Upcoming Conferences and Meetings

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Low-Temperature Quantum Detectors: from fundamentals to applications.

Please register and encourage your fellow group members and colleagues to sign up as soon as possible so they can access the lower price.

LTQD 2025 is a satellite event in Helsinki that immediately precedes the LT30 conference in Bilbao, Spain. We already have an impressive list of confirmed speakers:

Keynote speakers:

Patrice Bertet (CEA Saclay, France); Kent Irwin (Stanford University); Andrew Cleland (University of Chicago)

Invited speakers:

Monica Allen (University of California, San Diego); Nicolò Crescini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler); Arkady Fedorov (University of Queensland); Mikko Möttönen (Aalto University, VTT); Michael Tobar (University of Western Australia); Shyam Shankar (University of Texas); Valla Fatemi (Cornell University); Martino Poggio (University of Basel); Karl Berggren (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

The registration for this event, including applications for providing contributed scientific talks, are open to everyone!

When: August 3-6, 2025

Where: The Clarion Hotel, Tyynenmerenkatu 2, 00220 Helsinki

Registration: Standard Registration form | Aalto University personnel registration form

Event programme and additional details: InstituteQ event webpage

The topics of the conference comprise (but are not limited to) the following:

novel read-out methods and devices for quantum computers
ultrasensitive and fast thermometry, bolometry, and calorimetry
microwave single-photon detectors: applications in axion detection and spin measurements
new materials (high-kinetic inductance, granular superconductors, topological, graphene, other 2D materials)
algorithms for sensing, including machine learning
detectors for particle physics and astronomy
fundamental limits on sensitivity and quantum metrology
enabling devices: parametric amplifiers, low-temperature electronics
gravitational measurements
entanglement, squeezing, coherence, and active feedback as measurement resources
unconventional sensors in cQED
hybrid mechanical/magneto/opto/microwave devices
superconducting qubits as sensors of electromagnetic fields

Jianhong Zuo

Dear all,

We are excited to announce that registration for Quantum Reference Frames 2025 is now open (link).

There has been an abundance of recent developments in the field of quantum reference frames and the many related subjects. Thus, the time is ripe for unifying and streamlining such developments with some community building. This workshop aims to be inclusive and to reflect the diverse developments and approaches in the field. It will be held on the beautiful campus of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan, between 13 and 17 October, 2025. This event will be co-funded by QISS.

To include many of you, we will have contributed talks and a poster session. You can submit your title and abstract via the above link. From the submission, we will select a limited number of 30-minute presentations. Regular contributed talks will be 15 minutes.

We will also have free accommodation with breakfast for a limited number of early-career researchers in OIST's Seaside House. Please indicate in your registration whether you are interested in this.

There will also be excursions and a banquet included in the registration fee.

Due to capacity limits, we may not be able to offer all registrants the chance to attend in person, depending on the number of applications that we receive.

October is usually a wonderful time to visit the subtropical island Okinawa with warm temperatures and often sunny weather in the post-typhoon season.

A further reason for those who would come from overseas:
There is another workshop on the interface of quantum information and quantum gravity at YITP Kyoto a week after QRF 2025. Extreme Universe 2025 is held between 27 October and 1 November, 2025:
https://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~extremeuniverse/en/extreme_universe_2025/
You can thus make your trip to Japan worthwhile by "killing two birds with one stone".

We hope to welcome many of you here in October. Please share this information with anyone interested.

Best wishes,

Philipp Höhn
(on behalf of the organizers of the Qubits & Spacetime Unit)

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Good morning,

My name is Carlos Zapata, I am the founder of the Society for Multidisciplinary and Fundamental Research (recently registered as a non-profit, https://semf.org.es/), and currently a postdoc in mathematics and computer science. We recently opened registrations for our upcoming Interdisciplinary School taking place during July 13-20. You can check all the details about the event here:

https://semf.org.es/school2025/

We believe that members of the Foundational Questions Institute might be interested in attending our event. I include an announcement message below, for your information and for you to forward at your convenience.

Let me know if you have any questions - I am happy to assist in any way.

Thanks very much for your time,
Carlos on behalf of the SEMF Team

Interdisciplinary Summer School 2025, Valencia (Spain) 13-20 July | Registrations Open!

What is time? How does agency manifest across different substrates? How can we explore unknown unknowns? Come join an intellectual vacation in the Mediterranean city of Valencia on 13-20 July where you will be able to delve into these questions alongside a vibrant group of like-minded participants from a wide range of disciplines.

