Sunday, August 3, 2025
17:00-20:00
Registration and Welcome Drinks
Clarion Hotel, Living room
18:00-18:25
Introduction
Sorin Paraoanu (Aalto University, Finland)
Monday, August 4, 2025
8:00 – 8:45
Registration, Morning coffee
8:45 – 9:00
Welcome
Sorin Paraoanu, Pertti Hakonen (Aalto University, Finland)
SESSION I | Chair: Jose Lado
9:00 – 9:45
Keynote talk: Microwave photon counting applied to magnetic resonance
Patrice Bertet (CEA Saclay, France)
9:45 – 10:20
Zeptojoule calorimetry and beyond with applications in circuit quantum electrodynamics
Mikko Möttönen (Aalto University, Finland)
10:20 – 10:45
Transition edge sensors for rare event detection: current efforts at DESY
Christina Schwemmbauer (DESY, Germany)
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee break
SESSION II | Chair: Manohar Kumar
11:15 – 11:50
Low temperature detector experiments to test fundamental physics
Michael Tobar (UWA, Australia)
11:50 – 12:15
Quantum sensing of axion dark matter with a phase resolved haloscope
Chloé Fruy (LPENS, France)
12:15 – 12:40
Superconducting coolers for quantum detectors
Joel Hätinen (VTT, Finland)
12:40 – 14:00
Lunch (Clarion Buffet)
SESSION III | Chair: Jukka Pekola
14:00 – 14:45
Keynote talk: Quantum Sensing for Pre-Inflationary Axions
Kent Irwin (Stanford University, US)
14:45 – 15:20
Superfluid 3He as a sub-GeV dark matter detector
Samuli Autti (Lancaster University, UK)
15:20 – 15:45
A single superconducting vortex on a leash: thermodynamics and applications
Maciej Zgirski (Institute of Physics, PAS, Poland)
15:45 – 16:10
Sub-40 nm Magnon Generation and Detection Enabled by Moving Fluxons
Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
16:10 – 18:00
Coffee break & Poster Session
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
8:30 – 9:00
Morning coffee
SESSION IV | Chair: Mika Sillanpää
9:00 – 9:45
Keynote talk: Exploring phonons as mobile qubits
Andrew Cleland (University of Chicago, US)
9:45 – 10:20
Physics and Applications of Andreev Spin Qubits
Valla Fatemi (Cornell University, US)
10:20 – 10:45
Ytterbium Ion-Based Interfaces for Optical and Microwave Remote Entanglement Distribution
Louis Nicolas (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee break
SESSION V | Chair: Mika Prunnila
11:15 – 11:50
Parametric amplification with an Al-InAs superconductor–semiconductor Josephson junction
Shyam Shankar (University of Texas, US)
11:50 – 12:15
Nonlinearity-enhanced dispersive-plus-dissipative coupling in tunable niobium photon-pressure circuits
Daniel Bothner (Universität Tübingen, Germany)
12:15 – 12:40
Interferometric readout of high-Q magnetically levitated superconductors at mK temperatures
Jannek J Hansen (Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Austria)
12:40 – 14:00
Lunch (Clarion Buffet)
SESSION VI | Chair: Maciej Zgirski
14:00 – 14:35
Bound states in waveguide Quantum Electrodymics
Arkady Fedorov (The University of Queensland, Australia)
14:35 – 15:10
Microwave impedance microscopy of quantum materials at mK temperatures
Monica Allen (University of California, US)
15:10 – 15:35
Escape rate problem in driven Josephson junctions
Tomáš Novotný (Charles University, Czech Republic)
15:35 – 16:00
Feasibility of the Josephson voltage and current standards on a single chip
Rais Shaikhaidarov (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
16:00 – 16:10
Sponsor Talk
Juha Hassel (IQM)
16:10 – 18:00
Coffee break & Poster Session II
18:15
Bus leaves to the restaurant
19:00
Conference Dinner
(Seurasaaren Juhlatalo, Seurasaari 00250 Helsinki)
(Seurasaaren Juhlatalo, Seurasaari 00250 Helsinki)
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
8:30 – 9:00
Morning coffee
SESSION VII | Chair: Jorden Senior
9:00 – 9:45
Keynote talk: Superconducting Nanowire Detectors
Karl Berggren (MIT, US)
9:45 – 10:20
Exploring New Physics with Superconducting Quantum Technologies
Nicolò Crescini (CNRS, France)
10:20 – 10:45
Hamiltonian learning quantum magnets with scanning tunnel microscopy
Jose Lado (Aalto University, Finland)
10:45 – 10:50
Poster winners announced
10:50 – 11:20
Coffee break
SESSION VIII | Chair: Jere Mäkinen
11:20 – 11:55
Imaging vdW magnets and magnetic devices in the 2D limit
Martino Poggio (University of Basel, Switzerland)
11:55 – 12:20
Multi-channel second-order topological states in Bi₀.₉₇Sb₀.₀₃
Biplab Bhattacharyya (University of Twente, Netherlands)
12:20 – 12:45
When dissipation kills dissipation in a metastable dynamic vortex state
Cheryl Feuillet-Palma (ESPCI-Paris, France)
12:45 – 14:15
Lunch (Clarion Buffet)
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