Author: Lucas Lorini
Les Houches cold atoms school: “Quantum metrology: from optomechanics to tests of fundamental physics”. October 20th-31st, 2025
Les Houches cold atoms school “Quantum metrology: from Optomechanics to tests of fundamental physics”, will take place in Les Houches, France, from Oct 20 to Oct 31, 2025.
The deadline to apply is July 15, 2025. Please pre-register on the website: https://leshouches2025-metrology.quantumoptics.fr/
2nd PCQT Workshop on April 4, 2025
Paris Centre for Quantum Technologies (PCQT) organizes its second workshop on April 4, 2025, from 2 pm to 6 pm. It will once again bring together the community of researchers of the main research teams in Quantum Technologies in Paris Centre.
Conference: De l’astronomie aux horloges atomiques, une fabuleuse épopée de la mesure du temps – May 15th 2025, 6pm – LNE – Paris
Conference on measurements and time
The LNE is continuing its “Les mesures et…” series of conferences, with the fifth “Les mesures et le temps : quel futur ?” conference on May 15, 2025. “.
De l’astronomie aux horloges atomiques, une fabuleuse épopée de la mesure du temps
[conference in French]
Since ancient Egypt, humans have deployed remarkable techniques and strategies to push back the limits of precision in time measurement.
In this lecture, you’ll discover how, in the mid-twentieth century, quantum physics supplanted astronomy to produce time measurements with atomic clocks whose current accuracies reach 18 digits, corresponding to a drift of just one second over 15 billion years. This precision is not ultimate, and will have to be further improved to meet the major challenges of science and society, with a necessary change in the definition of the unit of time, the second, planned for the next decade.
Program and speakers
Moderator:
Maguelonne Chambon (LNE Research Director)
Speakers :
Noël Dimarcq (Research Director, CNRS)
Marie-Christine Angonin (Professor at Sorbonne University, Observatoire de Paris)
Practical information
Date: Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
Venue: LNE, 1 rue Gaston Boissier, Paris 15th (Salle des conférences)
Free conference upon registration
This conference is part of the cycle of conferences organized throughout 2025 by the LNE to mark the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention.
Société Française de Physique – Demi-journée scientifique : Aperçu des potentialités offertes par la révolution quantique – March 22nd 2025
This half-day event will follow the General Meeting of the Société Française de Physique, to be held on Saturday March 22 at ENS Paris, starting at 10:30 am. It is organized as part of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.
[conference in French]
Program:
FIRST-TF Call for projects 2025 – Application Deadline: March 18th, 2025
The FIRST-TF 2025 Call for Projects is now open. The deadline for submitting applications is March 18, 2025.
The text of the call for projects as well as the response form can be downloaded here:
=> Text of the call for projects.
For any questions or requests for information relating to this call for projects, please send a message to ao@first-tf.com.
International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi”: Future Needs for Metrology, Varenna (Italy). 9th to 18th July 2025
Directors
Martin J.T. Milton – BIPM, Paris (France)
Diederik S. Wiersma – LENS, Sesto Fiorentino FI and INRiM, Torino (Italy)
Cornelia Denz – PTB, Berlin (Germany)
Dolores Del Campo – CEM, Madrid (Spain)
Bad Honnef Physics School on “Frontiers of Quantum Metrology for New Physics Searches”. Application deadline: February 28, 2025
Bad Honnef Physics School on “Frontiers of Quantum Metrology for New Physics Searches”, which will take place from May 11–16, 2025, at the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany. The application deadline is February 28, 2025.
The program entails a series of lectures delivered by renowned experts in the domains of quantum sensors, precision metrology, and particle physics aimed at students in a wide range of AMO, quantum metrology, and particle physics fields. This school will provide an excellent opportunity for graduate students and early-career researchers to engage with leading experts in the field of quantum metrology and its applications to new physics searches. The scientific program is organized by Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware) and Naceur Gaaloul (University of Hannover).
For further details and application information, please refer to the official event page: https://www.dpg-physik.de/veranstaltungen/2025/quantum_metrology_for_new_physics_searches
Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions to msafrono@udel.edu.
LAAS-CNRS Club Optique Micro-ondes day, Toulouse, June 12th, 2025
The Club Optique Micro-ondes has around 150 members from some 30 French teams, forming a network of researchers involved in industrial and academic fields at the interface of optics-photonics, microwave and millimeter waves. The club meets once a year for a one-day event, during which oral and poster presentations are given.
JCOM 2025 Conference: Thursday June 12, 2025
Deadline for submission of paper proposals: Wednesday April 30, 2025
Notification of acceptance + program: Friday May 16, 2025
More details here: https://jcom2025.sciencesconf.org/
Job offer at LPL, Villetaneuse (France)
“Maitre de Conference” position in section 63 at LPL, teaching at IUT de Villetaneuse.
Profile: Photonics, instrumentation, sensors
Online Workshop: Sensei Project – March 10th, 2025
SENSEI – Smart European Networks for Sensing the Environment and Internet quality, is a projet funded by the European Union and aimed to develop devices and technologies to turn the global telecommunication fibre network into a pervasive distributed sensor and make the network more resilient and efficient.
On March 10th, SENSEI will be presented to colleagues, stakeholders and potential collaborators in a 2.5 hour-long online workshop. The workshop will start with technical talks from Consortium members, focusing on earlier research achievements feeding into SENSEI, and will then focus on the project overview, followed by an open discussion.
Participation is free upon registration
Program and registration: