Symposia

Monday, 8 September 2025, 10:45 - 12:30

  • Joint Symposium of the Danish and German Physical Societies (SYDK)
    Organisation:
    Sebastian Hofferberth, University of Bonn, Germany
    Klaus Molmer, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    Invited Speakers:
    Niels Emil Bjerrum Bohr, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    Astrid Eichhorn, Heidelberg University, Germany
    Klaus Molmer, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Foundational Aspects of Quantum Theory (SYFA)
    Organisation:
    Martin Zirnbauer, University of Cologne, Germany

    Invited Speakers:
    Jürg Fröhlich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    Katarzyna Rejzner, University of York, Great Britain
    Reinhard Werner, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
  • Loosely-Bound States – From the Coldest to the Hottest Environments (SYLB)
    Organisation:
    Benjamin Dönigus, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Invited Speakers:
    Francesca Bellini, Università di Bologna, Italy
    Hans-Werner Hammer, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
    Philipp Preiss, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany
  • Quantum Sensing and Decoherence in Solid-State and Photonics Systems (SYQS)
    Organisation:
    Valerio Di Giulio, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany / University of Göttingen, Germany
    Armin Feist, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany / University of Göttingen, Germany
    Claus Ropers, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany / University of Göttingen, Germany

    Invited Speakers:
    Martin Plenio, Ulm University, Germany
    Jelena Vučković, Stanford University, USA
    Eva Weig, Technical University of Munich, Germany
    Amir Yacoby, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 10:45 - 12:30

  • Quantum Computing and Communication: Early Days and New Developments (SYCC)
    Organisation:
    Guido Burkard, University of Konstanz, Germany

    Invited Speakers:
    David DiVincenzo, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
    Lieven Vandersypen, QuTech / Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
    Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
  • Correlated Quantum Matter – From Cold Atoms to the Solid State (SYCQ)
    Organisation:
    Silke Bühler-Paschen, TU Wien, Austria
    Philipp Hauke, University of Trento, Italy
    Elke Scheer, University of Konstanz, Germany

    Invited Speakers:
    Szabolcs Csonka, BME Természettudományi Kar, Budapest, Hungary
    Leonardo Fallani, LENS - European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy / University of Florence, Italy
    Kim Modic, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Klosterneuburg, Austria
    Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  • Quantum Physics in Strong Fields (SYSF)
    Organisation:
    Holger Gies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
    Carsten Müller, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
    Ralf Schützhold, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany

    Invited Speakers:

    Babette Döbrich, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Garching, Germany
    Anton Ilderton, University of Edinburgh, Schottland
    Adriana Pálffy-Buß, University of Würzburg, German
  • The Charm of Unconventional Hadrons (SYUH)
    Organisation:
    Sebastian Neubert, University of Bonn, Germany

    Invited Speakers:
    Christoph Hanhart, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
    Marek Karliner, Tel Aviv University, Israel
    Mikhail Mikhasenko, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
    Chiara Pinto, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Wednesday, 10 September 2025, 10:45 - 12:30

  • Frustrated Quantum Systems (SYFQ)
    Organisation:
    Martin Dressel, University of Stuttgart, Germany

    Invited Speakers:
    Kazushi Kanoda, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany / University of Stuttgart, Germany / University of Tokyo, Japan
    Nandini Trivedi, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
    Alexander Tsirlin, Leipzig University, Germany
  • The Higgs Boson in the Standard Model and Beyond (SYHB)
    Organisation:
    Johannes Haller, University of Hamburg, Germany

    Invited Speakers:

    Karl Jakobs, University of Freiburg, Germany
    Markus Klute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
    Karsten Köneke, University of Göttingen, Germany
    Magarethe Mühlleitner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  • Quantum Information and the Quest for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (SYQI)
    Organisation:
    Guido Burkard, University of Konstanz, Germany

    Invited Speakers:
    Ignacio Cirac, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany
    Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
    Wenchao Xu, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Quantum Thermalization (SYQT)
    Organisation:
    Fabian Heidrich-Meisner, University of Göttingen, Germany
    Frank Pollmann, Technical University of Munich, Germany

    Invited Speakers:

    Monika Aidelsburger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany
    Adrien Florio, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, USA
    Lea Santos, University of Conneticut, Storrs, USA
    Johannes Zeiher, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany

Thursday, 10 September 2025, 10:45 - 12:30

  • Entanglement and Complexity – How “Complex” is Nature? (SYEC)
    Organisation:
    Julio Magdalena de la Fuente, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

    Invited Speakers:
    Anurag Anshu, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
    Nele Callebaut, University of Cologne, Germany
    Eva-Maria Gräfe, Imperial College London, Great Britain
    Michal Heller, Ghent University, Belgium
  • Precise Quantum Detectors in Space, Time and Energy - Semi- and Superconductors in Particle and Condensed Matter Physics (SYQD)
    Organisation:
    Axel Lorke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
    Norbert Wermes, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany

    Invited Speakers:

    Nicoló Cartiglia, National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Torino, Italy
    Michael Doser, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
    Magnus Mager, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
    Val Zwiller, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Precise Quantum Molecules (SYQM)
    Organisation:
    Gereon Niedner-Schatteburg, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany

    Invited Speakers:
    Ansgar Schäfer, BASF, Germany
    Stephan Schlemmer, University of Cologne, Germany
    Melanie Schnell, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
    Hans-Joachim Werner, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Quantum 2D-Moiré and Rhombohedral van-der-Waals Systems (SYWS)
    Organisation:
    Thomas Weitz, University of Göttingen, Germany
    Sirri Batuhan Kalkan, University of Göttingen, Germany

    Invited Speakers:
    Long Ju, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
    Stefan Mathias, University of Göttingen, Germany
    Jie Shan, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
    Tim Wehling, University of Hamburg, Germany

You will find the location and abstracts of the talks in the symposia in the electronic programme of the conference from 26 July 2025.