Upcoming Conferences and Meetings

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to invite you to the VCQ & quantA Summer School 2025 on "Quantum Many-Body Physics: From the Fundamentals to the Frontiers of Research." This exciting event will take place from September 15th to 19th, 2025, at Atominstitut, TU Wien.

This year’s summer school is particularly special as it coincides with the 100th anniversary of Quantum Mechanics, making Vienna—which played a pivotal role in the history of quantum physics—the perfect place to celebrate the ‘International Year of Quantum Science and Technology’.

https://vcq-quantum.at/vcq-quanta-summer-school-2025/

The summer school is designed for Master’s and PhD students who are eager to explore the fascinating field of Many-Body Quantum Physics. The school featuring leading theorists and experimentalists will start with introductory level lectures into the field, among others exploring connections of quantum many-body physics with quantum information theory. The second part will be more specialized, featuring current experimental and theoretical developments.

Confirmed lecturers:
Jean Dalibard (LKB Paris)
Simon Cornish (Durham University, UK)
Géza Tóth (UPV Bilbao)
Michael Buchhold (University of Cologne)
Oleksandr Kyriienko (University of Sheffield)
Maia Vergniory (University of Sherbrooke)
Public Speaker: Jorge Kurchan, (LPENS Paris)
In addition to engaging lectures, the program includes a poster session, where students are encouraged to present their research, as well as many opportunities for networking and socializing such as a Summer School dinner. These activities provide a great opportunity for participants at all career stages to connect and exchange ideas.

We strongly encourage Master’s and PhD students to showcase their research through poster presentations.

Registration & Fees:

Deadline: June 1st, 2025 (places are limited!)
Fee: €175 for external students (includes dinner & coffee breaks)
For more details and registration visit: https://vcq-quantum.at/vcq-quanta-summer-school-2025/

We look forward to welcoming many of you to Vienna for this exciting event!

Best regards,
The Organizing Team

Dipl. Ing. (FH) Nadine Hilmar

Coordinator VCQ-PhD Program

TU Wien - Atominstitut

Stadionallee 2

1020 Wien

https://vcq.quantum.at/

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)

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

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.

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.

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)

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)