MPHQ Alumni Conference

MPHQ Alumni Conference, 29.06.22

Datum: 29.06.2022
Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 17:00
Ort: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall, MPI für Quantenoptik, Garching
Gastgeber: Max Planck Harvard Research Center for Quantum Optics

The Max Planck Harvard Research Center for Quantum Optics (MPHQ) and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) jointly present on Wednesday the 29th of June their first Alumni Conference in the new Herbert Walther Lecture Hall at MPQ. Among the speakers are Dr. Flore Kunst, Dr. Lucas Fabian Hackl, Prof. Jun Rui, Dr. Stephan Welte, Dr. Ahmed Omran, Prof. Erez Zohar, Prof. Ralf Riedinger, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Rempe, and Prof. Dr. Immanuel Bloch, who will give insights into their individual career paths & talk about their current research results.

Programm:

# 09:30 – 10:00 Registration

# 10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and Opening: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Rempe

Alumni session (Session chair: Prof. Gerhard Rempe)

# 10:15 – 10:55 Jun Rui (University of Science and Technology of China) *online talk* „tbd”

# 10:55 – 11:35 Erez Zohar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) *online talk* "Selection rules and local constraints: my very own view on lattice gauge theories and life in science"

# 11:35 – 11:55 Short Coffee Break

# 11:55 – 12:05 Group Photo Session (Foyer)

Alumni session (Session chair: Pau Farrera)

# 12:05 – 12:45 Lucas Hackl (University of Melbourne) *online talk* "A personal perspective on academic careers: networks, relationships and financials"

# 12:45 – 13:45 Lunch

# 13:45 – 14:25 Ahmed Omran (Google Germany) “From Fermi-Hubbard simulations to audio compression”

# 14:25 – 15:05 Stephan Welte (ETH Zurich) “Quantum networks based on neutral atoms in optical cavities”

# 15:05 – 15:25 Short Coffee Break

Alumni session (Session chair: Emanuele Distante)

# 15:25 – 16:05 Flore Kunst (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light) “Non-Hermitian topological phenomena: From physics to becoming a group leader”

# 16:05 – 16:45 Ralf Riedinger (University of Hamburg) “Transatlantic Quantum Networking”

# 16:45 – 16:55 Closing Remarks - Prof. Immanuel Bloch