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Date: Dec 5-6, 2019
Venue: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Registration: See conference homepage
Welcome to the symposium Light at the Nanoscale: from Molecules to Quantum Computer, which will take place at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden on Dec 5-6, 2019.
This cross-disciplinary meeting on light-matter interactions will gather prominent scientists in the field. In addition to researchers and university students, about 200 high school students will attend the symposium.The symposium is co-organized by the Nano Excellence Initiative and Materials Science Area of Advance at Chalmers, and Molecular Frontiers.
The symposium will be preceded on Dec 4 by the annual materials science conference at Chalmers, Materials for Tomorrow, thus forming a three-day event with many interesting lectures and discussions.is free of charge, and we will welcome poster contributions. Registration will open shortly./p>
Livestream Dec 5
Livestream Dec 6
Program:
All times are CET
Dec 5
08.30 - 09.15 Registration
09.15 - 09.30 Welcome address
09.30 - 10.00 Immanuel Bloch, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany: "Quantum Matter under the Microscope"
10.00 - 10.30 Alexia Auffèves, CNRS Grenoble, France: "The energetic side of quantum noise"
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 11.30 Q&A with Prof Bloch and Prof Auffèves
11.30 - 12.00 Päivi Törmä, Aalto University, Finland: "New perspectives on quantum geometry, superconductivity and Bose-Einstein condensation"
12.00 - 13.15 Lunch served in Volvofoajén
13.15 - 13.45 Stefan Hell, 2014 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany: "MINFLUX Nanoscopy: Superresolution post Nobel"
13.45 - 14.15 Q & A with Prof Törmä and Prof Hell
14.15 - 14.45 Thomas Ebbesen, USIAS & ISIS, University of Strasbourg, France: "The Alchemy of Vacuum"
14.45 - 15.15 Coffee break
15.15 - 15.45 Jennifer Dionne, Stanford University, United States: "The light years: Nanophotonic methods to visualize dynamic chemical and cellular processes with near-atomic-scale resolution"
15.45 - 16.15 Q & A with Prof Ebbesen and Prof Dionne
16.15 - Photo session
16.30 - 18.30 Poster session in Volvofoajén. Drinks and snacks served.
Welcome reception for high school students in Student Union Building
Dec 6
09.00 - 09.30 Per Delsing, Chalmers University of Technology: "Superconducting qubits as artificial atoms"
09.30 - 10.00 Andreas Wallraff, ETH Zürich, Switzerland: "Quantum Computing with Superconducting Circuits"
10.00 - 10.30 Q & A with Prof Delsing and Prof Wallraff
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 11.30 Naomi Halas, Rice University, United States: "From Faraday to tomorrow: nanoscale optics for sustainability and societal impact"
11.30 - 12.00 Halina Rubinsztein Dunlop, University of Queensland, Australia: "Sculpted light at nano- and microscale: from quantum atom optics to living cells"
12.00 - 13.15 Lunch served in Volvofoajén
13.15 - 13.45 Q & A with Prof Halas and Professor Rubinsztein Dunlop
13.45 - 13.50 Announcement of the winners of the Area of Advance Materials Science Photo Contest
13.50 - 14.05 Announcement of the winners of the 2019 Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prize
14.10 - 14.50 Panel discussion with all speakers
14:50 - 15:00 Concluding remarks
Read more on the conference homepage
Image by Dr Denis Baranov, Chalmers
We acknowledge our co-organizers - the Nano Excellence Initiative and Materials Science Area of Advance at Chalmers University of Technology - for financial support.