Keynote speakers
Invited speakers
Stephen Clark (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
Luis Peña Ardila (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)
Julian Martinez (Stanford University, USA)
Juan Diego Urbina (Universität Regensburg, Germany)
Inti Sodemann (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany)
José Reslen (Universidad del Atlántico, Colombia)
Carlos Viviescas (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)
Leonardo Pachón (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia)
Roberto Franco (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)
Jereson Silva (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)
Karen Fonseca (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)
Alejandra Valencia (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Herbert Vinck Posada (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)
Maicol Ochoa (NIST, USA)
Juan David Vasquez (Universidad del Valle, Colombia)
Local Organizing Committee
Juan José Mendoza Arenas (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) jj.mendoza(at)uniandes.edu.co
Karen Rodríguez Ramírez (Universidad del Valle, Colombia) karem.c.rodriguez(at)correounivalle.edu.co
Ana Maria Rey is a Colombian theoretical physicist, professor at University of Colorado at Boulder, a JILA fellow, a fellow at National Institute of Standards and Technology and a fellow of the American Physical Society. Rey was the first Hispanic woman to win the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in 2019.
Her interests include the interface between atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter physics and quantum information science. Some of her recent research focuses on novel techniques for controlling quantum systems and using them in several applications, ranging from quantum simulations and information to time and frequency standards.
Dieter Jaksch is a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
His early theoretical work on superfluid-insulating states established the foundations for the field of quantum simulation with cold atoms in optical lattices. His current research interests include the control of correlated phases by cavity radiation, Floquet engineering, open quantum systems and tensor network methods. He also strongly collaborates with experimental groups on non-equilibrium light-induced superconductivity.
Luis Santos is a full professor at the Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.
His research focuses on the theory of ultracold quantum gases. His current interests include dipolar and spinor gases, strongly correlated gases in optical lattices at low dimensions in and out of equilibrium, synthetic magnetism, and disordered quantum systems.
Salvatore Manmana works at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.
His research focuses on theoretical condensed matter physics, particularly in quantum many body systems in and out of equilibrium. He specializes in the development and application of sophisticated numerical methods, such as the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG), and related Matrix Product State (MPS) techniques. These belong to the broader class of tensor network approaches, whose foundations lay on quantum information theory.
John Goold is an Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
His current research includes non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, condensed matter, and the interface of thermodynamics and quantum information theory. Some of his latest works focus on thermalization and transport in interacting and disordered systems, quantum thermal machines, energetics of quantum information processing and quantum stochastic thermodynamics.