The school is designed to gather graduate students as well as early-stage postdocs in an informal atmosphere surrounded by nature, friendship and good food. The Quantum in the Haystack series focuses on theoretical aspects of quantum information theory, ranging from fundamental aspects to specialized topics, e.g. circuits, entanglement, non-equilibrium quantum systems, quantum computing, higher order operations, quantum correlations, quantum networks, Bell non-locality, many-body quantum chaos, and tensor networks.
The school is structured in four courses with blackboard lectures, complemented by discussion sessions over the course of two weeks. The weekend will be free, with the participants encouraged to explore the area but are also welcome to use the facilities for group discussions or individual work. Extra information about the surroundings will be provided upon arrival and before the weekend.
Lecturers
Álvaro Martín Alhambra (IFT UAM/CSIC):
Quantum algorithms for physics: quantum simulations and open systems.
Jessica Bavaresco (CNRS & Sorbonne University):
Higher-order quantum transformations: from quantum circuit design to indefinite causal order.
Pavel Kos (University of Ljubljana):
Solvable quantum circuits: correlations, chaos, and information scrambling.
Luca Tagliacozzo (IFF CSIC):
Tensor network for highly entangled states
with public lecture, titled Computación cuántica, perspectivas de futuro, by Álvaro Martín Alhambra.
Accommodation and food will be provided to all participants, while they will be asked to cover their travel expenses -- see the following paragraph for more details.
About the venue and the school's mission: This school is a part of a broader project with two primary goals. First, it seeks to organise scientific events, particularly schools, in informal settings to foster interaction and collaboration among all participants while removing economic barriers to attendance. Second, it aims to have a meaningful cultural impact on the area where it takes place. To achieve this first goal, the school will accomodate 25 participants, encouraging interaction among them and with the lecturers. The school is hosted in a traditional Galician farmhouse, recently refurbished for this purpose, located in the Ribera Sacra -- a stunning natural wine region along the Sil and Mao river canyons. Meals and accommodation will be provided. Participants will be accommodated in comfortable camping tents, equipped with mattresses and sleeping bags, within the farmhouse grounds. The lectures will take place in a dedicated building on the property, available for discussions at any time. To achieve the second goal, public events will be held alongside the scientific ones. The venue is managed by a non-profit cultural association and the scientific events will be externally funded, with any surplus being reinvested to organise educational and science popularisation activities aligned with the association's mission: promoting inquiry-based learning for the general public, with a special focus on rural areas.
Further information and the schedule can be found here.
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