Name: Early Career Conference in Trapped Ions (ECCTI) 2026, Oxford
Start: 2026-09-06T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-09-11T17:00:00+01:00
Location: No location set

Early Career Conference in Trapped Ions (ECCTI) 2026, Oxford

from Sunday, 6 September 2026 (12:00) to Friday, 11 September 2026 (17:00)

Monday, 31 August 2026
Tuesday, 1 September 2026
Wednesday, 2 September 2026
Thursday, 3 September 2026
Friday, 4 September 2026
Saturday, 5 September 2026
Sunday, 6 September 2026

Monday, 7 September 2026

09:30 Welcome

09:30 - 10:05

10:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:05 - 10:35
10:35 Nuclear Physics
10:35 - 11:15
Contributions

10:35 Trapping and laser cooling of fast Sr+ beams: A stepping stone towards in-trap laser spectroscopy of short-lived isotopes - Stefanos Pelonis (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Instituut voor Kern-en Stralingsfysica, KU Leuven, 3001, Leuven, Belgium)

10:55 Towards ultra-high precision optical and radiofrequency spectroscopy of stable and radioactive Sr+ - Robbe Van Duyse (KU Leuven)
11:15 Quantum Simulation
11:15 - 12:30
Contributions

11:15 Non-paraxial effects on laser-qubit interactions - Louis Gallagher

11:40 Using Qudits for Quantum Simulation - Irini Lindmar (ETH Zürich) Raffaele Lanini (ETH Zürich)

12:05 Single-Setting Measurements for Characterizing Many-Body Quantum States - Leo Walz (Universität Innsbruck)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Quantum Simulation
13:30 - 13:50
Contributions

13:30 Interaction-Induced Dynamics in Ultracold Atom–Ion Mixtures - Alexander Döring (Universität Freiburg)
13:50 Quantum Technologies
13:50 - 15:00
Contributions

13:50 Fundamental building blocks for a trapped-ion quantum repeater link - Max Bergerhoff (Saarland University)

14:15 Scalable components for microwave-driven cryogenic trapped-ion quantum computing experiments - Sophie Najwa Al-Zaki (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

14:40 Ion trap surface investigation using Kelvin probe force microscopy - Christian Flasch (Infineon Technologies Austria AG, Villach, Austria; Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany)
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:20
15:20 Quantum Computing
15:20 - 17:15
Contributions

15:20 Computational Capabilities and Compilation Strategies for Trapped-Ion Quantum Computers - Jurek Eisinger (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

15:45 Superconducting Ion Trap System for 87Sr+ Hyperfine Qubit - Qifeng Lao (Komaba Institute for Science (KIS), The University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan)

16:05 Distributed quantum error detection across a trapped-ion network - Ellis Ainley (University of Oxford)

16:30 Scaling up trapped ion processors using high-speed and high-connectivity two-qubit gates - Isabelle Savill-Brown (The Australian National University)
18:00 Social

18:00 - 21:00
Tuesday, 8 September 2026

09:00 Lab Tours

09:00 - 10:00

10:00 Poster Session: Poster Session 1
Poster Session 1
10:00 - 12:30

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Molecular Spectroscopy
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Precision spectroscopy and coherent control of single molecular nitrogen ions - Nicolas Adrian Nuñez Barreto (University of Basel)

13:55 Quantum Logic Spectroscopy - What happens if the Raman lasers can access the dissociation continuum? - Srishti Sharma (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

14:15 Infrared absorption spectroscopy of a single trapped polyatomic molecular ion - Tim Duka (Universität Innsbruck)

14:40 Novel Background-Free, Agent-Driven, Ion-Trap Action Spectrometer for Radioactive Molecular Ions - Nicholas Schnoor
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:20
15:20 Quantum Technologies
15:20 - 16:55
Contributions

15:20 Conformal mapping for computationally efficient ion trap designs - Peter Drmota (University of Oxford)

15:45 A Cryogenic Surface Trap with Rydberg Ions - Vinay Shankar (Stockholm University)

16:10 Quantum characterization and control of single molecules - Max Koppelstätter (University of Innsbruck)

16:30 Towards Cavity QED with Trapped Barium Ions - SAVELII DUDOLADOV (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)
16:55 Lab Tours

16:55 - 17:55
Wednesday, 9 September 2026

09:00 Lab Tours

09:00 - 10:00

10:00 Poster Session: Poster Session 2
Poster Session 2
10:00 - 12:30

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Clocks and Precision Spectroscopy
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Towards a network of 43Ca+ optical clocks for entanglement-enhanced metrology - Ayush Agrawal (Department of Physics, University of Oxford)

13:55 Sensing thermal motion of single ions with structured light. - Muriel Bonetto (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Física, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

