SAVE THE DATE (6-8 OCT) - Registration will open in early-July 

The 3-day doctoral training school (6-8 Oct) will involve 6 lecturers each giving a 3 hour “masterclass” to about 50 PhD students in quantum sciences. This school is called the Seminaire Dautreppe, and is an annual event (each year on a different topic) organized since 1969 by the Société Française de Physique. This year’s theme is the 2025 Unesco International Year of Quantum Sciences and Technologies.

Target audience : About 50 PhD students in quantum sciences from Grenoble

While the school is aimed at doctoral students from Grenoble, we expect to have space for about 20 others (postdocs, or PhDs from outside Grenoble, etc).  So do not hesitate to apply.

Six lecturers have been chosen for their pedagogical skills. Each lecturer will give a 3-hour class designed to take you from masters level to the cutting edge of research in their domain of expertise. Specifically:

• Quantum circuits & error correction
  Hui Khoon Ng, NUS, Singapore

• Superconducting circuits
  Ioan Pop, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany

• Quantum cryptography
  Ramona Wolf, University of Siegen, Germany

• Photonics
  Julien Claudon, UGA & CEA Grenoble (IRIG)

• Quantum sensing
  Benjamin Pigeau, UGA & CNRS Grenoble (NEEL)

• Quantum matter
  Cécile Repellin, UGA & CNRS Grenoble (LPMMC)

This thematic school, is aimed at doctoral students, under the theme of the Unesco International Year of Quantum Sciences and Technologies 2025. It is part of a series of annual thematic schools that has been organized by the Société Française de Physique (section Alpes)  since 1969, with a different topic each year. This series of schools is named the “Séminaire Dautreppe” in memory its founder, Daniel Dautreppe. Each year, it brings together experts in a field of physics chosen for its importance and topicality, to provide an educational overview of the state of the art.

Some themes of the “Séminaire Dautreppe” have been Photonics (in 2015 as part of the International Year of Light), “Tomorrow's Energy: Production, Conversion, Storage, Efficiency, Uses” (2016), and “Latest News from the Universe” (2018), etc. The session for 2020 was cancelled due to covid, and there were none in subsequent years. The Société Française de Physique has decided that it is time to relaunch this important PhD training school in the 2025, as part of the International Year of Quantum Sciences and Technologies.

This session will be prepared in conjunction with the Grenoble quantum community, which is very active on the subject and has come together in the QuantAlps Federation. Grenoble is home to more than 200 permanent researchers and academics in the field, working in 19 laboratories that have established links with industrial partners. The presence of this community guarantees both high scientific standards and strong local interest.