As part of celebrating 10 years of work of the non-profit Association for Giftedness DAR, we will organize a lecture by PhD Mario Stipčević – CV: Received BSc in Theoretical Physics at the Zagreb University, Zagreb, Croatia, in 1991. Works at the Rudjer Boskovic Institute since 1991. The same year, the collaboration started in CERN’s experiment NOMAD. In 1992. He went on leave from RBI to Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Annecy, France, where he works on future LHC CERN experiments RD3 and ATLAS. He received a PhD in high-energy experimental physics at the Université de Savoie, Chambery, France, in 1994, and returned to the RBI, where he continues his research on neutrinos and axions. Since 1999, he has been a member of the OPERA neutrino oscillation collaboration.

In 2003, gained interest in quantum optics and quantum information: random numbers, quantum cryptography, quantum computing, and photon detectors. Since then, he has led several projects in that area, notably the World Bank-financed project “Quantum random bit generator” (2004-2005), Croatian Institute of Technology project “Photon detector” (2007-2010), and Ministry of Science research project “Experiments in quantum communication and quantum information” (2007-2014).

Fulbright scholarship winner at the University of California, Santa Barbara, for the academic year 2010/11 for research on Quantum computing (host Prof. D. Bouwmeester) and continues with a sabbatical at UCSB during the academic year. 2011/12, during which he works on DARPA project PICO (leader Professor J. Bowers at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.) and cryptography (with Professor C. K. Koc at the Computer Science Dept.). From 2012 to 2014, I collaborated on a DARPA program, InPho, within a project for ultra-fast quantum cryptography with hyperentangled photons, led by Prof. D. J. Gauthier from Duke University. Since 2014, he has led the photonics and quantum optics research unit of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials and Sensing Devices (CEMS) at RBI. By the end of 2017, I had authored 85 CC publications, 11 conference presentations, 20 other publications, and two patents.

Venue: Conference Hall of the European Commission Representation in the Republic of Croatia, House of Europe
Augusta Cesarca 4-6, 10 000 Zagreb.