25 - 30 January 2025
San Francisco, California, US
Plenary Event
Quantum West Plenary
29 January 2024 • 1:00 PM - 3:05 PM PST | Moscone Center, Room 207/215 (Level 2 South) 
Plenary Moderator

Miles Padgett, Univ. of Glasgow (United Kingdom)

1:00 PM - 1:05 PM:
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Announcement of the 2023 IBM-SPIE HBCU Faculty Accelerator Award in Quantum Optics and Photonics

1:05 PM - 1:45 PM:
Quantum science and atomic clocks

Jun Ye
JILA (United States)

1:45 PM - 2:25 PM:
Silicon colour centres

Stephanie Simmons
Photonic Inc. (Canada)

2:25 PM - 3:05 PM:
New quantum theory applications in biology

Marlan Scully
Texas A&M Univ., Princeton Univ., and Baylor Univ. (United States)