Program — SynQretism 2026

Monday 06 July

09:30 - 12:30

Quantum Information and Spacetime

Megalo Arsenali · Joint with SynCretism

09:30

Coffee and pastries

09:45

Prologue

10:00

Elias Kiritsis

Quantum Chaos, Quantum (near-extremal) Hydrodynamics and Quantum Gravity

10:40

Samantha Davis

Teleportation from quantum networks to traversable wormholes: the physics and technology of entanglement

11:20

Short break

11:30

Greeshma Shivali Oruganti

Bridging Quantum Thermodynamics, Gauge theories, and Quantum Simulations

12:10

Discussion and coffee

12:30
15:30

Lunch break

15:30 - 18:30

Quantum Sensing for Fundamental Physics

Megalo Arsenali · Joint with SynCretism

15:30

Coffee and pastries

16:00

Takis Kontos

Quantum sensing for fundamental physics

16:40

Igor Irastorza

Quantum sensors for the detection of axion dark matter: the DarkQuantum project

17:20

Short break

17:30

Nancy Paul

Precision Spectroscopy of Exotic Atoms with Quantum Sensors

18:10

Discussion and coffee

Tuesday 07 July

09:30 - 12:30

Quantum Light Interfaces

Mikis Theodorakis Theatre

09:30

Julien Laurat

Photonic Interconnects: Advancing Quantum Networking for Communication and Computing

10:00

Almut Beige

From wave-particle duality to photonic quantum sensing

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

Niccolò Somaschi

TBA

11:30

Paraskevas Tzallas

Extreme Quantum Optics: Generation of optical “cat” states and applications in non-linear optics

12:00

Tim Schröder

Quantum control of optical and spin states in diamond

12:30
16:00

Lunch break

16:00 - 18:30

Programmable Quantum Platforms

Mikis Theodorakis Theatre

16:00

Tim Langen

Laser cooling of molecules for precision measurements and many-body physics

16:30

Matteo Fadel

Macroscopic superpositions and entanglement of sound

17:00

Coffee break

17:30

Danijela Marković

Quantum neuromorphic computing with superconducting circuits

18:00

Evert van Nieuwenburg

TBA

20:30

Public Talk - Επιστημονικές αφηγήσεις με μουσική

Mikis Theodorakis Theatre

Wednesday 08 July

09:30 - 12:30

Quantum Tests Across Scales

Megalo Arsenali · Joint with SynCretism

09:30

Coffee and pastries

10:00

Rembert Duine

High-energy physics for low power-consumption

10:40

Sokratis Trifinopoulos

Fundamental interactions from quantum information

11:20

Short break

11:30

Hendrik Ulbricht

Testing fundamental physics by levitated mechanics

12:10

Discussion and coffee

12:30 - 13:30

Poster session / Lunch

Megalo Arsenali · Joint with SynCretism

Thursday 09 July

09:30 - 12:30

Algorithms and Many-Body Systems

Mikis Theodorakis Theatre

09:30

Antonio Acín

Certified many-body physics

10:00

Michael Buchhold

Monitored Quantum Matter

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

Sophia Economou

Quantum information processing stack: from qubits to algorithms and back

11:30

Chiara Capecci

Nonstabilizerness in Quantum Optimization: From QAOA to Non-Stoquastic Annealing

12:00

Dimitris Angelakis

Qubit efficient variational algorithms and applications in optimisation and CFD

12:30
16:00

Lunch break

16:00 - 18:30

Spin Quantum Platforms

Mikis Theodorakis Theatre

16:00

Daniel Loss

Domain Wall Spin Qubits on Magnetic Racetrack

16:30

Andrea Morello

Quantum chaos and quantum information with high-spin nuclei

17:00

Coffee break

17:30

Jelena Klinovaja

Heisenberg-limited metrology from the quantum-quench dynamics of an anisotropic ferromagnet

18:00

Denis Candido

Topological Magnetic Textures for Quantum Information Science

Friday 10 July

09:30 - 13:00

Low-Dimensional Quantum Matter

Mikis Theodorakis Theatre

09:30

Gerbold Ménard

Gate tunable quantum Hall resonators

10:00

Landry Bretheau

Quantum Control of Hybrid Superconducting Circuits made with Carbon Nanotubes

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

Matthieu Delbecq

Shaping the spectrum of a one-dimensional electronic system

11:30

Olesia Dmytruk

Poor man's Majorana bound states in the Kitaev chain coupled to a photonic cavity

12:00

Adrien Bouscal

A cavity-coupled Rydberg array for logical quantum interfaces

12:30
15:30

Lunch break

15:30 - 18:30

Quantum Sensors, Dark Matter and Gravitational Waves

Megalo Arsenali · Joint with SynCretism

15:30

Coffee and pastries

16:00

Audrey Cottet

Quantum sensing of axion dark matter

16:40

Camilo Garcia Cely

The expanding landscape of gravitational waves

17:20

Short break

17:30

Kostas Nikolopoulos

Dark matter direct detection (Title TBC)

18:10

Epilogue