Overview
The Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Science (CQS) (Formerly Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics (CQO)) has been held every six years since the inception in 1960, essentially coincident with the first observation of lasing. Topics of interest include all aspects of experimental and theoretical coherence, quantum optics, quantum information and quantum measurement.
Past conferences have brought together leading researchers from around the world, including pioneers in the field such as R. Hanbury Brown, and S. Pancharatnam, Nobel laureates Willis Lamb, Arthur Schawlow, Nicholas Bloembergen, Roy Glauber, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William Phillips, Wolfgang Ketterle, Serge Haroche, Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger.
CQS-12 Confirmed Invited Speakers
Edwin Barnes
Virginia Tech
Robert Boyd
University of Rochester
Aashish Clerk
University of Chicago
Ceren Dag
Harvard University
Sankar Das Sarma
University of Maryland
Luiz Davidovich
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Viatcheslav Dobrovitski
Delft University of Technology
Sophia Economou
Virginia Tech
Andrew Jordan
Chapman University
Gerd Leuchs
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg/Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
(Photo credit: T Tan Shao.)
Misha Lukin
Harvard University
John Martinis
Qolab
Christopher Monroe
Duke University
Giovanna Morigi
Saarland University
Christine Muschik
University of Waterloo
Kenji Ohmori
Institute for Molecular Science
William Oliver
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Raymer
University of Oregon
Pedram Roushan
Google Quantum AI
Gregory Scholes
Princeton University
Donna Strickland
University of Waterloo
Lorenza Viola
Dartmouth College
Norman Yao
Harvard University
Jun Ye
University of Colorado Boulder
Susanne Yelin
Harvard University
Ting Yu
Stevens Institute of Technology
Nicole Yunger Halpern
University of Maryland
Local Organizing Committee
University of Rochester
Machiel Blok
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Nick Bigelow
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Joe Eberly
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Ignacio Franco
Department of Chemistry
Gabriel Landi
Department of Physics and Astronomy
John Nichol
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Nick Vamivakas
The Institute of Optics
Coming Soon!
More information for the 2025 conference will be posted soon including: paper submissions, program topics, invited speakers, registration, and housing/travel information.