2020 IQI Seminars

IQI: Institute for Quantum Information Weekly Seminars

The IQI Seminar Series provides an opportunity for colleagues in the research community to present recent work.

Unless otherwise noted, seminars are offered online on Tuesdays.

IQI Seminar Archive by Year

Date Speaker Talk Title & Link to Abstract
December 1, 2020 @ 1:00pm Leo Zhou, Graduate Student, Harvard University Quantum Simulation and Optimization in Near-Term Quantum Computers
October 13, 2020 @ 1:00pm Beni Yoshida, Junior Faculty, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics On the firewall puzzle
September 22, 2020 @ 1:00pm Kyungjoo Noh, Research Scientist, AWS Center for Quantum Computing
 1D Noisy Random Circuit Sampling & Experimental Aspects of Bosonic QEC
September 15, 2020 @ 2:00pm Anurag Anshu, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo Improved thermal area law and quasi-linear time algorithm for quantum Gibbs states
September 8, 2020 @ 1:00pm David Gross, University of Cologne
 The representation theory of the Clifford group, with sundry applications
August 25, 2020 @ 1:00pm Mischa Woods, ETH Zürich Covariant Quantum Error Correcting Codes via Reference Frames
August 18, 2020 @ 2:00pm Sisi Zhou, Graduate Student, Yale University New perspectives on covariant quantum error correction
August 11, 2020 @ 2:00pm Monica Kang, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,  Caltech Holographic baby universes: an observable story
February 25, 2020 – 121 Annenberg Nicola Pancotti, Graduate Student, Max Planck Quantum East model: localization, non-thermal eigenstates and slow dynamics
Wednesday, February 12, 2020 – 314 Annenberg Steve Flammia, Professor, University of Sydney Efficient Learning of Quantum Noise
February 11, 2020 Narayanan Rengaswamy, Graduate Student, Duke University Classical Coding Approaches to Quantum Applications
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 – 314 Annenberg Kyungjoo Noh, Graduate Student, Yale University Fault-tolerant quantum error correction in bosonic systems 
January 28, 2020 Charles Cao, Postdoctoral Fellow, QuICS, University of Maryland Approximate Bacon-Shor Code and Holography
January 21, 2020 Christopher Chamberland, Researcher, Amazon Quantum Group Using redundant ancilla encoding and flags for low overhead magic state preparation