All WACQT members are invited to the yearly May meeting, the purpose of which is to review the activities in the centre, and to gather all the WACQT members to meet and discuss.
Our scientific advisory board will attend the presentations and poster sessions, talk to people (for instance at a lunchtable shared with senior PhD students and postdocs) and give feedback to the Board and Centre PIs on the activities in WACQT.
This is also a great chance to meet and get to know other researchers in the Centre.
In addition to the professional content, there will be a fun social activity and dinners.
Presentations, fikas and lunches are offered to all members of WACQT. The activities and dinners are offered to WACQT employees*. Master students can however stand by for cancelled slots.
This year’s venue is the same as last year:
Wallenbergssalen
Conference centre Wallenberg
Map
Medicinaregatan 20 A
Göteborg
Accommodation
We have reserved rooms at a few different hotels at Chalmers rates, but maybe not enough for everyone. Many of the rooms are twin rooms, for easy sharing (please agree with whom, before registering).
Please note, it is allowed by university rules to use the hotel agreement of a fellow university.
We will normally confirm your accommodation within max four days after your registration, often sooner. Priority is given to people staying for the full meeting and with confirmed room mates.
Payment is made by the guest directly to the hotel. By ticking the request for a room, you will be accountable for the assigned room, unless it can be cancelled or assigned to another participant.
Logistics in Gothenburg
For people from universities outside Gothenburg and participating for the full meeting, we suggest downloading Västtrafik’s app ToGo for easy purchase of tram/bus tickets and planning of trips.
The closest stop to the venue is Medicinareberget. Walk five minutes slightly uphill, to the left of the parking and the allotment gardens with tiny villas.
To participants who sign up before deadline and who are not from the local area, value codes for single tickets will be sent in an email shortly before the meeting. These can be redeemed in the ToGo app. The number of codes you will receive depends on the duration of your participation and the estimation of how many trips you should need to make to take part in the event.
Please use them one at a time, and should you not use them all, we are happy to get the unused codes back.
Lunches
Everyone has lunch in the restaurant upstairs. However, there will be a seating plan for those invited to lunch with a particular group on the first two days. (There will be table signs, lists at the venue and separate email invitations).
On day 1, Some PhD students and postdocs will be invited for lunch with an SAB member of their own pillar, in order to provide our SAB with insight into the Centre activities and for a much-appreciated chance to discuss science in a small group with our well-renowned professors.
On day 2, the SAB and company representatives and academic supervisors in industry projects will be invited for lunch.
Dinners
Dinner 19th May: Hamnkrogen | Liseberg, restaurant in Liseberg amusement park, (map )
Dinner 20th May: M/S St. Erik, in the beautiful archipelago and we return around sunset.
Departure from “Lilla Bommen”, 7 minutes’ walk from the tramstop “Lilla Bommen”.
Afternoon activities
Participants (except centre management PIs, Board and SAB) will enjoy an engaging and playful game pentathlon at Gothenburg’s famous amusement park Liseberg, with a lovely environment still largely dating from 1923. We remain in the park for dinner at Hamnkrogen, where the Board members join.
Details about the activities are to be confirmed. Group division will be made after registration deadline and published here.
Note: The park is not open (to the general public) this day, so not all areas are accessible. They do how ever open on the following Thursday afternoon if you’d like to visit right after the May-meeting.
PhD students/posters
PhD students are kindly requested to present a poster about their project, size A0, portrait. PhD students who joined very recently or will give a talk can be exempt from this requirement, if their supervisors agree.
As we will prepare a poster list, we kindly ask you to register your name, pillar and the title of your poster here no later than 6 April: Poster list WACQT May meeting 2026.xlsx
If you are not bringing a poster, please write Name + No poster in the posterlist, to help us plan.
Ideally, reserve a small space on your poster for a very simple, popular science “pitch” about what you do. We would also much appreciate your portrait picture next to your name on the poster. Please also put a coloured 5x5 cm square in the upper right corner to identify your pillar. **
Posters can be attached in the foyer of Wallenbergsalen, respecting your assigned poster number in the poster list, during the first morning check-in slot.
- You are considered an employee if you also meet any of the below criteria:
- You are sponsored by WACQT.
- You supervise PhD students and/or postdocs sponsored by WACQT
- You are a PhD student involved in the WACQT graduate school’s activities, even if your salary is paid by other funding
- You are an appointed member of the Board, Scientific advisory board or Industrial advisory board
- You are also invited to all parts of the event if you represent an industrial partner of WACQT
**
Red for quantum computing experiment
Blue for quantum computing theory
Dark green for quantum sensing, metrology and control
Dark/visible yellow for quantum communication
(The square can be a loose piece of paper).
Schedule
Schedule WACQT May Meeting 2026.
Preliminary schedule!
Registration
We are very much looking forward to seeing you at this year's May meeting.
Please, do register in time! Last day for registration is 30 March.
Consult your confirmation email if you are uncertain about what you signed up for. The sender is "WACQT May review meeting 2026".
Registration (opens shortly)!
Linda’s phone number: 0046 (0)31 772 63 49.
* In this case you are a member if you got the invitation first hand from Linda Brånell or one of the ten Centre management PIs.
- You are considered an employee if you also meet any of the below criteria:
- You are sponsored by WACQT.
- You supervise PhD students and/or postdocs sponsored by WACQT
- You are a PhD student involved in the WACQT graduate school’s activities, even if your salary is paid by other funding
- You are an appointed member of the Board, Scientific advisory board or Industrial advisory board
- You are also invited to all parts of the event if you represent an industrial partner of WACQT
** Red for quantum computing experiment
Blue for quantum computing theory
Dark green for quantum sensing, metrology and control
Dark/visible yellow for quantum communication
(The square can be a loose piece of paper pinned in the top right corner.).
Contact
- Administrative Coordinator, MC2 Operations Support, Microtechnology and Nanoscience