Enrico Fermi Quantum simulators Summer Course

Registration deadline: 

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Submission deadline: 

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Location: 

Varenna
Italy
46° 0' 32.742" N, 9° 17' 6.414" E
IT

Topics
Cold atoms in optical lattices
Trapped ions
Solid state implementations
Quantum many-body physics
Quantum photonics
Hybrid quantum systems
Transport phenomena

Lecturers
Immanuel Bloch - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München (Germany)
Massimo Inguscio - Università di Firenze and CNR (Italy)
Fedor Jelezko - Universität Ulm (Germany)
Maciej Lewenstein - ICFO Barcelona (Spain)
John Martinis - UC Santa Barbara (USA)
Giovanna Morigi - Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken (Germany)
Fabio Sciarrino - Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy)
Lieven Vandersypen - TU Delft (The Netherlands)
Philip Walther - Universität Wien (Austria)
Peter Zoller - Universität Innsbruck (Austria)

Directors
Tommaso Calarco - Universität Ulm (Germany)
Rosario Fazio - Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa (Italy) and ICTP, Trieste (Italy)
Paolo Mataloni - Università "La Sapienza", Roma (Italy)

Scientific Secretary
Giulia Loguercio - Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy)

Correspondence and application forms should be sent to:
Giulia Loguercio
Sapienza Università di Roma
Dipartimento di Fisica
Edificio Marconi
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5
00185 Roma, Italy
Tel: +39 06 49914262
Fax: +39 06 4454913
giulia.loguercio@roma1.infn.it

Arrival Day: Thursday, 21 July 2016

Opening of the Course: Friday, 22 July 2016 - 9.00 a.m.

Closing of the Course: Wednesday, 27 July 2016 - 12.30 p.m.

Participation fee: € 900,00 (VAT included) for attendance, board, lodging and Proceedings

Application form: http://static.sif.it/SIF/resources/public/files/va2016/application-form-...

GENERAL INFORMATION
A) - In addition to the official lectures, several seminars on related subjects will be held by visiting scientists.
B) - The scientific organization and direction of the Course are entrusted to the Directors.
C) - The School is intended for PhD students and young post-docs. The number of students at each Course is limited to about 60. Students are requested to attend all lectures and seminars.
D) - Whoever may be interested in attending the Course and is not entitled - for his age or other reasons - to be considered a student, may follow the Course as observer. Registration fee charged to observers is € 500,00.
Observers should provide for their board and lodging; if required, the School may take care of their hotel reservation.
E) - Applicants will be informed of the decision on their admittance within 30 days from the beginning of each Course.
F) - Owing to the limited number of places available in the lecture hall, it will not be possible to allow any person not selected by the Committee of the School to follow the Courses.
G) - Students are requested to arrive at Varenna respectively on the indicated arrival days.
Accommodation for the students will be provided in shared rooms with 2 beds in hotels at Varenna. Meals will be organized by the School.
H) - Fees should be paid by students and observers following the instruction and within the date indicated in the letter of admittance.
I) - Scholarships may be granted to deserving students who need financial help. Such requests must be specified in the application and justified in the recommendation letter. Some of the Scholarships will be granted to SIF and/or EPS Members. Scholarships will be assigned by the President of the Italian Physical Society.
J) - Students should avoid being accompanied by relatives. In view of the holiday season local accommodation is very limited. Quite exceptionally the School could see to the accommodation of members of students' families in local hotels. Hotel expenditure for students' relatives will be payable separately and directly to the hotel management.