QD-B2D Connect Workshop 2026

Quantum Dots - Bayreuth 2 Dortmund - Consortium on Nanostructure, Excitation and Complex Theories
After the great success of the QD-BD-Connect workshop in Bayreuth in summer 2025, the next edition will take place at TU Dortmund University on 30 July 2026. The workshop focuses on theoretical aspects of quantum dot physics and recent advances in quantum dot experiments.
The event will run throughout the day and include a Pizza & Poster lunch. In the evening, participants are invited to join a dinner in Dortmund city (not included).
Participation is by invitation only.
Schedule
| 9:20-9:30 | Local Organisers | Welcome Address |
| 9:30-10:15 | Mathieu Bozzio University of Vienna | Constructing security proofs for quantum cryptography with arbitrary single-photon emitters |
| 10:15-10:45 | Sonja Barkhofen Paderborn University | Decomposing unitaries for the resource-efficient construction of large networks
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| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee | |
| 11:15-11:45 | Sheena Shaji Heriot-Watt-University Edinburgh | Engineering Scalable Multi-Photon Interference from Indistinguishable Quantum Dots
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| 11:45-12:15 | Luca Nimmesgern University of Bayreuth | Generation and control of photon number wave packets |
| 12:15-14:15 | Pizza and Poster | |
| 14:15-15:00 | Natalia Kopteva TU Dortmund University | Spin dynamics and exciton–phonon interplay in lead halide perovskite nanocrystals |
| 15:00-15:30 | Yusuf Karli University of Cambridge | From decoherence to quantum register: nuclear spin control in quantum dots for scalable quantum networks |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Thomas Bracht TU Dortmund University | Time-local extrapolation of correlations in non-Markovian open quantum systems |
| 16:30-17:00 | Julian Wiercinski Heriot-Watt-University Edinburgh | From Quantum Dots to Biological complexes: Open Quantum Systems methods for multiscale systems |
Venue
The talk will take place at the International Meeting Center (IBZ), Emil-Figge-Straße 59, 44227 Dortmund. You can use the Campus Map to locate the venue.






