2019 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.

2019 talks are listed in date order from January through December. Abstracts of 2019 talks are available as a PDF here.

IQIM Seminar Archive by Year

Date	Speaker	Talk Title
December 13	Srujan Meesala, Postdoctoral Scholar, Painter Group	Tailoring interactions between a diamond color center and phonons
December 6	Kohtaro Kato, Postdoctoral Scholar, Brandao Group	Fusion rules from entanglement
November 22	Alex Thomson, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics	Recovery of massless Dirac fermions at charge neutrality in strongly interacting twisted bilayer graphene with disorder
November 15	Kevin Satzinger, Google *Talk will be in 105 Annenberg	Quantum Supremacy: Understanding and Calibrating the Sycamore Processor
November 8	András Gilyén, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Vidick/Preskill group	Quantum-inspired classical sampling algorithms for machine learning
November 1	John Martinis, Research Scientist and Professor of Physics Google and UCSB	Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
October 25	Alireza Marandi, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics	Networks of Optical Parametric Oscillators: From Ising Machines to Quantum Photonic Engineering
October 18	Refael Jaramillo, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, MIT	Defect-Level Switching: A New Mechanism for Electronic Devices
October 11	Hannes Pichler, Moore Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics	Towards quantum information processing with arrays of Rydberg atoms
August 22	Gianmaria Durastante, Graduate Student, IQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences – Talk is at 12 noon	Dipolar Quantum Mixtures of Erbium and Dysprosium: a new tool for quantum simulation
August 2	Jee Woo Park, Postdoctoral Scholar, Seoul National University – Talk is at 2 pm	Experiments with strongly interacting Fermi gases of atoms and molecules
July 29	Wei Chen, Professor, PUC-Rio – Talk is at 3 pm	Universality classes of topological phase transitions
June 20	Aishwarya Kumar, Graduate Student, Weiss Group, Pennsylvania State University – Talk begins at 11:30 am in 469 Lauritsen	Neutral atom quantum computing: Quantum gates and Maxwell’s demon
June 7	Oleg Kabernik, Graduate Student, Raussendorf Group, University of British Columbia	Operator Algebras in Quantum Theory: A Practical Perspective
May 31	Jinsoo Park, Graduate Student, Bernardi Group & Jin-Jian Zhou, Postdoctoral Scholar, Bernardi Group	Ab initio electronic T1 spin relaxation times in silicon and diamond & Computing charge transport in materials from first principles
May 24	Hakan Türeci, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University	Quantum Electrodynamics of Superconducting Circuits
May 17	Richard Kueng, Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Preskill and Tropp groups	Projected least squares: a numerically cheap quantum tomography procedure with optimal error bounds
May 10	Special IQIM Seminar, Peter Rabl, Assistant Professor, TU Wien – Talk is at 3 pm	PT-symmetry breaking in microscopic gain-loss systems
May 10	Philip Stamp, Professor, University of British Columbia	Entanglement, Decoherence & Quantum Ising Systems
May 3	Special IQIM Seminar, Andreas Wallraff, Professor for Solid State Physics, ETH Zurich – Talk is at 3 pm	Single Photon Detectors, Parity Measurements and Heralded Cat States in the Microwave Domain
May 3	Alexander Kemper, Assistant Professor, NC State University	Room temperature photo-induced electron-hole gas-to-liquid transition in 2D materials
April 26	Daniel Riedel, Postdoctoral Scholar in Applied Physics & Materials Science, Faraon Group	Increasing spin-photon interface efficiencies via a tunable Fabry-Perot microcavity
April 19	Hechen Ren, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Nadj-Perge Group	Probing Topological Superconductivity in a Phase-Controlled Planar Josephson Junction
April 12	Xiao-Gang Wen, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, * Note: Talk will be in 201 E. Bridge, with lunch available after the talk in 114 E. Bridge	Emergent higher symmetry in topological phases of matter
April 5	Jon Kindem, Postdoctoral Scholar, Faraon Group	Quantum Nanophotonics with Ytterbium in Yttrium Orthovanadate
March 15	Anand Natarajan, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Vidick Group	Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Entangled XOR Games
Thursday, March 7	Special IQIM/AMO seminar – Matt Nichols, Graduate Student, MIT * Note: Talk location is 469 Lauritsen	Probing the 2D Fermi-Hubbard Model Under a Quantum Gas Microscope
March 1	Lightning Round – Victor Albert, Kevin Slagle
February 22	Talk cancelled on February 22
February 8	Student Seminar: Alex Dalzell, Brandao Group and Robbie Polski, Nadj-Perge Group	Dalzell – Approximating 1D ground states with MPS: Trading locality for better bond dimension; Polski -Proximity effect in 2D van der Waals
February 1	Nathan Shammah, Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN, Japan	Collective and local effects in the driven-dissipative dynamics of many-body quantum systems
January 25, 2019	Andrea Coladangelo, Graduate Student, Vidick Group	Unconditional separation of finite and infinite-dimensional quantum correlations
January 11, 2019	Patrick Lee, William & Emma Rogers Professor of Physics, MIT	Physics archaeology: unearthing a 45 year old quantum spin liquid