2025 IQIM Seminars

IQIM Seminar Series

Mission

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 12:00 noon 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.

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.

Roland Farrell, Dubridge Postdoctoral Scholar
Isabel Franco, Graduate Student
Sophie Hermans, AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar
Gihwan Kim, Graduate Student
Liam O’Brien, Graduate Student
Chris Pattison, Graduate Student
Gal Shavit, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar
Nat Tantivasadakarn, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar

A list of all talks, including upcoming speakers can be found at on the Caltech institute calendar.

IQIM Seminar Archive by Year

Date	Speaker	Talk Title
January 16, 2026	Soonwon Choi, MIT
January 9, 2026	Shruti Puri, Yale
January 8, 2026	Joel Rajakumar, University of Maryland *This talks begins at 2:30 on Thursday, Jan. 8	Limitations of Noisy Geometrically Local Quantum Circuits
December 12	Nishad Maskara, MIT	Fast and scalable quantum simulation of fermionic systems
December 5	Yongtao Zhan, Preskill group	End-to-End Efficient Quantum Thermal and Ground State Preparation Made Simple
December 3	Nick Koukoulekidis, Duke	Gaussian Bosonic Dynamics in the Presence of Symmetry: Engineering, Monotones and Conservation Laws
November 21	Ting-Chun (David) Lin, UC San Diego	Entanglement Bootstrap and Conformal Field Theory
November 20	Ethan Lake, UC Berkeley	Local fault-tolerant error correction with simulated confinement
November 14	Zack Weinstein, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Alicea Group	Quantum Error Correction in Nearly Critical Toric Codes
November 13	Chi Fang (Anthony) Chen, UC Berkeley	An area law for metastable states
November 12	Kaavya Sahay, Yale	Fold-transversal surface code cultivation
November 7	Igor Pikovski, Stevens Institute of Technology	Testing Quantum Theory on Curved Space-Time with Atomic Clocks
October 31	Julio Magdalena, Freie Universitat Berlin	Planar fault-tolerant circuits for non-Clifford logic gates – decoding non-Abelian phases
October 30	Yihui Queck, EPFL	Quantum advantage from random geometrically-two-local Hamiltonian dynamics
October 24	Simon Evered, Harvard	Digital quantum simulation and error correction frontier with atom arrays
October 17	Hung-Yu Yang, UCLA	Engineering Coupled Quantum Interfaces for Superconducting Quantum Technologies
October 10	Alexey Khudorozhkov	Prethermal dynamical regimes and resonant melting in quenched quantum matter
September 19	Tibor Rakovszky, Budapest University of Technology and Economics	Finite-Temperature Quantum Topological Order in Three Dimensions
September 5	Shraddha Anand, University of Chicago	Dual-species Rydberg arrays for quantum information and simulation
August 5	Simon Hollerith, Harvard	Continuous operation of a coherent 3,000-qubit system
July 28	Cissy Suen, Max Plank Institute & University of British Columbia	Observing the electronic response of a Mott insulator at a current-induced insulator-to-metal transition using transport-ARPES
July 11	Madelyn Cain, Harvard	Fault-tolerant computation and decoding with neutral atoms
June 27	Bankim Chandra Das, Weizmann Institute	Quantum vortices of photons
May 30	Gyorgy Geher, Riverlane	To reset, or not to reset — that is the question
May 21	John Bostanci, Yuen Group, Columbia	Quantum lightning from non-Abelian group actions
May 16	Ruslan Shaydulin, JPMorganChase	Certified randomness using a trapped-ion quantum processor
May 2	Yarden Sheffer, Weizmann Institute	Extracting the topological spins from bulk multipartite entanglement
April 30	Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard	Topological Criticality and Anyon Superconductivity: Two Routes to Beyond BCS Superconductors
April 25	Lewis Picard, Lee Postdoctoral Scholar, Endres Group	Control, Readout, and Entanglement of Molecular Qubits
April 18	Frank Verstraete, University of Ghent, University of Cambridge	Jordan-Wigner transformations on the torus
March 21	No IQIM seminar due to APS meeting
March 14	Kaixiang Su, UC Santa Barbara	Emergent Gauge Fields and the “Choi-Spin Liquids” in Steady States
March 11	Thais de Lima Silva, Technology Innovation Institute (TII Abu Dhabi)	Quantum Matrix Processing: Complexity and Application to Partition Function Estimation
March 7	Ingo Roth, Technology Innovation Institute (TII Abu Dhabi)	Quantum device characterization of and with gate-dependent noise
March 4	Tobias Haug,Technology Innovation Institute (TTII Abu Dhabi)	Exploring the magic of quantum computers and many-body systems
February 28	Tommaso Chiarotti,Postdoctoral Scholar,Bernardi Group	Addressing the electronic structure and transport properties of correlated materials from first principles
February 21	Gautam Venugopalan, Stanford	Precision tests of gravity on the table top
February 7	James Analytis, UC Berkeley	Frustrated Quantum Devices: understanding how correlations, complex order and boundary states manifest in novel material functionalities
January 31	Chengyi Luo, AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar, Faraon Group	Many-body Interactions between Matter Waves Mediated by a High Finesse Cavity
January 24	Sylvia Klare Lewin, NIST	High-field superconductivity in UTe2
January 17, 2025	Andrey Baydin, Rice University	Magnetic Control of Chiral Phonons and Deep-Strong Light-Matter Coupling