Winter School

Physics and Mathematics of Quantum Control

24-26 November 2025, Dijon, France

Quantum control is a toolbox for designing and implementing the shapes of external fields that perform specific tasks in the operation of a quantum device with high fidelity and robust protocols. It has become one of the key enablers of quantum technologies.

 The aim of this school is to bring together experimentalists, theoreticians, and mathematicians to provide a broad overview of the current state-of-the-art in this field and of the potential developments in a near future. Emphasis has been placed on the application of quantum control techniques in quantum technologies.

Basic courses dedicated to master’s to doctoral students will be taught by three experts in the field. Short presentations will illustrate recent results of original research. 

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Invited Lecturers

Dr. Charles Babin: Associate Professor at the Université Bougogne Europe, Dijon – France.

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Dr. A Sarlette: Research Director at Inria, Paris – France.

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Pr. Gunther Dirr: Professor at the University of Würzburg, Würzburg – Germany.

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Provisional programme

The detailed program and the abstracts will be available here.

Short talks

Monday:

15:00-15:20: Owen Fresse-Colson (PhD student, ICB) – Robust time-optimal control of two-level quantum systems      
15:20-15:40: Meri Harutyunyan (PhD student, ICB) – Multi-robust quantum control       
15:40-16:00: Bettina Kazandjian (PhD student, ENS Rennes) – Good lie brackets for quantum harmonic oscillators

16:30-16:50: Arijit Chatterjee (Postdoctoral researcher, ENS Lyon) – Application of superposition of unitary in robust quantum control  

Tuesday:

14:00-14:20: Meri Harutyunyan (PhD student, ICB) – Qubit sensing by optimal narrowband pulses      
14:20-14:40: Paul-Louis Etienney (PhD student, Strasbourg) – MAGICARP, a new method to optimize pulses using the Pontryagin maximum principle   
14:40-15:00: Léo Jacquerot-Legros (PhD student, Besançon) – Simulation of open quantum systems via effective modes    
15:00-15:20: Hugo Parada Rios (Postdoctoral researcher, Inria Nancy) –      
16:00-16:20: Anton Halaski (PhD student, Berlin) – Can parity measurements be implemented for continuous quantum error correction?    

Organizers

Dominique Sugny (UBE), dominique.sugny@u-bourgogne.fr

Charles Babin (UBE), Charles.Babin@u-bourgogne.fr

Stéphane Guérin, Stephane.Guerin@u-bourgogne.fr 

Thomas Chambrion, tchambrion@unistra.fr

Nabile Boussaid, nabile.boussaid@umlp.fr 

This Winter School is supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche throught the QuanTEdu France project of the France 2030 programme, by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union through the Erasmus Mundus Master QuanTEEM, by the Université Bourgogne Europe, by the Region Bourgogne Franche Comté, by the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, by the France 2030, and by the CNRS through the MITI programme.