Scientific Calendar Event



Description
The aim of the Winter College is to offer Ph.D. students and early career researchers training in quantum optics and quantum information. The College will also offer insight in the new quantum technologies involving the generation and manipulation of photonic and matter-like states.  
 
Quantum Optics, which studies how individual quanta of light interact with atoms and molecules, has been one of the most active research fields in the last years. Such endeavours have led to a deep understanding of the fundamental properties of light-matter interaction and its use to control and engineer quantum systems. Currently, taking advantage from properties like entanglement, nonlocality and coherence, photons and atoms are the key elements for quantum technologies applications.  In particular, quantum information science has flourished everywhere in the world, including developing countries. Theoretical and experimental research is thriving, and leading the way to new technological developments. The Winter College will present the basic concepts as well as the most up-to-date research in Quantum Optics.

An ICTP PREPARATORY  SCHOOL  will  be organized the week before the College (from 4 - 8 February 2020) for a limited number of selected participants:
http://indico.ictp.it/event/9020/

Topics:

•    Introduction to Quantum Optics
•    From Quantum Optics to Quantum Information
•    Open quantum systems
•    Modern Technologies for Quantum Photonics
•    Hybrid quantum optics platforms for quantum technologies
•    Quantum optics platforms for quantum simulation
•    Continuous-variable quantum information processing
•    Quantum cyber-security
•    Quantum optomechanics
•    Machine learning for quantum technologies
•    Beyond quantum mechanics

Lecturers:

M. Barbieri, University Roma Tre (Italy)
A. Bassi, University of Trieste (Italy)
I. Bloch, LMU, Munich and Max Plank Institute for Quantum Optics (Germany)
B. Brecht, University of Paderborn (Germany)
M. Carlesso, University of Trieste (Italy)
M. Danailov, ELETTRA (Italy)
I. De Vega, LMU Munich (Germany)
V. Dunjko, Leiden University (The Netherlands)
E. Karimi, University of Ottawa (Canada)
V. Karimipour, Sharif University of Technology (Iran)
M. Kim, Imperial College London (UK)
K.-S. Lim, University of Malaya (Malaysia)
M. Malik, Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh (UK)
M. Palma, University of Palermo (Italy)
S. Pirandola, University of York (UK)
O. Romero-Isart, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (Austria)
A. Serafini, University College London (UK)

Grants:

A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.

