Flagship Forum 2021

When: Friday, 24th September 2021, all day.
Where: ETH Hönggerberg (HIT E51 and Bellavista restaurant).

Covid-19 provisions: This is a covid-certificate event: all participants must have a valid covid certificate (proof of vaccination, recovery or recent negative test) and valid id. Masks must be worn during talks. If the pandemic situation worsens and the new ETH Masterplan does not allow for in-person event, the Forum will be postponed.  

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Online version: Most of the event was livestreamed on external pageQuantum Center's YouTube channelcall_made. Links to the videos through the talks' titles below.
Schedule:

  8:30 Registration opens (HIT entrance)
  9:00 Welcome & Introduction to the Quantum Center, by Andreas Wallraff
  9:10 Pauli blockade in graphene quantum dots, by Chuyao Tong (Blitz talk)
  9:35 external pageEntanglement spectra of open systemscall_made, by Christian Carisch (Blitz talk)
10:00 Coffee break (Bellavista)
10:30 external pageCryptography in the quantum computing eracall_made (Panel discussion)
           with Dennis Hofheinz, Kenneth Paterson and Renato Renner, mod. Lídia del Rio
11:20 Break *
11:35 external pageThought experiments on a quantum computercall_made, by Nuriya Nurgalieva (Blitz talk)
12:00 Lunch (Bellavista)
13:30 external pageVacuum noise in the integer quantum hall effectcall_made, by Felice Appugliese (Blitz talk)
13:55 Break *
14:10 Quantum materials and devices (Panel discussion)
           with Pietro Gambardella, Vanessa Wood and Yiwen Chu, mod. Cornelius Hempel
15:00 Poster session with apéro (Bellavista)
16:30 Christopher Monroe (Special invited talk, remote)
17:30 End

*Short breaks to stretch your legs and breathe outside.  

Blitz talks are 20min talks by PhD students of the Quantum Center. The talks are accessible and aimed at an audience of researchers with diverse backgrounds in quantum science. Our student speakers this year are:
   - Chuyao Tong, Nanophysics group (Esslin)
   - Christian Carisch, Electronic & Photonic Quantum Engineered Systems group (Zilberberg)
   - Nuriya Nurgalieva, Quantum Information Theory group (Renner)
   - Felice Appugliese, Quantum Optoelectronics group (Faist) 

Panel discussions are conversations on a hot topic in quantum technologies. The panelists are Quantum Center PIs who are experts in the topic, and audience participation is welcome. Our panelists are:
   - Dennis Hofheinz (Foundations of Crytpography), Kenneth Paterson (Applied Cryptography) and Renato Renner (Quantum Information Theory), who will discuss the impact of quantum computing on current cryptography, and strategies to handle it, through both quantum and post-quantum cryptography, in a panel moderated by Lídia del Rio;
   - Pietro Gambardella (Magnetism and Interface Physics), Vanessa Wood (Materials and Device Engineering) and Yiwen Chu (Hybrid Quantum Systems), who will discuss the challenges of crafting and controlling quantum materials and nanodevices, interfaces between different kinds of quantum systems, and applications, in a panel moderated by Cornelius Hempel.

The special guest this year is external pageChristopher Monroecall_made, a trapped ion expert from Duke University, who is also the co-founder and Chief Scientist of the startup external pageIonQcall_made. Chris will talk about science, quantum hardware, and his journey through academia and industry. Due to last-moment logistics difficulties, Chris will join us remotely this year.

Poster session

The poster session with apéro will take place at Bellavista.

The topic of the poster session is "Charming research in a strange year". You are welcome to present your recent research into quantum science and technology: just sign up for a poster below.

Optionally, you can also include on the poster how your work was affected by the pandemic in the past year. If your group came up with creative and funny solutions through the lockdown and isolation, or if there were unexpected bright sides (less noise in the experiments!) share them! However, you don't have to be positive: it has been a difficult year, and it's important as an institution that we acknowledge our struggles as we celebrate our achievements.

Posters can be in landscape or portrait format, size A0 or similar. You can print your poster at ETH via web self-service.