DRD5 Collaboration meeting

from Wednesday, 4 March 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 6 March 2026 (13:00)
CERN (40/S2-B01)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
4 Mar 2026
5 Mar 2026
6 Mar 2026
AM
09:00
DRD5 - Michael Doser (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) (until 09:10)
09:10
DRD5 - Christophe Dujardin (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I (FR)) Anna Paola Caricato (until 11:00)
09:10 WP-2 status report - Etiennette Auffray Hillemanns (CERN) Christophe Dujardin (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I (FR)) Anna Paola Caricato  
09:40 Updates from November 2025 workshop - Yacine Haddad (Universitaet Bern (CH)) Anne-Mazarine Lyon (CERN)  
10:10 LPU activities on quantum dots synthesis and characterization - Mriganka Mouli Mondal (National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) (IN))  
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:20
DRD5 -Dr Loredana Gastaldo (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University) Andrea Giachero (until 13:00)
11:20 Status report WP-3 - Andrea Giachero Dr Loredana Gastaldo (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University)  
11:55 Superconducting Nano/microwire Single Photon Detectors in Italy - Francesco Mattioli Dr Loredana Gastaldo (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University) Andrea Giachero  
12:30 preliminary results using Time Dependent Ginzburg Landau simulations taking advantage of the FEniCS framework and progress on electronics - Dr Vagelis Gkougkousis (University of Zurich) Evangelos Leonidas Gkougkousis  
09:00
DRD5 - Sofia Qvarfort Dr Gerard Higgins (Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Vienna, Austria) (until 11:00)
09:00 WP4 short introduction - Sofia Qvarfort  
09:10 Hendrik Ulbricht: Testing Fundamental Physics by Levitated Mechanics - Prof. Hendrik Ulbricht (Southampton)  
09:30 Louis Hamaide: Searching for Ultralight Dark Matter with MOLeQuTE - Dr Louis Hamaide (UCL)  
09:50 Bin Xu: Distributed quantum sensing for ultralight dark matter - Dr Bin Xu (KIAS)  
10:10 Eva Kilian-Rademacher - Dr Eva Kilian-Rademacher (UCL)  
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:45
Discussion (until 12:20)
09:00
DRD5 - Georgy Kornakov (Warsaw University of Technology (PL)) Rajdeep Mohan Chatterjee (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (IN)) (until 10:30)
09:00 master program at NTNU - Thomas Tybell (NTNU)  
09:20 Microcredential programs in the European educational system - Maja Mackowiak-Pawlowska (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
09:40 Report on activities - Rajdeep Mohan Chatterjee (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (IN)) Georgy Kornakov (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
10:00 Handbook - Stafford Withington Georgy Kornakov (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
10:30 --- coffee ---
10:50
DRD5 (until 12:00)
PM
13:00 --- Break ---
14:00
DRD5 - David Hume (NIST) Elina Fuchs (DESY and Leibniz University Hannover) (until 15:40)
14:00 Status report WP-1 - David Hume (NIST) Elina Fuchs (DESY and Leibniz University Hannover)  
14:35 Quantum Networks - Dr Raghu Srinivas (Oxford University)  
15:10 Discussion: database, public codes, theory-experiment - David Hume (NIST) Elina Fuchs (DESY and Leibniz University Hannover)  
15:40
DRD5 - Michael Doser (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) (until 16:10)
16:10 --- Break ---
16:30
Collaboration Board Meeting - Marcel Demarteau (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) (until 18:45)
16:30 Adoption of minutes of 3rd collaboration board meeting  
16:35 Application of Aarhus University - Rosana Martinez Turtos (Aarhus University)  
16:50 Application of Izmir Bakırçay University - Kadri Ozdemir (Izmir Bakircay University (TR))  
17:05 Application of Istinye University - Selcuk Hacıömeroğlu (Istinye University (TR))  
17:20 Application of USTC - Haowen Su (USTC)  
17:35 Application of HUN-REN Wigner RCP - Gergely Barnafoldi Ádám Gali  
17:50 Status of MOUs - Michael Doser (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
18:05 Status of COST action - Georgy Kornakov (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
18:15 Discussion on industry members  
18:30 Closed Discussion New Member Applications - Marcel Demarteau (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)  
12:20
Discussion (until 13:00)
13:00 --- Break ---
14:20
DRD5 - Alberto Marino (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Yevgeny Stadnik (The University of Sydney) (until 15:30)
14:20 WP-5: Quick Introduction - Yevgeny Stadnik (The University of Sydney) Alberto Marino (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)  
14:30 Contribution 1: Sub-SQL Particle Detection Techniques - Daniel Carney (Berkeley National Lab)  
15:00 Contribution 2: Towards Spin Squeezing of Macroscopic Nuclear Spin Ensembles - Alexander Sushkov  
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
DRD5 -Dr Yevgeny Stadnik (The University of Sydney) Alberto Marino (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Alberto Marino Yevgeny Stadnik (The University of Sydney) (until 16:30)
16:00 Contribution 3: Quantum Limits to Sensing of Magnetic and Magnetic-Like Fields - Morgan Mitchell  
16:30
Discussion (until 17:30)