R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminars |
Events During the 2016 Fall Semester
August 2016
- Thursday, August 4th
- Condensed Matter Theory Thesis Defense
- Friday, August 26th
- Dr. Neil Curson , University College London
- Atomic and nanoscale donor devices in silicon: Progress towards fabrication and characterisation
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Eriksson
September 2016
- Thursday, September 15th
- Hari Krovi, BBN Technologies
- Quantum annealing--advantages and pitfalls
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Vavilov
- Friday, September 30th
- Jennifer Choy, Draper Laboratory
- Engineering light-matter interactions with atom-like systems
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by McDermott
October 2016
- Thursday, October 6th
- Vadim Smelyanskyi, Google
- Scaling analysis and instantons for quantum spin tunneling and Quantum Monte Carlo simulations
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamerlin Hall, hosted by Vavilov
- Friday, October 14th
- Ying Liu , Penn State
- Nanostructured topological superconductors
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Mark Friesen
- Thursday, October 20th
- Dr. Emile Hoskinson , D-Wave Systems
- Building a quantum annealing processor
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by McDermott
- Thursday, October 27th
- Vladimir Manucharyan, University of Maryland
- Suppression of energy relaxation in a superconducting qubit by the spectrum engineering
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall , hosted by Alex Levchenko
November 2016
- Friday, November 4th
- Dr. József Fortágh, Universität Tübingen
- Interfacing cold atoms and superconductors
- 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Saffman
- Thursday, November 10th
- David Schuster, University of Chicago
- Quantum FM radio for Quantum Computing
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by McDermott
- Thursday, November 17th
- Mostafa Khezri , UC Riverside
- Measurement of superconducting qubits
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Vavilov
- Monday, November 28th
- John Nichol, University of Rochester
- High-fidelity entangling gate for double-quantum-dot spin qubits
- 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Eriksson
December 2016
- Thursday, December 1st
- Evan MacQuarrie, Cornell University
- Controlling Spin Qubits in Diamond with a Mechanical Resonator
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Eriksson
- Thursday, December 8th
- Matthew Foster, Rice University
- Universal transport at the edge: Disorder, interactions, and topological protection
- 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310, hosted by Alex Levchenko
- Thursday, December 15th
- Nicholas Sedlmayr, Michigan State University
- The Superconductivity of Topologically Protected Surface States
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko