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Friday, 6 March 2026, VCQ Colloquium Talk by Lincoln Carr
We are glad to present: Lincoln Carr (Colorado School of Mines) Friday, 6 March, 2026 at Anton Rauch Lecture Hall, Atominstitut, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Wien Host: Markus Arndt Program: 9:30 Get Together with Snacks 10:00 VCQ Student Talk by Sebastian Pedalino: Probing Quantum Mechanics with Metal Nanoparticles 10:15: VCQ Colloquium Talk…
Monday, 19 January 2026, VCQ Colloquium Talk by Dagmar Bruß
We are glad to present: Fotograf: Nicolas Stumpe Dagmar Bruß (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Monday, 19 January, 2026at Lise Meitner Lecture Hall, University of ViennaBoltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Wien Quantum mechanics based on real numbers: A consistent description Complex numbers play a crucial role in quantum mechanics. However, their necessity remains…
Monday, 12 January 2026, VCQ Colloquium Talk by Zarand Gergely
We are glad to present: Zarand Gergely (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Monday, 12 January, 2026at Lise Meitner Lecture Hall, University of ViennaBoltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Wien Classical and Qantum Simulation at Infinite Temperature: Coherent Quantum Dynamics and Dynamical Phase Transitions Is infinite temperature matter classical and trivial? In contrast…
Monday, 01 December 2025, VCQ Colloquium Talk by Antonio Acín
We are glad to present: Antonio Acín (Institute of Photonic Sciences) Monday, 01 December, 2025at Lise Meitner Lecture Hall, University of ViennaBoltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Wien Certified Randomness in Quantum Physics It is usually said that quantum physics contains an intrinsic form of randomness with no classical analogue, but what does…
quantum innovation lab – Demo Day 2025
On Friday, November 14, we wrapped up this year’s quantum innovation lab with a Demo Day at the Skylounge of the University of Vienna. In the second edition of our entrepreneurship program for quantum scientists, 26 participants from seven institutions in Austria and Munich took part. During a four-day bootcamp…
Monday, 03 November 2025, VCQ Colloquium Talk by Jörg Wrachtrup
We are glad to present: Jörg Wrachtrup (University of Stuttgart) Monday, 03 November, 2025at Lise Meitner Lecture Hall, University of ViennaBoltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Wien Nanoscale Quantum Sensing: From Water Structure to Electronic Correlations Spin defects in wide-bandgap semiconductors have emerged as powerful platforms for quantum sensing, providing spatial resolution at…
Monday, 27 October 2025, VCQ Colloquium Talk by Adán Cabello Quintero
We are glad to present: Adán Cabello Quintero (University of Seville) Monday, 27 October, 2025at Lise Meitner Lecture Hall, University of ViennaBoltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Wien Beyond Bell: Testing the physical significance of non-locality In the formulation of Jarrett and Shimony, Bell inequalities follow from three assumptions: measurement independence (MI), parameter…
The Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations for the Year 2024
The winner of the Ehrenfest Award for the year 2024 is the paper Quantum Fields and Local Measurements By Chris Fewster and Rainer VerchComm. Math. Phys. 378, 851-889 (2020) Chris Fewster and Rainer Verch will collect the award and give a joint talk.The award ceremony will end with a reception.Researchers…
