CONFERENCE
Summer school = Q-DYNAMO Workshop on Quantum Control
To kick-off the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ2025), the ‘2nd Q-DYNAMO Workshop on Quantum Control’ was organised on 11.02.2025 at the University of Otago. Two talks on their current research directions were given by the leader of Otago team Prof. Mikkel Andersen, as well as Dr. Rita Veilande from University of Latvia (seconded to Dunedin). Special presentation was given by PhD student Robers Weiß (visiting from Heidelberg University) with the aim to encourage student participation. The workshop was targeted at graduate students audience and therefore organised in a ‘summer school format’ on-site and online. The leader of the Parma team Prof. Sandro Wimberger, who was also visiting the Otago team within the Q-DYNAMO collaboration, concluded the workshop with extensive discussions on modern theoretical and experimental topics.
Seminar on Quantum control by fast driving
Prof. Sandro Wimberger, leader of the Parma team, currently completing his secondment to the Atomic Physics Laboratory at University of Otago, presented his research topic ‘Quantum control by fast driving’ on 5 February 2025. Members of New Zealand teams attended the seminar in person, while 11 international researchers from Latvia and Germany participated online
Summer school = Q-DYNAMO Workshop on Quantum Optics
The end of the first year of the project was commemorated by the "1st Q-DYNAMO Workshop on Quantum Optics" organised on 9.12.2024 by Prof. Mark Sadgrove at Tokyo University of Science (TUS). The Q-DYNAMO leaders from Japan Prof. Mark Sadgrove and Prof. Kali Nayak, as well as the project coordinator Dr. Teodora Kirova (seconded to TUS) presented the current research topics of each team. A special invited lecture was read by Prof. Kaoru Sanaka from TUS. The event was organised in a "summer school format" both with on-site and online participants with extensive time after the lectures, particularly dedicated for open discussions. It was targeted especially at graduate students to encourage them to participate in debates about various scientific topics, theoretical and experimental methods. Members of Q-DYNAMO teams from Tokyo, Ulm and Riga also attended the seminar in person or online. Around 10 people were present on-site, while majority of interested online participants (around 10) were from different research groups at University of Latvia
Q-DYNAMO Graduate student seminar on quantum optics
Q-DYNAMO Graduate student seminar on quantum opticsIvan Saychenko, a PhD student from University of Parma who is currently completing his 2.5 months secondment to Dr.Mark Sadgrove's group at Tokyo University of Science, presented his research topic "Numerical methods for evolving non linear Schrödinger equations" at a "Graduate student seminar on quantum optics" on 31 October 2024. The target group of the seminar was other graduate students, with the aim of encourage extensive discussions about the presented topics and the used scientific methods. Members of Q-DYNAMO teams from Tokyo, Parma, Pisa and Riga also attended the seminar in person or online
Temple University Physics Colloquium
Participants of the Q-DYNAMO project on September 23, 2024 attend the Temple University Physics Colloquium onganized by the Molecular Quantum Optics Group of Prof. A. Marjatta Lyyra.
Special talk was given by Prof. Ennio Arimondo from University of Pisa on "Superadiabatic control of quantum systems".
Other attendees included well known researchers in quantum optics and atomic and molecular physics from Lehigh University, as well as the National Institute of Standarts and Technology.
Rita Veilande from the Riga group, who is currently completing her 2-month secondment to Temple University, also attended the seminar