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Quantum Africa 5
September 2, 2019 - September 6, 2019
The Quantum Africa conference series aims to engender exchanges and collaborations between African countries and between Africa and the rest of the world, enable Africa to play a leading research and development role in quantum science and technology, raise African stakeholder awareness of opportunities. The conference has a track record of success having started in Durban in 2010 with Quantum Africa 1. Quantum Africa 2 was held in the Northern Drakensberg 3-7 September 2012. Quantum Africa 3 was held in Rabat, Morocco, 22-26 September 2014, and Quantum Africa 4 in Tunis, Tunisia, 30 April – 5 May 2017.
Topics of the conference:
- quantum control
- quantum dynamics
- quantum communication
- quantum optics
- quantum materials
- quantum spintronics
- quantum information processing
- quantum technologies
- quantum metrology
- quantum biology
Invited speakers:
- Dr Solomon Assefa (IBM)
- Prof. Gerald Gabrielse (Harvard)
- Dr Sonja Franke-Arnold (Glasgow)
- Prof. Tracy Northup (Innsbruck)
- Prof. Dr Michael Kastner (NITheP)
- Prof. Mourad Telmini (Tunis)
- Prof. Jason Petta (Princeton)
Abstract submission deadline: 15 June