All WACQT members are invited to the yearly May-meeting, the purpose of which is to review the activities in the centre, and to gather all the WACQT members to meet and discuss.
Our scientific advisory board will attend the presentations and poster sessions, talk to people (incl a lunch with senior PhD students and postdocs) and give feedback to the Board and Centre PIs on the activities in WACQT. This is also a great chance to meet and get to know other researchers in the Centre.
In addition to the professional content, there will be social activities and dinners.
Please note, pictures will be taken during the event, mainly for internal use. If we should want to use a photo externally where you are in focus, you will be asked first. If you have a strong wish to not appear in any photos, please notify us in person when checking in to the event.
Presentations, fikas and lunches are offered to all members of WACQT. The activities and dinners and offered to WACQT employees*. Master students can stand by for cancelled slots.
Presentations, fikas and lunches are offered to all members of WACQT. The activities and dinners and offered to WACQT employees*. Master students can stand by for cancelled slots.
This year’s venue is the same as 2023:
Wallenbergssalen
Konferenscentrum Wallenberg
Medicinaregatan 20 A
Göteborg
Accommodation
We have reserved rooms at a few different hotels at Chalmers rates, but maybe not enough for everyone. Many of the rooms are twin rooms, for easy sharing (please agree with whom, before registering).
Please note, it is allowed to use the hotel agreement of a fellow university.
We will confirm your accommodation within max four days after your registration, normally sooner. Priority is given to people staying for the full meeting.
Payment is made by the guest directly to the hotel and by ticking the request for a room, you will be accountable for the assigned room, unless it can be cancelled or assigned to another participant.
Logistics in Gothenburg
For people from universities outside Gothenburg, we will provide 72-hour passes for trams and buses with Västtrafik. If you stay at a hotel that we have booked for you, they will be available at the reception. Otherwise, they can be picked up at the venue on the first morning.
The easiest way to plan your trips is via the app ToGo.
The closest stop to the venue is Medicinareberget. Walk uphill, to the left of the allotment gardens with tiny villas.
Lunches
Everyone has lunch in the restaurant upstairs. However, there will be a seating plan for those invited to lunch with a particular group on the first two days. (There will be table signs and separate email invitations).
On day 1, Some PhD students and postdocs will be invited for lunch with an SAB member of their own pillar, in order to provide our SAB with insight into the Centre activities and for a much-appreciated chance to discuss science in a small group with our well-renowned professors.
On day 2, the SAB and company representatives and academic supervisors in industry projects will be invited for lunch.
Dinners
Dinner 13th May: Wijkanders, restaurant at Chalmers campus, Vera Sandbergs allé 5B.
Dinner 14th May: M/S St. Erik, in the beautiful archipelago and we return around sunset.
Departure from “Lilla Bommen”, 7 minutes’ walk from the tramstop “Lilla Bommen”.
Afternoon activities
Guided tour at the Opera of Gothenburg, to find out what happens “backstage”.
Group 1: 15:45 - 16:45
Group 2: 17:00 - 18:00
(Group division will be made after registration deadline and published here).
Opera bar opens 17:00, Opera café 17:45. There are also other cafés in the area around the harbour, which is the same area as the dinner boat.
PhD students/posters
PhD students are kindly requested to present a poster about their project, size A0, portrait.
Name and title of your poster should be registered in this list by deadline.
Poster session list WACQT May meeting 2025.xlsx
If you are one of the invited PhD speakers or joined since last May-meeting, you can choose whether to bring a poster, just let us know your choice in the list.
Postdocs may present a poster subject to availability of free holders – make a request in the list.
Ideally, reserve a small space on your poster for a very simple, popular science “pitch” about what you do. We would also much appreciate your portrait picture next to your name on the poster. Please also put a coloured 5x5 cm square in the upper right corner to identify your pillar. **
Posters can be attached in the foyer of Wallenbergsalen, respecting your assigned poster number in the poster list, during the first morning check-in slot.
Schedule
Take a look at the May meeting 2025 schedule. It may be subject to change.
Registration
Please, do register in time! Last day for registration is 30 March.
Consult your confirmation email if you are uncertain about what you signed up for. The sender is "WACQT May review meeting 2025"
Registration: WACQT May review meeting 2025
Linda’s phone number: 0046 (0)31 772 63 49.
* In this case you are a member if you got the invitation first hand from Linda Brånell or one of the ten Centre management PIs.
- You are considered an employee if you also meet any of the below criteria:
- You are sponsored by WACQT.
- You supervise PhD students and/or postdocs sponsored by WACQT
- You are a PhD student involved in the WACQT graduate school’s activities, even if your salary is paid by other funding
- You are an appointed member of the Board, Scientific advisory board or Industrial advisory board
- You are also invited to all parts of the event if you represent an industrial partner of WACQT
** Red for quantum computing experiment
Blue for quantum computing theory
Dark green for quantum sensing, metrology and control
Dark/visible yellow for quantum communication
(The square can be a loose piece of paper).
