The Atomic Quantum Matter 2026 conference will bring together the international community working on large assemblies of individually controlled atoms – including quantum gas microscopes, and atomic tweezer arrays – to discuss the latest advances and emerging directions in this rapidly evolving field.
Recent progress in controlling, imaging, and manipulating neutral atoms with single-particle precision has opened unprecedented opportunities to explore strongly correlated quantum matter, non-equilibrium dynamics, and quantum information processing with many-body systems. This meeting aims to connect researchers across these frontiers, bridging experiment and theory to address fundamental questions about the organization and dynamics of complex quantum systems.
The program will feature invited and contributed talks, poster sessions, and ample time for informal discussions in the scenic setting of ISTA’s campus near Vienna. We look forward to an inspiring week of exchange and collaboration in Atomic Quantum Matter 2026.
For inquiries, please send an email to aqm2026@ist.ac.at
Important Dates
The following key dates are envisaged (subject to change):
- May 01, 2026: Abstract submission opens.
- June 15, 2026: Deadline for abstract submission
- June 30, 2026: Notification of abstract acceptance & registration opens
- July 31, 2026: Registration closes.
- September 7-11, 2026: Atomic Quantum Matter Conference
Invited Speakers
| Monika Aidelsburger | Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics |
| Waseem Bakr | Princeton University |
| Hannes Bernien | University of Innsbruck |
| Annabelle Bohrdt | LMU |
| Antoine Browaeys | Institute d’Optique |
| Lawrence Cheuk | Princeton University |
| Jae-yoon Choi | KAIST |
| Simon Cornish | Durham University |
| Eugene Demler | ETH Zürich |
| André Eckardt | TU Berlin |
| Manuel Endres | California Institute of Technology |
| Titus Franz | Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics |
| Markus Greiner | Harvard University |
| Christian Gross | University of Tübingen |
| Adam Kaufman | University of Colorado |
| Mikhail Lukin | Harvard University |
| Hannes Pichler | University of Innsbruck |
| Francesco Scazza | University of Trieste |
| Federica Surace | Caltech / University of Innsbruck |
| Leticia Tarruell | ICFO |
| Bing Yang | Southern University of Science and Technology |
| Susanne Yelin | Harvard University |
| Shiwei Zhang | Flatiron Institute |
| Martin Zwierlein | MIT |
