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21-03-2026: 100 years of Quantum Mechanics
Programme
Saturday, March 21st, 2026
08.45 Registration
09.00 Coffee/tea
09.30 Welcome
Peter SCHLAGHECK (Université de Liège, Belgium)
09.40 – 10.25 Jean DALIBARD (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Collège de France, France)
A Cool Journey Through Quantum Matter: 50 Years of Ultracold Atoms
10.30 – 11.15 Lieven VANDERSYPEN (QuTech, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands)
Quantum computing with electrons
11.20 – 12.05 Peter ZOLLER (University of Innsbruck & IQOQI, Austria)
Quantum Simulation with Atoms and Ions
12.10 Lunch and POSTER SESSION by the Belgian research institutions
14.00 – 14.45 Christiane KOCH (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Training Schrödinger's cat: Quantum control in molecular physics and quantum information science
14.50 – 15.35 Vladan VULETIC (MIT, Boston, USA)
The Quantum Age: From Atomic Clocks to Quantum Computers
15.40 – 16.25 Antoine BROWAEYS (Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d’Optique, CNRS, Paris, France)
Assembling quantum matter one atom at a time
16.30 – 17.00 Round-table discussion, animated by Frank VERSTRAETE (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)
17.00 Reception
Venue
Paleis der Academiën / Palais des Académies, Hertogstraat 1 Rue Ducale, B-1000 Bruxelles
Registration
We kindly request all participants to register before March 10, 2026.
Update 13/3/2026 : registrations are now closed for this event.
The registration fee of 55 € can be paid via bank transfer or by credit card. It includes access to all scientific sessions, welcome coffee and refreshments, lunch and the closing reception.
PhD students will receive a certificate of attendance upon simple request.
Due to limited capacity, we regret that we can no longer accept poster submissions for this event.
Please note that on-site registration will not be available, so please make sure to register and pay the registration fee in advance.
You may access the registration form by visiting this link or via the QR-code.
If these methods do not work, you may enter the following link directly into your browser : https://forms.gle/d7h5fkH9t2N6pkif7
Poster session
1. Quantum weak measurements and the geometry of weak values
Meetsinh Thakor, Yves Caudano (UNamur)
2. Thermal waves as an inspection tool for Cryo-CMOS circuitry
Valentin Fonck (UCLouvain)
3. Analytical approaches to polarons in finite-width conduction bands
Serghei Klimin (UAntwerpen)
4. Seebeck coefficient as a spectroscopy tool for molecular junctions
Jérémie Pirard (UCLouvain)
5. Accelerating qubit reset through the Mpemba effect
Théo Lejeune (ULiège)
6. Quantum heat engine with and without interactions: efficiency and correct reduced description
Salvatore Araceli (ULiège)
7. Semiclassical foundation of universality in chaotic quantum circuits
Maximilian Kieler (ULiège)
8. Quantum simulation with fluxonium qutrit arrays
Ivan Amelio (ULB)
9. Automated computation of spin-density matrices and quantum observables in collider physics
Valentin Durupt (UCLouvain)
10. Antiunitary symmetry for maximal correlation
Xu Zhang Xu (UGent)
11. Anyonization of Bosons
Botao Wang (ULB)
12. Fractional quantum Hall wedding cakes
Chloé Van Bastelaere (ULB)
13. Direct dissipation energy measurements for a driven superfluid via the harmonic potential theorem
Senne Van Wellen (UGent)
14. Creating NOON states with ultracold atoms using time crystals
Célia Delaive (ULiège)
15. Classical Counterpart to the Hubbard Model Through an exact Path-Integral Formalism
Louis Renck (ULiège)
16. Towards quantum simulation of fingering instabilities in Hall droplets
Cristiano Muzzi (ULB)
Scientific Committee
Nicolas Boulanger, UMons
Yves Caudano, UNamur
Céline Degrande, UCLouvain
Nathan Goldman, ULB
Joseph Indekeu, KULeuven
Thierry Metens, BNCPAP
Jef Ongena, KMS-ERM
François Peeters, UAntwerpen
Peter Schlagheck, ULiège
Alex Sevrin, VUB
Robert Sporken, BNCPAP
Jacques Tempere , UAntwerpen
Xavier Urbain, UCLouvain
Frank Verstraete, UGent
Wojciech De Roeck, KULeuven
Information
Robert Sporken, President of the Belgian National Committee of Pure and Applied Physics (robert.sporken@unamur.be)
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