Workshop on Quantum Entanglement

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Ryszard Horodecki University of Gdańsk, Poland Prof. Ryszard Horodecki is a professor of physical sciences and a leading figure in the field of quantum information theory, affiliated with the University of Gdańsk and the International Centre for Quantum Technology Theory. He is among the pioneers who helped establish the foundations of quantum information, contributing to key concepts such as quantum entanglement, bound entanglement, and entanglement detection. His work, including the highly influential review “Quantum Entanglement” published in Reviews of Modern Physics, has been cited extensively and has shaped modern research in the field. Prof. Horodecki has led numerous international and European research projects, including the ERC Advanced Grant QOLAPS, and played a central role in developing Poland’s quantum information research community. A member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea, he is widely recognized for his contributions to quantum physics and has received several prestigious awards, including the Foundation for Polish Science Prize.

Prof. Karol Życzkowski Jagiellonian University, Poland   Karol Życzkowski, born in Cracow 1960, Ph.D. in theoretical physics 1987, habilitation 1994. Professor of physics at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and at the Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Science, in Warsaw. Humboldt Fellow at the University of Essen(1989/90), a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Maryland (1997/98), one-year research position at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo (2004/2005). During the term 2019-2023 he served as a Director of the National Center for Quantum Informatics in Gdańsk. He works on quantum mechanics, quantum information, chaos and nonlinear dynamics, applied mathematics and random matrices, mathematical social choice including the theory of elections. Co-authored a book Geometry of Quantum States, Cambridge 2017. Member of Academia Europaea (2014), the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020). Since 2023 President of the Cracow Branch of Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2024 he obtained an ERC Advanced Grant: Typical and Atypical Structures in Quantum Theory.