Registration

Registration for CQS-12 is now open. Early bird regsitration ends on April 20. Registration closes on June 6, 2025.

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

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Edwin Barnes

Virginia Tech

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Alexandre Blais

Sherbrooke University

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Robin Blume-Kohout

Sandia National Laboratories

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Robert Boyd

University of Rochester

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Paul Brumer

University of Toronto

Headshot of Jianshu Cao.

Jianshu Cao

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Aashish Clerk

University of Chicago

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Ceren Dag

Indiana University Bloomington

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Sankar Das Sarma

University of Maryland

Headshot of Luiz Davidovich.

Luiz Davidovich

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Headshot of Viatcheslav Dobrovitski.

Viatcheslav Dobrovitski

Delft University of Technology

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Sophia Economou

Virginia Tech

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Andrew Geraci

Northwestern University

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Mikhail Ivanov

Max Born Institute

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Andrew Jordan

Chapman University

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Ronnie Kosloff

Hebrew University

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Gerd Leuchs

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg/Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

(Photo credit: T Tan Shao.)
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Misha Lukin

Harvard University

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John Martinis

Qolab

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Zlatko Minev

IBM

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Klaus Mølmer

University of Copenhagen

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Christopher Monroe

Duke University

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Giovanna Morigi

Saarland University

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Christine Muschik

University of Waterloo

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Kenji Ohmori

Institute for Molecular Science

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William Oliver

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Headshot of Xiaofeng Qian.

Xiaofeng Qian

Stevens Institute of Technology

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Michael Raymer

University of Oregon

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Martin Ringbauer

University of Innsbruck

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Pedram Roushan

Google Quantum AI

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Jack Sankey

McGill University

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Gregory Scholes

Princeton University

Headshot of Donna Strickland.

Donna Strickland

University of Waterloo

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Aziza Suleymanzade

University of California, Berkley

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Benjamin Sussman

University of Ottawa

Headshot of Lieven Vandersypen.

Lieven Vandersypen

Delft University of Technology

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Lorenza Viola

Dartmouth College

Headshot of Norman Yao.

Norman Yao

Harvard University

Headshot of Jun Ye.

Jun Ye

University of Colorado Boulder

Headshot of Susanne Yelin.

Susanne Yelin

Harvard University

Headshot of Ting Yu.

Ting Yu

Stevens Institute of Technology

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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

Conference Details

Information on abstract submissions, registration, and accomodations is now available.

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