and online

OTA Mini-Symposium: ML Techniques and Challenges (24 Nov 2021) online

Transferable Skills Workshop TSW4 (24-25 March 2022; online due to COVID). Full schedule here.

OTA Workshop: Current and future trends for optical communication systems (7-8 Apr 2022), including tracks on 1. Practical Implementation and Network Applications of Nonlinear Fourier Transform; 2. Machine Learning Methods for Ultra-Wide Band Systems; and 3. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Applied to Multiband Optical Communication. DTU/Denmark and online

Final FONTE Annual Meeting (8 April 2022) Copenhagen, Denmark

OTA Workshop on Optical Frequency Combs (11-12 Apr 2022), Birmingham, UK

 

FONTE Management & Network Meetings

(more details in Members Only Area)

  • Kick off Meeting Fri 15 June 2018 (Aston University; Birmingham; UK) – Images in Members Area
  • Network Meeting Tue 25 Sept 2018 (co-located with ECOC2018; Rome; Italy)
  • Minor Management Meeting 28-29 Jan 2019 (Infinera; Germany) – Ast, DTU, TPT present
  • Management Meeting Mon 1 Jul 2019 (NBL, Stuttgart, Germany) – Images in Members Area
  • Mid-Term Check with EC (Mandatory) Fri 27 Sept 2019 (co-located with ECOC2019; Dublin, Ireland)
  • Management Meeting Tue 4 Feb 2020; (co-located with Non-Linear Fourier Transform Workshop  at TU Delft)
  • Management Meeting (co-located with ECOC2020, Brussels; 25 Sept 2020); VENUE change due to COVID: event online 09:30-14:00
  • Management Meeting Thu 4 Feb 2021 online
  • Management Meeting Mon 10 May 2021 (co-located with 4th Annual Meeting) online
  • Management Meeting Tue 21 Sept 2021 online
  • Management Meeting Fri 8 Apr 2022 (co-located with Final Annual Meeting); DTU, Denmark