PhD school on Quantum Sensing for Fundamental Physics

24 Aug 2026, 08:45 → 28 Aug 2026, 19:00 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

Clara Murgui Galvez (CERN), Diego Blas Temino (ICREA/IFAE), Hannah Banks, Joachim Kopp (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE)), Mario Reig (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC)), Maurizio Pierini (CERN)

The School is targeted at PhD students in both theoretical and experimental physics with a background in quantum mechanics and an interest in quantum technologies and sensing.

Attendance will be limited, and participants will be selected to ensure that they have the required background to benefit fully from the School.
Selected participants will be informed by the end of June.

The School will have a fee of 150 CHF, and instructions on how to pay this fee will be sent to the selected participants.

The school will cover a broad range of topics in quantum sensing (cold atoms, optomechanical sensors, spin systems, quantum measurements, electromagnetic cavities), led by the lecturers:

• Chelsea Bartram (Stanford U.)
• Sebastian Ellis (Kings College)
• Roni Harnik (Fermilab)
• Andreu Riera-Campeny (ICFO)
• Dennis Schlippert (Hannover U.)
• Alex Sushkov (John Hopkins U.)

Monday 24 August

08:45 → 09:00 Welcome

Speakers: Clara Murgui Galvez (CERN), Hannah Banks, Joachim Kopp (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE)), Mario Reig Lopez

09:00 → 10:30 Introduction [1/3]

Speaker: Sebastian Ellis (University of London (GB))

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Introduction [2/3]

Speaker: Sebastian Ellis (University of London (GB))

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 15:00 Cold atoms [1/2]

Speaker: Dennis Schlippert

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 17:00 Discussion session

Tuesday 25 August

09:00 → 10:30 Introduction [3/3]

Speaker: Sebastian Ellis (University of London (GB))

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Cold atoms [2/2]

Speaker: Dennis Schlippert

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 15:00 Spin systems [1/2]

Speaker: Alexander Sushkov

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 17:00 Discussion session

Wednesday 26 August

09:00 → 10:30 Optomechanics [1/2]

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Spin systems [2/2]

Speaker: Alexander Sushkov

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:00 Talk on quantum activities @ CERN (Michael Dosner)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 17:00 Discussion session

Thursday 27 August

09:00 → 10:30 EM cavities [1/2]

Speaker: Chelsea Bartram (SLAC)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Optomechanics [2/2]

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 15:00 Quantum measurements [1/2]

Speaker: Roni Harnik

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 17:00 Discussion session

Friday 28 August

09:00 → 10:30 EM cavities [2/2]

Speaker: Chelsea Bartram (SLAC)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Quantum measurements [2/2]

Speaker: Roni Harnik

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 14:00 Ending