IQIM Seminars

The IQIM seminar series features talks from researchers working at the intersection of physics and computer science on topics that surround quantum information and computation. It is organized by the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) and sponsored in part by the IST initiative.

Friday January 28, 2022 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Floquet engineering of quantum materials on demand
Speaker: Junyi Shan
Location: Online Event
Friday January 21, 2022 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Magnetism and Superconductivity in Crystalline Few-layer Graphene
Speaker: Haoxin Zhou
Location: Online Event
Friday January 14, 2022 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Clifford-deformed Surface Codes
Speaker: Arpit Dua
Location: Online Event
Friday December 17, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Engineering quantum matter in clean thin films
Speaker: Joseph Falson
Location: Online Event
Friday December 3, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Verification with Minimal Overhead, and Public Verification of Quantum Computation
Speaker: Dominik Leichtle, Sorbonne Université
Location: Online Event
Friday November 19, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Coherent light-matter interfaces with highly-excited thermal atoms
Speaker: Ran Finkelstein
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 17, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Concentration for Trotter error
Speaker: Anthony (Chi-Fang) Chen
Location: Online Event
Friday November 12, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum error correction meets continuous symmetries: fundamental trade-offs and case studies
Speaker: Sisi Zhou
Location: Online Event
Friday November 5, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Probing many-body quantum chaos in quantum simulators via randomized measurements
Speaker: Andreas Elben
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 3, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
A randomized quantum algorithm for statistical phase estimation
Speaker: Kianna Wan, Stanford
Location: Online Event
Friday October 29, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Improved quantum error correction using soft information
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 27, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Decoding the Entanglement Structure of Monitored Quantum Circuits
Speaker: Beni Yoshida, Perimeter Institute
Location: Online Event
Friday October 22, 2021 1:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Towards Many-Body Quantum Simulations of Interacting Bosons in Circuit QED
Speaker: Steven M. Girvin, Yale University
Location: Online and In-Person Event
Wednesday October 20, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor
Speaker: Vedika Khemani, Stanford
Location: Online Event
Friday October 15, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Probing Topological Phenomena in Time-Multiplexed Photonic Resonator Networks
Speaker: Christian Leefmans
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 13, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Abstract and physical constraints on quantum LDPC codes
Speaker: Anirudh Krishna, Stanford
Location: Online Event
Friday October 8, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Nuclear spin-wave quantum register for a rare-earth ion qubit
Speaker: Andrei Ruskuc
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 6, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Realization of real-time fault-tolerant quantum error correction
Speaker: Ciarán Ryan-Anderson, Honeywell Quantum Solutions
Location: Online Event
Friday October 1, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Permanent of random matrices from representation theory: moments, numerics, concentration, and comments on hardness of boson-sampling
Speaker: Sepehr Ghazi Nezami
Location: Online Event
Tuesday September 28, 2021 1:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Linear growth of quantum circuit complexity
Speaker: Jonas Haferkamp, Freie Universität Berlin
Location: Online Event
Wednesday September 22, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Practical quantum error correction with biased noise qubits and XZZX code
Speaker: Shruti Puri, Yale
Location: Online Event
Wednesday August 11, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Single-shot error correction and computation with the 3D subsystem toric code
Speaker: Aleksander Kubica, AWS Center for Quantum Computing
Location: Online Event
Friday June 4, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Polyatomic molecules for quantum science and fundamental physics
Speaker: Nick Hutzler
Location: Online Event
Friday May 28, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum Weak Coin Flipping—where weakness is a virtue
Speaker: Atul Singh Arora
Location: Online Event
Friday April 23, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Prethermalization and dynamics in topological SYK pumps
Speaker: Iliya Esin
Location: Online Event
Friday April 16, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Building a quantum computer with cat codes
Speaker: Fernando Brandão
Location: Online Event
Friday April 9, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Universal Lindblad Equation for Open Quantum Systems
Speaker: Frederik Nathan
Location: Online Event
Friday April 2, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Verifying quantum computations using interactive proofs
Speaker: Urmila Mahadev
Location: Online Event
Friday March 26, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Simulating Quantum Field Theories with Qubit Models
Speaker: Alex Buser
Location: Online Event
Friday March 12, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
APS March Meeting Talks
Speaker: Steven Wood, Shi-Ning Sun, Hyunjin Kim
Location: Online Event
Friday March 5, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Ultrafast strong-field-induced band engineering in Ca2RuO4
Speaker: Xinwei Li
Location: Online Event
Tuesday March 2, 2021 1:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Local Symmetric Quantum Circuits: How, in the presence of symmetry, locality restricts realizable unitaries
Speaker: Iman Marvian, Duke University
Location: Online Event
Friday February 26, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Fundamental aspects of solving quantum problems with machine learning
Speaker: Hsin Yuan (Robert) Huang
Location: Online Event
Tuesday February 16, 2021 1:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Classical and quantum communication through quantum fields
Speaker: Eduardo Martin-Martinez, University of Waterloo
Location: Online Event
Friday February 12, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
From quantum error correction to critical theories: A holographic journey
Speaker: Alexander Jahn
Location: Online Event
Friday January 29, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Using Metrological Bounds in Quantum Error Correction
Speaker: Aleksander Kubica
Location: Online Event
Friday December 18, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Post-Anthropocene Computation: Rewilding the Quantum Field
Speaker: Natalie Klco
Location: Online Event
Friday December 4, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Precise Calibrations of Few-Body Physics in Potassium-39
Speaker: Xin Xie
Location: Online Event
Tuesday December 1, 2020 1:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Quantum Simulation and Optimization in Near-Term Quantum Computers
Speaker: Leo Zhou, Harvard University
Location: Online Event
Friday November 20, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
A synthetic monopole source of Kalb-Ramond field in diamond
Speaker: Mo Chen
Location: Online Event
Friday November 13, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Hierarchy of light cones in power-law interacting systems: review of recent bounds and saturating protocols
Speaker: Chi-Fang (Anthony) Chen
Location: Online Event
Friday November 6, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum photonics with color qubits
Speaker: Chaitali Joshi
Location: Online Event
Friday October 30, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
A Theory of Trotter Error
Speaker: Yuan Su
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 28, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum simulation and quantum computation with programmable Rydberg atom arrays
Speaker: Harry Levine, Harvard University
Location: Online Event
Friday October 23, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Pairing in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene: role of phonon and plasmon umklapp
Speaker: Cyprian Lewandowski
Location: Online Event
Friday October 16, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Scrambling and Branching
Speaker: Yingfei Gu
Location: Online Event
Tuesday October 13, 2020 1:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
On the firewall puzzle
Speaker: Beni Yoshida, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Location: Online Event
Friday October 9, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum computation and "cyberpunkian" quantum field theory
Speaker: Junyu Liu
Location: Online Event
Tuesday September 22, 2020 1:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
1D Noisy Random Circuit Sampling & Experimental Aspects of Bosonic QEC
Speaker: Kyungjoo Noh, AWS Center for Quantum Computing
Location: Online Event
Tuesday September 15, 2020 2:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Improved thermal area law and quasi-linear time algorithm for quantum Gibbs states
Speaker: Anurag Anshu, Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo
Location: Online Event