Alain Aspect Symposium

Pasqal is honoured to be one of the prestige sponsors of this 2024 Edition.

This Alain Aspect Symposium will focus on the applications of quantum technologies for Climate Change study and mitigation. Specific themes will include (non-exhaustive): new materials for energy technologies, optimization for energy network management, environmental monitoring, modeling & forecasting, energy consumption of classical and quantum processors…

Representatives from the climate community will present their computational challenges to quantum scientists who can share their latest research findings, methodologies, and advancements in quantum computing.

And of course we are looking forward to our very own Georges-Olivier REYMOND‘s keynote session on the morning of the second day, diving into the power of quantum technology in building a sustainable future.

About Pasqal
Pasqal is a leading quantum computing company that builds quantum processors from neutral atoms arranged in 2D and 3D arrays to to bring a practical quantum advantage to its customers and address real-world problems. Pasqal was founded in 2019, out of the Institut d’Optique by Georges-Olivier Reymond, Christophe Jurczak, Professor Alain Aspect, Nobel Prize Laureate Physics, 2022, Dr. Antoine Browaeys, and Dr. Thierry Lahaye. Pasqal has secured more than €140 million in fianancing to date.

About Alain Aspect

Alain Aspect is Professor at the Institut d’Optique Université Paris-Saclay and at École Polytechnique (Institut Polytechnique de Paris). He is co-recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for his experimental work on Bell inequalities, which probed the foundations of quantum physics. These experiments have profoundly affected our understanding of nature, and closed a debate opened at the beginning of the last century by Einstein, who considered quantum physics to be incomplete.

Prof. Aspect’s results paved the way for the science of quantum information and the development of quantum technologies, which are at the heart of research at the Institut quantique (‘Quantum Institute’) at l’University of Sherbrooke.

Together with his partners Georges-Olivier Reymond and Christophe Jurczak, Prof. Aspect founded Pasqal, a company dedicated to building quantum computers, in 2019. The company, which employs over 250 people, has offices in France, the Netherlands and Sherbrooke, within the Quantum Innovation Zone.