The 2024 EQUS Autumn School on Fabrication for Quantum Technology was a two-and-a-halfday intensive course, held in Noosa, Qld on the 7-9 May 2024.

Designed to cultivate and inspire the next generation of EQUS members interested in the realisation of quantum technologies, the course format combined keynote seminars and tutorials with interactive demonstrations covering a range of topics from nanofabrication basics, integrated photonics and superconducting circuits to quantum optomechanics and sensing as well as neuromorphic computing. The goal of the school was to provide early-stage PhD students, as well as later-stage students and postdocs working in adjacent Research Fellow Chris Baker presenting a demonstration of on-chip photonic sensing Q&A panel with all the speakers fields (e.g. quantum theory), with a practical understanding of how to go from design to device.

The Autumn School was a great success, featuring keynote speaker Prof Arnan Mitchell, Director of the RMIT Micro Nano Research Facility and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS). He was joined by Dr Till Weinhold from the Defence and Science Technologies Group, Dr Erick Romero from Silanna Semiconductor, and EQUS Chief Investigator Xanthe Croot, Research Fellows Chris Baker and Daniel Peace, and Associate Investigator Markus Rambach, who all contributed to the event throughout its duration.

Twenty-two EQUS members attended for the three days and got to know each other a little better at our social quiz on the first night. Feedback on the content was excellent. We look forward to seeing how our students and ECRs apply their learnings and newly established networks in their future work.

Published in the 2024 EQUS Annual Report