Entangled Visions
Exploring Quantum Visualizations in Culture, Dissemination, and the Arts
December 2-5, 2025 (OsloMet)
The OsloMet Quantum Hub is happy to announce a workshop to explore the fascinating intersections of quantum science, philosophy, dissemination, and the arts. It will take place at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), campus Pilestredet, from the 2nd to the 5th of December 2025 (mid-day to mid-day as indicated in the preliminary schedule below.)
Sign-up
Please sign up using this link.
If you are one of our contributors, you do not have to sign up.
Do note that in case the number of people signing up should exceed the number of participants we can accommodate, we may decide to give priority to those who will participate through the entire workshop. Should this affect your participation, we will, of course, notify you in due time.
Background and topics
The year 2025 has been declared the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology by the United Nations General Assembly to promote international collaboration while marking the 100 year anniversary of the scientific theory of quantum mechanics.
The OsloMet Quantum Hub aims to bring together people with an interest for quantum technology and quantum science. We want to reach out – also beyond the traditional scientific compounds – to disseminate the beauty and the importance of quantum science.
This workshop will feature presentations from leading researchers and artists on the role of visualization within quantum physics and its connection to philosphy, dissemination, and the arts, as well as in popular culture. Presentations may feature visually appealing scientific results and illustrations, but will suppose little to no previous knowledge of the formal theory of quantum physics from the audience. Other topics include fundamental philosophical questions that are unanswered by the axioms of quantum physics; dissemination of quantum physics to students and the general public, in particular the role of visualization; and quantum physics and technology in the arts and popular culture.
Schedule
| Time | Tuesday, 2 Dec. | Wednesday, 3 Dec. | Thursday, 4 Dec. | Friday, 5 Dec. |
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| 09:00 | Chad Orzel | Stefano Calzati | Marina Otero Verzier | |
| 09:45 | Stefan Küchemann | Maria Castellanos & Alberto Valverde | Maria Emine Nylund & Benedikt Mithassel | |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Eduardo Reck Miranda | David Young | Michael Cuffaro | |
| 11:45 | Maria Mannone | Henrik Zinkernagel | Vidar Skogvoll | |
| The Organizing Team Welcome and Introduction |
Lunch break | The Organizing Team Closing Ceremony |
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| 13:30 | Anders Kvellestad | Budhaditya Chattopadhyay | Khrystyna Gnatenko | |
| 14:15 | Dr Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin | Audun Skau Hansen | Renate C.-Z. Quehenberger | |
| 15:00 | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 | Paul Thomas | Caterina Benincasa | Ellen K. Henriksen & Berit Bungum | |
| 16:15 | Paul Thomas Workshop |
Aurora del Rio | ||
| Evening | Mingling and visuals 18:00–19:00 |
Eduardo Reck Miranda & Victoria Johnson Concert: Quantum Loops, Broken Symmetries 18:00–19:00 Salen, ZEB Building, University of Oslo Sem Sælands vei 2, 0371 Oslo |
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| Dr Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin Concert 19:00–20:00 Festsalen, P52, OsloMet Pilestredet 52, 0167 Oslo |
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(Last updated 4 November 2025.)
Confirmed speakers
The following is a list of confirmed speakers in alphabetical order.
- Alberto Valverde García — Open University of Catalonia (Spain)
- Anders Kvellestad — University of Oslo (Norway)
- Audun Skau Hansen — Myreze (Norway)
- Aurora Del Rio — Aalto University (Finland)
- Berit Bungum — Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU (Norway)
- Budhaditya Chattopadhyay — University of Bergen (Norway)
- Caterina Benincasa — Joint Research Centre, European Commission
- Chad Orzel — Union College (USA)
- David Young
- Eduardo Reck Miranda — University of Plymouth (UK)
- Ellen K. Henriksen — University of Oslo (Norway)
- Henrik Zinkernagel — University of Granada (Spain)
- Khrystyna Gnatenko — Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine)
- Maria Emine Nylund — SINTEF (Norway)
- Maria Mannone — National Research Council of Italy (ICAR-CNR) (Italy) / University of Potsdam (Germany)
- Marina Otero Verzier — Harvard University (USA)
- María Castellanos Vicente — Open University of Catalonia (Spain)
- Michael Cuffaro — LMU Munich (Germany)
- Paul Thomas — UNSW Sydney | Art & Design (Australia)
- Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin
- Renate C.-Z.-Quehenberger — Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society, GSIS (Austria)
- Stefan Küchemann — LMU Munich (Germany)
- Stefano Calzati — Independent
- Vidar Skogvoll — University of Oslo (Norway)
Concerts
We are very proud and honored to be able to present no less than two quantum-related concerts in our program:
Tuesday December 2nd, Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin will give a piano concert.
Wednesday December 3rd, Eduardo Reck Miranda will, in an event hosted jointly with researchers at the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo, present music pieces he has composed making active use of quantum computers. Read more about it here.
Both these esteemed musicians will also provide presentations during the regular part of the program.
Venue
The workshop will take place at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), campus Pilestredet. More detailed information about the venue will be provided.
An alternative poster session
Many scientists are used presenting their results in the form of a poster – usually with graphical elements such as figures, charts and plots. Often such graphical material may have some kind of aesthetic appeal in their own right. We encourage participants and audiences to send us such visualizations; illustrations they have produced with some kind of quantum relevance. This could be one that has emerged from a simulation, an experimental setup. Or it could be an illustration meant to explain some model, or it could be produced with a purely pedagogic intention.
We will make a selection the illustrations we find the most relevant, interesting or appealing, print them and display them – as a rather alternative “poster session”.
Please send your contribution no later than noon Tuesday November 18th by e-mail to Sølve Selstø. Make sure to send your graphical material in high resolution, if possible as vector graphics. Also, include a title and a brief account for the what graphics represent – be it an illustration, a photo, a plot or something else.
Contact
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the organisers.