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Principles and applications of quantum control engineering

12 - 13 December 2011 09:00 - 18:00

Organised by Professor John Gough, Professor Matthew James, Professor Hideo Mabuchi, Professor Ian Walmsley and Professor Klaus Mølmer


Quantum control aims to provide the mathematical and theoretical framework which will underpin emerging quantum technologies: it sets about extending traditional engineering concepts, such as optimality, feedback, stability, robustness, filtering, etc., to the quantum domain. This meeting will bring together scientists and engineers (theoreticians and experimentalists) to review the major developments, and to identify the opportunities and challenges ahead.

Download the programme here (PDF).

Organisers

  • Professor Klaus Mølmer, University of Aarhus, Denmark

    "Professor Klaus Mølmer obtained his PhD in physics in 1990. His research interests include quantum optics, damping and dissipation in quantum physics, quantum measurements and metrology, cold atom physics and quantum information science. He is very active in science outreach and the author of a popular textbook and several articles in Danish  about different aspects of quantum physics. "

  • Professor Matthew James, Australian National University, Australia

  • Professor John Gough, Aberystwyth University, UK

    John Gough was born in Ireland in 1967, and completed a PhD in Mathematical Physics at University College Dublin in 1992. He has worked at the Volterra Centre in Rome, as well as the National University of Ireland Maynooth, and at Nottingham. He joined the Institute of Mathematics and Physics, Aberystwyth University in 2007, and is currently head of the Quantum Structures and Control group. His interests are in Mathematical Physics with specific emphasis on quantum open systems and quantum probability. This involves the description of quantum systems interacting with, or being measured by, their environment. In particular, this gives the mathematical formalism for describing quantum control. Together with Matthew James, he has developed the theory of quantum feedback networks which treats the interconnection of quantum open systems, and provides a basis for quantum feedback control. 

  • Professor Hideo Mabuchi, Stanford University, USA

    Hideo Mabuchi, now Professor and Department Chair of Applied Physics at Stanford University, received an AB in Physics from Princeton University and a PhD in Physics from the California Institute of Technology.  Current research interests span a range of topics from quantum engineering to molecular biophysics, with a general emphasis on developing new practical approaches to measurement, analysis and modeling of nonlinear stochastic systems. 

  • Professor Ian Walmsley FRS, Imperial College London, UK

    Ian Walmsley is Provost of Imperial College London, UK, and Chair in Experimental Physics. His research in optical science and technology ranges from ultrafast optics to quantum information science. Currently he is the Director of the Networked Quantum Information Technology Hub, the largest collaboration in the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Optical Society (OSA), the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics.