About YAO

The Young Atom Opticians (YAO) conference is a yearly meeting of international reputation, organized by and for PhD students in the fields of quantum optics, quantum computation and quantum gases. Previously, the YAO conference has been hosted by different research institutes all over Europe:

    1995: Innsbruck, Austria
    1996: Oxford, United Kingdom
    1997: Parco dell'Orecchiella, Italy
    1998: Gif-sur-Yvette, France
    1999: Potsdam, Germany
    2000: Brighton, United Kingdom
    2001: Stuttgart, Germany
    2002: Volterra, Italy
    2003: Amsterdam, Netherlands
    2004: Innsbruck, Austria
    2005: Hannover, Germany
    2006: Palaiseau, France
    2007: Durham, United Kingdom
    2008: Florence, Italy
    2009: Vienna, Austria
    2010: Amsterdam, Netherlands
    2011: Hannover, Germany
    2012: Krakow, Poland
    2013: Birmingham, United Kingdom
    2014: Barcelona, Spain

In April 2015, the conference takes place in Switzerland for the first time. It is hosted by PhD students from the Quantum Optics group of ETH Zürich.

The organisers of future YAO editions are chosen during the YAO conference two years in advance. The next venues are in:

2016: Munich, Germany
2017: Paris, France