ARTIQ: an open source physics experiment control system

Speaker: Mr.Sébastien Bourdeauducq
         Founder
         M-Labs Limited

Title:  "ARTIQ: an open source physics experiment control system"

Date:   Monday, 21 November 2022

Time:   4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:  Lecture Theater F
        (Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theater), near lift 25/26
        HKUST


Abstract:

In 2013, the Ion Storage Group at NIST, then led by Nobel prize laureate
David Wineland, identified key problems with experiment control systems
that were significant obstacles to progress in quantum information
research with trapped ions. They partnered with M-Labs Ltd in Hong Kong to
develop a new control system that would address these issues, which became
ARTIQ.

ARTIQ leverages FPGAs and compilers to provide high-level and
user-friendly programmability while retaining the exquisite timing
precision required by most quantum experiments.

Today, ARTIQ has become an important component relied upon by hundreds of
physics research teams around the world. It reached beyond the field of
quantum information, and some of its more exotic applications involve
fundamental antimatter research and dark matter detectors. It is still
growing and being developed as a commercial open source project, with a
strong developer presence and major operations in Hong Kong.


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Biography:

Mr. Bourdeauducq started studying FPGAs out of personal interest in
2007. He developed the first 100% open source system-on-chip RTL with
GPU-style graphics acceleration. Components of that system found many
different uses, and even ended up in the international space station in
2012. This opened the door to the development of scientific instruments
for research in physics, a topic that he always had been interested in.
In 2013, he founded M-Labs Ltd in Hong Kong. The company is the main
developer of the ARTIQ control system for quantum physics experiments.
Mr. Bourdeauducq is French, and holds an engineer's degree from Supélec
and a MSc from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.