International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025
CQuERE, TCG CREST
Kolkata, India
Upcoming Speakers
Talk 25
Prof. Caslav Brukner
University of Vienna & Institute for Quantum Optics & Quantum Information (IQOQI), Vienna, Austria
Title: The Classical Limit of Quantum Mechanics through Coarse-Grained Measurements
Date & Time: November 13, 2025 @ 3:00 PM IST
Venue: Classroom -4, TCG CREST
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Talk 26
Prof. Ivette Fuentes
University of Southampton, UK
Title: Should We Quantize Gravity- or Gravitize Quantum Theory?
Date & Time: November 26, 2025 @ 5:30 PM IST
Venue: Classroom -4, TCG CREST
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Talk 27
Prof. Nilanjana Datta
University of Cambridge, England, UK
Title: Zero-Error Communication under Discrete-Time Markovian Dynamics
Date & Time: TBA
Venue: Classroom -4, TCG CREST
Past Speakers
Talk 1
Prof. David Wineland
Physics Nobel Laureate
Phillip H. Knight Distinguished Research Chair University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
Title : Quantum Computers and Raising Schrödinger’s Cat
Date & Time: 20th January 2025 @ 9:00 AM IST
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Talk 2
Prof. Guruprasad Kar
ISI, Kolkata
Title : Historical Developments of Quantum Mechanics
Date & Time: 29th January, 2025 @ 3:00 PM IST
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Talk 3
Prof. Kenji Ohmori
Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), National Institute of Natural Sciences, Japan
Title : Ultrafast Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computing with Ultracold Atom Arrays at Quantum Speed Limit
Date & Time: 5th February, 2025 @ 3:00 PM IST
Venue: Classroom – 4, TCG CREST
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Talk 4
Prof. Archan S. Majumdar
S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India
Title : Quantum Uncertainty Relations, Nonlocality, and Information Theoretic Applications
Date & Time: February 19, 2025 @ 3:00 PM IST
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Talk 5
Prof. Leong Chuan Kwek
National University of Singapore
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Title : Integrated Photonic Circuit for Quantum and Optical Platforms
Date & Time: March 5, 2025 @ 3:00 PM IST
Venue: CQuERE Classroom – 4
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Talk 6
Prof. R. Srikanth
Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research, Bangalore, India
Title: Concatenating Decoherence Free Subspaces with Quantum Error Correcting Codes
Date & Time: March 20, 2025 @ 4:00 PM IST
Venue: Classroom -4, TCG CREST
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Talk 7
Prof. Bimalendu Deb
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India
Title: Quantum Computing in an Ion-Atom Hybrid Platform
Date & Time: “World Quantum Day,” April 14, 2025 @ 3:30 PM IST
Venue: Classroom -4, TCG CREST
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Talk 8
Prof. Nicolas Gisin
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Title: Three Ways beyond Bell Inequalities
Date & Time: “World Quantum Day,” April 14, 2025 @ 5:00 PM IST
Venue: Classroom -4, TCG CREST
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Talk 9
Prof. Anupam Garg
Northwestern University, USA
Title: The Classical Limit of the Spin-s Einstein-Podolosky-Rosen-Bohm Experiment
Date & Time: April 29, 2025 @ 5:30 PM IST
Venue: Classroom – 4, TCG CREST
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Talk 10
Prof. Madhavan Varadarajan
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
Title: Quantum Gravity: A Quest for a Quantum Mechanics of Space and Time
Date & Time: May 2, 2025 @ 4:00 PM IST
Venue: Classroom – 4, TCG CREST
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Talk 11
Prof. Alexey Ustinov
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Title: Identifying Material Defects in Quantum Circuits
Date & Time: May 20, 2025 @ 2:30 PM IST
Venue: Classroom – 2, TCG CREST
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Talk 12
Prof. Palash Pal
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
Title: The Relationship between Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory
Date & Time: June 5, 2025 @ 4:00 PM IST
Venue: Classroom – 4, TCG CREST
Talk 13
Prof. Seth Lloyd
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Title: Natural Intelligence: The Information Processing Power of Life
Date & Time: June 25, 2025 @ 3:00 PM IST
Venue: Classroom – 2, TCG CREST
Talk 14
Dr. Chetan Nayak
Microsoft, USA
Title: Majorana Based Topological Qubits
Date & Time: July 7, 2025 @ 10:00 am IST
Venue: Classroom – 4, TCG CREST
Talk 15
Prof. Renato Renner
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Title: The Ultimate Limits of Security
Date & Time: July 14, 2025 @ 4:00 pm IST
Venue: Classroom -4, TCG CREST
Talk 16
Prof. Jian-Wei Pan
University of Science and Technology of China, Shanghai, China
Title: Dream or Reality? Quantum Network: the Past, Present & Beyond
Date & Time: July 30, 2025 @ 12:00 pm IST
Venue: Classroom -4, TCG CREST
Talk 17
Prof. Manas Mukherjee
A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Singapore
Title: Quantum Machine Learning in an Ion Trap Quantum Computer
Date & Time: August 5, 2025 @ 3:00 pm IST
Venue: Classroom -4, TCG CREST
Talk 18
Dr. Abhinav Kandala
IBM Quantum, New York, USA
Title: Accurate Quantum Computing
Date & Time: August 11, 2025 @ 5:30 pm IST
Venue: Classroom -4, TCG CREST
Talk 19
Prof. Anne L’Huillier
Physics Nobel Laureate
Lund University, Sweden
Title: Attosecond Physics: From the source to the
applications
Date & Time: August 26, 2025 @ 3:00 pm IST
Venue: Classroom -4, TCG CREST
Talk 20
Prof. Subir Sachdev
Harvard University, Massachusetts , USA
Title: Critical Quantum Liquids and the Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors
Date & Time: September 19, 2025 @ 5:00 PM IST
Venue: Classroom -4, TCG CREST
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Talk 21
Sir Roger Penrose
Physics Nobel Laureate
Oxford University, England, UK
Title: Collapse of the Quantum Wave-function: Influences
from both Special and General Relativity
Date & Time: September 25, 2025 @ 3:30 PM IST
Venue: Classroom -4, TCG CREST
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Talk 22
Prof. Elham Kashefi
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Title: Distributed Quantum Computing as a Service
Date & Time: October 8, 2025 @ 3:30 PM IST
Venue: Classroom -4, TCG CREST
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Talk 23
Prof. Ashwin Nayak
University of Waterloo, Canada
Title: Learning Quantum States
Date & Time: October 16, 2025 @ 5:30 PM IST
Venue: Classroom -4, TCG CREST
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Talk 24
Prof. Vlatko Vedral
University of Oxford, UK and Center for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Title: No Collapses, No Quantum Jumps, and No Observers: Universal Quantum Physics and How to Test it
Date & Time: October 28, 2025 @ 4:30 PM IST
Venue: Classroom -4, TCG CREST
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