qGAP seminar series: Reinforcement learning for quantum control

Professor Morten Hjorth-Jensen: Quantum control is essential for quantum technologies, but designing optimal control protocols can be challenging. Reinforcement learning offers a powerful way for algorithms to discover control strategies through interaction with a quantum system. This talk provides a pedagogical introduction to these ideas and their role in modern quantum technologies.

Relevant references are:

  • Reinforcement Learning for Quantum Technology, by Marin Bukov and Florian Marquardt, arXiv:2601.18953.
  • Model-aware reinforcement learning for high-performance Bayesian experimental design in quantum metrology, by Federico Belliardo, Fabio Zoratti, Florian Marquardt, and Vittorio Giovannetti, Quantum 8, 1555 (2024).

About the qGAP seminar series

We aim to have a biweekly research seminar, with various people presenting research results, or discussing papers in a journal club style.

Every other week, however, we will have Francesco Massel from USN leading a discussion-style journal club on theoretical quantum sensing.

You can find the approximate schedule for what will be discussed in the various weeks here: Lecture plan Sensing theory.xlsx 

Ideally, everyone would have read the weekly reading before coming to the seminar, as they will be structured as a discussion rather than a lecture. We particularly encourage Master's students to come.

The seminars are at 14.15 in the CCSE seminar room (4th floor Physics building, East Wing), as per usual

If you have something you would like to present (whether own research or a journal-club style talk), please do not hesitate to get in touch!

A Zoom link for the seminar is available from: 

Contact: Gunnar Lange - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oslo

Published Mar. 16, 2026 10:42 AM - Last modified Mar. 16, 2026 10:42 AM