Invited speakers

  • Victor Albert - NIST Maryland and University of Maryland College Park

    Victor Albert is a theoretical physicist with an extensive range of expertise in quantum physics encompassing superconducting circuits to molecules. He has rapidly developed new classes of quantum error correction codes in molecular systems, including group GKP codes, code concatenation, and absorption-emission codes. He also studies many other topics, such as continuous-variable shadow tomography, bosonic encoding, and other topics relevant to the quantum computing and quantum information fields in the NISQ era and beyond.

    Personal website, University of Maryland College Park, NIST Maryland

  • Wes Campbell - University of California Los Angeles

    Wes Campbell is a leading quantum physics experimentalist in trapped ions and ultra-cold molecules. Together with Eric Hudson’s group, he studies quantum computing with 133Ba+ ions and also the techniques for decelerating, cooling, and trapping cold molecules for quantum simulation and state-dependent chemical reactions.

    Campbell Group, UCLA

  • Chin-wen (James) Chou - NIST Boulder

    Chin-wen (James) Chou is a leading expert in quantum information and precision spectroscopy of trapped molecular ions. He also has extensive experience in quantum information, quantum communication, neutral atoms, and Al+ ion optical clocks. He has developed a diverse toolkit for exploring and controlling the quantum rovibronic states of molecular ions by introducing quantum logic spectroscopy, CW Raman spectroscopy, and frequency comb Raman spectroscopy to the field. This has paved the way for many impressive experimental feats by the Ion Storage Group at NIST Boulder.

    Ion Storage Group, NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory

  • Michael Drewsen - Aarhus University

    Michael Drewsen has experience ranging across several subfields in the trapped ion community which together form an extremely capable basis for exploring quantum information with molecules. His research involves cavity QED with 2D 40Ca+ ion crystals, trapping and cooling molecular ions, rovibrational cooling via buffer gas and laser cooling, frequency comb Raman spectroscopy, and quantum chemistry and photodissociation.

    Ion Trap Group, Aarhus Universitet

  • Christiane Koch - Freie Universität Berlin

    Christiane Koch is a theoretical quantum physicst and an expert in the application of coherent control and optimal control theory to quantum systems including atoms, molecules, and condensed matter. She studies light-induced chemical reactions and quantum information in open quantum systems. The techniques she has developed have paved the way for experimental studies of such topics as chiral vibrational dynamics, ultrafast chemical reactions, and cold molecular collisions within her numerous international collaborations.

    Quantum Dynamics and Control Group, Freie Universtät Berlin

  • Tim Langen - TU Wien and Wolfgang Pauli Institute Vienna

    Tim Langen is a professor of experimental quantum physics at TU Wien. His group explores cold atoms and molecules for quantum science and technologies. In particular, his group uses dipolar molecules to realize new forms of quantum matter aiming to gain insights into the foundations of molecular collisions and chemistry. Furthermore, Tim has interests in studying molecules which facilitate tabletop precision searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. His experiments leverage laser cooling techniques to bring molecules to their vibrational and rotational ground states for such experiments.

    Tim Langen, Cold Molecules

  • Philipp Schindler - University of Innsbruck

    Philipp Schindler has extensive experience in experimental quantum physics at the University of Innsbruck. His research focuses on trapped atomic ion quantum computing, where a string of individual confined atoms is used to store information in their internal states. He has received an ERC starting grant to adapt quantum computing operations to polyatomic molecules by coupling them to co-trapped atomic ions.

    QCosmo Group , University of Innsbruck

  • Zoe Yan - University of Chicago

    Zoe Yan has recently joined the James Franck Institute and the Department of Physics of the University of Chicago as an assistant professor. Zoe’s expertise is in experimental quantum many-body physics, using the platform of ultracold atoms and molecules. Her experiments combine cutting-edge technologies in trapping and imaging quantum particles and tailoring their interactions to realize custom Hamiltonians.

    Yan Lab, University of Chicago