14:20 Three Body Quantum Scattering in a Hybrid Atom-Ion System - Patrick Mullan (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

14:40 Measurements of the bound-electron $g$ factor in highly charged ions: testing fundamental physics - Max Anton Gramberg (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (DE))
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:20
15:20 Quantum Computing
15:20 - 16:50
Contributions

15:20 Implementing and Characterising Error Mitigation by Virtual Distillation under Structured Noise - Iver Romvig Øvergaard (University of Oxford)

15:40 Generation of Two-Photon Entanglement Using a Single Ion--Cavity System - Adrien Amour (University of Sussex)

16:05 Observation of Cooperative Scattering Light in Trapped-Ion Crystals - Kratveer SINGH (Palacky University Olomouc)

16:30 Practical quantum error correction on maximally modular networked architectures - Tenzan Araki (University of Oxford)
Thursday, 10 September 2026
09:30 Quantum Computing
09:30 - 10:50
Contributions

09:30 Microwave-driven same-species sympathetic cooling - Emma Vandrey (University of Oxford)

09:50 Non-destructive parity measurement of a motional cat state - Ingrid H. Zimmermann (University of Colorado Boulder)

10:10 Four- and six-photon stimulated Raman transitions for coherent qubit and qudit operations - Gabriel Gregory (University of Oregon)

10:30 Entanglement of trapped-ion qubits over a 50 km-long fiber link - Armin Winkler (Universität Innsbruck)
10:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:15
11:15 Quantum Technologies
11:15 - 12:30
Contributions

11:15 Remote Entanglement of Trapped Ions Using Integrated Photonics for Collection and Interference - Sam Bishop (MIT)

11:40 Fabrication and Automated Characterisation of Optical Cavity Mirrors for Quantum Networking - Catherine Challoner (University of Oxford)

12:05 A Linear Ion Trap with Integrated Fiber Fabry–Perot Cavity for Distributed Quantum Computing - Shuma Oya (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Antimatter
13:30 - 14:30
Contributions

13:30 Improved Precision for Hyperfine Spectroscopy of Magnetically Trapped Antihydrogen at ALPHA - Jay Suh (University of Calgary)

13:50 Be+-Assisted Synthesis of Antihydrogen - Tom Robertson-Brown (Swansea University)

14:10 Developments of BASE Hannover towards quantum logic spectroscopy of the (anti-)proton g-factor - Nikita Poljakov (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)
14:30 Quantum Computing
14:30 - 15:10
Contributions

14:30 Quantum information processing using 176Lu+ Qudits - Prachi Nagpal (University of Sydney)

14:50 Native polyqubit gate mediated by multi-tone drive - Sophie Decoppet (University of Oxford)
15:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:10 - 15:30
15:30 Quantum Technologies
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:30 Trapped ions as a platform for quantum communication over an urban fiber link - Christian Haen (Universität des Saarlandes)

15:55 Experimental Characterization of Normal Modes in Planar Ion Traps by Selective Mode Excitation - Ryosuke Nishimoto (University of Osaka)

16:20 Quantum computing with X- junction for 2D navigation of trapped ion qubits - Salvi Mohandas (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz,Germany)

16:40 Switchable low-noise permanent magnet gradients for long-wavelength trapped-ion quantum information. - Caleb Burhan (University of Sussex)
19:30 Social: Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Friday, 11 September 2026
09:30 Clocks and Precision Spectroscopy
09:30 - 10:50
Contributions

09:30 A transportable Al+ quantum logic optical clock - Joost Hinrichs (Leibniz University Hannover & Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt)

09:50 Development of a Second ¹⁷¹Yb⁺ Ion Optical Clock at NPL Towards the Redefinition of the SI Second - Thilina Senaviratne (National Physical Laboratory)

10:10 A Penning trap single-photon counter for axion detection - Marko Wojtkowiak (Imperial college London)

10:30 Implementation of a Josephson Voltage Standard for the First Direct Measurement of the Nuclear Magnetic Moment of $^{3}$He$^{2+}$ - Felix Grüner (MPI Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany)
10:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:15
11:15 Quantum Computing
11:15 - 12:35
Contributions

11:15 Progress on room-temperature microwave-driven two qubit quantum processor - Alexander Onkes (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt)

11:35 Enabling mid-circuit measurement and readout with trapped barium ions - Phoebe Grosser (Universität Innsbruck)

11:55 Beyond squeezing: applications of generalized squeezing in hybrid spin-oscillator quantum information processing - Kai Shinbrough (University of Oxford)

12:15 Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing Setup Joining Shuttling- and Addressing-Based Architecture - James Rumbold (Johannes Gutenberg University)
12:35 Closing

12:35 - 13:00

13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00

14:00 Social: Activities
Activities
14:00 - 17:00

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