This school & workshop at ICTP Trieste connects two fast-growing quantum technology fields: ultrafast single-electron physics and quantum thermodynamics, bringing students, early-career researchers, and experts together to foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and new collaborations.

The drive for faster, more precise, and energy-efficient quantum devices is pushing technology into a regime where individual quantum entities—single electrons, photons, and the like—take center stage. Ultrafast Single-Electron Electronics enables the generation, control, and detection of individual charges with extreme temporal precision, while Quantum Thermodynamics provides the framework to understand their stability, efficiency, and fundamental limits. How do thermodynamic laws apply at the single-particle level? The school combines lectures, tutorials and journal clubs to build foundations in both fields, while the workshop highlights recent advances. The program also promotes strong participation from developing countries, in line with ICTP’s mission of global scientific exchange.

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Confirmed Lecturers

1st week
V. Kashcheyevs, Univ. of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
M. Kataoka, NPL, Teddington, UK
M.R. Lopez Gonzalo, University of Balearic Islands, Spain
C. Mora, Univ. Paris Cité, Paris, France
S. Shevchenko, B.Verkin ILTPE of NASU, Kharkiv, Ukraine
M. Zgirski, IoP PAS, Warsaw, Poland
 
2nd week
S. Birner, nextnano GmbH, Garching, Germany
M. Horodecki, Univ. of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
S. Kohler, ICMM, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
J. Pekola, Aalto Univ., Aalto, Finland
J. Splettstoesser, Chalmers UoT, Göteborg, Sweden
X. Waintal, Univ. Grenoble Alpes-CEA, Grenoble, France

Invited Speakers
A. Ambainis, Univ. of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
M. Acciai, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
L. Arrachea, CONICET-CNEA, Bariloche, Argentina
G. Blasi, IFISC (CSIC-UIB), Palma, Spain
P. Burset, UAM, Madrid, Spain
I. D'amico, Univ. of York, York, UK
K. Ensslin, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
N. Fabbri, Univ. of Florence, Florence, Italy
D. Ferraro, Univ. of Genova, Genova, Italy
C. Flindt, Aalto Univ., Aalto, Finland
G. Georgiou, Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 
G. Guarnieri, Univ. of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
B. Karimi, Univ., Aalto, Finland
M. Mitchison, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
M. Myronov, Univ. of Warwick, Warwick, UK
D. Pomaranski, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 
J. Rech, Aix-Marseille Univ., Marseille, France
P. Roulleau, CEA Saclay, Saclay, France
I. Safi, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France
R.Sanchez, UAM, Madrid, Spain
C. Spånslätt, Karlstad Univ., Karlstad, Sweden
S. Takada, Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan 
M. Urdampilleta, Institut NEEL, Grenoble, France
P. Viswanathan, Delft UoT, Delft, Netherlands
Y. Yin, Sichuan Univ., Chengdu, China
K. Yoshioka, NTT-BRL, Atsugi, Japan

Research abstracts: Applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster presentation. ​During the application, please make sure to use our templates to format your abstract. Templates are available below for download.

📢 Since the present activity and the Joint ICTP-WE Heraeus College on Advances in Topological Quantum Matter (smr 4242) will take place consecutively, applications for both events are welcome.

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.