VCQ & TURIS Summer School 2024

The primary purpose of this event is to provide valuable insights to researchers, particularly Ph.D. students and postdocs, regarding opportunities related to quantum technology transfer, initiating start-ups, and pursuing careers in the industry. We will feature presentations by successful quantum start-ups that originated from our academic environment. Of particular interest is the presentation of Quantum Innovation Lab, a joint initiative by the Cluster of Excellence QuantA, VCQ, and the University of Vienna. This initiative aims to support researchers with training programs and resources to develop new spin-offs.

Please register until 5 October 2023: anna.maszl-kantner@univie.ac.at

AGENDA

Presentation of Quantum Innovation Lab (https://entrepreneurship.univie.ac.at/innovation-labs/) by Marco Masia, FSNF, University of Vienna

Presentations by:

Valentin Stauber, Quantum Algorithm Developer, ParityCQ (https://parityqc.com/)

Martin Bohmann, Business Developer, QTlabs (https://www.qtlabs.at/)

Fritz Diorico, CEO Tulon Photonics (www.tulonphotonics.com)      

28 August – 1 September
Hörsaal 17, TU Wien

More information & registration: https://vcq.quantum.at/summer-school-2023/

Confirmed Lecturers

Cold Atoms & Thermalisation

• Sid Parameswaran, University of Oxford
• Silvia Pappalardi, University of Cologne

Optomechanics

• Mauro Paternostro, Queen’s University Belfast
• Philipp Treutlein, University of Basel

Trapped Ions & Quantum Computation

• Martin Ringbauer, University of Innsbruck
• Claire Edmunds, University of Innsbruck

Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 18:15

Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 10:15

String Theory and Our Universe

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 at 18:15, Christian Doppler Lecture Hall, 3rd floor, Boltzmanngasse 5

String theory landscapes of vacua point to new consistency conditions that a quantum gravitational system must satisfy. There are only a small number of quantum field theories that satisfy these conditions and all the rest belong to the `Swampland’ which cannot be consistently coupled to gravity. In this talk I review some of these conditions and their implications for cosmology and particle physics.

Dark dimension and a unification of the dark sector

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 10:15, Schrödinger Lecture Hall, ESI, Boltzmanngasse 9/2

In this talk I apply consistency conditions of quantum gravity to the dark sector. Motivated by the smallness of the dark energy combined with other experimental data, one is naturally led to a corner of the quantum gravity landscape with one extra mesoscopic dimension in the micron range. Interestingly this also leads to graviton excitations in the 5th dimension as an unavoidable candidate for the dark matter. Moreover, TCC conjecture applied to the late time cosmology motivates specific initial conditions in this scenario, leading to the right abundance of dark matter gravitons and an explanation of the cosmological coincidence problem. I also explain how the cosmological S8 tension gets resolved.

Host: Markus Aspelmeyer

Photograph by Brigitte Lacombe

About World Quantum Day

The World Quantum Day is an initiative from quantum scientists around the World, launched on 14 April 2021 as the countdown towards the first global celebration on 14 April 2022.

It is a decentralized and bottom-up initiative, inviting all scientists, engineers, educators, communicators, entrepreneurs, technologists, historians, philosophers, artists, museologists, producers, etc., and their organisations, to develop their own activities, such as outreach talks, exhibitions, lab tours, panel discussions, interviews, artistic creations, etc., to celebrate the World Quantum Day around the world. In Austria the following initiatives will take place:

Podcast “Twisted”

Mario A. Campini and Nikolai Kiesel tell their interactive, award-winning short story “Twisted”. You will find the link to the podcast from the following webpage: https://quantum.univie.ac.at/events/

Virtual Education Session “Ask a Scientist”

Martin Ringbauer (University of Innsbruck) and Anne-Catherine de la Hamette (University of Vienna) answer questions about the fundamental concepts of quantum physics – superposition, interference, entanglement – and explain how quantum technologies will change the world.

The virtual session will be in German.

