100 YEARS of QUANTUM ADVANCEMENTS: Global and African perspectives

Wednesday 9 Jul 2025, 08:00 → 18:00 Africa/Casablanca

Académie Hassan II, Rabat, Morocco

Lalla Btissam Drissi (Mohammed V University, Morocco)

 

This international conference marks 100 years since the birth of quantum mechanics; it brings together leading scientists and emerging researchers to reflect on the evolution of quantum physics—from the early breakthroughs of Planck, Einstein and Schodringer to the modern frontier of quantum technologies, accelerators and quantum information science. The conference will cover 4 major themes: 

1. Compact particle accelerators and light sources
2. African physics on the global stage
3. Quantum physics in modern technology
4. Frontiers in quantum information

The gathering will also highlights Africa's growing role in global scientific development and its strategic position in shaping the next century of quantum innovation.

08:00 → 09:00 Registration and welcome address

09:00 → 10:00 Quantum Horizons Toward Morocco’s Strategic Leadership

09:00 Morocco and Africa at the Heart of Quantum Science and Global Networks

Speaker: Lalla Btissam Drissi (Mohammed V University, Morocco)

09:25 How an African Quantum Internet can facilitate African Industrialization and Morocco can Lead the Wave

Speaker: Frank DOMONEY (Anglia Maghreb Quantum cities, United Kingdom)

09:50 Discussion

10:00 → 11:30 Quantum Infrastructure for Africa

10:00 Particle accelerators physics in Africa, present and future: what opportunity for Morocco?

Speaker: Dr Sanae Samsam (INFN Milano)

10:25 Status of European Compact Light Sources: perspective for a CLS in Morocco Bridging to South-Europe

Speaker: Prof. Luca Serafini (INFN-Milan)

Serafini-CLS-HassanII-Rabat-Workshop.pdf

Serafini-CLS-HassanII-Rabat-Workshop.pptx

Serafini-CLS-HassanII-Rabat-Workshop.pptx

10:50 Compact cost-effective electron accelerators for multi-disciplinary applications

Speaker: Prof. Andrea Mostacci (Sapienza University of Rome e INFN-Roma I (IT))

11:15 Discussion

11:30 → 11:50 Break

11:50 → 12:40 Quantum Physics in Modern Technology

11:50 The invisible engine: How Quantum physics powers technology

Speaker: Mohammed KHENFOUCH (Applied Sciences Fac, Ait Melloul, Agadir, Morocco)

12:10 Quantum transport in nanostructures: From tunneling to transistors

Speaker: Mohamed EL YADRI (ENSAM, Rabat, Morocco)

12:30 Discussion

12:40 → 13:30 Frontiers in Quantum Information

12:40 Exploitation of Quantum noise to realize a quantum image cryptography protocole

Speaker: Saad RFIFI (Fac Polydisciplinary, Larache, Morocco)

13:00 From Fragmentation to Frontline: Uniting Africa’s Leadership to Secure Quantum Future

Speaker: Farai MAZHANDU (Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematica, USA)

13:20 Discussion

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:30 Quantum Pulse of Particle Physics

14:30 The ATLAS Inner Tracker Upgrade

Speaker: Dr Mounia Laassiri (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

2025_Rabat_MLaassiri.pdf

2025_Rabat_MLaassiri.pptx

14:55 The 4th African Conference of Physics and the African Strategy Symposium

Speaker: Dr Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

slides

15:20 Discussion

15:30 → 16:50 Quantum Materials and AI at the Nanoscale

15:30 DisCoCirc for Quantum Natural Language Processing

Speaker: Ouissal MOUMOU (Quantinuum, United Kingdom)

15:55 Quantum Echoes: Quantum confinement and Stark Tuning in Quantum dots

Speaker: Hala OUARRAD (LPHE-MS, Fac of Sciences in Rabat, Morocco)

16:15 Predicting the band gap in antimoine from experiments and Artificial Intelligence

Speaker: Amal TARBI (Ecole Supérieure de Technologie, Kenitra, Morocco)

16:35 Discussion

16:50 → 17:30 Roundtable and Closing remarks