Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Connecting Quantum Systems with Phonons
Discussion Leader: Amir Safavi-Naeini (Stanford University, United States)
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm
Konrad Lehnert (JILA, University of Colorado, United States)
"Light, Sound, and Circuits"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:50 pm
Simon Groeblacher (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
"Generation and Manipulation of Quantum Sound"
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:25 pm
Kyungjoo Noh (Amazon Web Services, United States)
"Building a Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer Using Concatenated Cat Codes"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Gravitational Wave Detectors
Discussion Leader: Thomas Purdy (University of Pittsburgh, United States)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Michèle Heurs (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)
"Next Generation Gravitational Wave Observatories on ground and in Space"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:10 am
Yanbei Chen (California Institute of Technology, United States)
"Improving Sensitivities of Gravitational-Wave Detectors using Parametric Amplification and Coherent Quantum Feedback"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:20 am
Nergis Mavalvala (MIT, United States)
"Quantum Mechanical Technologies for Gravitational Wave Detection"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:45 am
James Gardner (The Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics @ The Australian National University / OzGrav, Australia)
"Nondegenerate Internal Squeezing: An All-Optical, Loss-Resistant Quantum Technique to Enable Kilohertz Gravitational-Wave Detection"
11:45 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:05 pm
Daniel Gould (Australian National University, Australia)
"Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen Entangled Interferometers: Quantum Optical Methods for Entangled Devices"
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hour™
The GRC Power Hour™ is designed to address diversity and inclusion in the scientific workplace by providing a safe environment for informal and meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities, including ethnicity, race and/or gender identity by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Jack Harris (Yale University, United States) and Eva Weig (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Nonreciprocity and Chirality in Optomechanics
Discussion Leader: Ewold Verhagen (AMOLF, The Netherlands)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Anja Metelmann (Free University Berlin, Germany)
"Utilizing Nonreciprocity for Quantum Feedback Protocols and Beyond"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
Aashish Clerk (University of Chicago, United States)
"New Directions in Quantum Non-reciprocity"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
Jack Harris (Yale University, United States)
"Nonreciprocal Phonon Transfer and the Braiding of Eigenvalues in Optomechanics"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Levitated Optomechanics and Electromechanics
Discussion Leader: Tongcang Li (Purdue University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Charles Brown (Yale University, United States)
"The Optical, Mechanical, and Thermal Properties of Levitated Superfluid Drops"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:10 am
Benjamin Stickler (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
"Optical Binding of Nanoparticles: Non-Reciprocal Interactions and Entanglement"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:05 am
Julen Pedernales (University of Ulm, Germany)
"Enhancing Quantum Interactions Between Levitated Solids"
11:05 am - 11:10 am
Discussion
11:10 am - 11:40 am
Markus Aspelmeyer (University of Vienna, Austria)
"Levitated Solids in the Quantum Regime: From Ground State Cooling to Quantum Sources of Gravity"
11:40 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:20 pm
Peter Barker (University College London, United Kingdom)
"A Hybrid Quantum System by Near Field Trapping Cold Atoms Around a Levitated Nanosphere"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Fundamental Tests with Mechanical Sensors
Discussion Leader: Yiwen Chu (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Swati Singh (University of Delaware, United States)
"Searching for Dark Matter and Dark Energy with Mechanical Systems"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
Cristian Panda (University of California Berkeley, United States)
"Testing Gravity by Atom Interferometry with Long Hold Times in an Optical Lattice"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
Jacob Taylor (Riverlane, United States)
"Impulse Metrology for Fundamental Physics"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Heralding Single Phonons and Quantum Measurements
Discussion Leader: Dalziel Wilson (University of Arizona, United States)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Philippe Roelli (CIC nanoGUNE, Spain)
"Room-Temperature Quantum Correlations and Coherent Frequency Conversion using Molecular Optomechanics"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:10 am
Magdalena Zych (University of Queensland, Australia)
"Gravity Effects in Quantum Clocks and Sensors: Foundations and Applications"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:05 am
Zhujing Xu (Purdue University, United States)
"Optomechanics with Quantum Vacuum Fluctuations"
11:05 am - 11:10 am
Discussion
11:10 am - 11:40 am
Eugene Polzik (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
"Quantum State Processing with Millimeter Size Mechanical Oscillators"
11:40 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:20 pm
Peter Rakich (Yale University, United States)
"Towards Quantum Control of High-Frequency Bulk Acoustic Phonons Using Light"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Quantum Electromechanical and Magnomechanical Devices
Discussion Leader: Eva Weig (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Adrian Bachtold (ICFO, Spain)
"How to Increase Nonlinearities in Nanomechanical Resonators when Approaching the Quantum Regime"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
Silvia Viola Kusminskiy (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany)
"Cavity Magnomechanics: Harnessing the Magnomechanical Coupling for Applications in the Microwave and Optical Regimes"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
John Teufel (NIST Boulder, United States)
"Quantum Microwave and Millimeter Wave Optomechanical Circuits"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Spin Coupling to Nanomechanics
Discussion Leader: Albert Schliesser (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Ania Bleszynski-Jayich (UCSB, United States)
"Spin-Coupled Optomechanical Systems in Diamond"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:10 am
Christian Degen (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Nuclear Spin Sensing with Nanomechanical Cantilevers and Membranes"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:05 am
Prasoon Kumar Shandilya (University of Calgary, Canada)
"Optomechanical Interface Between Telecom Photons and Spin Quantum Memory"
11:05 am - 11:10 am
Discussion
11:10 am - 11:40 am
Philipp Treutlein (University of Basel, Switzerland)
"Light-Mediated Strong Coupling between a Mechanical Oscillator and Atomic Spins 1 Meter Apart"
11:40 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:20 pm
Tobias Kippenberg (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
"Superconducting Circuit Optomechanics in Topological Lattices"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Late-Breaking Topics
Discussion Leaders: Nancy Aggarwal (Northwestern University, United States)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Raffi Budakian (University of Waterloo, Canada)
"Angstrom-Scale Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Diffraction: A Route to Atomic Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
Andrew Cleland (University of Chicago, United States)
"Quantum Communication with Phonons"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
Mohammad Mirhosseini (Caltech, United States)
"A Quantum Electromechanical Interface for Long-Lived Phonons"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure