Quantum Science and Technology with Ultracold Molecules

Coordinators: Anastasia Borschevsky, Tijs Karman, and Hossein Sadeghpour

In the last few years, the field of ultracold molecules has blossomed. The recent observations of Bose–Einstein condensation and degenerate Fermi gases of dipolar molecules fulfill a long-standing goal pursued since the first production of ultracold polar molecules in their ground quantum states nearly two decades ago. Unprecedented quantum control over state-to-state chemical reactions has been achieved. Molecular qubits based on polar molecules in optical tweezers have joined the race towards building scalable and useful quantum computers. First solid-state inspired spin models with ultracold polar molecules in optical lattices have been realized. Laser-coolable radioactive and polyatomic molecules promise to test predictions of the Standard Model.

This conference will gather experimentalists and theoreticians who have contributed to these developments and will reach beyond the traditional AMO community to broaden the perspective on applications in quantum many-body physics and emerging molecular quantum technologies. The conference will also identify new research directions that can emerge from recent developments.

This conference will hold a poster session all posters are welcome. Each poster board is 4 feet high x 6 feet wide. We ask that the posters be no larger than 44 inches high x 34 inches wide at the most (it is important to follow these measurements or posters may be turned down due to limited space). Feel free to submit your abstract

Invited speakers:

 Victor Albert (QuICS)
Waseem Bakr (Princeton)
Lawrence Cheuk (Princeton)
Cheng Chin (U. Chicago)
David DeMille (Johns Hopkins)
Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz (MIT)
Stephen Hogan (UCL)
Silke Ospelkaus (Uni. Hannover)
Ana Rey (JILA)
Yuval Shagam (Technion)
Piotr Wcisło (UMK)
Susanne Yelin (Harvard)
Tanya Zelevinsky (Columbia)
Tim Langen (TU Vienna)
Ed Narevicius (TU Dortmund)
Eric Hudson (UCLA)

Simon Cornish (Durham Univ.)
Jose D'incao (UMass Boston)
Kaden Hazzard (Rice)
Balakrishnan Naduvalath (UNLV)
Kang Kuen Ni (Harvard)
Jesus Perez Rios (Stony Brook)
Thomas Pohl (TU Wien)
Guido Pupillo (Unistra)
Peter Schmelcher (Univ. Hamburg)

Timur Tscherbul (Nevada)
Valentin Walther (Purdue)
Reuben Wang (ITAMP)

2026

Monday, Nov 02, 2026

  • Chair: Tijs Karman (RU Nijmegen) 08:50AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 08:50AM Mark Bowick (KITP) Welcome
    • 09:00AM Waseem Bakr (Princeton) Strongly correlated systems of polar molecules: from quantum magnets to droplets
    • 09:45AM David DeMille (Johns Hopkins) New Talk
  • 10:30AM MORNING BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 11:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 11:00AM Kang Kuen Ni (Harvard) New Talk
    • 11:45AM Silke Ospelkaus (Uni. Hannover) New Talk
  • 12:30PM LUNCH BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • Chair: Simon Cornish (Durham Univ.) 02:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 02:00PM Fabian Wolf (PTB) Quantum logic spectroscopy towards tests of CP violation with a single molecular ion
    • 02:30PM Georgios Bougas (Missouri S&T) First-Order Phase Transition in Atom-Molecule Quantum Degenerate Mixtures with Coherent Three-Body Recombination
    • 03:00PM Junyu Lin (JILA) Fermi gas of polar molecules in the Pauli-blocked regime
  • 03:30PM AFTERNOON BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 04:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 04:00PM Lawrence Cheuk (Princeton) New Talk
    • 04:45PM Edvardas Narevicius (TU Dortmund) New Talk
  • 05:30PM SHUTTLE TO BWSCI Gurley Courtyard

     

