Island Physics 2018 - Program

Island Physics conference > Program

Abstracts can be downloaded here.

A printed version of the schedule will be available at the registration desk. 

Conference venue: Indigo conference room, Peppers Blue on Blue Resort, Magnetic Island

Monday, August 6

11.30am - 12.30pm: Registration - Atrium

12.30pm - 1.30pm: Lunch - Boardwalk Restaurant and Bar

2.00pm - 3.40pm: Session one                            

Session chair: Tom Stace

• Invited talk (30 mins) - Chris Vale - Exciting sounds in Fermi superfluids                         
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Yauhen Sachkou - Two-dimensional superfluids 
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Guillaume Gauthier - Transport Dynamics of an Atomtronic LRC Circuit
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Kamil Korzekwa - Avoiding irreversibility: lossless interconversion of quantum resources                        

3.30pm - 4.00pm: Afternoon tea - Atrium

4.00pm - 5.30pm: Session two                 

Session chair: Jared Cole              

• Invited talk (30 mins) - Maja Cassidy - Superconducting circuits operating in strong magnetic fields for hybrid quantum computing                   
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Clemens Mueller - A passive, on-chip microwave circulator using a ring of tunnel junctions
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Andres Rosario Hamann - Nonreciprocal superconducting circuit based on quantum nonlinearity 
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Janna Hinchliff - A nuclear spin quantum memory in an InGaAs quantum dot system

Day ends                                

Tuesday, August 7 

9.00am - 10.30am - Session three                                 

Session chair: Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop

• Invited talk (30 mins) - Arne Laucht - Spin Qubits in Silicon – Control and Characterization                     
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Marcin Piotrowski - Thorium Ion Trap – Not Only for Nuclear Clock
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Tobias Vogl - Next-generation single-photon sources in two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Kavan Modi - Stochastic processes are ubiquitous in nature                                    

10.30am - 10.50am: Morning tea - Atrium

10.50am - 12.00pm: Session four                                    

Session chair: Matthew Davis

• Invited talk (30 mins) - Emma Mitchell - Effect of array geometry on SQIF sensitivity                
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Gavin Brennen - Robust symmetry-protected metrology with the Haldane phase
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Bixuan Fan - Quantum fluctuations induced stochastic resonance in the Jaynes-Cummings model

12.00pm - 2.00pm: Lunch and break - Boardwalk Restaurant and Bar

2.00pm - 3.30pm: Session five

• Workforce Science Review (30 mins) - Cathy Foley
• Workforce Science Review (30 mins) - Andre Luiten

3.30pm - 4.00pm: Afternoon tea - Atrium

4.00pm - 6.00pm: Session six

• Industry talk (30 mins) - John Weston / Julian Fay - Keys to the future - the impact of Quantum technology on the cyber security industry
• Industry talk (30 mins) - Anna Phan - The IBM Q Program: from research to commercialisation and beyond
• Panel discussion on Quantum Technology themes (50 mins) - Chair: Ben Greene (EOS);  Maja Cassidy (Microsoft), Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop (EQUS/UQ), Vikram Sharma (Quintessence), Jared Cole (RMIT/FLEET)

6.30pm - 7.15pm: Networking drinks and canapes

7.15pm - 11.00pm: Dinner - Welcome function, Marina Deck

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Wednesday, August 8 

9am - 10.50am: Session seven 

• Industry talk (30 mins) - Ben Greene - Societal Wealth from Quantum Technology:  Elements of Commercialisation
• Industry talk (30 mins) - Susannah Jones - Quantum Technology in the Military Domain
• Panel discussion on Industry Sectors (50 mins) - Chair: Cathy Foley (CSIRO);   Susannah Jones (DSTL),  Cather Simpson (UAuckland),  Julian Fay (Senetas), Emma Mitchell (CSIRO) 

10.50am - 11.10am - Morning tea - Atrium

11.10am - 12.00pm: Session eight 

• Panel discussion on Workforce Needs (50 mins) - Chair: Mohan Krishnamoorthy (UQ);  Anna Phan (IBM), Clemens Mueller (IBM/ETH) Zurich, Tom Stace (EQUS/UQ), Andrew White (EQUS/UQ)

12.00pm - 2.00pm: Lunch and break - Boardwalk Restaurant and Bar

2.00pm - 3.30pm: Session nine                                        

Session chair: Emma Mitchell

• Invited talk (30 mins) - Meera Parish - Many-body quantum batteries                   
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Christopher Perrella - Optical Quantum Information Processing with Warm Atom-Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibres
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Paul Sibley - Phase measurement performance of Digital Interferometry for Optical Phased Arrays   
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Erik Streed - Towards building a telecom compatible Quantum Repeater using trapped ions                                  

3.30pm - 4.00pm: Afternoon tea - Atrium

4.00pm - 5.30pm: Session ten 

Session chair: Maja Cassidy

• Invited talk (30 mins) - Cather Simpson - Optical Methods for Sorting Particles – Lasers and Sperm               
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Jesper Levinsen - Impurities in quantum matter
• Contributed talk (40 mins) - Lightning talks             

6.00pm - 7.30pm: Posters and networking drinks with canapes - Atrium

Poster presenters: 

• Felix Pollock - Quantum speed limits
• Tapio Simula - A case for topological quantum computation with Bose-Einstein condensates
• Hui Hu - Two recent developments on collective modes of a strongly interacting atomic Fermi gas
• Robert Harris - Quantum Error Correction 
• Thomas Bell - Gyroscopes & Magnetometers using Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates
• Russell Anderson - Realisation of a fractional period adiabatic lattice
• Kwan Goddard Lee - Experimental Superfluid Vortex Dynamics in a BEC
• James Spollard - Optical Phased Arrays as an Enabler for Free Space Quantum Key Distribution
• Alexander Pritchard - Bose Einstein Condensates
• Guillaume Gauthier - Atomic-Density Based Optimization of Arbitrary 2D Optical Potentials
• Carlos Kuhn - Low-momentum Bragg Spectroscopy of a Strong Interacting Fermi Gas 
• Christina Giarmatzi - Witnessing quantum versus classical non-Markovianity
• Tyler Neely - Giant vorte clusters in a 2D superfluid
• Fabio Isa - Group-IV colour centres in nano-diamonds
• Ivan Herrera Benzaquen - Collective oscillations of a strongly interacting 2D Fermi gas
• Lincoln Turner - Compressive quantum measurement: Towards waveform sensing in one sho

Day ends                                        

Thursday, August 9

9.00am - 10.30am: Session twelve                                  

Session chair: Meera Parish

• Invited talk (30 mins) - Ben Sparkes - Optical Quantum Information Processing with Cold Atom-Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibres                  
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Anatoly Kulikov - Experimental realization of a quantum random number generator
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Alexander Wood - Quantum measurement and control of nitrogen vacancy (NV) center qubits
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Xia-Ji Liu - Route to observing Fulde-Ferrell superfluids via a dark-state control of Feshbach resonances                                       

10.30am - 10.50am: Morning tea - Atrium

10.50am - 12.00pm: Session thirteen                           

Session chair: Andre Luiten

• Invited talk (30 mins) - Alastair Stacey - Real world applications of diamond quantum systems at room temperature                
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Behnam Tonekaboni - Autonomous Quantum Heat Engine Using an Electron Shuttle
• Contributed talk (20 mins) - Erick Romero - High-Q mechanical trampoline resonators for quantum optomechanics at room temperature

12.00pm: Lunch - Boardwalk Restaurant and Bar

Conference ends