The CNRS research network "Quantum Engineering, Fundamental Aspects to Applications" (IQFA) organizes its 12^th colloquium at École normale supérieure de Lyon from Wednesday 3^rd to Friday 5^th November 2021.

Deadline for registration: Sunday, October 17^th 2021 at 23:59
Registration is free but mandatory. If you already have a HAL or SciencesConf account please use it, otherwise it will be created during the registration process. If the situation permits, the colloquium will be an in-person event. However, oral sessions will be streamed online, and you can opt for an online-only registration. The number of in-person participants is limited to 150 on a first-come first-serve basis. In-person participants will need to follow national sanitary COVID-related regulations for public events.

Deadline for abstract submission: Sunday, October 3^rd 2021 at 23:59
Before submitting a contribution, please register, and use the LaTeX template avaliable here to prepare your abstract as a 1-page pdf file.

 The colloquium will cover the latest developments in quantum engineering, structured along the key themes of IQFA:

• Fundamental Quantum Aspects
• Quantum Communication and Cryptography
• Quantum Sensing & Metrology
• Quantum Simulation
• Quantum Processing, Algorithms, and Computing

The program (one-page summary here) consists in 6 tutorials by internationally recognized experts providing a synthetic focus on specific topics (50' talk +10' questions), 3 invited talks presenting recent advances in the field (25' talk + 5' questions), and two poster sessions. In addition to invited speakers, 18 poster contributions were ugraded by the scientific committee as oral presentations.

• Prof. Marcus Huber, IQOQI, Vienna, AT: "The thermodynamics of measuring time"
• Prof. Iordanis Kerenidis, CNRS, Université de Paris, FR: "Quantum machine learning"
• Prof. Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford University, USA: "Atoms Interlinked by Light: Programmable Interactions and Emergent Geometry"
• Prof. Jeff Thompson, Princeton University, USA: "Quantum technologies with single rare earth ions"
• Prof. Menno Veldhorst, QuTech, Delft Univeristy of Technology, NL: "Quantum information processing with semiconductor technology: from qubits to integrated quantum circuits"
• Prof. Ronald Walsworth, University of Maryland, USA: "Quantum sensing with NV centers in diamond"

Prof. Alessandro Fedrizzi, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK: "Quantum networking with photonic graph states"

Prof. Howard Wiseman, Griffith University, AU: "Can a Qubit Be Your Friend? Why experimental metaphysics needs a quantum computer"

Prof. Alp Sipahigil, Berkeley University, USA: "Optical Interconnects for Superconducting Quantum Processors"