Find all the information about the event, including the registration link, here:

https://semf.org.es/school2025/

Here are some of the confirmed speakers:
Jacob Barandes (Harvard University)
Anna Panagiotou (The Cynefin Company)
Michael Levin (Tufts University)
Josha Bach (Liquid AI)
Cecilia Tham (Futurity Systems)
Maximilian Schich (Tallinn University)
…and many more!

Places are limited! Be sure to follow the link above and register to secure your spot early. Participants of the Interdisciplinary School travelling to Valencia get access to sponsored accommodation at a reduced price and in an excellent location, minutes away from the School venue, and within walking distance of the beach and the city centre.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the organizers by sending an email to contact@semf.org.es.

Looking forward to welcoming you in Valencia or online soon!

The SEMF Team

Jianhong Zuo

Dear all,

We are excited to announce that registration for Quantum Reference Frames 2025 is now open (link).

There has been an abundance of recent developments in the field of quantum reference frames and the many related subjects. Thus, the time is ripe for unifying and streamlining such developments with some community building. This workshop aims to inclusive and to reflect the diverse developments and approaches in the field. It will be held on the beautiful campus of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan, between 13 and 17 October, 2025. This event will be co-funded by QISS.

We will also have free accommodation with breakfast for a limited number of early-career researchers in OIST's Seaside House. Please indicate in your registration whether you are interested in this.

There will also be excursions and a banquet included in the registration fee.

Due to capacity limits, we may not be able to offer all registrants the chance to attend in person, depending on the number of applications that we receive.

October is usually a wonderful time to visit the subtropical island Okinawa with warm temperatures and often sunny weather in the post-typhoon season.

We hope to welcome many of you here in October. Please share this information with anyone interested.

Best wishes,

Philipp Höhn
(on behalf of the organizers of the Qubits & Spacetime Unit)

Jianhong Zuo

Dear all,

Registration is now open for the 22nd International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2025), which will take place in Varna, Bulgaria, from 14 July to 18 July, 2025.

Registration fee for students: 50 EUR + 50 EUR for Conference Dinner
Registration fee for non-students: 80 EUR + 50 EUR for Conference Dinner

Registration deadline: 15 June, 2025.

To register, please go to https://qpl2025.github.io/registration/ and follow the instructions.

We look forward to seeing you in Varna!

The organisers (Ognyan Oreshkov, Vladimir Zamdzhiev, James Hefford, Timothée Hoffreumon, Lefteris Tselentis, Zixuan Liu)

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Dear friends,

We would appreciate very much if you could distribute this announcement in the appropriate group-list(s) of your Institute or network.

Thanks in advance,

Best wishes,

Dani

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Dear colleagues,

We apologise in advance if you are receiving this announcement multiple times.

We would like to draw your attention about the third edition of our school on lattice techniques for cosmology, the CosmoLattice School 2025. This event will take place from September 22nd to 26th, 2025, at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), in Daejeon, South Korea.

Registration will open on June 20th 2025 and will remain open until August 31st 2025, for further details see

https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/8110/

This school is aimed to anyone who would like to learn about (or improve their knowledge on) the theory framework for lattice simulations of non-linear dynamics of early Universe scenarios. We will provide a pedagogical introduction to lattice field theory techniques and their application to the simulation of interacting fields in an expanding Universe. Participants will be introduced to CosmoLattice (https://cosmolattice.net/), an open-access code designed for such simulations. The school will provide a comprehensive guide to using CosmoLattice for studying the non-linear dynamics in an expanding universe of scalar and gauge fields, as well as of relativistic fluids (representing particle ensembles).

The tentative program of the school will cover:

Theory lectures:

Lattice field theory techniques: discretization schemes, lattice gauge techniques, and more

Numerical algorithms for differential equations: Leapfrog, Verlet, Runge-Kutta, etc

Lattice simulations of interacting fields in an expanding background:

Scalar field dynamics with arbitrary potentials

U(1) gauge theories coupled to complex charged scalars

SU(2) gauge theories coupled to doublet charged scalars

Relativistic and non-relativistic fluid dynamics

Overview of CosmoLattice: libraries, modularity, parallelization, ...

Pheno lectures:

Preheating scenarios and onset of radiation domination

Production and evolution of gravitational waves

Dynamics of derivatively coupled Axion-like fields

Dynamics of non-minimally coupled scalar fields

Fluid dynamics and its gravitational wave production

Evolution and experimental signatures of topological defects

Observations: There is no fee to participate in the school. In order to do practice sessions, participants will need to have access to a personal laptop.

Organizers: Mohammad Ali Gorji, Daniel G. Figueroa, Masahide Yamaguchi

We look forward to seeing you in Daejeon!

The School Organisers