AIDAinnova Course on Quantum Applications

23 Jan 2025, 08:30 → 24 Jan 2025, 18:55 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

with an emphasis on Particle Detection Technologies for Applied Physicists and Engineers

Thursday 23 January

08:30 → 08:45 Registration

08:45 → 08:55 Welcome

09:00 → 09:45 Introduction

Speaker: Andrei Nomerotski

10:00 → 10:45 Communication / astronomy

Speaker: Prof. Andrei Nomerotski (Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague)

10:45 → 11:05 Coffee break

11:05 → 11:50 Non-invasive microvascular monitoring technologies based on diffuse optics

Diffuse optics is a promising tool for the measurement of local tissue hemodynamics, enabling non-invasive quantitative assessment of oxy- and deoxy-hemoglobin concentrations and blood flow of the deep tissue (>1cm) at the microvascular level. In this talk, I will review the main diffuse optical technologies applied to health such as near-infrared diffuse optical spectroscopies and laser-speckle based techniques, with particular focus on intensive care clinical applications.

Speaker: Lorenzo Cortese (ICFO)

11:50 → 12:35 From circuits to sensors: the best is yet to come!

In my talk I will cover all aspects related to how an integrated Time-of-Flight sensor is designed and implemented. I will describe all aspects of pixel and sensors architecture in relation to addressing the needs of the application and all the important considerations that need to be made when going from simulation to real world implementation.

Sara PELLEGRINI PhD STMicroelectronics
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Imaging Sub-Group | Imaging Strategy Office |
Communication and Academic Collaborations Manager

Speaker: Sara Pellegrini (STMicoelectronics)

12:35 → 14:00 Lunch break / poster session

14:05 → 14:50 Quantum Random Number Generators

Speaker: Massimo Caccia (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

14:50 → 15:35 3D interconnects for readout electronics

Speaker: Perceval Coudrain (CEA, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France)

15:35 → 16:20 Superconducting nanowires

Speakers: Boris Alexander Korzh (California Institute of Technology (US)), Boris Korzh

16:20 → 16:50 Coffee break

16:50 → 17:20 Quantum computing and its applications

This training consists of two parts.
First, I will briefly present my career path, starting with my work on particle detectors, moving through financial risk management, and culminating in quantum computing at IBM.
Second, we will explore how a quantum computer processes information using the laws of quantum mechanics. I will review the concepts of superposition, entanglement, and interference. Additionally, I will introduce the quantum circuit as a model for quantum computation. We will also discuss various applications of quantum computing and their potential relevance to particle detectors. Finally, we will learn how to execute quantum applications using the Qiskit quantum information software kit on the quantum processing units provided by IBM Quantum.

D. Egger. Senior Research Scientist, IBM Quantum, Zurich

Speaker: Daniel Egger

17:20 → 17:40 IDquantique - tbc

17:40 → 18:00 Amsterdam Scientific Instruments - tbc

Friday 24 January

07:45 → 08:45 Networking breakfast

09:00 → 10:00 Quantum Sensing & Metrology: The next frontier

The invention of quantum mechanics is now nearly a century old, and you would have thought that most its applications would have been discovered. Nothing could be further from the truth. This field of research is more active than ever before with most of the attention going to quantum computing: a new form of computing based on the principles of quantum mechanics and is predicted to outperform any form of classical computing. Although the realisation of a useful quantum computer is still some years away, there are applications of quantum mechanics which are here and now and extremely exciting. Using delicate quantum effects, we can make sensors which allow us to measure signals beyond classical limits, opening up a whole new world for us to explore with huge potential impact for our prosperity and our quality of life. In the field of measurement science, metrology, quantum effects have resulted in superior measurement standards which have transformed the field. In this talk I will try to explain some of the weird and wonderful aspects of quantum mechanics and discuss a number of exciting sensing applications which result from it.

JT Janssen, NPL Chief Scientist

Speaker: Jan Theodoor Janssen (National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom)

10:00 → 10:45 Hybrid pixel detectors

Speaker: Michael Campbell (CERN)

10:45 → 11:15 Break

11:15 → 12:00 Monolithic pixel technologies

Speaker: Thanushan Kugathasan (Universite de Geneve (CH))

12:00 → 12:45 Q-CMOS - Image sensors with single photon capabilities

Speaker: Dr Ljiljana Durdevic (Hamamatsu)

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:45 Silicon photomultipliers - SiPMs

Speaker: Alberto Gola (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)

14:45 → 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 → 16:00 Transition Edge Sensors

Speaker: Mr Jose Alejandro Rubiera Gimeno (DESY)

16:15 → 17:00 Future of quantum systems and concluding remarks