100 YEARS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS

100 YEARS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS






Join us in 2025 for a workshop on the island of Helgoland on the 100th anniversary of Werner Heisenberg's trip to the island, during which he developed Matrix Mechanics, the first formulation of Quantum Theory.

The workshop will focus on the increasingly fruitful intersection between the foundations of quantum mechanics and the application of these foundations in real-world settings.

This conference is sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Office, and the  DFG German Research Foundation.

Program

Hours Session Location
9 - 19 h

Daytime

Travel to Hamburg

On your own
Hamburg, Germany
19 - 22 h

Evening

Conference Banquet & Historical Talks

Alfred Douglas Stone (Yale University)
Elise Crull (City College of New York)
Phillip Ball (science writer)
Hotel Atlantic
An d. Alster 72-79, 20099 Hamburg, Germany
Hours Session Location
9 - 13 h

Morning

Travel to Helgoland

Ferry “Halunder Jet” Hamburg to Helgoland
Ticket included in registration fee
Bei den St. Pauli Landungsbrücken,
Brücke 3/4 (water-side), 20359 Hamburg
13 - 19 h

Afternoon

Free time

Lunch and dinner on your own
Helgoland Island
19 - 21 h

Evening

Session: Foundations 1

Chris Fuchs (Umass Boston)
Reinhard F. Werner (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Renato Renner (ETH Zürich)
Break
Nordseehalle,
Nord-Ost-Land 1430, 27498 Helgoland, Germany
21 - 22 h

Evening

Panel: Foundations

Alain Aspect (Institut d'Optique Orsay)
Carlton M. Caves (University of New Mexico)
John Clauser
Nicolas Gisin (University of Geneva)
Sandu Popescu (University of Bristol)
Anton Zeilinger (University of Vienna)
Nordseehalle,
Nord-Ost-Land 1430, 27498 Helgoland, Germany
Hours Session Location
9 - 12 h

Morning

Information 1

Isaac Chuang (MIT)
Aashish Clerk (University of Chicago)
Coffee
Vedika Khemani (Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Michel Devoret (Google Quantum AI)
Nordseehalle,
Nord-Ost-Land 1430, 27498 Helgoland, Germany
12 - 15 h

Afternoon

Free time

Lunch on your own
Helgoland Island
15 - 17 h

Afternoon

Poster 1

Dinner on your own
Nordseehalle,
Nord-Ost-Land 1430, 27498 Helgoland, Germany
19 - 21 h

Evening

Session: Quantum and Spacetime 1

Chiara Marletto (University of Oxford)
Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille University)
Monika Schleier-Smith (Stanford University)
Break
Nordseehalle,
Nord-Ost-Land 1430, 27498 Helgoland, Germany
21 - 22 h

Evening

Panel: Quantum and Spacetime

Lucien Hardy (Perimeter Institute)
Juan Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Study)
Igor Pikovski (Stevens Institute of Technology)
J. Preskill (Caltech)
William George Unruh (University of British Columbia)
Nordseehalle,
Nord-Ost-Land 1430, 27498 Helgoland, Germany
Hours Session Location
9 - 12 h

Morning

Session: Quantum and Spacetime 2

Markus Aspelmeyer (University of Vienna)
Flaminia Giacomini (ETH Zürich)
Coffee
Markus Arndt (University of Vienna)
Magdalena Zych (The University of Queensland)
Nordseehalle,
Nord-Ost-Land 1430, 27498 Helgoland, Germany
12 - 15 h

Afternoon

Free time

Lunch on your own
Helgoland Island
15 - 17 h

Afternoon

Poster 2

Dinner on your own
Nordseehalle,
Nord-Ost-Land 1430, 27498 Helgoland, Germany
19 - 21 h

Evening

Session: Quantum Information 2

Aram Harrow (MIT)
Jian-wei Pan (Tsinghua University)
Scott Aaronson (The University of Texas at Austin)
Break
Nordseehalle,
Nord-Ost-Land 1430, 27498 Helgoland, Germany
21 - 22 h

Evening

Panel: Quantum Information

Charles Bennett (IBM)
Gilles Brassard (University of Montreal)
Liang Jiang (UChicago)
Shruti Puri (Yale University)
Krysta Svore (Microsoft),
Umesh Vazirani (Caltech)
Nordseehalle,
Nord-Ost-Land 1430, 27498 Helgoland, Germany
Hours Session Location
9 - 12 h

Morning

Session: Foundation & Quantum Sensing

Robert Spekkens (Perimeter Institute)
Gemma De les Coves (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Coffee
David Moore (Yale University)
Cindy Regal (JILA)
Nordseehalle,
Nord-Ost-Land 1430, 27498 Helgoland, Germany
12 - 15 h

