A toolbox for
Quantum Technologies
with Light and Matter

Doctoral School – Les Houches, France, September 13 – September 18 2020

TOPICS

  • Multimode Quantum Optics
  • Quantum Nanophotonics
  • Near Field optics, plasmonics and nano-antennas
  • Solid-state Quantum Optics
  • Imaging in diffusive medi
  • Quantum Information
  • Quantum fluids of light
  • Integrated quantum optics
  • Cold Atoms and Quantum Simulation
  • Rydberg atoms
  • Dipole Dipole interactions
  • Warm atomic vapors

INVITED SPEAKERS

Speakers :

Depending on the sanitary situation, the list of speakers can be modified.

  • Quantum Optics : Darrick Chang, ICFO, Barcelona
  • Topological states : Jonathan Simon, Chicago University [online]
  • Quantum metrology : Saida Guellati, LKB, Paris
  • Superconducting circuits : Patrice Bertet, CEA
  • Plasmonic quantum optics: J.J Greffet, Institut d’Optique
  • Light scattering in disordered media :Remi Carminati, Institut Langevin, Paris
  • Artificial atoms for Quantum Optics: Mikhail Lukin, Harvard, USA [cancelled] 
  • Quantum Optics in warm vapors: Quentin Glorieux, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris

INFORMATION

ORGANIZERS

For information, please contact the organizers.

  • Quentin Glorieux, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel – Sorbonne Université – ENS – Collège de France – CNRS
  • Antoine Browaeys, Institut d’Optique –  CNRS, Saclay University

FEES

Fees (HT) for the school are of :

  • 300 euros for Master students
  • 380 euros for PhD students
  • 500 euros for postdoctoral researchers

These fees include  registration fees, housing, breakfasts, lunchs and dinners.

DEADLINE

Due to the uncertainty with the current sanitary situation, we will accept applications until the school is full.  
Please apply, only if you seriously consider that you will able to travel to France in September 2020.
The deadline for application to the school has been postponed to July 31st.

After July 10th we will start to notify acceptance to the school and we will accept applications until the school is full.  

Payment will be made at the School directly. A waiting list will be established.

FACILITIES

You will be housed in single rooms with your own bathroom/toilets. Towels, shampoo,  soap, shower gel and hair-dryer are provided.The school also provides you with:

  • a library with the main scientific journals (paper or online) and some reference books
  • three working rooms with blackboards
  • projectors for standard slides and for transparencies
  • a video projector
  • a photocopy machine
  • a fax
  • Internet (wifi + hubs to connect laptops to the local network)
  • desktop computers (10 PCs + 2 Macs) and a B&W Laser Printer
  • 3 washing machines and 3 dryers.

 

YOUR STAY

Please note that pets cannot be accepted.

Meals are taken at the school dining room. Drinks are not included.
Free coffee & tea is available in the bar and in the main building.

Breakfast: 7:45 am to 8:45 am ;
Lunch: 12:30 am ;
Dinner: 7:30 pm

Accompanying persons who have registered can take their meals at the restaurant (15 euros per meal).
The cafeteria has a piano, baby-foot and table tennis.

Participants are housed in “chalets” in individual bedrooms (electricity: AC, 50Hz, 220V).
A flashlight is handy at night ; the school chalets are scattered on the mountainside and outside lights may be poor (power failures, storms,…).

 

WEATHER

The altitude of the school is 1150 m. Temperature may range from -15 to 5°C in winter. Sport clothes are preferable. Warm sweater(s), rain gear, good walking shoes and home shoes are necessary.  weather forecast for the next days

 

ACCESS

By plane: Geneva Airport is 1 hour drive from les Houches.The simplest way is to use a shuttle service (approximately 40 euros up to the school, book at least three days in advance). If you already have your return date, we would recommend to book a return tripClick here for a complete view of the different companies. Beware: We do not recommend the Alpybus company (they do not reach the school). Price discounts are available with Mountain Drop-Offs by clicking on this link: MDO discount. Find Mountain Drop-Offs’ meeting point easily in the Geneva Airport please click here.
There is also a regular bus service between Geneva and Les Houches (only once or twice a day): http://www.coach-station.com. One should then take a taxi for the last 5 kms from the Les Houches village to the school (the total cost is similar to that of the limousine). One can also travel from Geneva to Les Houches by train (+ taxi from the train station to the School), but it is quite complicated (3 connections) and long (go through Annemasse on the French side or through Martigny on the Swiss side).

By train: arrival at the Les Houches station, with one change at Saint-Gervais (from France), or at Martigny (from Switzerland). There are about 10 trains per day between St Gervais and Les Houches (schedules, 20mn trip).
Then we strongly advise you to take a taxi ( (tel. : (+33 or 0)6.11.27.23.21, (+33 or 0)4-50 54 41 09, (+33 or 0)6.22.75.19.37 ou (+33 or 0)6.12.35.30.72) to go up to the school (5km).

By road: Les Houches are easily accessible from France (A41 highway), from Switzerland (Martigny and Col des Montets) and from Italy through the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
From Geneva and Le Fayet: 8km before Chamonix, 300 m after passing under the tunnel, bear right by the first road out for “Les Houches Bellevue”. When arriving at the cable car station “Bellevue”, turn right and continue upwards (roughly 2 km starting from the teleferic). 500m after the cable car station “Prarion”, turn left and follow small arrows at crossroads. Continue up to the end of Route de la Côte des Chavants. Here you are! From Chamonix: bear right for “Les Houches-Chef-Lieu”, turn right in Les Houches, go ahead at the cable car station “Bellevue”. Then proceed as above.Cars may be rented from Geneva and from Chamonix, it is useful to make a reservation.

 

WHAT TO DO IN LES HOUCHES AND IN THE VALLEY?

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