Name: 100 YEARS of QUANTUM ADVANCEMENTS: Global and African perspectives
Start: 2025-07-09T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-07-09T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Académie Hassan II, Rabat, Morocco

100 YEARS of QUANTUM ADVANCEMENTS: Global and African perspectives

Wednesday, 9 July 2025 - 08:00

Monday, 7 July 2025
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Wednesday, 9 July 2025

08:00 Registration and welcome address
Registration and welcome address
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 Quantum Horizons Toward Morocco’s Strategic Leadership
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Morocco and Africa at the Heart of Quantum Science and Global Networks - Lalla Btissam Drissi (Mohammed V University, Morocco)

09:25 How an African Quantum Internet can facilitate African Industrialization and Morocco can Lead the Wave - Frank DOMONEY (Anglia Maghreb Quantum cities, United Kingdom)
10:00 Quantum Infrastructure for Africa
10:00 - 11:30
Contributions

10:00 Particle accelerators physics in Africa, present and future: what opportunity for Morocco? - Sanae Samsam (INFN Milano)

10:25 Status of European Compact Light Sources: perspective for a CLS in Morocco Bridging to South-Europe - Luca Serafini (INFN-Milan)

10:50 Compact cost-effective electron accelerators for multi-disciplinary applications - Andrea Mostacci (Sapienza University of Rome e INFN-Roma I (IT))
11:30 Break
Break
11:30 - 11:50
11:50 Quantum Physics in Modern Technology
11:50 - 12:40
Contributions

11:50 The invisible engine: How Quantum physics powers technology - Mohammed KHENFOUCH (Applied Sciences Fac, Ait Melloul, Agadir, Morocco)

12:10 Quantum transport in nanostructures: From tunneling to transistors - Mohamed EL YADRI (ENSAM, Rabat, Morocco)
12:40 Frontiers in Quantum Information
12:40 - 13:30
Contributions

12:40 Exploitation of Quantum noise to realize a quantum image cryptography protocole - Saad RFIFI (Fac Polydisciplinary, Larache, Morocco)

13:00 From Fragmentation to Frontline: Uniting Africa’s Leadership to Secure Quantum Future - Farai MAZHANDU (Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematica, USA)
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
14:30 Quantum Pulse of Particle Physics
14:30 - 15:30
Contributions

14:30 The ATLAS Inner Tracker Upgrade - Mounia Laassiri (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

14:55 The 4th African Conference of Physics and the African Strategy Symposium - Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
15:30 Quantum Materials and AI at the Nanoscale
15:30 - 16:50
Contributions

15:30 DisCoCirc for Quantum Natural Language Processing - Ouissal MOUMOU (Quantinuum, United Kingdom)

15:55 Quantum Echoes: Quantum confinement and Stark Tuning in Quantum dots - Hala OUARRAD (LPHE-MS, Fac of Sciences in Rabat, Morocco)

16:15 Predicting the band gap in antimoine from experiments and Artificial Intelligence - Amal TARBI (Ecole Supérieure de Technologie, Kenitra, Morocco)
16:50 Roundtable and Closing remarks
Roundtable and Closing remarks
16:50 - 17:30