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100 YEARS of QUANTUM ADVANCEMENTS: Global and African perspectives

Wednesday, 9 July 2025 - 08:00
Académie Hassan II, Rabat, Morocco

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9 Jul 2025
AM
08:00 Registration and welcome address  
09:00
Quantum Horizons Toward Morocco’s Strategic Leadership (until 10:00)
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)  
09:50 --- Discussion ---
10:00
Quantum Infrastructure for Africa (until 11:30)
10:00 Particle accelerators physics in Africa, present and future: what opportunity for Morocco? - Dr Sanae Samsam (INFN Milano)  
10:25 Status of European Compact Light Sources: perspective for a CLS in Morocco Bridging to South-Europe - Prof. Luca Serafini (INFN-Milan)  
10:50 Compact cost-effective electron accelerators for multi-disciplinary applications - Prof. Andrea Mostacci (Sapienza University of Rome e INFN-Roma I (IT))  
11:15 --- Discussion ---
11:30 --- Break ---
11:50
Quantum Physics in Modern Technology (until 12:40)
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)  
12:30 --- Discussion ---
PM
12:40
Frontiers in Quantum Information (until 13:30)
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)  
13:20 --- Discussion ---
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Quantum Pulse of Particle Physics (until 15:30)
14:30 The ATLAS Inner Tracker Upgrade - Dr Mounia Laassiri (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
14:55 The 4th African Conference of Physics and the African Strategy Symposium - Dr Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
15:20 --- Discussion ---
15:30
Quantum Materials and AI at the Nanoscale (until 16:50)
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)  
16:35 --- Discussion ---
16:50 Roundtable and Closing remarks