2021 IQIM Seminars
IQIM Seminar Series
Mission
Currently, all seminars are virtual. The IQIM Seminar Series is a weekly event providing an overview of the different activities conducted within the IQIM through informal, accessible talks. Graduate students, post-docs and faculty are brought together to keep to date with progress in the different branches of the IQIM, with an opportunity for additional, informal discussions, via breakout rooms following the talk.
Visit qse.caltech.edu for a list of all upcoming talks related to Quantum Science and Engineering.
When, what, where
*Fridays, at 11:00 am PST
Information for Speakers
Because of the varying backgrounds in the IQIM community, talks are welcome to be kept as simple as possible and on a high level. Speakers are encouraged to spend half of their presentation providing a fleshed-out introduction of their field to the full IQIM community, introducing and motivating all the relevant concepts and allowing the full audience to appreciate the importance of the presented results. A focus on a strong take-home message is usually preferable over detailed coverage of all latest results. We invite talks to target a length of 30 min, bearing in mind that informality and interactivity with the audience are generally welcome and that the presentation length may in consequence naturally be prolonged to some extent. Questions and additional discussions may furthermore continue following the talk, in the breakout rooms.
Organizing Committee
The IQIM Seminar Series is organized by a committee of graduate students and postdocs. Contact any one of us if you have any questions or wish to participate.
- Alex Dalzell, Graduate Student
- Alexander Jahn, IT from Qubit Postdoctoral Scholar
- Liam O’Brien, Graduate Student
- Chris Pattison, Graduate Student
- Robbie Polski, Graduate Student
- Andrei Ruskuc, Graduate Student
- Grant Salton, Visitor, Research Scientist Amazon Web Services
- Yiran Zhang, Graduate Student
- Sisi Zhou, Postdoctoral Scholar
A list of all talks, including upcoming speakers can be found at on the Caltech master calendar.
IQIM Seminar Archive by Year
- Current Seminar Schedule and Abstracts
- 2023 Seminar Schedule and Abstracts
- 2022 Seminar Schedule and Abstracts
- 2021 Seminar Schedule and Abstracts
- 2020 Seminar Schedule and Abstracts
- 2019 Seminar Schedule and Abstracts
- 2018 Seminar Schedule and Abstracts
- 2017 Seminar Schedule and Abstracts
- 2016 Seminar Schedule and Abstracts
- 2015 Seminar Schedule and Abstracts
- 2014 Seminar Abstracts
- 2013 Seminar Abstracts
- 2012 Seminar Abstracts
- 2011 Seminar Abstracts
| Date | Speaker | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 17 |
Joseph Falson, Assistant Professor of Materials Science; William H. Hurt Scholar |
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| Dec 3 |
Dominik Leichtle, Sorbonne Université |
Verification with Minimal Overhead, and Public Verification of Quantum Computation |
| Nov 19 |
Ran Finkelstein, Troesh Postdoctoral Scholar, Endres Group |
Coherent light-matter interfaces with highly-excited thermal atoms |
| Nov 17 |
Anthony (Chi Fang) Chen, Graduate Student, Brandao/ Preskill Group |
IQIM/AWS Seminar: Concentration for Trotter error |
| Nov 12 |
Sisi Zhou, Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group |
Quantum error correction meets continuous symmetries: fundamental trade-offs and case studies |
| Nov 5 |
Andreas Elben, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group |
Probing many-body quantum chaos in quantum simulators via randomized measurements |
| Nov 3 |
Kianna Wan, Stanford |
IQIM/AWS Seminar: A randomized quantum algorithm for statistical phase estimation |
| Oct 29 |
Chris Pattison, Graduate Student, Preskill Group |
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| Oct 27 | Beni Yoshida, Perimeter Institute |
IQIM/AWS Seminar: Decoding the Entanglement Structure of Monitored Quantum Circuits |
| Oct 22 |
Steven Girvin, Department of Physics and Yale Quantum Institute, Yale University |
Towards Many-Body Quantum Simulations of Interacting Bosons in Circuit QED |
| Oct 20 | Vedika Khemani, Assistant Professor of Physics, Stanford | IQIM/AWS Seminar: Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor |
| Oct 15 | Christian Leefman, Graduate Student, Marandi Group | Probing Topological Phenomena in Time-Multiplexed Photonic Resonator Networks |
| Oct 13 | Anirudh Krishna, Bloch Postdoctoral Fellow in quantum science and engineering, Stanford | IQIM/AWS Seminar: Abstract and physical constraints on quantum LDPC codes |
| Oct 8 | Andrei Ruskuc, Graduate Student, Faraon Group | Nuclear spin-wave quantum register for a rare-earth ion qubit |
| Oct 6 | Ciarán Ryan-Anderson, Honeywell Quantum Solutions | IQIM/AWS Seminar: Realization of real-time fault-tolerant quantum error correction |
| Oct 1 | Sepehr Ghazi Nezami, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group | Permanent of random matrices from representation theory: moments, numerics, concentration, and comments on hardness of boson-sampling |
| Sept 22 | Shruti Puri, Yale |
IQIM/AWS Seminar: Practical quantum error correction with biased noise qubits and XZZX code |
| Sept 15 | Kristan Temme, IBM Research |
IQIM/AWS Seminar: Recent progress in quantum error mitigation and a review of quantum kernel methods |
| Sept 1 | Angelo Lucia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid | IQIM/AWS Seminar: Thermalization in Kitaev’s quantum double models via Tensor Network techniques |
| Aug 25 | Jeongwan Haah, Microsoft Research |
IQIM/AWS Seminar: Dynamically Generated Logical Qubits |
| Aug 11 | Aleksander Kubica, AWS |
IQIM/AWS Seminar: Single-shot error correction and computation with the 3D subsystem toric code |
| June 4 | Nick Hutzler, Assistant Professor of Physics |
Polyatomic molecules for quantum science and fundamental physics |
| May 28 | Atul Singh Arora, Postdoctoral Scholar, Vidick Group | Quantum Weak Coin Flipping—where weakness is a virtue |
| April 23 | Iliya Esin, Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group | Prethermalization and dynamics in topological SYK pumps |
| April 16 | Fernando Brandao Bren Professor of Theoretical Physics, Head of Quantum Algorithms AWS |
Building a quantum computer with cat codes |
| April 9 | Frederik Nathan, Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group | Universal Lindblad Equation for Open Quantum Systems |
| April 2 | Urmila Mahadev, Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences |
Verifying quantum computations using interactive proofs |
| March 26 | Alex Buser, Graduate Student, Preskill Group | Simulating Quantum Field Theories with Qubit Models |
| March 12 | APS March Meeting Talks – Steven Wood, Shi-Ning Sun, Hyunjin Kim – register for the zoom link here | APS March Meeting Talks – follow this link for full abstracts |
| March 5 | Xinwei Li, Troesh Postdoctoral Scholar, Hsieh Group | Ultrafast strong-field-induced band engineering in Ca2RuO4 |
| February 26, 2021 | Hsin Yuan (Robert) Huang, Graduate Student, Preskill, Vidick Groups | Fundamental aspects of solving quantum problems with machine learning |
| February 19, 2021 | Soudabeh Mashhadi, Postdoctoral Scholar, Nadj-Perge Group | Proximity effects in α-RuCl3/graphene heterostructures |
| February 12, 2021 | Alexander Jahn, Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group | From quantum error correction to critical theories: A holographic journey |
| January 29, 2021 | Aleksander Kubica, AWS Quantum Computing | |
| December 18, 2020 | Natalie Klco, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group | Post-Anthropocene Computation: Rewilding the Quantum Field |