The 29th International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP29) Summer School will be held at the Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology (APM) in Wuhan, China, from June 10 to 13, 2026 (The registration deadline is: May 25, 2026).
💡 This summer school aims to systematically introduce students to several frontier and active research areas in contemporary atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics, covering both experimental and theoretical topics including ultracold atoms, cavity QED systems, lattice models, impurity problems, quantum field theory, precision measurements, quantum information, and integrable models.
🎯 The school is designed for graduate students and early‑career researchers in related fields. Participation is limited to 100 attendees, and early registration is strongly recommended.
Antoine Browaeys is a senior staff Scientist at CNRS. He works in the Charles Fabry laboratory at the Institut d'Optique. He is working on experiments manipulating individual cold atoms and small, dense atomic clouds. Part of his research led to the creation of the Pasqal company, that he is a co-founder and scientific adviser of. He was awarded the Aimé Cotton Prize of the French Physical Society in 2007 and the Silver medal of CNRS in 2021. He was elected member of the French Academy of Sciences in December 2023.
Holger Müller is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on advancing atomic, molecular, and optical physics to probe nature with the highest sensitivity. His group conducts pioneering work in areas such as atom interferometry—using atomic waves for precision measurements of gravity, fundamental constants, and tests of quantum physics, including ongoing contributions to NASA’s space-based atomic physics initiatives. He also explores novel laser applications in cryo-electron microscopy to image biological structures at high resolution. As a dedicated researcher and educator, he is committed to training the next generation of scientists through rigorous, curiosity-driven inquiry.
Hanns-Christoph Nägerl is the director of the Institute for Experimental Physics of the University of Innsbruck. His research focuses on fundamentals of quantum science and its applications to quantum technologies, including quantum state engineering, quantum gases and quantum fluids, many-body quantum physics, non-equilibrium quantum phenomena, quantum simulation and quantum computation, quantum transport, ultracold molecules, dipolar quantum gases, low-dimensional quantum systems and quantum state control. He has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Rudolf-Kaiser Prize (2010), an ERC-Consolidator Grant (2011), the prestigious Wittgenstein Award (2017), and an ERC-Advanced Grant (2018)..
Professor Augusto Smerzi is a Research Director at the National Institute of Optics (CNR-INO), Italy. He has long been engaged in fundamental research on quantum metrology, entanglement theory and quantum parameter estimation. He has made pioneering contributions to the theory of quantum phase estimation, as well as to the characterization of many-body entanglement and ultimate measurement precision using Fisher information. His research covers cutting-edge directions such as nonlinear and distributed interferometers, quantum sensing networks, and the dynamics of coherent matter waves, which has played an important role in advancing the development of the quantum precision measurement field.
Dr. Vasilyev's research explores how quantum mechanics can be harnessed to measure the physical world with unprecedented precision. Working at the intersection of quantum optics, quantum metrology, and quantum networks, He develops theoretical methods that use entanglement, optimal measurements, and programmable quantum devices to push sensing beyond classical limits. A central theme of his work is the use of variational and information-theoretic approaches to design optimal quantum sensors—systems that adaptively learn how to prepare probe states and perform measurements to extract maximal information. These ideas are being explored in collaboration with experimental groups on platforms such as trapped ions and atomic ensembles.
Hui Zhai is a Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). His research focuses on quantum matter in cold atom and condensed matter systems. This mainly includes nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum matter, atom-array-based quantum computation, and quantum many-body physics in cold atom systems. He has predicted new quantum phases and phenomena, which have been experimentally verified, including the stripe phase. He was selected as an APS Fellow in 2022 for contributions to cold atom physics including spin-orbit coupled BEC, orbital Feshbach resonance, and scale invariant hydrodynamics.
Registration Fee: $100 (¥700)
The registration fee includes admission to all scientific sessions, conference meals, coffee breaks, and conference materials. Payment must be completed online via the official conference website during the registration process.
PaymentConvener: XiWen Guan (xwe105@wipm.ac.cn)
Committee Members:
●Yanping Zhu (ypzhu@wipm.ac.cn)
●Xuxia Cai (caixuxia@wipm.ac.cn)
●Yuzhu Jiang (jiangyuzhu@wipm.ac.cn)
●Min Liu (mliu@wipm.ac.cn)
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