© C. Borg / Kufsteinerland MCQST 2025 - Agenda
MCQST2025 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).
Check out the Summer School page for a detailed agenda of the IMPRS-QST school.
Tuesday, 3 June
17:00 | Arrival & Registration
18:15 | Welcome Keynote
18:30 | Quantum Stammtisch
hosted by Simone Warzel and Robert Raussendorf
19:30 - 21:30 | Poster Session "Alice" & Flying Dinner
Wednesday, 4 June
08:00 | Women @MCQST Breakfast
RU-C: Quantum Computing Session
09:00 | Yuri Lensky (Google AI): Novel quantum dynamics with superconducting qubits
09:30 | Christian Schneider (WMI): Protected qubit control with multi-photon processes
RU-C: Quantum Computing Session
10:00 | Daniel Stilck Franca (University of Copenhagen): Improved quantum (inspired) algorithms for semidefinite programs
10:30 | Robert König (TUM): Factoring an integer with three oscillators and a qubit
11:00 | Coffee Break
RU-F: Quantum Matter Session
11:30 | Max Hirschberger (Univ. of Tokyo, RIKEN): Novel, micro-size inductors powered by emergent electromagnetism
12:00 | Peng Rao (TUM): Dynamical response of interacting Majorana fermions in generic Kitaev quantum spin liquids in a field
RU-B: Quantum Simulation Session
11:30 | Igor Lesanovsky (Univ. Tübingen): Space-time correlations in monitored kinetically constrained discrete-time quantum dynamics
13:00 | Lunch & Coffee
RU-E: Quantum Metrology & Sensing Session
14:00 | Paola Cappellaro (MIT): Hamiltonian Learning of Electronic Spin Registers
14:30 | Viviana Villafañe (TUM): Towards scalable Quantum Technologies: Electric and Magnetic Control of Color Centers in Diamond
Good Supervision
15:00 | Isolde von Bülow (LMU, Graduate Center): Doctoral Supervision - a Multifaceted Process
15:20 | PhD & Postdoc Board Introductions
16:00 | Feedback Session (MCQST PhDs only)
Kufstein Fortress
17:30 | Kufstein Fortress: Guided Tours of the Fortress
[registration required]
19:00 | Kufstein Fortress: Group Photo
19:15 | Kufstein Fortress: Welcome and Networking Dinner
Thursday, 5 June
08:00 | Breakfast
RU-A: Quantum Information Theory Session
09:00 | Mariami Gachechiladze (TU Darmstadt): Sound and Efficient Quantum System Quizzing
09:30 | Libor Caha (TUM)
RU-B: Quantum Simulation Session
10:00 | Nathan Wilson (TUM): Gate-Tunable Bose-Fermi Mixture in a Strongly Correlated Moiré Bilayer Electron System
10:30 | Marko Ljubotina (TUM): Quantum Control with Matrix Product States
11:00 | Coffee Break
RU-G: Explorative Directions Session
11:30 | Shimon Kolkowitz (Berkley): Testing relativity on a tabletop with optical lattice clocks
12:00 | Thomas Udem (MPQ): Challenging QED with atomic Hydrogen
12:30 | Philipp Hauke (Univ. Trento): Quantum simulation of holographic quantum matter and gauge theories
13:00 | Lunch & Coffee
RU-E: Quantum Metrology & Sensing Session
14:00 | Karl Berggren (MIT): Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors for Quantum Sensing: From Photon-Number Resolution to Dark-Matter Detection
14:30 | Michael Haider (TUM): Quantum Models for the Optimization of Traveling-Wave Parametric Amplifiers
RU-A: Quantum Information Theory Session
15:00 | Cambyse Rouzé (Inria - ISFP): Quantum Gibbs states are locally Markovian
15:30 | Simone Warzel (TUM): Rapid thermalization of Toric codes
16:00 | Social Activities / Active Networking
[registration via conference app]
20:00 | Poster Session Bob & Flying Dinner
22:00 | Karaoke
Friday, 6 June
08:00 | Breakfast
RU-D: Quantum Communication Session
09:00 | Stefanie Barz (Univ. of Stuttgart): Novel aspects in photonic quantum technologies
09:30 | Tobias Vogl (TUM): Satellite-based quantum networks with hexagonal boron nitride
RU-D: Quantum Communication Session
10:00 | Christoph Hirche (Univ. Hannover): Contraction coefficients: A toolbox
10:30 | Jürgen Eschner (Univ. Saarland): Quantum communication protocols over a 14-km urban fiber link
11:00 | Coffee Break
Award Ceremony
11:30 | PhD Award
12:00 | Master's Award
12:30 | Lunch & Coffee
RU-G: Explorative Directions Session
13:30 | Rahul Trivedi (MPQ): Provable guarantees for simulating many-body physics with noisy devices
RU-B: Quantum Simulation Session
14:00 | Francesca Ferlaino (Univ. Innsbruck & IQOQI)
RU-F: Quantum Matter Session
14:30 | Simon Becker (ETH): Semiclassical methods for twisted TMDs
15:00 | Farsane Tabataba-Vakili (LMU & TU Braunschweig): Doping-control of excitons and magnetism in few-layer CrSBr
15:30 | Departure
Organizing Committees
Program Committee
The MCQST 2025 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
- Barbara Kraus | TU Munich
- 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 2025 conference is organized by the MCQST Office.
- Anca Ionescu | Outreach & Events
- Claudia Leonhardt | Support Programs
- Yanhua Li | Accounting
- Sonya Gzyl | IMPRS-QST Coordinator
- Brigitte Voß | Accounting
- Tatjana Wilk | General Manager
