Please follow the link below for a detailed conference schedule.

Use our online registration system for registration & abstract submission (follow this link).

Fees

Early bird (until 15 August): 300 € | Regular: 350 €
The conference fee includes catering throughout the conference, the conference dinner, childcare services and access to the HNF museum.

Abstracts

Oral presentations are reserved for invited speakers. Abstracts for poster contributions can be submitted until 31 July. Please use this LaTex template for abstract preparation (see also this example). Abstract submission is possible prior to registration.

Scientific Committee

Organizing Institution

The Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems (PhoQS) combines expertise and competencies in photonics and quantum research at Paderborn University – an important location for pioneering photonic quantum research. Thanks to proven experts in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering, the required expertise to conduct fundamental research and put it into application are available.

Plenary

• Barbara Kraus | Technical University of Munich, Germany
• Michal Lipson | Columbia University, USA
• Marko Loncar | Harvard University, USA
• Ian Walmsley | Imperial College London, England

Keynote

• Valentina Parigi | Sorbonne Université, France
• Philip Walther | University of Vienna, Austria
• Andrew White | University of Queensland, Australia
• Roberta Zambrini | University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
• Karol Życzkowski | Jagiellonian University, Poland

Invited

• Arnab Adhikary | Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
• Elisabeth Agudelo | TU Wien, Austria
• Ulrik Andersen | DTU, Denmark
• Marc Aßmann | TU Dortmund, Germany
• Konrad Banaszek | University of Warsaw, Poland
• Stephen Barnett | University of Glasgow, Scotland
• Stefanie Barz | University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Manfred Bayer | TU Dortmund, Germany
• Christoph Becher | Saarland University, Germany
• Simon Becker | ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Almut Beige | University of Leeds, England
• Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus | EPFL, Switzerland
• Oliver Benson | HU Berlin, Germany
• Aranya Bhattacharya | Jagiellonian University, Poland
• Dagmar Bruß | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
• Christopher Cedzich | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
• Animesh Datta | University of Warwick, England
• Stephan de Bièvre | Université de Lille, France
• Eleni Diamanti | Sorbonne Université, France
• Giulia Ferrini | Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Jonathan Finley | TU München, Germany
• Alex Gaeta | Columbia University, USA
• Thomas Gerrits | NIST, USA
• Markus Grassl | University of Gdańsk, Poland
• David Gross | University of Cologne, Germany
• Otfried Gühne | University of Siegen, Germany
• Craig Hamilton | Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
• Sven Höfling | University of Würzburg, Germany
• Zdenek Hradil | Palacký University, Czech Republic
• David Hunger | KIT, Germany
• Igor Jex | Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
• Michal Karpinski | University of Warsaw, Poland
• Natalia Korolkova | University of St Andrews, Scotland
• Patrick Ledingham | University of Southampton, England
• Davide Lonigro | FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
• Chiara Macchiavello | University of Pavia, Italy
• Mehul Malik | Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
• Jasmin Meinecke | TU Berlin, Germany
• Uwe Morgner | Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
• Saverio Pascazio | University of Bari, Italy
• Giuseppe Patera | University of Lille, France
• Avi Pe'er | Bar-Ilan University, Israel
• Ulf Peschel | Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
• Julien Pinske | University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Martin Plenio | Universität Ulm, Germany
• Stephan Reitzenstein | TU Berlin, Germany
• Katarzyna Roszak | Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
• Lukasz Rudnicki | University of Gdansk, Poland
• Luis Sanchez-Soto | University of Madrid, Spain
• Frank Schlawin | University of Hamburg, Germany
• Fabio Sciarrino | Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
• Pascale Sennelart | Université Paris-Saclay, France
• Frank Setzpfand | Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
• Fabian Steinlechner | Fraunhofer IOF, Germany
• Birgit Stiller | MPI for the Science of Light, Germany
• Rob Thew | University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Costanza Toninelli | LENS, Italy
• Jordi Tura Brugués | Leiden University, Netherlands
• Ramona Wolf | University of Siegen, Germany

The TheoQS autumn school aims to give an overview of current research topics in the theoretical description of quantum systems, with an emphasis on their applications in quantum information or quantum optics. It is aimed at PhD students, master students and young postdocs. The TheoQS autumn school is a satellite event of [QPS2024].

Travel in Paderborn

The conference will be held in the Congress centre of the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF). The address is Fürstenallee 7, 33102 Paderborn.

By Public Transport
The bus line 9 connects the central station (bus stop "Hauptbahnhof") and the venue (Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, bus stop "MuseumsForum"). It departs regularly and takes less than 10 minutes. Please note that Google Maps doesn't show correct information for public transport connections in Paderborn. We recommend to use information provided by the PaderSprinter or Deutsche Bahn.

By Car
The venue can also be easily reached by car. Conference participants can use the car park of the neighbouring Heinz Nixdorf Institute (Fürstenallee 11, 33102 Paderborn) free of charge.

Travel to Paderborn

By Plane
Paderborn has a local airport, Paderborn/Lippstadt Airport (PAD). The bus line S60 connects the airport and the central station (Paderborn Hauptbahnhof) about every 60 minutes from around 6am until 10pm; see this link for all airport connections. Other close airports with frequently operating train services to Paderborn are Duesseldorf Airport (DUS) and Hannover Airport (HAJ). From Germany's largest airport, Frankfurt Airport (FRA), you can reach Paderborn within less than 4 hours by train.

By Train
The central station Paderborn Hauptbahnhof is located in the city centre of Paderborn. From Düsseldorf or Hannover, Paderborn can be reached within about 2 hours. Please visit Deutsche Bahn for connections and tickets.

Accommodation

We have booked room contingents in the following hotels:

• Intercity Hotel
  To book a room at the Intercity Hotel for [QPS2024], please send an email to: meetings.paderborn@intercityhotel.com or call: +49 (0) 5251 14 83 853. 
• Welcome Hotel
  Please use this link to book your room at the Welcome Hotel. 

Apart from our booking system (Converia), we don’t work with external providers such as travel agencies etc. All e-mails related to our conference that do not come from our official QPS-account (qps@upb.de) or Converia can be considered a scam.