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 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
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