IQST Day 2026 — Regis­tra­tion open

We are happy to announce IQST Day 2026, taking place on 23 Febru­ary 2026 at the Karls­ruhe Insti­tute of Techno­logy (KIT). We look forward to inspir­ing talks, scientific exchange, and lively poster sessions.

You’ll find the prelim­in­ary sched­ule below — this page will be updated regularly.

Sched­ule — 23 Febru­ary 2026

Karls­ruhe Insti­tute of Techno­logy (KIT), Gaede-Lecture Hall, Engess­er­str. 7, 76131 Karlsruhe


09:30 – 09:45: Welcome

Session 1

09:45 – 10:30: Invited talk (40+5): Costanza Toninelli (INO-CNR, LENS, Italy) — Quantum Inter­faces with Single Molecules

10:30 – 11:15: Invited talk (40+5): Julian Schmitt (Heidel­berg Univer­sity, Germany) — Quantum Matter Made of Light: Unlock­ing Funda­ment­als and Technology

11:15 – 11:45: Coffee Break

Session 2

11:45 – 12:30: Invited talk (40+5): Ian Walms­ley (Univer­sity of Oxford, United Kingdom) — Light­ing the Quantum Future

12:30 – 13:00: IQST talk (25+5): Carsten Rockstuhl (Karls­ruhe Insti­tute of Techno­logy, Germany) — Designed and Inversely Designed Quantum Nanophotonic Systems

13:00 – 14:00: Lunch break and posters

Session 3

14:00 – 14:45: Invited talk (40+5): Klaus Blaum (Max Planck Insti­tute for Nuclear Physics, Germany) — Trapped and Measured: Quantum Metro­logy in a Penning Trap

14:45 – 15:30: Invited talk (40+5): Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop (Univer­sity of Queens­land, Australia)

15:30 – 16:00: Coffee Break

Session 4

16:00 – 16:30: IQST talk (25+5): Max von Delius (Ulm Univer­sity, Germany) — Of Rings and Radicals

16:30 – 17:00: IQST talk (25+5): Patrick Emonts (Ulm Univer­sity, Germany) — Enhanced Adiabatic State Prepar­a­tion for Tensor Networks

17:00 – 17:30: IQST talk (25+5): Julian Berberich (Univer­sity of Stutt­gart, Germany) — Robust­ness of Quantum Algorithms

17:30 – 19:30: Poster session and Network­ing (Refresh­ments)


Please click the link below to register for IQST Day 2026:

Register here

Some impres­sions from previ­ous IQST Days: