Workshops and Conferences

 

Schrodinger Cats: the quest to find the edge of the quantum world

December 9 - 13 2024, Okinawa, Japan

• The generation of macroscopic quantum superpositions of massive objects have fascinated scientists since Schrodinger but scientific developments now promise that such superpositions may become possible in the very near future.
• This meeting will focus on the science of macroscopic quantum superpositions - or more commonly known as Schrodinger Cats. In the 1930s Erwin Schrodinger made a thought experiment to test the boundaries of quantum mechanics. He asked if it could be possible, not only in principle, but also in practice, to make a quantum superposition of a large-massive object (in his case a cat), in two very different positions. As far as we know - this should be possible - but extremely challenging experimentally. If one can even achieve this for nanometer (or larger), sized particles one opens the possibility of tackling many fundamental questions e.g. how does quantum interact with gravity, is there some other addition to quantum mechanics which prevents the formation of such large-massive quantum superpositions? Can such massive superpositions be used for ultrasensitive sensors.
• This meeting will bring experimentalists and theorists together to discuss recent science (experiment and theory), towards generating such quantum superpositions.
• This workshop is hosted by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan supported by the EPSRC Project Levinet.
• Organizer:
  • Kiyotaka Aikawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan)
  • Sougato Bose (University College London, UK)
  • Maria Fuwa (Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan)
  • Yosuke Minowa (Kyoto University, Japan, from April 2024)
  • Bill Munro (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
  • Kentaro Somyia (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan)
  • Jason Twamley (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

 

Events

 

Center Seminar Series

TOSHIBA Seminar & Working Lunch Poster Session

December 18 2024, Okinawa, Japan

• Representatives from the TOSHIBA Corporate Research & Development Center will visit OIST to present a seminar and engage in discussions about potential collaborations. This marks the beginning of a series of seminars by TOSHIBA, whose mission is to shape the future through cutting-edge technology and the social implementation of their research.

  This visit represents a fantastic opportunity to strengthen the collaboration between TOSHIBA and OIST, explore joint research projects and promote interaction and understanding between OIST and TOSHIBA researchers. The TOSHIBA team is highly interested in the groundbreaking research at OIST and is eager to explore synergies.

 

Center Colloquia Series

To be restarted soon

 

Program

Visiting programs at OIST: TSVP