1st IZTECH Quantum Days
The inaugural IZTECH Quantum Days took place on March 7–8, 2023, at the İzmir Institute of Technology Integrated Research Center (TAM) Conference Hall. Organized under the sponsorship of Teknopark İzmir and QLocked, the event brought together esteemed speakers from various universities and research centers across Türkiye, offering a comprehensive two-day program focused on diverse subfields of quantum science and technology.
Throughout the symposium, a wide range of content was presented, covering both foundational quantum mechanics and contemporary applications. The list of distinguished speakers and their presentation titles is as follows:
• Oktay Pashaev – Mathematical Origin and Physical Nature of Quantum States
• Özgür Müstecaplıoğlu – Collision Model for Environment Engineering for Quantum Technologies
• Ahmed Salmanogli – Design of an Operational Quantum Radar
• Mustafa Gündoğan – Space + Photon + Atom: Quantum Physics Experiments in Space
• Özlem Salehi Köken – ProgQAOA: A Variant of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm for Resource-Efficient Quantum Optimization
• Enes Ataç – Quantum Entanglement and Two-Photon Diffraction
• Acar Savacı – Fundamentals of Numerical and Quantum Computing and Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics (cQED)
• Serdar Özçelik – Alloyed Quantum Dots for Advanced Technological Applications
• Ozan Arı – Integrated Photonic Quantum Technologies
• Zafer Gedik – The Double-Slit Experiment Revisited
• İbrahim Sarpkaya – Optical Spectroscopy of 2D Materials and Their Heterostructures in the Frame of Quantum Photonics
• Aziz Kolkıran – Quantum Imaging Using Correlated and Uncorrelated Photon Sources
Organizators:
- Utku Yiğit – University of Innsbruck
- Emirhan Güler – İzmir Institute of Technology
