12:50pm - 5pm

Wednesday 8 October 2025

Quantum Sciences Group Retreat Day 1

University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 7XH
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Programme

TimeSpeaker
12:50 - 13:30
Andrea Rocco

Welcome + Non-Markovianity in Open Classical and Quantum Systems

13:30 - 14:00
Priya Sharma

The Superfluid Helium Oscillator Quantum Device - Can it be a Qubit?

14:00 - 14:30
Martin Wolf

Homotopy Algebraic Perspective on Quantum Field Theory

14:30 - 15:00
Jesús Rubio

Symmetries and incompatibility in global multiparameter quantum metrology

15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break and poster session 
15:30 - 16:00
Jim Al-Khalili

Some remarks on the low entropy of the early universe

16:00 - 16:20
Dorje Brody

Decoherence on Phase Space

16:20 - 16:40
Youngchan Kim

Quantum Biology: An introduction

16:40 - 17:00
Discussion

Poster Presentations

Matthew Freed
  • Time-Convolutionless Master Equation Beyond the Markov Approximation
Vasileios Moustakis
  • TBC
Marc Russo
  • Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations in Open Quantum Systems
Umashankar Shastry
  • Non-Perturbative Renormalization Group Approach to Open Quantum System
  • Derivation of Entropy From Molecular Dynamics

Organizers

Alessandro Torrielli

School of Mathematics and Physics
University of Surrey 
a.torrielli@surrey.ac.uk

Andrea Rocco

School of Mathematics and Physics
University of Surrey
a.rocco@surrey.ac.uk