Courtesy Tommaso Calarco
Talk
Cosmic Pulse #4 Oltre il reale così com'è
Tommaso Calarco
March 22 2026, 4.30pm
Free admission upon registration
As part of Equinozio, at Voce Triennale we host a talk with Tommaso Calarco, a physicist specialising in the optimisation of quantum processes. In the last century, the quantisation of energy represented a radical break with the millennial belief in the continuity of natural processes. The ancient maxim that nature does not make leaps is challenged by the behaviour of the electron which, in Bohr's model, changes state through sudden discontinuities: the so-called quantum leaps. Starting from this scientific revolution, the meeting invites us to reflect on how quantum thinking has transformed our way of conceiving space, the body and time itself. A dynamic energy, in tune with the balance between night and day, which traverses the passage of seasons and opens up new perspectives on space-time.
Tommaso Calarco is Director of the Peter Grünberg Institute for Quantum Control (PGI-8) at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Professor of Quantum Information at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Cologne and the University of Bologna. He has pioneered the application of quantum optimal control methods to quantum computing and many-body quantum systems. He received his PhD from the University of Ferrara and subsequently did postdoctoral work in Peter Zoller's group at the University of Innsbruck. He has also conducted research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Harvard University. Calarco is the author of the Quantum Manifesto, which launched the European Commission's Quantum Flagship programme. He is Secretary of the European Commission's Top-Level Specialists in Quantum Technologies expert group and co-founder of the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC).
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Part of Equinozio
Curated by Carlo Antonelli
