Conference Description
Quantum control uses coherent electromagnetic fields to manipulate dynamical processes at the microscopic scale in order to reach a particular target state or realize a desired evolution in time. The ultimate goal is to control complex processes at the heart of chemical reaction dynamics, quantum information science or biological functionality. Until recently, this goal was out of reach due to the overwhelmingly large number of relevant degrees of freedom, often coupled to one another and the surrounding environment. With the latest technological advances and progress in our understanding of complex systems, the boundaries of control are constantly expanding, finally allowing to tame complex quantum systems.
The goal of this conference is to bring together theorists and experimentalists pushing the frontiers in this diverse field at the intersection of AMO physics, physical chemistry, quantum information science, and applied mathematics. It will highlight new avenues for quantum control from artificial intelligence all the way to neuroscience, focusing on the control of ultrafast and ultracold dynamics, many-body correlations and quantum thermodynamics, with applications in spectroscopy and imaging, nano-plasmonics and quantum technologies. Poster sessions are an essential and traditionally very lively part of the Conference on Quantum Control of Light and Matter. Every participant is encouraged to present highlights from her or his most recent, and preferably yet unpublished, work.
The conference will be preceded by a two-day Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) organized by and for early-career scientists. In addition to offering tutorial lectures on various aspects of quantum control, it will provide them with a unique opportunity to discuss their own research with their peers.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by April 11, 2019. Please check back for updates.
Keynote Session: New Challenges for Quantum Control: From Artificial Intelligence to Neuroscience
Discussion Leaders
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Tommaso Calarco (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
Speakers
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Matthias Troyer (Microsoft, USA)
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Paul Brumer (University of Toronto, Canada)
Chiral Systems
Discussion Leaders
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Thomas Baumert (University of Kassel, Germany)
Speakers
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Melanie Schnell (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany)
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Ilya Averbukh (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
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Valerie Blanchet (Universite de Bordeaux, France)
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Reinhard Dörner (University of Frankfurt, Germany)
Quantum Thermodynamics
Discussion Leaders
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Ronnie Kosloff (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Speakers
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Alexia Auffèves (CNRS, France)
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Irfan Siddiqi (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Many-Body Quantum Control
Discussion Leaders
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Birgitta Whaley (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Speakers
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Mikhail Lemeshko (IST Austria, Austria)
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Frank Stienkemeier (University of Freiburg, Germany)
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Mohammad Hafazi (Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, USA)
Cold Collisions
Discussion Leaders
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Rosario Gonzalez-Ferez (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
Speakers
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Edvardas Narevicius (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
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Stefan Willitsch (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Quantum Engineering
Discussion Leaders
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Herschel Rabitz (Princeton University, USA)
Speakers
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Peter Zoller (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
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Ben Sussman (National Research Council, Canada)
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Haidong Yuan (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China)
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Sebastien Gleyzes (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Sorbonne Universités / CNRS, France)
Electron Dynamics
Discussion Leaders
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David Tannor (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Speakers
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Paul Corkum (University of Ottawa, Canada)
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Stefanie Gräfe (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)
Nanostructures
Discussion Leaders
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Mikhail Lukin (Harvard University, USA)
Speakers
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Javier Aizpurua (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
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Tobias Brixner (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
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Hui Cao (Yale University, USA)
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Maxim Sukharev (Arizona State University, USA)
Cavity-Based Control
Discussion Leaders
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Ignacio Franco (University of Rochester, USA)
Speakers
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Vahid Sandoghdar (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany)
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Joel Yuen-Zhou (University of California, San Diego, USA)
