Designed by PhDs, for PhDs!

As a core part of the MCQST Doctoral Program, this event is shaped by the students themselves. It’s your chance to connect with fellow MCQST and IMPRS-QST PhDs, exchange ideas, gain fresh perspectives from invited alumni and dive into the latest research in specialized lectures. The Summer School also offers four hands-on workshops to boost your soft skills and professional toolkit.

This event is open to all PhD students part of MCQST groups.

MONDAY, 22.06

before 10:30 | Arrival in Sonthofen at AllgäuStern

10:30 - 11:30 | Icebreaker Activities

11:30 - 12:30 | Introduction to the MCQST Doctoral Program

12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch

13:30 - 14:30 | PhD Talks

• 13:30-13:45 | Ludvík Cigna (LMU) - Locally Optimal Disentangling of Quantum States
• 13:45-14:00 | Jonas Völler (LMU) - Spectral Optimization of Spherical Lattices and Applications to Classical and Quantum Interacting Spin Systems
• 14:00-14:15 | Keiya Sakabe (LMU) - Convex optimization on entanglement polytopes with applications to the quantum functionals
• 14:15-14:30 | Raul Morral Yepes (TUM) - Matchgate circuit representation of fermionic Gaussian states: optimal preparation, approximation, and classical simulation

14:30 - 15:00| Coffee Break

15:00-16:00 | Room check-in

16:00 - 16:30 | Gargi Kodgirwar (Venture Lab Quantum) - From Lab to Launch: Translating PhD Research into Deep-Tech Ventures

16:30 - 18:30 | Alumni Session (talks & panel discussion)

• Asli Cebe (Postdoc at TUM, Quantum Communication Systems Engineering, Prof. Tobias Vogl)
• Borislav Polovnikov (Researcher Associate at Capital Fund Management, Paris)
• Elias Walter (Research Scientist DLR)
  

18:30 - 19:30 | Dinner

20:00 - 21:30 | Poster Session "Alice"
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Tuesday, 23.06

09:00 - 12:30 | Soft Skills Workshops (in parallel)

• Science with Images - Johannes Richers
• Feedback & Conflict Mangement - Stephan Pfob | Berlin Alley
• Networking Inside & Outside Academia - Emma Geoffray | Grow into your PhD
• AI-assisted physics research - Sirui Lu | PhD student at IMPRS & MCQST
• Presentation Skills: Great science deserves to be understood - Stefan Geier | BR

12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 | Tutorial: Florian Kaiser (LIST) - Quantum networks with solid-state colour centres

15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break

15:30 -17:15 | PhD Talks

• 15:30-15:45 | Daniel Molpeceres (TUM) - Quantum Algorithms for Cooling
• 15:45-16:00 | Maximilian Lutz (MPQ) - TBD
• 16:00-16:15 | Emily Wright (WMI) - Superconducting Qubit Gates Robust to Parameter Fluctuations

• 16:30-16:45 | Wun Kwan Yam (WMI) - Quantum networks in the microwave frequency regime
• 16:45-17:00 | Syeda Aliya Batool (WMI) - Protected State Transfer Between Distant Nodes in a Quantum Network
• 17:00-17:15 | Kaidi Xu (MPQ) - Exact Fragmentation From Confinement and Magic Generation

17:30 - 18:30 | PhD Feedback Session

18:30 - 19:30 | Dinner

20:00 - 21:30 | Poster Session "Bob"

Wednesday, 24.06

09:00 - 10:30 | Tutorial: Anna Dawid (Leiden University) - How to learn physics from neural networks

10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break

11:00-12:15 | PhD Talks

• 11:00-11:15 | Hendrik Timme (MPQ) - TBD
• 11:15-11:30 | Jacopo De Santis (MPQ / LMU) - A cavity-coupled Rydberg array
• 11:30-11:45 | Atiye Abedinnia (LMU) - Quantum reservoir computing
• 11:45-12:00 | Kevin Mours (MPQ) - Local Control in a Sr quantum computing demonstrator
• 12:00-12:15 | Jordi Montañà López (MPQ) - Efficiently learning non-Markovian noise in quantum simulators

12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch

13:30 - open end | Social Activities // Free afternoon & evening

Thursday, 25.06

09:00 - 10:00 | Room check-out

10:00 - 11:30 | Tutorial: Mario Berta (RWTH Aachen) - Quantum algorithms for the early-fault tolerant regime

11:30 - 12:00 | Coffee Break

12:00-13:00 | PhD Talks

• 12:00-12:15 | Lisa Krüger (TUM) - Optically detected and radio wave-controlled spin chemistry in flavoproteins
• 12:15-12:30 | Jakob Pforr (TUM / ZQE) - Solid-state defects: single-shot readout & defect integration
• 12:30-12:45 | Ivan Solomakhin (WMI) - Entanglement distillation of microwave two-mode squeezed states
• 12:45-13:00 | Giorgia Busin (LMU) - Quantum Fisher Information

13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch

14:00 - 15:15 | PhD Talks

• 14:00–14:15 | Purnendu Das (TUM) - Dynamical Response of Altermagnetic Hubbard Models
• 14:15–14:30 | Oleksandra Kovalska (LMU) - Quasi-Degenerate Ground States of the J₁–J₂ Heisenberg Model on a Triangular Lattice
• 14:30–14:45 | Avedis Neehus (TUM) - Dichroic Raman probes for chiral edge modes
• 14:45–15:00 | Francesco Debortoli (MPQ / LMU) - Non-abelian anyons in p-wave superfluids
• 15:00–15:15 | Fabian Pichler (TUM) - Anyon Superconductivity

Summer School Organizers

• Program: Atiye Abedinia (LMU München), Jakob Pforr (TUM), Hendrik Timme (MPQ)
• Organzational Support: MCQST Office (Sonya Gyzl, Anca Ionescu, Pavlina Kupfer)