Afternoon

Free time

Lunch on your own
Helgoland Island
15 - 17 h

Afternoon

Poster 3

Dinner on your own
Nordseehalle,
Nord-Ost-Land 1430, 27498 Helgoland, Germany
19 - 21 h

Evening

Session: Macroscopic quantum
phenomena & decoherence

Angelo Bassi (University of Trieste)
Jun Ye (University of Colorado Boulder
Wojciech Zurek (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Break
Nordseehalle,
Nord-Ost-Land 1430, 27498 Helgoland, Germany
21 - 22 h

Evening

Panel: Macroscopic quantum
phenomena & decoherence

Jeffrey Bub (University of Maryland)
Serge Haroche (ENS Paris)
Ana Maria Rey (JILA)
Christine Silberhorn (University of Paderborn)
David J. Wineland (University of Oregon)
Nordseehalle,
Nord-Ost-Land 1430, 27498 Helgoland, Germany
Hours Session Location
9 - 12 h

Morning

Session: New platforms

Rainer Blatt (Universität Innsbruck)
Nathalie de Leon (Princeton)
coffee
Mikhail D. lukin (Harvard University)
Nergis Mavalvala (MIT)
Nordseehalle,
Nord-Ost-Land 1430, 27498 Helgoland, Germany
12 - 13 h

Afternoon

Panel: The next 100 years

Gerard Milburn (University of Queensland)
Tracy E. Northup (University of Innsbruck)
Robert Schoelkopf (Yale University)
Michelle Simmons (UNSW Sydney)
Peter Zoller (University of Innsbruck)
Nordseehalle,
Nord-Ost-Land 1430, 27498 Helgoland, Germany
16 - 20 h

Afternoon

Travel

Dinner on your own
Helgoline GmbH & Co. KG,
Hafenstraße 1005 (lobster stall 37), 27498 HelgolandGermany

Registration


Applications are open as of April 25, 2024, and we encourage everyone interested to apply as soon as possible, preferably before the end of May 2024!

We welcome contributions by registered participants in the form of posters.

Due to the limited number of spots, all applications are screened by the organization team on a rolling basis and we expect to have a competitive selection. You will therefore first be added to a waiting list. Once your application is approved, we will let you know and you will be able to book your accommodation (we expect you to team up with roommates for shared double rooms) and transfer the registration fee of €700 . Your poster abstract (which may include references) can give us a good indication of how your work connects to the topics of this conference.

The scientific program starts with a conference banquet and first talks in a hotel in Hamburg on Monday, June 9. After staying overnight, participants will jointly take the ferry to the island of Helgoland on Tuesday morning. Scientific sessions including talks, panels and poster sessions will run until Saturday morning (June 14). Saturday afternoon will see the departure by ferry back to Hamburg. We recommend international participants to fly into Hamburg.

APPLY HERE(Full)

Accommodation

Note: Hotels have already been booked for invited speakers/panelists



Helgoland: Aerial View

Photo by Carsten Steger - Wikimedia Commons

Owing to the small size of the island and the limited hotel capacity, please note that we expect you to team up with roommates for shared double rooms. We will review applications on a rolling basis, starting May 1, to allow ample time for provisionally accepted participants to book accommodation.

On acceptance, we will provide you with a booking code to book a pre-reserved room in the following hotels, and can help you find a roommate. Once you have secured accommodation, your acceptance is finalized. The total amount of participants will be limited not by the lecture venue but by the accommodation on the island.








If all the above hotels are fully booked, or for larger groups, it is possible to find appartment houses.
And for the adventurous among you, we point out that Helgoland has a camping ground. Please be aware, both options need to be reserved in advance, and we are not able to reserve a contingent for participants for these alternative accommodations.

Ferry to Helgoland



Ferry to Helgoland

HSC "Halunder Jet" - Photo by FRS Helgoline



The registration fee will include a ferry transfer on the HSC "Halunder Jet" to and from the island of Helgoland, from Hamburg.

Departure from Hamburg on Tuesday, June 10th, 9:00 am
Return to Hamburg on Saturday June 14th, 4:30 pm

Get in Touch

Contact

helgoland2025@mpl.mpg.de

Program Committee

Časlav Brukner - IQOQI Vienna
Steve Girvin - Yale Quantum Institute
Jack Harris - Yale Quantum Institute
Florian Marquardt – Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

Organization Committee

Florian Carle – Yale Quantum Institute
Katharina Kißner - Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Gesine Murphy – Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light