OPEN QUANTUM SYSTEMS
AND MESOSCOPIC PHYSICS
December 7-12, 2025
Vierumäki, Finland
Lecturers | Schedule | Practical Info | Registration | Organisers | Sponsors
The exchange of energy and particles plays an important, sometimes even a decisive role in the physics of modern quantum devices. This is particularly true for mesoscopic solid state structures such as superconducting or semiconducting circuits. These are the systems that are also very attractive from the point of view of both theoretical analysis and experimental studies in modern laboratories.
The school on Open Quantum Systems and Mesoscopic Physics is a carefully tailored intensive training, to provide participants with education in state-of-the-art experimental realizations and theoretical formulations of open quantum systems. Topics of the school include:
- Quantum information thermodynamics
- Quantum transport and dissipation
- Quantum control theory
- Quantum sensing and computing
- Quantum transport at low temperatures
- Spectroscopy at the quantum Limit
The school is aimed at young scientists, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers in the topics’ disciplines. It provides an opportunity for immersive focusing on strengths and limitations of ‘deep’ quantum mechanical properties, observed and exploited in current and future experimental set-ups. The training consists of tutorials, collaborative seminar activities, poster sessions, flash talks, and contributed talks by local scientists.
Lecturers
Prof. Christian Ast, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
Prof. Andrew Cleland, University of Chicago
Prof. Christiane Koch, Free University of Berlin
Prof. Sigmund Kohler, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid
Prof. Masahito Ueda, University of Tokyo
Prof. Clemens Winkelmann, University of Grenoble and Grenoble Institute of Technology
Winter School Daily Schedule
| Time | Sun 7.12 | Mon 8.12 | Tue 9.12 | Wed 10.12 | Thu 11.12 | Fri 12.12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:15 | Masahito Ueda | Clemens Winkelmann | Sigmund Kohler | Andrew Cleland | ||
| 09:30 | ||||||
| 09:45 | ||||||
| 10:00 | coffee | coffee | coffee | coffee | departure | |
| 10:15 | ||||||
| 10:30 | Masahito Ueda | Clemens Winkelmann | Andrew Cleland | Andrew Cleland | ||
| 10:45 | ||||||
| 11:00 | ||||||
| 11:15 | ||||||
| 11:30 | Clemens Winkelmann | Masahito Ueda | Andrew Cleland | Christiane Koch | ||
| 11:45 | ||||||
| 12:00 | ||||||
| 12:15 | ||||||
| 12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | ||
| 12:45 | ||||||
| 13:00 | ||||||
| 13:15 | ||||||
| 13:30-15:30 | Free time / Activities | |||||
| 15:30 | flash talks I (3 mins each) | Masahito Ueda | Christiane Koch | Christian Ast | ||
| 15:45 | ||||||
| 16:00 | ||||||
| 16:15 | coffee | coffee | coffee | |||
| 16:30 | coffee | |||||
| 16:45 | Sigmund Kohler | Christiane Koch | Christian Ast | |||
| 17:00 | flash talks II | |||||
| 17:15 | ||||||
| 17:30 | ||||||
| 17:45 | Sigmund Kohler | Christian Ast | Sergey Kubatkin | |||
| 18:00 | ||||||
| 18:15 | ||||||
| 18:30 | dinner | |||||
| 18:45 | ||||||
| 19:00 | arrival | dinner | dinner | social dinner | ||
Practical Info
Venue
The school takes place at the Vierumäki Sports Centre, (Pihkalantie 3, Vierumäki, Finland) in central Finland. Sports Hotel Pihkala has 59 rooms on four floors, the Pihkala café, and a swimming pool and spa on the lower floor.
Travel
Transportation between Helsinki and Vierumäki will be organized for school lectures and participants.
International travel is to be organized by the participating students / sending host organizations.
Accommodation
Accommodation is provided in shared rooms for 1-2 persons.
Spare time activities
Vierumäki is a village located in the Finnish municipality Heinola in the region Päijät-Häme. The village is known for its sport facilities also suited to host international events and nature trails.
Visit Vierumäki info-page for a description of the sight attractions and facilities.
Registration
The participation is free of charge. Accommodation, a daily warm lunch, coffee between sessions, as well as social program indicated in the program will be provided to the participants. Local transportation is provided by the organizers, while international travel must be arranged by the participants themselves.
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Organisers
contact: oqs2025 (at) aalto.fi
- Joachim Ankerhold, University of Ulm
- Bayan Karimi, University of Helsinki
- Luca Magazzù, Aalto University
- Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi, University of Helsinki
- Ekaterina Osmekhina, Aalto University
- Jukka Pekola, Aalto University
Sponsors
The school is supported by:
- the Finnish Quantum Institute (InstituteQ),
- the Center for Integrated Quantum Science & Technology (IQST) Ulm-Stuttgart,
- the Quantum Technology Finland (QTF) Centre of Excellence, and
- the Quantum Technology Network Baden Württemberg (QTBW).