Quantum Africa 1

Organising Committee

All committee members are part of the Quantum Research Group, School of Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal:

• Francesco Petruccione – Conference Chair
• Thomas Konrad – Conference Secretary
• Elena Brüning
• Asif Mirza
• Mervin Moodley
• Michael Nock
• Michael Porrmann
• Moritz Rehn
• Ilya Sinayskiy

Speakers

Invited Speakers and Topics

• Hans Briegel (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria) – Quantum effects in biology
• Andreas Buchleitner (University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany) – Transport, disorder, and entanglement
• Tommaso Calarco (University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany) – To be announced
• Lajos Diósi (Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary) – Quantum information loss by frame averaging
• Artur Ekert (University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom) – Less reality, more security
• Serge Haroche (Collège de France & École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France) – Manipulation and control of non-classical field states in cavity QED
• Arne Kastberg (University of Nice – CNRS, Nice, France) – Quantum information with cold atoms and photons
• Sir Peter Knight (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) – Quantum state engineering and the simulation of nature
• Hermann Uys (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado, USA) – Toward spin squeezing of trapped beryllium ions