Information for Lecturers

Thank you for accepting our invitation.  We are looking forward to your wonderful lectures. Here are guidelines for preparing your lectures suggested by Frank Wilczek:

Quantum Connections: It is meant to focus on ongoing research, to bring out connections between adjacent but distinct fields, and to foster collaboration that otherwise might not occur. The audience consists mainly of PhD students and postdocs and is unusually diverse including theorists, experimentalists, and people who are looking for opportunities.

In order to advance these goals, we ask lecturers:

1. To supply a printable one page (strict maximum) double-spaced document preferably in pdf format, to be distributed to workshop participants at registration and again just before the talk. It should include:

  a) a very brief, minimally technical summary of the presentation, emphasizing its motivation

  b) links to one or two "self-contained" (for quantum physics PhDs) introductions to the broad area of investigation, and

  c) links to one or two more specialized papers, if appropriate.

2. To begin the lectures by saying why you are doing what you are doing, and how your work is part of a larger picture.

3. Not to burden the presentation with details that will be wasted on non-specialists.

4. To respect the time limits.

5. To conclude with some vision of how the work relates to broader issues, and/or what it suggests for possible future investigations.

Here is the one-page summary prepared by Frank Wilczek for his lectures.  

As 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics, you are encouraged to share a few remarks about this significant milestone during your lectures.

Please at your earliest convenient time, let us know the title of your lectures, your arrival and departing dates, and whether you will be accompanied by your spouse. You can either send the information to us by emails (lichengcheng@ustc.edu.cn, wubiao@pku.edu.cn) or fill in the online form.