Program - Humboldt Kolleg on Quantum Technologies, Krakow 2026

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Program

A downloadable version of the program and book of abstracts is available below.

Sunday, July 5th

15:00–18:00 Guided tour of Kraków
18:00–20:00 Welcome reception and registration

Monday, July 6th

08:00–09:00 Registration
08:45–09:00 Opening of the Kolleg
09:00–09:30 Henryk Figiel and Marian Jaskuła   Introduction to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
       
09:30–10:00 Marek Rams   Quantum and classical simulations of Ising
model dynamics
10:00–10:30 Gediminas Juzeliūnas   Topological Sub-Wavelength Optical Lattices for Dark State Ultracold Atoms
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
       
11:00–11:30 Paweł Horodecki   Charging of quantum batteries via reservoir
engineering
11:30–12:00 Iacopo Carusotto   How to prepare many-particle fractional quantum Hall fluids of synthetic quantum matter
12:00–12:30 Piotr Cyganik   SAMs for Organic Electronics -Stable Aromatic Monolayers on Metals with High or Low Conductivity
12:30–14:00 Lunch
       
14:00–14:30 Christof Weitenberg   Phase microscopes for quantum gases: from weakly to strongly correlated regimes
14:30–15:00 Krzysztof Jachymski   Dynamics of Bose polarons
15:00–15:30 André Eckardt   Open systems of neutral atoms: Floquet-reservoir engineering integer and fractional Chern insulators
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
       
16:00–16:30 Michael Fleischhauer   Many-body dynamics of interacting spin systems and the Truncated Wigner Approximation for Spins
16:30–17:00 Florian Mintert   Fast thermal state preparation beyond native interactions
17:00–17:30 Karol Życzkowski   Exploring Basic Quantum Structures: Contrasting the Typical and Atypical

Tuesday, July 7th

09:00–09:30 Tilman Pfau   Novel qubits for the neutral atom platform
09:30–10:00 Natalia Korolkova   From Continuous Variable Quantum Secret Sharing to Quantum Microwave Networks
10:00–10:30 Luis Santos   Interplay between frustration and long-range interactions in dipolar triangular ladders
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
       
11:00–11:30 Nigel Cooper   Phase-space microscopes for quantum gases
11:30–12:00 Szymon Pustelny   Quantum technologies to search for physics beyond the Standard Model
12:00–12:20 Mateusz Kędziora   Room-Temperature Exciton-Polariton Condensation and Guided Transport in Perovskite Monocrystals
12:20–12:40 Karthik Eswaran   Time quasicrystalline order from periodic driving
12:40–12:45 Conference Photo
12:45–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:30 Poster Session
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
       
16:00–16:30 Nikolay Vitanov   Quantum-enhanced localisation and imaging
16:30–17:00 Frank Großmann   Multi-configuration approaches to interacting many-body quantum dynamics: beyond mean field
17:00–17:30 Jens Biegert   Attosecond exploration of energy pathways in matter
18:30–21:30 Conference Dinner

Wednesday, July 8th

09:00–09:30 Susanne Yelin   Unleashing Analog Quantum Computing
09:30–10:00 Stefan Scheel   Rydberg physics with excitons in cuprous oxide quantum wells
10:00–10:30 Jakub Zakrzewski   Dynamics in disordered Rydberg arrays
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
       
11:00–11:30 Kazimierz Rzążewski   Multicomponent quantum gases and spontaneous symmetry breaking
11:30–12:00 Radim Filip   Quantum Non-Gaussian Light and Matter
12:00–12:30 Peter Schlagheck   Creating highly entangled NOON states with ultracold bosonic atoms
12:30–14:00 Lunch
       
14:00–14:30 Robert Spreeuw   Optical tweezers for atom arrays and in ion traps
14:30–15:00 Martin Robert de Saint Vincent   Coherent control of large nuclear spins in a Fermi gas of strontium
15:00–15:30 Mariusz Gajda   Bose-Fermi mixtures of ultracold atoms
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
       
16:00–16:30 Florian Schreck   Realization of continuous superradiant lasing on a narrow optical transition
16:30–17:00 Bogdan Damski   Expanding quantum magnetic field
17:00–17:30 Closing remarks

Thursday, July 9th

9:00–10:30 Jagiellonian University Museum tour
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