Program

Tuesday, June 13

Time
8:30 – 9:00	*Arrival & Registration and Coffee*
8:50 – 9:00	Opening remarks
9:00 – 9:45	J. Wrachtrup , Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, Stuttgart, Germany *Nanoscale quantum sensing*
9:45 – 10:30	N. Lindner, Technion, Haifa, Israel *Universal Signatures of Anomalous Floquet Phases of Quantum Matter*
10:30-10:50	*Coffee Break*
10:50 – 11:35	B. Altshuler, Columbia University, New York, USA *TBD*
11:35 – 12:00	Short Talk: Y. Shaked (Avi Pe’er and M. Rosenbluh), Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Optical Parametric Homodyne – Measuring the Fundamental Variables of Quantum Optics with Unlimited Bandwidth
12:00 – 12:20	QUEST presentation & Welcome
12:20 – 14:00	*Lunch and Posters*
14:00 – 14:45	K. Moelmer, Aarhus University, Denmark *Preparation of coherent and entangled quantum states by dissipation and decay*
14:45 – 15:30	E. Buks, Technion, Haifa, Israel *Nonlinear light-matter interaction*
15:30 – 15:55	Short Talk: Emanuele Dalla Torre, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Diagrammatic approach to the nonequilibrium Dicke phase transition
15:55-16:15	*Coffee Break*
16:15 – 17:00	A. Stern, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel *Pairing and clustering in quantum wires and non-abelian Quantum Hall States*
17:00 – 17:45	R. Ozeri, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel *Precision spectroscopy in engineered sub-spaces*
18:00 – …	Free discussions & shuttle to hotel

Wednesday, June 14

Time
8:30 – 9:00	*Arrival & Coffee*
9:00 – 9:45	J. Schmiedmayer , Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, TU-Wien, Vienna, Austria *Probing quantum matter in and out of equilibrium by correlation*
9:45 – 10:30	N. Davidson, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel *Solving hard computational problems with coupled lasers*
10:30-10:50	*Coffee Break*
10:50 – 11:35	E. Demler, Harvard University, USA *Variational approach to non-equilibrium dynamics of many-body systems*
11:35 – 12:20	N. Katz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel *Quantum optics in the age of superconducting circuits*
12:20 – 13:30	*Lunch and Posters*
13:30 – 14:00	Y. Naveh, IBM Research, Haifa, Israel *IBM-Q project: first commercially available universal quantum computer*
14:00 – 15:00	Panel session: QUEST frontiers – hybrid systems and beyond (Chair: K. Moelmer, Aarhus University, Denmark)
15:05-15:30	Short Talk: Michael Stern, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Towards coupling a superconducting circuit with a spin
15:30 – 15:55	Short Talk: Leon Bello (Avi Pe’er), Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Pairwise Mode-Locking in Coupled Parametric Oscillators – A highly multipartite implementation of an XY model
15:55-16:15	*Coffee Break*
16:15 – 17:00	O. Pfister, University of Virginia, USA *Large-scale cluster-state entanglement over the quantum optical frequency comb*
17:00 – 17:45	H. Eisenberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel *Reaching to higher dimensions: manipulating photonic states with more external and internal degrees of freedom*
18:00 – …	Free discussions

Thursday, June 15

Time
8:30 – 9:00	*Arrival & Registration and Coffee*
9:00 – 9:45	Y. Aharonov, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel *Weak Reality in the Quantum Domain*
9:45 – 10:30	D. Meschede, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany *From Quantum Optical Demonstration to Quantum Technology*
10:30-10:50	*Coffee Break*
10:50 – 11:35	G. Leuchs, Max Plank Institute, Erlangen, Germany *The Science of Light – from nano photonics to information science*
11:35 – 12:00	Short Talk: Richard Berkovits, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel *Signature of quantum phase transitions in the entanglement spectrum*
12:00 – 12:25	Short Talk: Lev Khaykovich, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Preparation of matter-wave solitons with deterministic number of atoms
12:25 – 14:00	*Lunch and Posters*
14:00 – 14:45	E. Grosfeld, Ben-Gurion University, Be’er Sheva, Israel *Fate of Majorana in a rough Fermi sea*
14:45 – 15:30	A. Yacoby, Harvard University, USA Exploring Condensed Matter Physics Using Nitrogen Vacancy Magnetometers
15:30 – 16:15	B. Dayan, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel *Demonstration of a passive and deterministic photon-atom SWAP gate*
16:15 – 16:30	*Farewell Coffee and Cookies*
16:30 – 18:00	Lab tour
18:00 – …	Free discussions & shuttle to hotel