Dr. Kemal Shafak (Head of Timing Technology at Cycle GmbH, Germany) will deliver a talk on ‘Optical timing distribution and synchronization with ultrafast femtosecond lasers’ in Physics colloquium at Department of Physics, Tampere University. Cycle GmbH, founded as a DESY spinoff company in 2015, is producing world-leading timing equipment that synchronizes RF and optical equipment with sub-femtosecond resolution.