Name: QUPosium2026
Start: 2026-12-08T13:30:00+09:00
End: 2026-12-10T18:00:00+09:00
Location: Epochal Tsukuba International Congress Center

QUPosium2026

from Tuesday, 8 December 2026 (13:30) to Thursday, 10 December 2026 (18:00)

Monday, 7 December 2026
Tuesday, 8 December 2026
13:30 Opening & atomic systems
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Convention Hall 200
Contributions

13:30 Opening - Shoji Asai (KEK)

13:40 New QUP: we have changed - Toshiyuki AZUMA

14:30 Antideuteronic atoms, from tests of strong fields quantum electrodynamics to BSM tests in astrophysics - Paul Indelicato (LKB)

15:00 Precision spectroscopy of antiprotonic atoms with quantum sensors - Nancy Paul (LKB)
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Convention Hall 200
16:00 Precision atomic, molecular physics & quantum sensing
16:00 - 17:50
Room: Convention Hall 200
Contributions

16:00 Harnessing Molecular Complexity for Quantum Science - John Doyle (Harvard)

16:50 Development of Multiplatform Quantum Sensing Methods for Biofunctional Imaging - Hitoshi Ishiwata (QST)

17:20 TBD - Volodymyr TAKHISTOV (QUP, KEK)
17:50 Poster session & reception

17:50 - 19:20
Room: Convention Hall 200
Wednesday, 9 December 2026
09:00 Ultralight dark matter, symmetries & gravity
09:00 - 10:20
Room: Convention Hall 200
Contributions

09:00 New perspectives on CP violation and ultralight dark matter - Gilad Perez (Weizmann)

09:50 TBD - Surjeet Rajendran (Johns Hopkins)
10:20 Break
Break
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Convention Hall 200

10:50 Ultralight dark matter, symmetries & gravity

10:50 - 11:50
Room: Convention Hall 200

11:50 Lunch
Lunch
11:50 - 13:20
Room: Convention Hall 200
13:20 Ultralight dark matter, symmetries & gravity
13:20 - 14:50
Room: Convention Hall 200
Contributions

13:20 TBD - Rana Adhikari (Caltech IQIM)

13:50 Recent Progress in the DarQ Experiments - Tatsumi NITTA (KEK)

14:20 What is the physical mechanism of the origin of the Universe? - challenges over transcending scales through the integration of theory, observations, and experiments - Akito Kusaka (Tokyo)
14:50 Break
Break
14:50 - 15:20
Room: Convention Hall 200
15:20 Photonic quantum sensing & precision optics
15:20 - 17:10
Room: Convention Hall 200
Contributions

15:20 Photonic Quantum Sensing Using Entangled Photons - Shigeki Takeuchi (Kyoto Univeristy)

16:10 Optical Frequency Comb Precision Spectroscopy of Interstellar Molecules - Kana Iwakuni (U. Electro-Comm.)
19:00 Symposium dinner
Symposium dinner
19:00 - 21:00
Room: Convention Hall 200
Thursday, 10 December 2026
09:00 Superconducting quantum devices for dark matter & cosmology
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Convention Hall 200
Contributions

09:00 GravNet - A Global Network for the Search of High Frequency Gravitational Waves - Claudio Gatti (INFN (Frascati))

09:30 Searches for weakly coupled particle interactions at Kamioka and elsewhere - Maurice Garcia-Sciveres (QUP/LBNL)

10:00 Superconducting Quantum Detectors for Astronomy and Fundamental Physics Experiments - Boon Kok Tan (Oxford)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Convention Hall 200

11:00 Superconducting quantum devices for dark matter & cosmology

11:00 - 12:20
Room: Convention Hall 200

12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 13:50
Room: Convention Hall 200
13:50 Microwave cavities & spin-based quantum sensing
13:50 - 16:00
Room: Convention Hall 200
Contributions

13:50 CERN’s Quantum Technology Initiative: Activities and Outlook - Lee Millar (CERN QTI)

14:20 Diamond: a dark matter detection platform - David Herbschleb (QUP)

14:50 Contributed talks

15:50 Closing - Tsutomu MIBE