The 2026 PhD Seminar will take place from October 1 to October 2, 2026. The aim of the seminar is to provide an overview of the current research activities at the institute and to foster scientific exchange between the different research groups.
The PhD students will present their research in talks and during a poster session. The presentations are intended for an institute-wide audience and should therefore provide sufficient context to also be accessible to colleagues who are not experts in the respective research area.
In addition, this year's seminar will feature three invited talks. Our invited speakers will not only present their work, but will also share experiences, insights, and practical advice from their academic and professional careers.
Thursday, October 1, 2026
09:00 – Welcome & Opening
09:15 – Ramprasad Raghunath: "Application of GNN in resource allocation of Cell free massive MIMO networks"
09:45 – Pol Julià-Farré: "Application-Agnostic Model for Entanglement Buffering"
10:15 – Coffee Break
10:30 – Johannes Eckhard (Deutsche Bahn) – "DB Systemtechnik"
11:30 – Koki Takahashi: "Relationship of Channel Resolvability and Identification via Channels"
12:00 – Lunch Break
13:30 - Rodrigo Kloster Albarracín: "Continuous Variable Quantum Key Distribution for Inter-Satelite Links"
14:00 – Carla Reinhardt: "Dynamic Measurements at 10 & 60 GHz"
14:30 – Coffee Break
14:45 – Poster Spotlight Talks (1 minute per poster)
15:15 – Poster Session & BBQ
Friday, October 2, 2026
09:00 – Announcements
09:15 – Lotte Geck (Forschungszentrum Jülich): "Electronic Systems for Quantum Compution"
10:15 – Coffee Break
10:30 – Marcel Mross: "The Second-Order Coding Rate of Identification with
Feedback"
11:00 – Mojan Wegener: "Open-Loop Transmission with Discrete Blocklengths: Characterization of AoI-Optimal Schedules"
11:30 – Yien Liang (HHU Düsseldorf): "Quantum Key Distribution without Hidden Message Transmission"
12:00 – Lunch Break
13:30 – Giulia Torcolacci (DLR, Munich): Invited Talk
14:30 – Closing Remarks & End of Seminar