TUCAN 2026

America/Toronto
MP102 (McLennan Physical Laboratories)

MP102

McLennan Physical Laboratories

60 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 1A7
Bassam Nima (Vutha Lab), Kevin Xie (Thywissen Lab), Vida-Michelle Nixon (Steinberg Lab)
Description

The 9th annual Toronto Ultracold Atom Network (TUCAN) meeting will be hosted by the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto on Wednesday, May 13th. 

This one-day meeting aims to share knowledge and cultivate connections between local ultracold atom and quantum optics groups.

Talks

Talks will have a 15+5 minute format.

Posters

Poster boards will be 4' x 8', which should be able to support most standard poster sizes.

Code of Conduct

This anti-harassment policy is based on the example policy from the Geek Feminism wiki (see link below), created by the Ada Initiative and other volunteers.

TUCAN 2026 is dedicated to providing a harassment-free workshop experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race age or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of workshop participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any workshop venue, including talks. Workshop participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the workshop at the discretion of the workshop organizers.
Harassment includes, but is not limited to:

  • Verbal comments that reinforce social structures of domination related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, and religion. 
  • Sexual images in public spaces.
  • Deliberate intimidation, stalking, or following
  • Harassing photography or recording
  • Sustained disruption of talks or other events
  • Inappropriate physical contact
  • Unwelcome sexual attention
  • Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behavior

If a participant engages in harassing behavior, event organizers retain the right to take any actions to keep the event a welcoming environment for all participants. This includes warning the offender of expulsion from the conference. 
We expect participants to follow these rules at all event venues and event-related social activities. As these are general good-behavior rules, we believe that people should follow them outside of event activities too!

Building and parking map

See the links below for a map of the University of Toronto campus and various parking options nearby. This workshop will be held in McLennan Physical Laboratories, accessible from St. George, Huron and Ursula Franklin streets. We recommend parking in Lot C (215 Huron St.).

    • 09:00
      Arrival & Refreshments MP102

      MP102

      McLennan Physical Laboratories

      60 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 1A7

      Coffee, tea, muffins and pastries as well as some gluten-free options.

    • 1
      Beyond the rotating wave approximation: conditional squeezing and quantum non-demolition readout in the Jaynes-Cummings model MP102

      MP102

      McLennan Physical Laboratories

      60 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 1A7
      Speaker: Phoenix Paing (James Group)
    • 2
      Creation of an Analogue Maxwell Fish-Eye Lens in a Bose-Einstein Condensate MP102

      MP102

      McLennan Physical Laboratories

      60 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 1A7
      Speaker: Liam Farrell (O’Dell Group)
    • 3
      Quantum imaging of spatiotemporal magnetic fields with atom arrays MP102

      MP102

      McLennan Physical Laboratories

      60 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 1A7
      Speaker: Anastasiia Mashko (Cooper Group)
    • 11:00
      Break MP102

      MP102

      McLennan Physical Laboratories

      60 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 1A7

      Quick break to reflect on talks and interact with speakers.

    • 4
      Distributing entanglement at the quantum speed limit in Rydberg chains MP102

      MP102

      McLennan Physical Laboratories

      60 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 1A7
      Speaker: Kent Ueno (Cooper Group)
    • 5
      A Race to Coherence: Superradiance and Competing Channels in a Λ-System MP102

      MP102

      McLennan Physical Laboratories

      60 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 1A7
      Speaker: Toktam Rashidi Shahri (Rajabi Group)
    • 6
      Type II MOTs of Cs MP102

      MP102

      McLennan Physical Laboratories

      60 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 1A7
      Speaker: TBA (Jamison Group)
    • 12:20
      Lunch MP125

      MP125

      Gluten-free and vegan options provided.

    • 7
      Software-Based Compensation of AC-Line Perturbations and Quantum Logic Operations on a 137Ba+ Qudit MP102

      MP102

      McLennan Physical Laboratories

      60 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 1A7
      Speaker: Gaurav Ashish Tathed (Senko Group)
    • 8
      Reaching extremely high vacuum and recent progress towards developing a trapped-ion quantum simulator with mid-circuit measurements MP102

      MP102

      McLennan Physical Laboratories

      60 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 1A7
      Speaker: Lewis Hahn (Islam Group)
    • 9
      Searching for symmetry-breaking using asymmetric things MP102

      MP102

      McLennan Physical Laboratories

      60 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 1A7
      Speaker: Amar Vutha (Vutha Group)
    • 14:20
      Poster Session MP110

      MP110

      60 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 1A7

      Interact with other students to see what they are working on!

    • 16:00
      Self-arranged Lab Tour(s)

      Optional tour(s) of a lab to showcase the experimental realization of a work, or to continue a conversation.