2025 Rice Workshop on Quantum Geometry & Winter School on Quantum Material Synthesis

Agenda

Workshop Agenda

Monday, November 4th

Location: 5th Floor O'Connor

Time Event Description
8.00 - 8.45 Breakfast and Registration
8.45 - 8.50 Emilia Morosan Opening Remarks - Director, Rice Center for Quantum Materials (RCQM)
8.50 - 8.55 Junichiro Kono Opening Remarks - Director, Smalley Curl Institute (SCI)
Session 1: Chair - Shengxi Huang
Time Event Description
9.00 - 9.35 Andrei Faraon Quantum networks with rare-earth ions
9.35 - 10.10 Srujan Meesala Microwave-optical entanglement transduction
10.10 - 10.40 Coffee Break
10.45 - 11.20 Chris Anderson Emerging quantum photonic materials for entanglement distribution and transduction
11.20 - 11.55 Songtao Chen Cavity-coupled telecom spin-photon interfaces for quantum networking
11.55 - 12.15 Group photo
12.15 - 2.30 Lunch and Poster
Session 2: Chair - Songtao Chen
Time Event Description
2.30 - 3.05 Edo Waks Quantum photonics in silicon
3.05 - 3.40 Nathaniel Stern New Dimensions on the Interaction of Light and Matter: Quantum Photonics with 2D Materials
3.40 - 4.10 Coffee Break
4.15 - 4.50 Giovanni Scuri Scalable semiconductor quantum photonic systems
4.50 - 5.25 Marko Loncar Efficient Photonic and Phononic Interfaces for Diamond Color Centers
5.30 Adjourn
6.30 Banquet Invited speakers and Rice faculty

Tuesday, November 5th

Location: 5th Floor O'Connor

Time Event Description
8.00 – 9.00 Breakfast
Session 1: Chair - Xuedan Ma
Time Event Description
9.00 - 9.35 Luca Sapienza Quantum photonic devices to control single-photon emission
9.35 - 10.10 Joonhee Choi Learning a van der Waals Spin System
10.10 - 10.40 Coffee Break
10.45 - 11.20 Shuo Sun A hybrid photonic cavity for spin-photon interfaces
11.20 - 11.55 Geoffroy Hautier Finding the perfect imperfection: understanding, discovery and design of quantum defects using first principles computations
12.00 - 2.30 Lunch and Poster
Session 2: Chair - Srujan Meesala
Time Event Description
2.30 - 3.05 Mo Li Electromechanics of excitons in 2D materials
3.05 - 3.40 Shengxi Huang Improving single photon emission from layered materials through atomic engineering
3.40 - 4.10 Coffee Break
4.15 - 4.50 Thomas Kempa Exciton Tuning at the Interface of 2D TMDs with Periodic Molecular Lattices
4.50 - 5.25 Xuedan Ma Quantum emitters in low-dimensional semiconductors
5.30 Wrap-Up

Winter School Agenda

Wednesday, November 6th

Time School Location
8.00 - 8.59 Breakfast and Registration 5th Floor O'Connor
9.00 - 10.00 Lane Martin - Pulsed-laser Deposition for Complex Materials 5th Floor O'Connor
10.00 - 10.30 Coffee Break 5th Floor O'Connor
10.30 - 12.30 First Practical Session Labs
12.30 - 2.00 Lunch 5th Floor O'Connor
2.00 - 3.00 Piran Kidambi - Chemical Vapor Deposition 5th Floor O'Connor
3.00 - 4.30 Second Practical Session Labs
4.30 - 6.00 Third Practical Session Labs
6.30 Dinner Valhalla (Under the steps of Keck Hall)

Thursday, November 7th

Time School Location
8.00 - 9.00 Breakfast 5th Floor O'Connor
9.00 - 10.00 Tyrel McQueen - Materials, Quantum, AI: Materials Discovery 5th Floor O'Connor
10.00 - 10.30 Coffee Break and Group Photo 5th Floor O'Connor
10.30 - 12.30 Fourth Practical Session Labs
12.30 - 2.00 Lunch 5th Floor O'Connor
2.00 - 3.00 Alex Demkov - Si-integrated Ferroelectrics for Quantum Computing 5th Floor O'Connor
3.00 - 4.30 Fifth Practical Session Labs
4.30 - 6.00 Sixth Practical Session Labs
6.30 Dinner Valhalla (Under the steps of Keck Hall)

Friday, November 8th

Time School Location
8.00 - 9.00 Breakfast Room 300 Space Science Technology Building
9.00 - 10.00 Binod Rai - Lanthanide and Actinide Research Lab Capabilities and Opportunities at SRNL

Room 300 Space Science Technology Building
10.00 - 10.30 Coffee Break and Poster Set Up Room 300 Space Science Technology Building
10.30 - 11.30 Discussion - Quantum Materials Synthesis in the Modern Era

Room 300 Space Science Technology Building
11.30 - 1.00 Poster Session and Lunch

Room 300 Space Science Technology Building
1.00 End