Section: Dissemination

Teaching - Supervision - Juries

Teaching

• Benjamin Huard has given a course (20 hours) entitled "Quantum fluctuations and measurement" in the Master ICFP (International Centre for Fundamental Physics) of ENS Paris, UPMC, Paris 7 and Orsay.

• Benjamin Huard has coordinated an experimental project (40 hours) entitled "Measuring the quantum of conductance across an atom" at ENS Paris for Physics students in L3.

• Zaki Leghtas taught a course on Quantum Mechanics at Paris Sciences et Lettres (40 hours).

• Zaki Leghtas taught a course on Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Physics at Mines ParisTech (12 hours).

• Zaki Leghtas taught a course on Complex Analysis at Mines ParisTech (10 hours).

• Mazyar Mirrahimi and Pierre Rouchon have given a course (20 hours) entitled "UE : Analyse et contrôle de systèmes quantiques " in the "Master de sciences et technologies, mention mathématiques et applications, Université Pierre et Marie Curie".

• Mazyar Mirrahimi has given a graduate-level course (15 hours) entitled "Quantum Control" at Yale University.

• Mazyar Mirrahimi has given a 4-hour tutorial on "Quantum measurement and feedback" at the summer school "Stochastic Methods in Quantum Mechanics", Autrans, France.

• Pierre Rouchon and Alain Sarlette gave a one week half-time course (15hours) on feedback control of quantum systems at the Elgersburg schools for Mathematical System Theory, 29/2/2016 - 4/3/2016, Germany.

• Alain Sarlette has given a master course on "Probabilistic robotics" at Ghent University (30 hours).

Supervision

• PhD in progress: Danijela Markovic, ENS. “Quantum information protocols with microwave quantum optics”. Sept 2014. (advisors: Benjamin Huard and François Mallet).

• PhD in progress: Nathanaël Cottet. ENS. “Quantum heat engines based on superconducting circuits”. Sept 2015. (advisor: Benjamin Huard).

• PhD in progress: Quentin Ficheux. ENS. “Thermodynamics of quantum information”. Sept 2015. (advisors: Benjamin Huard and Zaki Leghtas).

• PhD in progress: Raphael Lescanne. ENS. “Engineering Multi-Photon Dissipation In Superconducting Circuits For Quantum Error Correction”. September 2016. (advisors: Zaki Leghtas and Benjamin Huard).

• PhD in progress: Rémi Azouit. Mines Paristech. “Quantum circuits, Input/Output theory and adiabatic elimination”. Sept 2014. (advisor: Pierre Rouchon).

• PhD in progress: Gerardo Cardona. Mines ParisTech. "Beyond static gains in analog quantum feedback control". Nov 2016 (advisors: Pierre Rouchon and Alain Sarlette).

• PhD in progress: Alain Sarlette is co-supervising 3 PhD students with his former institution UGent (Simon Apers, Zhifei Zhang, Arash Farnam). Simon Apers is working on (quantum) network algorithms accelerations and intends to address other quantum control questions.

• PhD: Joachim Cohen. ENS. “Autonomous quantum error correction with superconducting circuits”. Nov 2013 (advisor: Mazyar Mirrahimi), His defense is programmed for Feb 2017.

• PhD in progress: Lucas Verney. ENS. “Robust quantum information processing with superconducting circuits”. Sept 2016. (advisors: Zaki Leghtas and Mazyar Mirrahimi).

• PhD: Noad Hamze El Badaoui. He has defended his PhD thesis on December 2, 2016. His thesis entitled "Dynamique et estimation paramétrique pour les gyroscopes laser à milieu amplificateur gazeux" was under the supervision of Philippe Martin and Pierre Rouchon.

• PhD: Pierre Six. He has defended his PhD thesis on November 22, 2016. His thesis entitled "Estimation d'état et de paramètres pour les systèmes quantiques ouverts" was under the supervision of Pierre Rouchon.

Juries

• Benjamin Huard was a member of the PhD defense committees of Katrina Sliwa (Yale University, USA), Antoine Tilloy (ENS Paris, France), Philip Krantz (Chalmers, Sweden), Kristinn Juliusson (CEA Saclay, France), Yehan Liu (Yale University, USA), Pierre Six (Mines ParisTech, France) and of the HdR committee of Caglar Girit (Collège de France, France).

• Mazyar Mirrahimi was a member the PhD defense committees of Zhan Shi (Reviewer, University of New South Wales, Australia), Shakib Daryanoush (Reviewer, University of Griffith, Australia), Ying Fu (Reviewer, Université Paris Dauphine), Kristinn Juliusson (CEA Saclay, France).

• Alain Sarlette was a member of the PhD defense committee of Bram Vervisch (Ghent University, Belgium).