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.

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
Tuesday September 8, 2020 1:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
The representation theory of the Clifford group, with sundry applications
Speaker: David Gross, University of Cologne
Location: Online Event
Tuesday August 25, 2020 1:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Covariant Quantum Error Correcting Codes via Reference Frames
Speaker: Mischa Woods, ETH Zürich
Location: Online Event
Tuesday August 18, 2020 2:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
New perspectives on covariant quantum error correction
Speaker: Sisi Zhou, Yale University
Location: Online Event
Tuesday August 11, 2020 2:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Holographic baby universes: an observable story
Speaker: Monica Kang, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday June 19, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Time-reversal-invariant topological superconductors and the fractional Josephson effect
Speaker: Christina Knapp
Location: Online Event
Friday June 5, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
The ghost in the radiation: Robust encodings of the black hole interior.
Speaker: Eugene Tang
Location: Online Event
Friday May 29, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Investigating superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene (TBG)
Speaker: Harpreet Singh Arora
Location: Online Event
Friday May 22, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Fractonic order
Speaker: Wilbur Shirley
Location: Online Event
Friday May 8, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Simulating the collapse of false-vacuum bubbles in spin chains
Speaker: Ash Milsted
Location: Online Event
Friday April 24, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Harvesting proximity effect in 2D Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Heterostructures for Spin and Valleytronics
Speaker: Ding Zhong
Location: Online Event
Friday April 17, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Predicting Many Properties of a Quantum System from Very Few Measurements
Speaker: Hsin-Yuan (Robert) Huang
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 9, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Teleportation by size, traversable wormholes, and quantum gravity in the lab
Speaker: Sepehr Ghazi Nezami
Location: Online Event
Friday March 13, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
CANCELED: Challenges to the implementation of superconducting qubits due to microscopic phenomena inherent to superconducting films
Speaker: Lara Faoro, CNRS (Paris) and University of Madison Wisconsin
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Friday March 6, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum Matter and Metrology far from Equilibrium
Speaker: Norman Yao, University of California, Berkeley
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday February 28, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Lightning Round - APS style talks
Speaker:
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday February 25, 2020 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Quantum East model: localization, non-thermal eigenstates and slow dynamics
Speaker: Nicola Pancotti, Max Planck
Location: Annenberg 121
Wednesday February 19, 2020 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantifying quantum speedups: improved classical simulation from tighter magic monotones
Speaker: Earl Campbell, University of Sheffield
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday February 14, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Creating Quantum Topological Materials with 3D Microwave Photons
Speaker: Clai Owens
Location: Keck 142
Wednesday February 12, 2020 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Efficient Learning of Quantum Noise
Speaker: Steve Flammia, University of Sydney
Location: Annenberg 314
Tuesday February 11, 2020 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Classical Coding Approaches to Quantum Applications
Speaker: Narayanan Rengaswamy, Duke University
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday February 7, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Conformal field theories are magical
Speaker: Christopher White, University of Maryland Condensed Matter Theory Center
Location: East Bridge 114
Wednesday February 5, 2020 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Fault-tolerant quantum error correction in bosonic systems
Speaker: Kyungjoo Noh, Yale University
Location: Annenberg 314
Friday January 31, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum metrology with strongly interacting spin systems
Speaker: Joonhee Choi
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday January 28, 2020 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Approximate Bacon-Shor Code and Holography
Speaker: Charles Cao, QuICS, University of Maryland
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday January 24, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Cooperative and Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling in Solids
Speaker: Xinwei Li
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday January 21, 2020 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Using redundant ancilla encoding and flags for low overhead magic state preparation
Speaker: Christopher Chamberland, Amazon Quantum Group
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday January 17, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Robust encoding of a qubit in a molecule
Speaker: Victor Albert
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday December 13, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Tailoring interactions between a diamond color center and phonons
Speaker: Srujan Meesala
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday December 9, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Toward End-to-End Quantum Applications
Speaker: Xiaodi Wu, University of Maryland
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday December 6, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Fusion rules from entanglement
Speaker: Kohtaro Kato
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday November 26, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction in Infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces with Tensor Networks
Speaker: Monica Jinwoo Kang, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday November 22, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Recovery of massless Dirac fermions at charge neutrality in strongly interacting twisted bilayer graphene with disorder
Speaker: Alex Thomson
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday November 19, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Calculating Nature Naturally
Speaker: Natalie Klco, University of Washington
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday November 15, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum Supremacy: Understanding and Calibrating the Sycamore Processor
Speaker: Kevin Satzinger, Google AI Quantum
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 8, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum-inspired classical sampling algorithms for machine learning
Speaker: András Gilyen
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday November 5, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction and the Information Paradox
Speaker: Geoff Penington, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday November 1, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
Speaker: John Martinis
Location: Ramo Auditorium
Friday October 25, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Networks of Optical Parametric Oscillators: From Ising Machines to Quantum Photonic Engineering
Speaker: Alireza Marandi, Caltech
Location: East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Friday October 18, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Defect-Level Switching: A New Mechanism for Electronic Devices
Speaker: Rafael Jaramillo, MIT
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday October 1, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Automatic Tensor Network Contraction
Speaker: Johnnie Gray, Imperial College London
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday September 24, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Lower bounds on the non-Clifford resources for quantum computations
Speaker: Michael Beverland, Microsoft
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday September 12, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Construction and analysis of SU(3) spin liquids and resonating trimer models using Projected Entangled Pair States
Speaker: Norbert Schuch, Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday August 22, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Dipolar Quantum Mixtures of Erbium and Dysprosium: a new tool for quantum simulation
Speaker: Gianmaria Durastante, IQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Location: Lauritsen 469