Schedule

All presentations will be 30 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion.

Monday 1st July

Arrival day

19:00 - 20:30   Dinner

 

Tuesday 2nd July

07:00 - 08:40   Breakfast

08:45 - 09:00   Welcome

Opto- and electromechanical systems I (Chair: Witlef Wieczorek)

09.00 - 09:35   Simon Gröblacher
Quantum experiments with mechanical and optical excitations

09.35 - 10:10   David Vitali 
Sensing and quantum state synthesis and processing in cavity optomechanics

10:10 - 10:40   Coffee break

10:40 - 11:15   Michael Vanner
Brillouin optomechanics in whispering-gallery-mode microresonators: Strong coupling, the lasing transition, and single-phonon addition and subtraction operations

11:15 - 11:50   John Teufel
Quantum Circuit Optomechanics with Millimeter Wave Photons

12:00 - 14:00   Lunch

Opto- and electromechanical systems II (Chair: David Haviland)

14:00 - 14:35   Anja Metelmann
Enhanced cooling efficiency in nonlinear cavity optomechanics -- or how a shark can be helpful

14:35 - 15:10   Mika Sillanpää
Quantum backaction and entanglement with mechanical oscillators

15:10 - 15:40   Coffee break

15:40 - 16:15   Aashish Clerk
Exploring topological and many-body phenomena in mechanical systems

16:15 - 16:50   Hong Tang
Phononics at extremely high frequencies

19:00 - 20:30   Dinner

 

Wednesday 3rd July 2024

07:00 - 08:40   Breakfast

QIP (Chair: Raphaël van Laer )

08:45 - 09:20   Oskar Painter
Quantum acoustodynamics at the nanoscale

09.20 - 09:55   Amir Safavi Naeni
Quantum Nanomechanical Devices as Sensors 

09.55 - 10:30   Cindy Regal
Optomechanics under thermal gradients

10:30 - 11:00   Coffee break

11:00 - 11:35   Johannes Fink
Entanglement and readout of superconducting circuits with light

11:35 - 12:10   Free time

12:10 - 14:00   Lunch

Quantum sensing, measurement and control (Chair: Sofia Qvarfort)

14:00 - 14:35   Nergis Malvalvala
Quantum technologies for gravitational wave detection

14:35 - 15:10   Albert Schliesser
Quantum measurement and control of ultracoherent phononic resonators: from fundamentals to applications

15:10 - 15:40   Coffee break

15:40 - 16:15   Eugene Polzik
Quantum Mechanics in the Negative Mass Reference Frame

16:15 - 16:50   Warwick Bowen
Quantum smoothing of mechanical motion

16:50 - 18:00   Panel discussion: applications of quantum controlled mechanical systems. Discussion leader: John Teufel.

19:00 - 20:30   Dinner


Thursday 4th July 2024

07:00 - 08:40   Breakfast

Hybrid systems (Chair: Witlef Wieczorek )

08:45 - 09:20   Ania Bleszynski Jayich
Spin-coupled diamond mechanical systems

09.20 - 09:55   Tobias Kippenberg
Quantum optomechanics using ultra coherent mechanical oscillators 

09.55 - 10:30   Tracy Northup
Nanoparticles levitated in an ion trap: steps toward quantum control

10:30 - 11:00   Coffee break

Foundations (Chair: Igor Pikovski)

11:00 - 11:35   Markus Aspelmeyer
Levitated Solids in the Quantum Regime as Quantum Sources of Gravity?

11:35 - 12:10   Jack Harris
Testing the linearity of quantum mechanics: high-amplitude motion of a massive object

12:10 - 14:00   Lunch

14:00 - 14:35   Dirk Bouwmeester
Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage in Optomechanics

14:35 - 15:10   Michael Tobar
Precision optomechanical systems to test fundamental physics

15:10 - 15:40   Coffee break

15:40 - 16:15   Sougato Bose
Testing Macroscopic and Gravitational Nonclassicalities

16:15 - 17:25   Panel discussion: exploring foundational questions with quantum controlled mechanical systems. Discussion leader: Gerard Milburn

17:25 - 17:40   Closing remarks

19:00 - 20:30   Dinner


Friday 5th July 2024

07:00 - 08:40   Breakfast

Departure day