All Ireland Conference on Quantum Technologies

Programme

Venue: Theatre JH3, John Hume Building, North Campus, Maynooth University

This programme is preliminary and subject to change.

Monday, May 30

- Arrival and Welcome

- 14:00 Joost Slingerland (Maynooth),
Topological Quantum Computing: from Anyons to Quantum Wires
Abstract,   Slides.

- 14:50 Graham Kells (DIAS),
Majorana quasi-particles and localisation-assisted topological-order
Abstract,   Slides.

- 15:40 Coffee

- 16:00 Lampros Nikolopoulos (DCU),
Non-linear dynamics of small quantum systems in ultrashort laser fields
Abstract,   Slides.

- 16:30 Andreas Ruschhaupt (UCC),
Quantum Control with Shortcuts to Adiabaticity - An Overview
Abstract,   Slides

- 17:20 Anthony Kiely (UCC),
Shaken not stirred: Creating exotic angular momentum states by shaking an optical lattice
Abstract,   Slides.

- 18:00 Poster Session



Tuesday, May 31

- 9:00 Suzanne Foley (SFI),
Irish Involvement in QuantERA: FET ERANET Cofund Action in Quantum Technologies
Abstract,   Slides.

- 9:50 Ursel Bangert (UL),
Insights into 1D and 2D nano-materials: atomic-scale landscapes, single atom action and collective electron motion revealed by electron microscopy and spectroscopy
Abstract,   Slides.

- 10:40 Coffee

- 11:00 Martin Henry (DCU),
Point defects in the solid state for quantum technology
Abstract,   Slides.

- 11:50 Patrick McNally (DCU),
Copper Halide Semiconductors for Room Temperature Quantum Applications - A Materials Perspective
Abstract,   Slides.

- 12:40 Lunch


Public Lecture by

Professor Tommaso Calarco, University of Ulm
Quantum technologies: what they are and how to build them


Location:
Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin
Time:
Tuesday May 31, 16:00




Wednesday, June 1

- 9:00 John Costello (DCU),
AMO Physics with Intense Extreme-UV (XUV) and X-ray Free Electron Lasers
Abstract,   Slides.

- 9:50 Konrad Banaszek (Warsaw University),
Quantum metrology gets real
Abstract,   Slides,  QuantERA Slides.

- 10:40 Coffee

- 11:00 Hans-Benjamin Braun (UCD),
Topological defects, chirality and spin currents in low dimensional magnetism
Abstract,   Slides.

- 11:50 Stefano Sanvito (TCD),
The long way to the discovery of new materials made it short
Abstract,   Slides.

- 12:40 Lunch

- 14:00 Emanuele Pelucchi (Tyndall),
Single quantum dots as artificial atoms, quantum optics and quantum cryptography at the Tyndall National Institute
Abstract,   Slides.

- 14:50 Mauro Paternostro (QUB),
Non interferometric tests of the quantum superposition principle: an optomechanical route
Abstract,   Slides.

- 15:40 Coffee

- 16:00 Gabriele De Chiara (QUB),
Quantum correlations in spin chains
Abstract,   Slides.

- 16:30 Alessandro Ferraro (QUB),
Quantum Computation with mechanical cluster states
Abstract,   Slides.

- 17:00 Closing.