2016 IQIM Seminars
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminars Archive
The IQIM Weekly Postdoc/Grad Student Seminar is a student-run series focused on sharing work done across the IQIM group. The Friday gathering also offers a chance to interact with other research groups in informal discussions.
If you are interesed in presenting, please contact Tejas Deshpande
A list of all talks, including upcoming speakers can be found at on the Caltech master calendar.
2016 talks are listed in date order from January through December. Abstracts of 2016 talks are available as a PDF here.
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| Date | Speaker | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| December 2, 2016 | Aram Harrow, MIT Note Special Time ** Talk begins at 3 pm in 114 E. Bridge ** | Local Hamiltonians Whose Ground States are Hard to Approximate |
| November 21, 2016 | Guanyu Zhu, Joint Quantum Institute (NIST-University of Maryland) ** Note Special Date and Time, Monday 11/21 beginning at 2 pm in 114 E. Bridge ** | Entanglement Spectroscopy of Quantum Many-body Systems |
| November 18, 2016 | Hannes Pichler, AMP, Harvard-Smithsonian, Center for Astrophysics ** Note Special time beginning at 2 pm in 114 E. Bridge ** |
Measurement protocols for entanglement entropies and entanglement spectra of cold atoms |
| November 11, 2016 | Shenghan Jiang, Graduate Student, Boston College |
Classification and simulation of quantum phases by symmetric tensor networks |
| November 4, 2016 | John Bartholomew, Postdoctoral Scholar in Applied Physics and Materials Science, Faraon Group | Rare-earth ions in crystals for integrating quantum resources |
| October 21, 2016 | Alon Ron, Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar, Hsieh Group | 2D to 1D Oxide interfaces: superconductivity, magnetism and ballistic transport effects |
| October 7, 2016 | Liyuan Zhao, Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar, Hsieh Group | An Odd-Parity Hidden Order in a Perovskite Iridate Revealed Using Nonlinear Optics |
| Thursday, Sept 29, 2016 | Jacob Covey, Graduate Student, Jun Ye’s Group JILA/University of Colorado, Boulder | A quantum gas of polar KRb molecules in an optical lattice |
| June 17, 2016 | Paraj Titum Bhattacharjee, Graduate Student, Refael Group | Anomalous Floquet-Anderson Insulator as a Nonadiabatic Quantized Charge Pump |
| June 3, 2016 | Sujeet Shukla, Graduate Student, Preskill Group | Boson condensation and instability in the tensor network representation of topological states |
| May 27, 2016 | Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar | Many-body localization: a dynamical perspective |
| May 20, 2016 | Michael Kolodrubetz, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley | Unexpected effects in periodic driving of gapless topological systems |
| April 29, 2016 | Stefanos Kourtis, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton | Spectroscopic signatures of Weyl semimetals beyond photoemission |
| April 22, 2016 | Alejandro González-Tudela, Postdoctoral Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics | Atom waveguide QED for efficient multiphoton sources |
| April 15, 2016 | Alberto de la Torre, Postdoctoral Scholar, Hsieh Group | Spectroscopic studies of layered iridium oxides |
| April 1, 2016 | Andy Lucas, Graduate Student, Subir Sachdev’s group, Harvard University | Revealing the Dirac fluid in graphene |
| March 2016 | Break for APS March Meeting | |
| February 26, 2016 | Charles Cao, Graduate Student, Physics, Caltech | Casimir Effect, Theta Vacuum and Topological Order in QED |
| February 19, 2016 | Hannah Price, Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow, INO-CNR BEC Center, Università di Trento in Italy | Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect with Ultracold Atoms |
| February 17, 2016 | Barak Dayan, Senior Scientist, Quantum Optics Group, Weizmann Institute of Science | Demonstration of Deterministic Photon-Atom and Photon-Photon Interactions based on Single-Photon Raman Interaction (SPRINT) |
| February 5, 2016 | Charles Edouard Bardyn, Postdoctoral Scholar, Condensed Matter Theory | Exponential Lifetime Improvement in Topological Quantum Memories |
| January 22, 2016 | Boris Braverman, Graduate Student, Vladan Vuletić Group, MIT | Progress toward a spin squeezed 171Yb optical atomic clock |
| January 8, 2016 | Anna Komar, Graduate Student, Preskill Group | An Energy Barrier is Necessary for the Thermal Stability of Stabilizer Quantum Memories |