The School dates are: 23 to 28 June 2024.
The program will start in the evening on 23 June and conclude early afternoon on 28 June 2024.

Venue (unless indicated otherwise): Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, room 1.40. Street address: Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warszawa, Poland

Detailed program:

Poster session – book of abstracts:

Sunday 23 June 2024
  • 16:00 – 16:45 Registration open
  • 16:45 18:15 Welcome reception
  • 18:15 – 18:30 Welcome remarks by Michał Karpiński (University of Warsaw, Poland) & Denis Seletskiy (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)
  • 18:30 – 19:30 Opening Lecture by Paul Kwiat (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
    • Title: And God said “a|0⟩= |1⟩” and there was light! A brief intro to photons and interference
Monday 24 June 2024
  • 8:30 – 9:00 Registration & badge pickup, coffee & pastries
  • 9:00 – 10:00 Lecture 2: Paul Kwiat (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
    • Title: Ignorance is bliss: How quantum erasers and interaction-free measurements allow seeing in the dark
  • 10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
  • 10:30 – 11:30 Lecture 3: Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański (University of Warsaw, Poland)
    • Title: Quantum metrological theoretical toolbox: all you need to know to find the optimal protocols and fundamental bounds on precision in your quantum sensors (part I)
  • 11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
  • 12:00 – 13:00 Lecture 4: Shaul Mukamel (University of California, Irvine, USA)
    • Title: Non-linear spectroscopy with entangled photons, optical cavities, and X ray light (part I)
  • 13:00 – 13:30 Speed networking
  • 13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
  • 14:30 – 15:00 Social Time
  • 15:00 – 16:00 Lecture 5: Fabio Pezzoli (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
    • Title: Spin-optronics and photonic quantum technologies: the case for group IV semiconductors
  • 16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break
  • 16:15 – 17:15 Lecture 6: Val Zwiller (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
    • Title: Generation, manipulation and detection of single photons
  • 17:15 – 17:30 Coffee break
  • 17:30 – 18:30 Lecture 7: Animesh Datta (University of Warwick, UK)
    • Title: Quantum light spectroscopy
  • 18:30 – 20:30 Reception
Tuesday 25 June 2024
  • 8:30 – 9:00 Registration open, coffee & pastries
  • 9:00 – 10:00 Lecture 8: Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański (University of Warsaw, Poland)
    • Title: Quantum Metrological Theoretical Toolbox: all you need to know to find the optimal protocols and fundamental bounds on precision in your quantum sensors (part II)
  • 10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
  • 10:30 – 11:30 Lecture 9: Shaul Mukamel (University of California, Irvine, USA)
    • Title: Non-linear spectroscopy with entangled photons, optical cavities, and X ray light (part II)
  • 11:30 – 13:00 Poster session I (odd poster numbers: 1, 3, …)
    • Including 1-min. poster pitches
  • 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00 – 16:00 Session 10: Soft skills session
    • 14:00 – 14:45 Aggie Branczyk (Physicists in the Wild, Canada), Quantum trajectories: navigating a career between academia and industry
    • 14:45 – 15:30 Wilhelm Kaenders (Toptica Photonics AG, Germany) From PhD to CEO: TOPTICA as a role model for a high-tech company!
    • 15:30 – 16:00 Charlotte Allard (Springer Nature Group, UK) Insights into scientific publishing
  • 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
  • 16:30 – 18:00 Poster session II (even poster numbers: 2, 4, …)
    • Including 1-min. poster pitches
Wednesday 26 June 2024
  • 8:30 – 9:00 Registration open, coffee & pastries
  • 9:00 – 10:00 Session 11: Technology Session, part I
    • 9:00 – 9:45 Wilhelm Kaenders (TOPTICA Photonics AG, Germany): Chances and pitfalls of quantum technology initiatives seen from a quantum enabler’s perspective
    • 9:45 – 10:15 Adam Piotrowski (VIGO Photonics, Poland): Quantum structures for MID IR Detection & semiconductor materials for quantum technologies
  • 10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
  • 10:45 – 11:45 Session 12: Technology Session, part II
    • 10:45 – 11:15 Val Zwiller (Single Quantum, The Netherlands), High-performance single photon detectors: industrializing quantum technology
    • 11:15 – 11:45 Aggie Branczyk (Physicists in the Wild, Canada) Quantum Canada: an overview of quantum tech industry in Canada
  • 11:45 – 12:00 School Photo
  • 12:00 – 12:15 Coffee break
  • 12:15 – 13:00 Session 13: Panel Discussion on Technology, hosted by Dorota A. Pawlak (ENSEMBLE3 – Centre of Excellence, Poland) & Denis Seletskiy (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)
  • 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00 – 17:00 Sightseeing excursion
Thursday 27 June 2024
  • 8:30 – 9:00 Registration open, coffee & pastries
  • 9:00 – 10:00 Lecture 14: Jérôme Faist (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
    • Title: FM mode-locked combs from quantum walk
  • 10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
  • 10:30 – 11:30 Lecture 15: Cristina Benea-Chelmus (EPFL, Switzerland)
    • Title: Integrated THz sensing
  • 11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
  • 12:00 – 13:00 Lecture 16: Stephane Kéna Cohen (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)
    • Title: Collective quantum behavior with semiconductor microcavities
  • 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00 – 15:00 Lecture 17: Oussama Moutanabbir (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)
    • Title: From physics of dirt to the second quantum revolution
  • 15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break
  • 15:15 – 16:15 Session 18: Short talks (3×20 min)
    • Talk 1: Ivan Sinev (EPFL, Switzerland), Gradient high-Q dielectric metasurfaces for biosensing
    • Talk 2: Filip Sośnicki (University of Paderborn, Germany), Sensing with SU(1,1) interferometry: bi-photon temporal correlation estimation and ultrafast spectroscopy
    • Talk 3: Caspar Groiseau (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain), Single-photon source over the terahertz regime
  • 16:15 – 16:30 Coffee break
  • 16:30 – 17:30 Session 19: Short talk & poster prize talks (3×20 min)
    • Talk 4: Frieder Lindel (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain), Probing terahertz quantum fields in space and time
    • Talk 5: Poster prize talk 1
    • Talk 6: Poster prize talk 2
  • 17:30 – 18:45 Break
  • 18:45 for 19:15 Conference dinner at the main campus of the University of Warsaw (Faculty of History)
  • 22:00 Dinner end
Friday 28 June 2024
  • 8:30 – 9:00 Coffee & pastries
  • 9:00 – 10:00 Lecture 20: Ian Walmsley (Imperial College London, UK)
    • Title: Beyond the fringe: measuring ultrashort light pulses
  • 10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
  • 10:30 – 11:30 Lecture 21: Andrey Moskalenko (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea)
    • Title: Quantum optics in the time domain
  • 11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
  • 12:00 – 13:00 Lecture 22: Ian Walmsley (Imperial College London, UK)
    • Title: Counting down: light as a resource for quantum technologies
  • 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00 – 14:30 Farewell
  • 14:30 – Lab-tours

Please note that minor changes of the program are possible.