Speakers
Guest speaker
Marlou Slot
Dr. Marlou Slot has an extensive background as a condensed-matter physicist with a background in scanning probe microscopy on quantum materials. After having obtained her MSc at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and PhD at Utrecht University with Ingmar Swart and Daniel Vanmaekelbergh (Netherlands), she currently works as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Joseph Stroscio’s lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg (USA). Her research interests center around 2D quantum materials and electronic quantum simulators. In addition to research, she is passionate about teaching and she is involved in science outreach for middle- and high-school students.
Marlou is also involved in organizing a Quantum Computing & Entrepreneurship Summer Program with the WOMANIUM foundation, advancing women in STEM+E. The program will guide students from the basics in quantum mechanics through quantum programming and hardware to a 3-week hackathon, and will expose them to entrepreneurship and career opportunities.
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William D. Oliver
William D. Oliver is jointly appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Professor of Physics, and Lincoln Laboratory Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He serves as the Director of the Center for Quantum Engineering and as Associate Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics. He is a Principal Investigator in the Engineering Quantum Systems Group (MIT campus) and the Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems Group (MIT Lincoln Laboratory). He provides programmatic and technical leadership targeting the development of quantum and classical high-performance computing technologies. Will’s research interests include the materials growth, fabrication, design, and measurement of superconducting qubits, as well as the development of cryogenic packaging and control electronics involving cryogenic CMOS and single-flux quantum digital logic.
Will is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He serves on the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee, the US Committee for Superconducting Electronics, and is an IEEE Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC) Board Member.
Will received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and B.A. in Japanese from the University of Rochester (NY).
Paweł Gora
Scientist, IT specialist and entrepreneur working mostly on the applications of AI (especially in transportation and medicine) and quantum computing. Graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics of the University of Warsaw (M.Sc. in Mathematics and M.Sc. in Computer Science) and is now a PhD Candidate at that Faculty. In the past, he worked as a software engineering intern or research intern at Microsoft, Google, CERN and IBM Research. He is one of the organizers of 2 meetups in Warsaw: Warsaw.ai and Warsaw Quantum Computing Group and member of the Board of QWorld and QPoland. He is also a founder and CEO of the "Quantum AI Foundation" http://www.qaif.org/ aiming to support the development of AI and quantum computing. He also co-founded the "Quantum AI" group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/quantumai) aiming to facilitate education in the area of applications of AI in quantum computing and quantum computing in AI. He received several awards, e.g., "Lider ITS" award for the best R&D work in the intelligent transportation systems domain in Poland. "MIT Technology Review" recognized him as one of 10 Top Polish Talents in the "MIT Innovators Under 35" competition. In 2017, he was also placed on the list "NEW EUROPE 100" of emerging technology stars in Eastern Europe.
Abdallah Slaoui
Dr. Abdallah Slaoui is a theoretical physicist specializing in Quantum Technologies at LPHE-Modeling and Simulation, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco.
Dr. Slaoui received his Ph.D degree from Mohammed V University on a thesis titled "Intrinsic relationships of quantum resource theories and their roles in quantum metrology". He is Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Physics and Mathematics (CPM). During his studies, Dr. Slaoui received a training opportunity for international scientific exchange at Institut Henri Poincare, where he was working on theoretical topics of quantum information theory, quantum optics, quantum communication, and quantum computing. After that, he participated in several national and international congresses at which he presented his research works.
Besides his academic work, Dr. Slaoui is also interested in Quantum Physics activities for the public. Therefore, he is a co-founder and general clerk of the Association of Young Researchers of the Mohammed V University of Rabat, co-founder and administrator of the Moroccan Network of Quantum Information and a member of the National Network of Young Researchers in Sciences.
Local Organizing Committee
Prof. Lalla Btissam DRISSI
Lalla Btissam DRISSI is professor of physics at the Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. Her interests include Physics of 2-dimensional nanostructures, Topological matters, Mathematical Physics, Numerical Simulations, (ab-initio Calculations, DFT, Green Functions, Monte Carlo, Molecular Dynamics, Spin dynamics), Statistical and quantum physics. She is corresponding member at the Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Technology. She has been active member of Arab- German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA), Berlin, Germany and Associate member at International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. She is also the lead organizer of Falling Walls Lab-Morocco: Interdisciplinary forum for Outstanding Talents & Innovative Thinkers, granted by Falling Walls Foundation in Germany. Prof Drissi coordinates the Extended African Network for Advanced two Dimensional Materials as well as several Moroccan and bliateral projects. She is involved in the organization of national and international events. Prof Drissi is author and co- author of several scientific papers.
