Quantum Fest 2016 International Conference on Quantum Phenomena, Quantum Control and Quantum Optics

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 839; no. 1; pp. 11001 - 11002
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 26.05.2017
• Subjects: Applications of mathematics; Applied mathematics; Breeding grounds; Colleges & universities; Conferences; Festivals; Field theory; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832); Hilbert space; Logistics; Mathematical analysis; Metamaterials; Operators (mathematics); Physics; Quantum field theory; Quantum mechanics; Quantum optics; Quantum phenomena; Quantum theory; Students; Time dependence; Chile; Mexico; Spain
• ISSN: 1742-6588; 1742-6596
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/839/1/011001

The Quantum Fest is a periodic annual festival on Quantum Phenomena, Quantum Control and Geometry of Quantum States, organized by the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav by its acronym in Spanish) and Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria en Ingeniería y Tecnologías Avanzadas del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (UPIITA-IPN) in México City, Mexico. The aim of this meeting is to bring together students and researchers which are engaged in the subjects of the festival, from both theoretical and experimental approaches, in order to get lively discussions and to enable a closer contact between them. The Quantum Fest was celebrated for the first time in the Physics Department of Cinvestav (2010), since then it has been hosted in Cinvestav, UPIITA-IPN and the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México (ITESM-CEM). The Quantum Fest 2016 is the seventh edition of the festival, it took place from October 17 to 21 in the Sala de Usos Múltiples, Edificio I of UPIITA-IPN, and was addressed to join the celebration of the first eighty years of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional as well as the first twenty years of the Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria en Ingeniería y Tecnologías Avanzadas del Instituto Politécnico Nacional. We would like to thank the willing of the UPIITA-IPN to offer its facilities as the venue of the festival; all its help provided to simplify the logistics and organization of the conference has been welcomed and is acknowledged. The topics addressed at the short courses of the Quantum Fest 2016 were time asymmetric quantum mechanics, quantum resonances, models of quantum field theory in metamaterials, singular potentials and self-adjoint extensions, nonclassical states of light, Hardy functions and Hilbert space operators. The Lecturers of Quantum Fest 2016 were: Manuel Gadella (Valladolid University, Spain) Maribel Loaiza (Department of Mathematics, Cinvestav, Mexico) Luis Miguel Nieto (Valladolid University, Spain) Oscar Rosas-Ortiz (Physics Department, Cinvestav, Mexico) Besides the courses lectured by Profs. Gadella, Loaiza, Nieto and Rosas-Ortiz, there were 10 plenary presentations, 10 contributed talks and 31 posters. This time, more than 50 participants from Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Cinvestav, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Tecnológico de Monterrey and Universidad Politécnica del Valle de México came together to attend the courses, talks and poster sessions delivered during the festival. We would like to emphasize that the plenary as well as the contribution talks are presented only by invitation of the festival Organizing Committee. The Plenary Speakers of Quantum Fest 2016 were: Bijan K. Bagchi (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Calcutta, India) Rafael Baquero (Physics Department, Cinvestav, Mexico) Rodolfo Id Betan (National University of Rosario, Argentina) Octavio Castaños (ICN-UNAM, Mexico) Véronique Hussin (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Montréal, Canada) Bogdan Mielnik (Physics Department, Cinvestav, Mexico) Mikhail S. Plyushchay (Physics Department, University of Santiago de Chile, Chile) Vladimir Rabinovich (ESIME-IPN, Mexico) José Recamier (ICF-UNAM, Mexico) Dieter Schuch (Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt, Germany) The informal and lively discussions at Sala de Usos Múltiples of UPIITA during either the coffee breaks or the poster sessions, have been a breeding ground for scientific collaboration between the participants of the conference. We are certain that this is crucial to strength the rapprochement between students and researchers. This year, the academic recognition as the best poster expositor was awarded to Kevin Zelaya for his work entitled "Time-dependent exactly solvable potentials generated by Darboux transformations". The figure in the cover of this volume has been borrowed from the cartel presented by Mr. Zelaya. The members of the 2016 Organizing Committee were: Sara Cruz y Cruz (UPIITA-IPN) Zurika Blanco (Physics Department, Cinvestav) Zulema Gress (UPIITA-IPN) The Quantum Fest 2016 would not have been possible without the valuable financial support of the sponsor institutions: Instituto Politécnico Nacional, UPIITA-IPN and Cinvestav. Our thanks to Dr. Alejandro García Guerra, Director de la UPIITA-IPN for endless support and host during the festival. Special thanks to Mmes Berenice León, Rebeca Octaviano and Miriam Lomelí, Secretaries of the festival, for invaluable help in many aspects of the organization, including the design of the posters and distribution of announcements, hotel and flight reservations, and the scheduling of the event. Berenice, Rebeca and Miriam: the Bar Quantum is very grateful to you. The publication of this volume of Journal of Physics: Conference Series has been supported by the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in the framework of the celebration of its 80th Anniversary. We would like to express our gratitude to Lic. Hilda Castro, Subdirectora Administrativa de la UPIITA-IPN for facilitating the administrative duties related with the publication of these Proceedings. The present volume includes only the positively refereed contributions that were submitted by the participants of the festival. Finally, we announce that the Quantum Fest will take place every two years from now on. The eight festival will be celebrated in the facilities of the Physics Department of Cinvestav. Sara Cruz y Cruz Instituto Politécnico Nacional, UPIITA México City, April 2017