Speakers from all over the world are invited to present pedagogical introductions to their field with an emphasis on basic concepts. Apart from an introductory lecture, the participants of this course will have an additional discussion with the invited speaker. During that extra hour, they will discuss a recent paper and the holy grails of the field.
Exemplary topics are: topological insulators, mesoscopic quantum gravity, string theory for condensed matter, measurement-based quantum computing, quantum-limited sensors, Majorana Fermions, fast-light with single photons, etc (see also the list of previous sessions below).
Audience: The tutorial, as an one hour lecture, is open for everyone to attend. The second hour is be reserved as a discussion hour with the lecturer for the registered class of PhD students and postdocs.
Schedule: Throughout the year, about 5 hot topics sessions will be organised. Announcements for coming sessions will appear on the Casimir website and in the Casimir Newsletter. The overview below gives an impression of the hot topics sessions that took place over the past years.
Credits: Those participants who attended (pro-actively) a Hot Topics session will be awarded 0.5 Graduate School Credit (GSC).
Current coordinators: If you have any suggestions for a hot topics session contact the coordinators: dr. Marianne Bauer (m.s.bauer@tudelft.nl) for Bionanoscience-related topics or dr. Tim Taminiau (T.H.Taminiau@tudelft.nl) for Hot Topics in Quantum Nanoscience.
Hot topics sessions we have organized in the past are: (click on the links for more information)
- Taekjip Ha: "Measuring DNA Mechanics on the genome".
- Joanna Aizenberg: 'Everything SLIPS: Design of Novel Omniphobic Materials'
- Erwin Frey: 'Self-assembly: How it (may) work in non-equilibrium'
Host: Martin Depken - Peter Zoller: 'Measuring Renyi Entropies (Entanglement) in Quantum Simulators'
Host: Tim Taminiau - John Pendry: 'Compacted dimensions & singular plasmonic surfaces'
Host: Tim Taminiau - David Awschalom: 'Latest progress with defects in silicon carbide'
Host: Tim Taminiau - Tim Mitchison: 'Microtubules and cell organization'
Hosts: Louis Reese and Vladimir Volkov - Tom Lubensky: 'Introduction to Topological Mechanics'
Host: Tim Taminiau - Alain Aspect: 'Landmarks in quantum optics: from photons to atoms'
Host: Simon Gröblacher - Philip Nelson: 'Imaging as inference'
Host: Timon Idema - Markus Aspelmeyer: 'Quantum tests of gravity'
Host: Simon Gröblacher
- Matthias Troyer: 'Quantum annealing'
Host: Tim Taminiau - Steven Block: 'Simultaneous use of optical-force spectroscopy and FRET on the TPP riboswitch'
Host: Elio Abbondanzieri - Chris Monroe: 'Quantum Information Science with Trapped Atoms'
Host: Tim Taminiau - Martin Ackermann: 'Bacterial memory'
Host: Hans Tanke - Jack Szostak: 'Towards recreating a prebiotically plausible protocell'
Host: Cees Dekker - Jin-Soo Kim: 'Programmable nucleases'
Host: Chirlmin Joo - Philippe Bastiaens: 'Recursion and the self organisation of intracellular reaction patterns'
Host: Hans Tanke - Laurens Molenkamp 'Zero-energy Andreev bound states in a HgTe-based topological Josephson junction'
Host: Leo Kouwenhoven - Harold Erickson 'FtsZ-driven cell division in E coli bacteria and in synthetic cells'
Host: Cees Dekker - Gunnar von Heijne 'Forces acting on nascent polypeptide chains during co-translational protein translocation and folding'
Host: Marie-Eve Aubin Tam - Khalid Salaita 'Fluorescence-based force sensing'
Host: Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam - Uwe Sauer 'Coordination of microbial metabolism'
Host: Greg Bokinsky - Seth Lloyd 'Quantum machine learning algorithms'
Host: Leo DiCarlo - Charles Kane 'The Time Reversal Invariant Fractional Josephson Effect'
Host: Leo Kouwenhoven - Eric Betzig 'Super-resolution microscopy: the good, the bad, and the ugly'
Host: Hans Tanke - Hongkun Park 'Quantum Optoplasmonics and Diamond Based Sensing'
Host: Leo Kouwenhoven - Karl van Bibber 'Ultrasensitive Searches for the Axion'
Host: Ana Achúcarro - Laurens Molenkamp 'HgTe as a topological insulator'
Host: Tjerk Oosterkamp - Charles Marcus 'The resonant exchange qubit'
Host: Leo Kouwenhoven - Michael Wimmer 'Majorana fermions in condensed matter'
Host: Gary Steele - Wolfgang Ketterle 'Towards quantum magnetism with ultracold atoms'
- Konstya Novoselov "Heterostructures based on 2D crystals"
Host: Leo Kouwenhoven - Leonid Glazman
- Andrew Cleland "Quantum mechanics in mechanical systems"
Host: Gary Steele - Paul McEuen "NanoPhotonics in Nanotubes and Graphene"
Host: Leo Kouwenhoven - Ali Yazdani, “Momentum-resolved STM”
Host: Leo Kouwenhoven - Leo DiCarlo “Introductory lecture on Circuit-QED”
Host: Gary Steele
Registration
To receive announcements of new Hot Topics sessions, you can register for this ongoing course by filling in the form below. You will still need to register for specific sessions that you want to attend.
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