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