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
Ends
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