Agenda

MCQST 2023 - Agenda

MCQST2023 features inspiring talks from the MCQST community and invited guests, innovative research, dedicated meetings for the MCQST community, as well as two poster sessions. Join us to discover the latest scientific and technological advancements spanning all areas of Quantum Science and Technology (QST).

Covered topics include: Quantum Information Theory, Quantum Simulation, Quantum Computing, Quantum Communication, Quantum Metrology and Sensing, Quantum Matter, and Explorative Directions (bridging quantum science and technology with high-energy physics, quantum gravity, cosmology, or quantum chemistry).

Recommended poster format: A0 - 84.1 x 118.9 cm, portrait.

Tuesday, 20 June

17:30 | Arrival at AllgäuSternHotel

18:15 | Welcome to MCQST 2023 -- Rudolf Gross (WMI)

18:30 | "Quo Vadis Quantum Technologies" -- Sebastian Luber (Infineon Technologies AG)

19:30 | Welcome Dinner

21:00 | Poster Session 1

Wednesday, 21 June

RU-C: Quantum Computing Session

09:00 | Quantum Position Verification, Quantum Nonlocal Computation, and Surprising Connections with Holography and Classical Cryptography.
Harry Buhrmann (QuSoft / Univ of Amsterdam / CWI)

09:30 | High-coherence superconducting qubits for enhanced quantum gate operations
Stefan Filipp (WMI / TUM)

10:00 | Towards high-fidelity quantum computing with spins in semiconductors
Guido Burkard (Univ. of Konstanz)


10:30 | Coffee Break & Group Photo


RU-E: Quantum Metrology & Sensing Session

11:30 | Quantum dynamics and measurement
Frank Ortmann (TUM)


RU-A: Quantum Information Theory Session

12:00 | A bulk gap in the presence of edge states for a truncated Haldane pseudopotential
Amanda Young (TUM)


12:30 | Lunch


RU-D: Quantum Communication Session

13:30 | Control and distribution of entanglement in quantum networks
Sophia Economou (Virginia Tech)

14:00 | Microwave quantum networks
Kirill Fedorov (WMI)


Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Session

14:30 | Time for care
Anna Buschmeyer (Deutschen Jugendinstitut)


15:30 | Coffee Break


RU-B: Quantum Simulation Session

16:00 | Cavity QED from Many-body Physics to Transduction
Jonathan Simon (Stanford Univ.)

16:30 | Neural quantum states for strongly correlated systems: learning from data and Hamiltonians
Annabelle Bohrdt (Univ. Regensburg / LMU)

17:00 | Microscopic Simulation of Fermi Systems with Ultracold Gases
Philipp Preiss (MPQ)


17:30 | Hike to the Sonnenkopfhütte

18:00 | Dinner at the Sonnenkopfhütte

20:30 | Return to hotel


21:00 | Poster Session 2

Thursday, 22 June

08:00 | Women in QST Breakfast
A casual networking breakfast for women* working in QST


RU-F: Quantum Matter Session

09:00 | Why are we excited about the Kitaev model?
Natalia Perkins (Univ. of Minnesota)

09:30 | High-Tc superconductivity in the Hubbard model revisited
Ulrich Schollwöck (LMU)


RU-G: Explorative Directions Session

10:00 | Precision spectroscopy in Coulomb crystals
Tanja Mehlstäubler (PTB Braunschweig)

10:30 | Learning from black holes
Georgi Dvali (LMU)


11:00 | Coffee Break


RU-A: Quantum Information Theory Session

11:30 | The quantum causal compatibility problem
David Gross (Univ. Cologne)

12:00 | Tensor Networks, Fundamental Theorems, and Complexity
Michael Walter (Ruhr Univ. Bochum)


12:30 | Lunch


RU-B: Quantum Simulation Session

13:30 | Kinetic magnetism in electron systems and ultracold atoms
Eugene Demler (ETH Zurich)

14:00 | Quantum simulation of gauge theories
Jad C. Halimeh (LMU)


RU-C: Quantum Computing Session

14:30 | Noise Tailoring for Precision Quantum Benchmarking
Irfan Siddiqi (UC Berkeley)

15:00 | Gaining confidence in the correct realization of arbitrary quantum computations
Barbara Kraus (TUM)


15:30 | Coffee Break


16:00 | Social Activities (TBA)


19:30 | Dinner

Friday, 23 June

RU-D: Quantum Communication Session

09:00 | Quantum photonics with rare-earth atoms in solids
Elisabeth Goldschmidt (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

09:30 | Programmable multi-qubit entanglement in hybrid quantum networks
Peter Rabl (WMI)


RU-E: Quantum Metrology & Sensing Session

10:00 | Quantum sensing with diamond spins
Ania Bleszynski Jayich (UC Santa Barbara)

10:30 | Reading out the NV center electrically: Why and How
Martin Brandt (TUM)


11:00 | Coffee Break


Award Ceremony

11:30 | MCQST PhD and Master's Award & Best Poster Prize


12:30 | Lunch


RU-F: Quantum Matter Session

13:30 | Imaging the local band topology and Chern mosaic in magic-angle graphene
Eli Zeldov (Weizmann Institute)

14:00 | Mesoscale quantum textures
Christian Pfleiderer (TUM)


RU-G: Explorative Directions Session

14:30 | Degenerate Fermi gases of microwave-shielded polar molecules
Xinyu Luo (MPQ)


RU-A: Quantum Information Theory

15:00 | Thought experiments in a quantum computer
Lídia del Rio (Squids)


15:30 | Coffee Break


16:00 | Departure

Organizing Committees

Program Committee

The MCQST 2023 program is established by the Executive Committee of MCQST.

Research Units Coordinators

  • Monika Aidelsburger | LMU Munich
  • Mari Carmen Bañuls | MPI of Quantum Optics
  • Immanuel Bloch | LMU Munich & MPI of Quantum Optics
  • Ignacio Cirac | MPI of Quantum Optics & TU Munich
  • Jonathan Finley | TU Munich
  • Steffen Glaser | TU Munich
  • Rudolf Gross | Walther-Meißner-Institute & TU Munich
  • Wolfgang Heckl | Deutsches Museum
  • Christian Pfleiderer | TU Munich
  • Gerhard Rempe | MPI of Quantum Optics
  • Ulrich Schollwöck | LMU Munich
  • Simone Warzel | TU Munich
  • Eva Weig | TU Munich
  • Harald Weinfurter | LMU Munich
  • Michael Wolf | TU Munich

Junior Group Representatives

  • Menno Poot | TU Munich
  • Andreas Reiserer | MPI of Quantum Optics & TU Munich

Postdoc Representatives

  • Pau Farrera | MPI of Quantum Optics
  • Viviana Villafañe | TU Munich

PhD Representatives

  • Vjosa Blakaj | TU Munich
  • Pooja Malik | LMU Munich

Local Organizers

MCQST 2023 conference is organized by the MCQST Office.

  • Christoph Hohmann | Media Design
  • Anca Ionescu | Outreach & Events
  • Claudia Leonhardt | Support Programs
  • Michelle Lorenz | Accounting
  • Barbara Tautz | Diversity & Guests
  • Brigitte Voß | Accounting
  • Tatjana Wilk | General Manager

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