The virtual session will take place on Friday, April 14, 2023 at 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm. In the first 20 minutes, Anne-Catherine and Martin will introduce students step-by-step to the concepts of quantum physics and explain how quantum technology will change the world. After the introductory lectures, there will then be an approximately 40-minute “Ask a Scientist” Q&A session, where students can ask the two scientists their questions about quantum physics.

You can join the online session at 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm at the following zoom link:

https://univienna.zoom.us/j/69037197345?pwd=Wjh2dUtmWjBnMzlUMTdRUUNTVERoUT09

Jörg Schmiedmeyer has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to investigate principle of emergence in quantum physics.

Jörg Schmiedmayer from the Atominstitut at the TU Wien has been working on experiments that provide new insights into the fundamental properties of the quantum world. ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) is one of the most highly endowed and prestigious grants in the European research landscape. Prof. Schmiedmayer will investigate principle of emergence in quantum physics. According to this principle, the interaction of many individual parts in a system can give rise to completely new phenomena, i.e. the whole is more than the sum of its parts. This principle is particularly important in quantum physics.

For Jörg Schmiedmayer, this is already the second such grant: he already received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2013.

For more information about the awarded research, please read the article (in German): ERC-Grant für Jörg Schmiedmayer (31.03.2023), TU Wien Website https://www.tuwien.at/phy/ati/news/erc-grant-fuer-joerg-schmiedmayer-1

The European Research Council (ERC) is one of the leading European funding organizations, which focuses on supporting all disciplines of remarkable research. ERC Advanced Grant is awarded to established, leading principal investigator who wants long-term funding to pursue a ground-breaking, high-risk project.

February 22 – 23, 2023 at TU Wien

TUtheSky und Kontaktraum
1060 und 1040 Wien

Getreidemarkt 9 und Gußhausstraße 25-29

Hopes are high that quantum computers will revolutionize conventional computation and data processing. Although they can already perform certain computations faster than conventional computers, more robust solid state quantum systems are needed to solve the problem of quantum error correction and fully exploit the potential of quantum computing. A currently disjunct field are correlated quantum materials. These are designer materials with properties due to quantum effects of strongly interacting electrons. They represent a highly active but particularly complex area of fundamental solid state physics.

The SFB Correlated Quantum Materials & Solid State Quantum Systems (Q-M&S) aims to connect both areas. Concepts and methods developed in the context of quantum information and computation will contribute to a better understanding of correlated quantum materials. For example, “entanglement meters” will be devised to unravel the mystery of the strange metal state. In turn, research will be conducted into how correlated quantum materials can be used for quantum applications. Correlated quantum materials with topological properties for instance could lead to very robust and well-controllable quantum devices in novel hybrid systems.

The 1st Symposium on Correlated Quantum Materials & Solid State Quantum Systems is the kick-off event of the SFB Q-M&S, which is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG). It features keynote and invited talks by speakers from both fields, short presentations of the 10 PIs of the SFB, and flash presentations by some of their team members. There will be ample time for discussion, to engage in fruitful dialogue and build bridges between disciplines.

Contact: Angelika Bosak, angelika.bosak@tuwien.ac.at

More information: https://www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktuelles/veranstaltungskalender/cal-event/idx-27132

We are glad to announce that the VCQ Colloquium of Summer Semester 2023 starts on

13^th of March with a talk by

Prof. Chris Fewster (University of York) on the topic of “Measurement in quantum field theory: what’s the problem, and what’s the cure?”

All summer semester talks start at 6pm and take place at Freihaus Hörsaal 3 at TU Wien (Wiedner Hauptstraße 8, 1040 Vienna, 2. OG). After every talk you have an opportunity to network and spend time with your colleagues on the roof-top terrace (drinks & snacks will be served).

More information on the VCQ Colloquium Summer Semester 2023: https://vcq.quantum.at/colloquium-ss-23/

Schedule

Please note, the schedule is subject to change.

The lecture series is organized by the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ).