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Events During the 2022 Spring Semester
January 2022
- Saturday, January 8th
- Iskandar Sitdikov, Qiskit Developer Community Advocate at IBM Quantum
- UChicago Research Computing Center and Quantum Society: Introduction to Quantum Computing Platforms and Software with IBM
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; virtual , hosted by CQE
- Saturday, January 15th
- TBD
- UChicago Research Computing Center and Quantum Society: Introduction to Quantum Computing Platforms and Software with TBD
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual, hosted by CQE
- Tuesday, January 18th
- Henry Yuen, Columbia University
- IQUIST Seminar: Henry Yuen
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; virtual: ttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzAySwQXF8J4kRolUzg2ww, hosted by IQUIST
- Wednesday, January 19th
- Nir Minerbi, CEO, Classiq
- Workshop on the Future of Quantum Software Development
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Virtual, contact CQE to register (see abstract for details), hosted by CQE
- Saturday, January 22nd
- TBD
- UChicago Research Computing Center and Quantum Society: Introduction to Quantum Computing Platforms and Software with TBD
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; virtual, hosted by CQE
- Tuesday, January 25th
- Luis Sanchez-Soto, Complutense University of Madrid
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- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; virtual, see abstract for details, hosted by IQUIST
- Luis Sanchez-Soto, Complutense University of Madrid
- Achieving the Ultimate Timing Resolution
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm;
- Wednesday, January 26th
- Pranav Gokhale, Co-founder and CEO of Super.tech & Victory Omole, Software Engineer at Super.tech
- UChicago Research Computing Center and Quantum Society: Introduction to Quantum Computing Platforms and Software with Super.tech, Overview of SuperstaQ
- 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm;
- Friday, January 28th
- various, NSF MRSEC
- MRSEC Science Slam
- 9:30 am - 2:30 pm; register at , hosted by NSF MRSEC
- Saturday, January 29th
- Kanav Setia, qBraid CEO
- UChicago Research Computing Center and Quantum Society: Introduction to Quantum Computing Platforms and Software with qBriad
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Virtual, hosted by CQE
- Kanav Setia, qBraid CEO
- UChicago Research Computing Center and Quantum Society: Introduction to Quantum Computing Platforms and Software with qBraid, Overview of qBraid Platform
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm;
February 2022
- Tuesday, February 1st
- Aaron Reinhard, Kenyon College
- Coherent Control of Processes that Break the Dipole Blockade
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm;
- Thursday, February 3rd
- Andrei Derevianko, University of Nevada, Reno
- CANCELLED.
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; CANCELLED, hosted by Mark Saffman
- Justyna Zwolak, NIST
- Cancelled
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Cancelled, hosted by Mark Eriksson
- Friday, February 4th
- Jeff Thompson, Princeton
- Quantum computing with neutral Yb atoms
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Shimon Kolkowitz
- Tuesday, February 8th
- Ilya Esterlis, Harvard University
- Novel optical probes in the study of condensed matter systems
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Robert McDermott
- Jens Koch, Northwestern University
- IQUIST seminar: "Next generation superconducting qubits for quantum computing"
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm;
- Thursday, February 10th
- Bei Zeng, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- NISQ: Error Correction, Mitigation, and Noise Simulation
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; virtual: , hosted by Mark Saffman
- Tuesday, February 15th
- Bin Yan, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Quantum randomness: from chaos to quantum computing
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Robert McDermott
- Thursday, February 17th
- Jun-Ru Li, JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, Boulder
- Tuning dipolar interactions between molecules for novel dynamics
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Mark Saffman
- Friday, February 18th
- Daniel Agterberg, UW-Milwaukee
- The key symmetries of superconductivity
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko
- Tuesday, February 22nd
- Jonah Waissman, Harvard University
- Embarking on a Thermal Journey in Low Dimensions with a 21st century thermometer: Graphene Nonlocal Noise
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Robert McDermott
- Thursday, February 24th
- Yunqiu Kelly Luo, Cornell University
- Spintronics with 2D and Topological Materials: Outstanding Opportunities in van der Waals Heterostructures
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Robert McDermott
March 2022
- Tuesday, March 1st
- Ben Wieder, MIT
- Unraveling the Bulk and Surface Theories of Helical Higher-Order Topological Insulators
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Robert McDermott
- Thursday, March 3rd
- Sophia Economou, Virginia Tech
- How to create and leverage many-body entanglement for near-term quantum networks and simulation
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Mark Saffman
- Edwin Barnes, Virginia Tech
- Quantum computing with semiconductor spins
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Mark Saffman
- Tuesday, March 8th
- Roman Kuzmin, University of Maryland
- Simulating quantum many-body phenomena with superconducting qubits
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Mark Saffman
- Shimon Kolkowitz, UW–Madison Physics
- A Brief History of Time(keeping): Optical atomic clocks and their applications
- 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; UW Space Place, 2300 S. Park St or live on their YouTube Channel. See for details., hosted by UW Space Place
- Thursday, March 10th
- Shubhayu Chatterjee, University of California Berkeley
- Skyrmion pairing: a topological route to superconductivity
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Robert McDermott
- Sunday, March 13th
- various, various
- Quantum education open house at APS March Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm; Visit for more info, hosted by CQE
- Friday, March 25th
- Hannes Bernien and Kevin Singh (UChicago), Alex Levchenko (UW-Madison)
- HQAN Quantum Research Colloquium
- 9:00 am - 10:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin
April 2022
- Friday, April 1st
- Elizabeth Goldschmidt (UIUC), Edgar Solomonik (UIUC)
- HQAN Quantum Research Colloquium
- 9:00 am - 10:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin
- Smitha Vishveshwara, UIUC
- Exploring anyons and black holes-like dynamics in flatland
- 3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko
- Saturday, April 2nd
- various, HQAN
- HQAN visit to UChicago
- 9:00 am - 9:00 pm; to indicate interest: , hosted by HQAN
- Tuesday, April 5th
- Sue Coppersmith, UNSW Sydney
- Quantum stochastic resonance of individual Fe atoms
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Eriksson
- Friday, April 8th
- Gregory Boebinger, NHMFL-FSU
- Exploring the Heart of Quantum Matter with Extreme Magnetic Fields
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko
- Friday, April 15th
- Angela Kou (UIUC), Smitha Vishveshwara (UIUC)
- HQAN Quantum Research Colloquium
- 9:00 am - 10:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin
- Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford University
- Atoms Interlinked by Light: Programmable Interactions and Emergent Geometry
- 3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Shimon Kolkowitz
- Thursday, April 21st
- Prineha Narang, Department of Computational Materials Science John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University
- Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction: Second Annual Symposium Keynote Address
- 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm; for details, see: , hosted by enter for Molecular Quantum Transduction
- Friday, April 22nd
- Various, Various
- Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction: Second Annual Symposium
- 9:00 am - 4:30 pm; , hosted by Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction
- Tuesday, April 26th
- A. Ravi P. Rau, Louisiana State University
- IQUIST seminar: Qubit symmetries, combinatorial designs, and a rainbow of four basic colors: Common Patterns
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; , hosted by IQUIST
- Wednesday, April 27th
- Ro Jefferson, Nordita
- Quantum field theory and deep neural networks
- 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 (Zoom link for those attending online: ), hosted by Gary Shiu
May 2022
- Tuesday, May 3rd
- Wolfgang Tittel, QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft Technical University, The Netherlands
- Quantum network technology: the second life of rare-earth crystals
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; for zoom link: , hosted by PME/UChicago
- Barbara A. Jones, Quantum Applications in Physical and Life Sciences, IBM Research Almaden
- Simulation of some Open Quantum Systems on Near-term Quantum Computers
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; virtual, for joining info see: , hosted by IQUIST
- Friday, May 6th
- Jack Harris, Yale
- The topology of tuning a non-Hermitian instrument: knots, braids, and exceptional points
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Shimon Kolkowitz
- Wednesday, May 11th
- Dr. Kathy-Anne Soderberg , Air Force Research Lab (AFRL)
- Quantum Networking at AFRL
- 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Tuesday, May 17th
- Ernst Maria Rasel, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany
- Exploring quantum gases for space-borne and terrestrial interferometry
- 10:00 am - 11:00 pm; for full info: , hosted by PME/UChicago
- Wednesday, May 18th
- Michael Lubasch, Cambridge Quantum Computing, Ltd.
- Variational Quantum Algorithms for Nonlinear Problems
- 10:30 am - 11:30 am; For full info: , hosted by Argonne