Prof. Rachid Ahl Laamara
Ahl Laamara Rachid is Professor of physics at the Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. He obtained his PhD degree in 2007 from the University of Mohammed V in Rabat, for a thesis entitled: gauge / gravity duality in the context of topological string theory. In2008hewas a Post-Doctoral fellow at the Centre for Theoretical Physics (CTP) at the British University in Egypt, In 2010 he was a educational director of the School of Management, Telecommunications and Computing– Rabat (Sup MTI), From 2012 to 2019 he is at the CRMEF-Fez-Meknes as a professor, and then directly joined the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Science of Rabat as a professor of theoretical physics. He has co-authored more than 80 papers in international journals. His research interests include mathematical physics, quantum computation and condensed matter physics.
Prof. El Hassan Saidi
El Hassan Saidi is a professor of higher education at the Faculty of Sciences of Rabat and director of the Laboratory of High Energy Physics: Modeling and Simulation (LPHE-MS). He has supervised several research works, doctoral theses and various advanced training programs in theoretical physics. He has published numerous original research works ranging from critical phenomena in statistical mechanics to superstring theory, fractional quantum Hall effect, quantum field theory, particle physics, supersymmetry and supergravity, topological string, black hole physics, representation theory finite and infinite Lie algebras and algebraic geometry among others.
Member of several scientific committees and chairman in national and international conferences, Saidi received the 1988 Abdus-Salam prize for scientific creation in the Kingdom of Morocco, then the Rammal prize for the year 2005 awarded by EuroScience, Strasbourg, France. In 1989 he was elected a regular associate member of the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP); coordinator of SARF, association of Arab scientists visiting ICTP; then senior associate at the ICTP since 2002. In 1996, Saidi and collaborators founded the Moroccan Network of High Energy Physics (GNPHE), of which he is the president. He is a founding member of several national (RNPT, RENAPT, RHEMAP) and international scientific networks such as the Fubini group (CERN, Switzerland) for scientific cooperation in the Mediterranean region.
Pr. Saidi is the national coordinator of the annual national workshops on high energy physics, director of the CSU university scientific mail and editor-in-chief of the African Journal of Mathematical Physics. He also supervises an international project led by GNPHE, scientific partners and the diaspora aimed at the creation, in the Kingdom of Morocco, of an institute of mathematical physics with an African dimension. Saidi has developed an important network of international scientific relations that has allowed researchers from his Laboratory and GNPHE to stay for research in several European and American universities and scientific institutes.
Workshops Speakers
Walid El Maouaki
Walid El Maouaki has a master's degree in physics majoring in Materials Physics and Nanomaterials at the University Hassan 2 of Casablanca in Morocco, as well as a potential PhD candidate in quantum information science. Walid learned about quantum computing during the last three years through a variety of learning opportunities. He was involved in various quantum computing projects, including quantum machine learning, quantum optimization, and quantum simulation. During the workshop, he will talk about the challenges of quantum machine learning and show a demo of how it can be used.
Zakaria Dahbi
Zakaria Dahbi is currently a doctoral student doing research in the field of quantum information. He obtained a bachelor degree in Theoretical Physics (2017) and a master's degree in Modern Physics (2019) from Sultane My Slimane University in Beni Mellal, Morocco. Zakaria joined the PhD programme specializing in Mathematical Physics in the Lab of High Energy Physics-Modeling and Simulation, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. He will give an introduction to quantum computing.
Nouhaila INNAN
A Ph.D. student at Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco, working on Quantum Machine Learning.
She will explain the capacity and power of Quantum Machine Learning.
You can find more about her here.
Hinde Adnani
Has a master's degree in Energy and Materials Technology, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco.
She is a Co-Founder of QMorocco and Qiskit Advocate.
She will give an introduction to quantum computing and programming.
You can find more about her here.