SQMS Quantum for Science - March 2024 (London)

from Wednesday, 20 March 2024 (09:00) to Friday, 22 March 2024 (21:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
20 Mar 2024
21 Mar 2024
22 Mar 2024
AM
10:30 --- Morning Bakery, arrival ---
09:00 --- Morning Bakery ---
09:30
Day 2, session 1 - Sebastian de Graaf (NPL) (until 11:10) ()
09:30 Understanding and eliminating materials sources of decoherence in superconducting qubits - Akshay Murthy (Fermilab)   ()
09:55 Tileable 3D-integrated superconducting circuits - Peter Leek (Oxford)   ()
10:20 Alternating-Bias Assisted Annealing of JJs for Transmons - David Pappas (Rigetti)   ()
10:40 Electron-beam annealing of Josephson junctions for frequency tuning of quantum processors - Connor Shelly (Oxford Quantum Circuits)   ()
11:10 --- Mid-Morning Break ---
11:35
Day 2, session 2 - Tobias Lindstrom (NPL) (until 12:50) ()
11:35 Quasiparticles vs TLS - Lara Faoro (Google)   ()
12:00 A theory for quasiparticle dissipation generated by embedded two-level tunneling atoms - James Sauls (LSU)   ()
12:25 Quasiparticle dynamics in on-chip superconducting microwave resonator arrays at single photon regime for hybrid quantum circuits - Kaveh Delfanazari (University of Glasgow)   ()
09:00 --- Morning Bakery ---
09:30
Morning session (until 11:00) ()
09:30 Dark matter landscape motivating new ideas in quantum sensors (theory intro) - Roni Harnik (Fermilab) Roni Harnik (Fermilab)   ()
09:50 Quantum computers and their role in understanding fundamental physics - Wibe de Jong   ()
10:10 Quantum Simulators for Fundamental Physics - Silke Weinfurtner Silke Weinfurtner (The University of Nottingham)   ()
11:00 --- Mid-Morning Tea/Coffee ---
11:20
Morning session (until 13:00) ()
11:20 Quantum technologies for fundamental physics (experiment intro) - Ian Shipsey (University of Oxford (GB))   ()
11:40 New ideas for testing particle dark matter and phase transitions in He-3 - Andrew Casey   ()
12:00 New ideas for axion searches in superfluid helium - Joshua Foster   ()
12:20 Quantum sensor needs for dark matter axion searches - Aaron Chou   ()
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Day 1, Welcome Session (until 13:30) ()
13:00 STFC Quantum Landscape - Prof. Dave Newbold (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (GB))   ()
13:15 The DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Centers - Wibe de Jong Anna Grassellino   ()
13:30
Day 1, session 2 - Anna Grassellino Andrew Casey (until 15:00) ()
13:30 Fermilab - Matt Hollister - Matt Hollister   ()
14:00 Gran Sasso INFN - Stefano Pirro (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy)   ()
14:30 SnoLab, Andrew Kubik   ()
15:00 --- Afternoon Tea/Coffee ---
15:20
Day 1, session 3: Underground / Low Temperature (until 17:00) ()
15:20 Boulby - Paul Scovell (STFC)   ()
15:40 INFN - Laura Cardani   ()
16:00 Jon Prance - Isolab - Jonathan Prance   ()
16:20 Jan Nyeki- Cryofree Demag   ()
12:50 --- Lunch ---
14:10
Day 2, session 3 - Malcolm Connolly (Imperial) (until 15:25) ()
14:10 Investigating Electronic Properties of Materials for Superconducting Qubits through Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy Studies - Maria Iavarone (Temple University)   ()
14:35 Imaging single TLS defects in live quantum circuits using scanning gate microscopy - Riju Banerjee (National Physical Laboratory)   ()
15:00 Cooling, noise mitigation, and decoherence in quantum circuits immersed in a quantum fluid bath - John Saunders (Royal Holloway, University of London)   ()
15:25 --- Afternoon Break ---
15:45
Day 2, session 4 - James Sauls (LSU) (until 17:00) ()
15:45 Simulating interactions between a qubit and a resonant two-level system bath - Yaniv Rosen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)   ()
16:10 Characterisation of a 3D aluminium cavity for the QSHS experiments - Yuri Pashkin (Lancaster University)   ()
16:35 Experience with TLS effect on the quality factor in 3D SRF Cavities - Alexander Romanenko (Fermilab)   ()
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:15
Day 3 session 3 (until 16:00) ()
14:20 New ideas for gravitational wave detection and axion searches (theory) - Sebastian Ellis (Universite de Geneve (CH)) Sebastian Ellis (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   ()
14:40 Microwave-Optical Transduction for Quantum Sensors and Sensor Networks - Silvia Zorzetti Dr Silvia Zorzetti (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   ()
15:00 New ideas for low-frequency gravitational wave detection with quantum sensors - Tim Kovachy   ()
15:20 Cavity based searches for new particles and gravitational waves - Bianca Giaccone (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)   ()
16:00 --- Afternoon Tea/Coffee ---
16:20
Day 3: session 4 (until 17:30) ()
16:20 SERAPH: Dark Matter using SRF cavities and Superconducting Qubits - Raphael Cervantes   ()
16:40 The 'Quantum Sensors for the Hidden Sector' project - Prof. Ed Daw (The University of Sheffield)   ()