Go to day
  • Monday, 10 February 2020
    • 08:30 - 09:45
      Location: Leonardo Building Lobby
      • 08:30 Registration formalities 1h15'
    • 09:45 - 10:00
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:45 Opening Ceremony 15'
        Speaker: Dr. Joseph Niemela (ICTP)
    • 10:00 - 18:30
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Introduction to Quantum Optics 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Myungshik Kim (Imperial College London, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 11:00 Introduction to Quantum Optics 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Myungshik Kim (Imperial College London, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 12:00 Discussion 30'
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Free - LB Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Introduction to Quantum Optics 3 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Myungshik Kim (Imperial College London, UK)
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Free - LB Bar )
      • 15:30 Optics Lab 3h0' ( Galileo Guest House - Optics Laboratory )
        Speaker: Dr. Humberto Cabrera (INFN, ICTP)
  • Tuesday, 11 February 2020
    • 09:00 - 18:00
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 From Quantum Optics to Quantum Information 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Vahid Karimipour (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:00 From Quantum Optics to Quantum Information 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Vahid Karimipour (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Free - LB Bar )
      • 11:30 From Quantum Optics to Quantum Information 3 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Massimo Palma (University of Palermo, Italy)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Free - LB Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 From Quantum Optics to Quantum Information 4 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Massimo Palma (University of Palermo, Italy)
      • 15:00 Tutorials 3h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Vahid Karimipour, Prof. Massimo Palma
  • Wednesday, 12 February 2020
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Open Quantum Systems 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Dr. Ines de Vega (LMU Munich, Germany)
        Material: Video
      • 10:00 Open Quantum Systems 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Dr. Ines de Vega (LMU Munich, Germany)
        Material: Video
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Free - LB Bar )
      • 11:30 Open Quantum Systems 3 1h0'
        Speaker: Dr. Ines de Vega (LMU Munich, Germany)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Free - LB Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 LAMP Talks 1h0'
      • 15:00 Coffee break 30' ( Free - Lb Bar )
        Participants should reach the Adriatico Guest House for the next Laboratory Session
      • 15:30 Quantum Computing Lab 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Informatics and Denardo Laboratory )
        Speaker: Dr. Mikhail Shalaginov (MIT)
        Material: Link
  • Thursday, 13 February 2020
    • 09:00 - 16:30
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Modern Technologies for Quantum Photonics 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Brecht (University of Paderborn, Germany)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:00 Modern Technologies for Quantum Photonics 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Brecht (University of Paderborn, Germany)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Free - LB Bar )
      • 11:30 Modern Technologies for Quantum Photonics 3 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Mehul Malik (Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, UK)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Free - LB Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Modern Technologies for Quantum Photonics 4 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Mehul Malik (Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 LAMP Talks 1h0'
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Free - LB Bar )
    • 16:30 - 18:00
      Location: Leonardo Building Lobby
      • 16:30 Poster session & Get-together 1h30'
        All participants are cordially invited to attend a get-together drink during poster session.
  • Friday, 14 February 2020
    • 09:00 - 14:30
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 The next big thing 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Marco Barbieri (University Roma Tre, Italy)
      • 10:00 The next big thing 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Marco Barbieri (University Roma Tre, Italy)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Free - LB Bar )
      • 11:30 The next big thing 3 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Immanuel Bloch (LMU, Munich and Max Plank Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0' ( Free - LB Cafeteria )
    • 14:00 - 16:30
      Location: Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.
      • 14:00 Tour Elettra 2h0'
  • Monday, 17 February 2020
    • 09:00 - 18:00
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Machine Learning for Quantum Technologies 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Dr. Alessandro Ferraro (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:00 Machine Learning for Quantum Technologies 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Dr. Alessandro Ferraro (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Free - LB Bar )
      • 11:30 Machine Learning for Quantum Technologies 3 1h0'
        Speaker: Dr. Alessandro Ferraro (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Free - LB Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Machine Learning for Quantum Technologies 4 1h0'
        Speaker: Dr. Alessandro Ferraro (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Free - LB Bar )
        Participants should reach the Adriatico Guest House for the next Laboratory Session
      • 15:30 Tutorials 2h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Informatics and Denardo Laboratory )
        Speaker: Dr. Luca Innocenti (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
  • Tuesday, 18 February 2020
    • 09:00 - 19:00
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Quantum Cyber-Security 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Stefano Pirandola (University of York, UK)
        Material: Lecture notes Video
      • 10:00 Quantum Cyber-Security 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Stefano Pirandola (University of York, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Free - LB Bar )
      • 11:30 Quantum Cyber-Security 3 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Stefano Pirandola (University of York, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Free - LB Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Quantum Cyber-Security 4 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Ebrahim Karimi (University of Ottawa, Canada)
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Free - LB Bar )
      • 15:30 Quantum Cyber-Security 5 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Ebrahim Karimi (University of Ottawa, Canada)
        Material: Video
      • 16:30 Group Photo + ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Awards Ceremony 2h30'
    • 19:00 - 22:00
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria
      • 19:00 ICO Reception 3h0'
        All participants are cordially invited to attend the ICO Reception. 
  • Wednesday, 19 February 2020
    • 09:00 - 18:00
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Quantum Optomechanics 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Oriol Romero-Isart (Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austria)
        Material: Video
      • 10:00 Quantum Optomechanics 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Oriol Romero-Isart (Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austria)
        Material: Video
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Free - LB Bar )
      • 11:30 Quantum Optomechanics 3 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Oriol Romero-Isart (Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austria)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Free - LB Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Quantum Optomechanics 4 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Oriol Romero-Isart (Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austria)
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Free - LB Bar )
      • 15:30 Tutorials 2h30'
        Speaker: Prof. Ebrahim Karimi (University of Ottawa, Canada)
        Material: Video
  • Thursday, 20 February 2020
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Continuous-variable Quantum Information 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Dr. Alessio Serafini (University College London, UK)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:00 Continuous-variable Quantum Information 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Dr. Alessio Serafini (University College London, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Free - LB Bar )
      • 11:30 Continuous-variable Quantum Information 3 1h0'
        Speaker: Dr. Alessio Serafini (University College London, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Free - LB Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Continuous-variable Quantum Information 4 1h0'
        Speaker: Dr. Alessio Serafini (University College London, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Free - LB Bar )
      • 15:30 Rethinking it all 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Dr. Matteo Carlesso (University of Trieste, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 16:30 Rethinking it all 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Dr. Matteo Carlesso (University of Trieste, Italy)
        Material: Video
  • Friday, 21 February 2020
    • 09:00 - 12:00
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Rethinking it all 3 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Angelo Bassi (University of Trieste, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 10:00 Rethinking it all 4 1h0'
        Speaker: Prof. Angelo Bassi (University of Trieste, Italy)
      • 11:00 Closing Remarks and Discussion 1h0'
        Speaker: Dr. Joseph Niemela (ICTP)