2026

Monday, Nov 02, 2026

  • Chair: Tijs Karman (RU Nijmegen) 08:50AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 08:50AM Mark Bowick (KITP) Welcome
    • 09:00AM Waseem Bakr (Princeton) Strongly correlated systems of polar molecules: from quantum magnets to droplets
    • 09:45AM David DeMille (Johns Hopkins) New Talk
  • 10:30AM MORNING BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 11:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 11:00AM Kang Kuen Ni (Harvard) New Talk
    • 11:45AM Silke Ospelkaus (Uni. Hannover) New Talk
  • 12:30PM LUNCH BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • Chair: Simon Cornish (Durham Univ.) 02:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 02:00PM Fabian Wolf (PTB) Quantum logic spectroscopy towards tests of CP violation with a single molecular ion
    • 02:30PM Georgios Bougas (Missouri S&T) First-Order Phase Transition in Atom-Molecule Quantum Degenerate Mixtures with Coherent Three-Body Recombination
    • 03:00PM Junyu Lin (JILA) Fermi gas of polar molecules in the Pauli-blocked regime
  • 03:30PM AFTERNOON BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 04:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 04:00PM Lawrence Cheuk (Princeton) New Talk
    • 04:45PM Edvardas Narevicius (TU Dortmund) New Talk
  • 05:30PM SHUTTLE TO BWSCI Gurley Courtyard

     

2026

Tuesday, Nov 03, 2026

  • 09:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 09:00AM Eric Hudson (UCLA) New Talk
    • 09:45AM Reuben Wang (ITAMP) New Talk
  • 10:30AM MORNING BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 11:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 11:00AM Susanne Yelin (Harvard) New Talk
    • 11:45AM Victor Albert (QuICS) New Talk
  • 12:30PM LUNCH BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • Chair: Anastasia Borschevsky (Univ. of Groningen) 02:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 02:00PM Tanya Zelevinsky (Columbia) Precision Measurements and Quantum Chemistry with Ultracold Molecules
    • 02:45PM Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz (MIT) Progress Toward Ultracold Radium-Containing Molecules
  • 03:30PM AFTERNOON BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 04:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 04:00PM Hubert Jóźwiak (RU Nijmegen) Tunable state-dependent interactions in collisionally stable mixtures of polar molecules
    • 04:30PM David Leibrandt (UCLA) Molecular quantum control algorithm design by machine learning
    • 05:00PM Posters
  • 05:30PM RECEPTION Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 06:00PM SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 07:30PM SHUTTLE TO BWSCI Gurley Courtyard

     

2026

Wednesday, Nov 04, 2026

  • Chair: Michal Tomza (Univ. of Warsaw) 09:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 09:00AM Simon Cornish (Durham Univ.) New Talk
    • 09:45AM Tim Langen (TU Wien) Laser cooling of complex molecules
  • 10:30AM MORNING BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 11:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 11:00AM Thomas Pohl (TU Wien) Quantum phases of strongly interacting dipolar molecules
    • 11:45AM Cheng Chin (U. Chicago) New Talk
  • 12:30PM LUNCH BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • Chair: Jesus Perez Rios (Stony Brook) 02:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 02:00PM Valentin Walther (Purdue) New Talk
    • 02:45PM Stephen Hogan (UCL) New Talk
  • 03:30PM AFTERNOON BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 04:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 04:00PM Peter Schmelcher (Univ. Hamburg) Vibronic Structures and Phenomena in Ultralong-Range Molecules
    • 04:45PM Balakrishnan Naduvalath (UNLV) New Talk
  • 05:30PM RECEPTION Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 06:00PM SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 07:30PM SHUTTLE TO BWSCI Gurley Courtyard

     

2026

Thursday, Nov 05, 2026

  • 09:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 09:00AM Timur Tscherbul (Nevada) New Talk
    • 09:45AM Kaden Hazzard (Rice) New Talk
  • 10:30AM MORNING BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 11:00AM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 11:00AM Jose D'incao (UMass Boston) New Talk
    • 11:45AM Jesus Perez Rios (Stony Brook) New Talk
  • 12:30PM LUNCH BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • Chair: Hossein Sadeghpour (ITAMP) 02:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 02:00PM Ana Rey (JILA) New Talk
    • 02:45PM Guido Pupillo (Unistra) New Talk
  • 03:30PM AFTERNOON BREAK Gurley Courtyard

     

  • 04:00PM Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)

     

    • 04:00PM Piotr Wcisło (UMK) Trapping cold hydrogen molecules
    • 04:45PM Yuval Shagam (Technion) Searching for parity violation in trapped chiral molecular ions
  • 05:30PM SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location. (See Registration Desk BEFORE THURSDAY to sign up.) Gurley Courtyard

     

2026

Friday, Nov 06, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Saturday, Nov 07, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Nov 08, 2026

No talks scheduled.