In search of what produces movement, I-Fang Lin transforms each gesture into revealing the solitudes and bonds we share. Originally from Taiwan, she refines her choreographic writing through collaboration with numerous artists; Mathilde Monnier, Christian Rizzo, François Verret, Emmanuelle Huynh, Pierre Droulers, Philippe Katerine, Jocelyn Cottencin, Louis Sclavis, Wen-Chi Su, Kosei Yamamoto, Xavier Le Roy, Boris Charmatz ... Practitioner of the Feldenkrais method, she teaches and incorporates on her work a physicality that unfolds in complete awareness. The precision, acuity and organicity of its performances elevate the body to its true value.

She founded Studio MAIASTRA, created “En Chinoiseries” (2016) and “Skein Relations” (2019) as a resident artist at NTCH in Taiwan, Au large (2021) as an accomplice artist of the Scènes Croisés de Lozère. “Ebloui “(2021-2022) co-written with visual artist Jocelyn Cottencin, “CO.M.BAT” 2023, “Ban-Ping Shan” 2023 and “Party”.

Dr. Mira L. Wolf-Bauwens leads the Responsible Quantum Computing effort in the Responsible & Inclusive Technologies Team at IBM Research. Mira also is a IBM Quantum Technical Ambassador. She brings with her experience in normative analysis, strategy and business consulting, development corporation, start-up leadership and digitalisation. Mira holds a PhD in Political Philosophy on institutional recognition and normative evaluation of emerging technologies from University of Zurich with Visiting Research Fellowships at Columbia University and University of Oxford.

Mira is passionate about innovating responses to business and socio-economic challenges through technological innovation and digital transformation. In exploring what Responsible Quantum Computing entails, she is addressing the societal questions that arise with the development of useful Quantum Computing and Quantum-safe technologies.

Rachel has spent over 15 years within UK Government and Parliament developing and evaluating science and technology policy within the House of Lords, Defra’s Chief Scientist’s office, the Government Office for Science, and within the Technology Strategy and Security Team in DSIT. Most recently she led the development of the UK Government’s National Quantum Strategy.

A choreographer, new media artist and the founder of YILAB.

Combining the concepts and forms of new media and performing arts, she attempts to rethink the possibilities of dance from the perspective of new media, extending the controversy and reflection of contemporary art in the face of the impact of digital technology. She has actively interacted and cooperated with local and international art communities through workshops, seminars, talks and performances. She is the artist-in-residence in the National Theater & Concert Hall in Taiwan 2017, Arts@CERN / European Organization for Nuclear Research, and EMPAC / Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. As one of Taiwan’s iconic figures in this field, SU received the Jury’s Special Award in the 9th Taishin Arts Award and Alternative Design Gold Award in the 2017 World Stage Design Award. In 2021, SU WENCHI’s collaboration with Swiss skincare house LA PRAIRIE was exclusively presented during Art Basel Miami Beach.

In collaboration with Arts at CERN. WenChi Su was artist in residence in 2016.

Bio

Nicole Yunger Halpern is a theoretical physicist at the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science at the University of Maryland. Nicole reenvisions the science of energy, developed during the 1800s, for the 21st century, using the mathematical tools of quantum computing. She has dubbed this research “quantum steampunk,” after the steampunk genre of art and literature that juxtaposes Victorian settings with futuristic technologies. The field’s insights and aesthetic form the subject of her book for the general public, Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow. The book received the PROSE Award for Popular Science and Mathematics from the Association of American Publishers.  Nicole earned her PhD at Caltech, winning the international Ilya Prigogine Prize for an energy-science thesis. She won the International Quantum Technology Emerging Researcher Award from Britain’s Institute of Physics as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. In 2023, Nicole received the U.S. ASPIRE Prize for young scientists.  Nicole has written over 100 articles for the blog Quantum Frontiers and suspects that a copy of her is a novelist in some parallel universe. You can follow her on Twitter @nicoleyh11.

Interview with Nicole Yunger Halpern by Antonella del Rosso from CERN IT. 

Shaping the infrastructure that is woven into our everyday life: that’s what quantum computing will do.

Theoretical physicist and book author Nicole Yunger Halpern reflects on the present and future of quantum computing and the impact that such a technology will have in our lives.

The upcoming Sparks! event on 16^th November will feature a talk by Nicole Yunger Halpern. Author of “Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow”. Nicole is an award-winning theoretical physicist who, according to her description on the Sparks! webpages, “re-envisions the science of energy, developed during the 1800s, for the 21st century, using the mathematical tools of quantum computing.” The details of Nicole’s scientific activity are well described in her popular book, featuring drawings inspired by the steampunk genre of art and literature that juxtaposes Victorian settings with futuristic technologies.

To the layperson, the combination of “quantum” and “computing” might sound like an obscure new type of technology that, although not understood, has the potential to change the world like several other computing technologies have done in the past. Together with artificial intelligence and big data (all correlated matters), it is amongst the most discussed topics and the most referred to innovations that we should all get prepared for.

Nicole, in your opinion, why is quantum computing so much in the spotlight now and yet almost no-one (experts excluded) understands what that is? 

NYH: “Quantum computing is in the spotlight because quantum experimentalists’ capabilities have advanced enormously over the past few decades; quantum computing can impact information security, research and development, and other topics of broad importance to society; and funding has been flowing into quantum information science from governments, companies, scientific-funding institutions, and universities.

Every scientific advance requires explaining to the public; for instance, every time a Nobel Prize in science is awarded, a flurry of articles and videos crop up to explain it. The notion of quantum computing is such an advance and so requires such explanations. Unfortunately, over the decades, people have branded quantum physics as impossible to understand. I believe that this reputation is unjustified, as I’ve argued in a blog post. Fortunately, the quantum-computing community has been investing deeply in education and outreach. Videos, free online courses, master’s programs, and even games for instilling intuition about quantum physics abound. Articles have been appearing everywhere from Wired to Time. Even my book contains a chapter about quantum computing. A wealth of information is available, and I hope that it’ll lead future generations to think of quantum

Epidemiologist, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO)

Jack is a partnerships manager at DeepMind, an artificial intelligence lab headquartered in London. Currently he focuses on developing partnerships for social good that apply DeepMind's scientific developments to real world challenges. Prior to this, he worked for a number of public health and international development NGOs assisting in the formation and running of institutional and corporate collaborations designed to maximise impact and affect change at a systems level.

Thierry Stora has developed research activities both in industry and academic centres. He worked across different fields such as in biophysics and on soft nanomaterials. He has been physicist at CERN for more than fifteen years. Initially in charge of the developments of the techniques to produce radioactive ion beams at ISOLDE by electromagnetic mass separation, he was later involved in the very first steps of the MEDICIS project. CERN-MEDICIS (CERN MEDical Isotope Collected from ISOLDE) is a new facility that started to produce its first radionuclides for the biomedical research in 2017 by isotope mass separation. Non conventional radionuclides and new purity grades can be made available to the biomedical researchers in Europe and beyond. This recently triggered a pan-European medical radionuclide programme, PRISMAP with major medical radionuclide production reactor and accelerator facilities.

Ariel B. Ganz, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University in the Snyder Lab, Department of Genetics in the School of Medicine researching effective strategies for happiness and well-being, and how psychological changes can alter health on a molecular level. She holds a doctoral degree in Molecular Nutrition from Cornell University and has published across diverse research fields from precision medicine and nutrition to computational chemistry and theoretical physics.