7-11 September 2026
Scope
The summer school is meant to give an introduction to matterwave optics to early PhD students and post-docs. It serves as a preparation to the conference. The summer school combines lectures by renown experts in the field with poster-sessions where the students present their projects to each other.
This year’s focus is Weighing the World: gravity measurements using matterwave interferometry. We have assembled a very impressive range of speakers and topics.
topics:
- Basic Introduction to matterwave interferometry / MWI (Alexandre Gauguet)
- MWI using Quantum 2.0: entanglement (Luca Pezzè)
- Long base line MWI (Timothy Kovachy)
- Relativistic (Albert Roura)
- Real life use cases, e.g. the Greenland campaign (René Forsberg)
- Trapped atom MWI (Marco Fattori)
- Space based Gravity from ESA (Olivier Carraz)
Location
The summer School and Conference will be held at the beautiful Poggio all’Agnello resort located near the historic village of Populonia and only 1.5 km close to Baratti on of the most beautiful places on the Etruscan coast.
Accommodation
Participants of the school will be accommodated in multi-occupation appartments at the resort where the school will take place, and all meals will be provided on site, including breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Scholarships
There will be a number of scholarships available. Recipients will be required to attend both the summer school and the conference.
Lecturers
Excellent Summer School Speakers have been selected for the summer school
Lecture notes
We will provide a full set of lecture notes after the end of the conference.