The first scientific event of QuantaLab, a workshop on Quantum Materials and Quantum Technologies, took place last September 13-14 (2016) at INL. More than 70 researchers, mostly from INL and UM, attended the workshop.
AGENDA
TUESDAY, September 13, 2016
09:00 Registration
09:30 Opening remarks by the organizers
Fernández-Rossier (INL) and N. M. R. Peres (UMinho)
10:00 Quantum clicks: Hacking APDs and Making TES Detectors Fast
Invited Talk: Antia Lamas-Linares (TACC, U. Texas, Austin)
10:45 Dynamic Logics on-demand: perspectives and applications
Alexandre Madeira (DI UMinho, HASLab INESC TEC)
11:15 Coffee break
11:45 From quantum coherences in photosynthetic light-harvesting antennae to quantum wires and nanomagnetometry.
Jana Nieder (INL)
12:15 How vibrational degrees of freedom determine nanocrystal QD emission in the IR
Mikhail Vasilevskiy (DFIS UMinho)
12:45 LUNCH
14:30 Nanophotonics at the atomic scale.
Invited Talk: Francisco Javier García de Abajo (ICFO, Barcelona)
15:15 Core-shell plasmonic/semiconductor/magnetic nanoparticles: photophysics and environmental/biomedical applications
Paulo Coutinho (DFIS UMinho)
15:45 Quantum Information meets Condensed Matter: some new directions
Invited Talk: Yasser Omar ( IST Lisboa)
16:15 Coffee break
16:45 Towards Categorial Quantum Physics
José Nuno Oliveira (DI UMinho, HASLab INESC TEC)
17:15 From Feynman to Stochastic optimization: a brief survey
Carlos Tavares (HASLab INESC TEC)
17:45 Quantum computing simulation
Rui Gonçalves (HASLab INESC TEC)
18:15- DISCUSSION TIME
WEDNESDAY , September 14 2016
09:00 Exotic 2D Materials
Invited Talk: Andrés Castellanos-Gómez (IMDEA Nanociencia, Madrid)
09:45 Graphene devices for biosensing applications
Pedro Alpuim, (INL and UMinho)
10:15 Different ideas in electronic structure calculations
Ricardo Ribeiro (DFIS UMinho)
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 Advanced magnetic nanostructures as contrast agents for MRI applications
Manuel Bañobre (INL)
11:45 Chemistry & Quantum materials: possible contributions
Fernanda Proença (DQUIM UMinho)
12:15 Spatially Confined Ensembles of Nanocrystals
Yuri Kolenko (INL)
12:45 LUNCH
14:30 Spin–orbit-coupled graphene: a new model system for spintronics.
Invited Talk: Aires Ferreira, York University
15:15 Emergent electronic phases in oxide interfaces
Invited Talk: Victor Pardo ( Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
15:45 Non-equilibrium Quantum Matter & Why It Matters?
Invited Talk: Pedro Ribeiro, (IST Lisboa)
16:15 Coffee break
16:45 Simulations of Quantum Processes in Complex Materials
Luí Silvino (DFIS UMinho)
17:15 Tuning of the magnetic-electric nanostructure response through strain interactions
Bernado Almeida (U. Minho)
17:45 Opening remarks by the organizers
M. R. Peres (U. Minho) and J. Fernández-Rossier (INL)
18:15 DISCUSSION TIME