Events Calendar
CQuIC Seminars
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Thursday January 25, 2024
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Variational Quantum Semi-definite Programming |
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| Presenter: |
Mark M. Wilde received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. He is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He is an IEEE Fellow, he is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Career Development Award, he is a co-recipient of the 2018 AHP-Birkhauser Prize, awarded to “the most remarkable contribution” published in the journal Annales Henri Poincare, and he is an Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society. His current research interests are in quantum Shannon theory, quantum computation, quantum optical communication, quantum computational complexity theory, and quantum error correction.
Picture available at https://markwilde.com/ |
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| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 7:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Opening the infrared treasure chest with JWST (or James Webb Space Telescope) |
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Dr. John C. Mather is a Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. His research centers on infrared astronomy and cosmology.
As Senior Project Scientist (95-present) for the James Webb Space Telescope, he leads the science team, and represents scientific interests within the project management. He has served on advisory and working groups for the National Academy of Sciences, NASA, and the NSF (for the ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, and for the CARA, the Center for Astrophysical Research in the Antarctic). He has received many awards including the Nobel Prize in Physics, 2006, for his precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation using the COBE satellite. |
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| Series: | Special Talk | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / youtu.be/ _NDIsPT-YyQ | |
| Host: | Richard Rand | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Thursday February 22, 2024
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Broad-tunable microwave-to-optical conversion in a room-temperature atomic vapor |
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| Presenter: |
Benjamin Smith from Lindsay LeBlanc’s group at the University of Alberta.
Benjamin is a PhD candidate working on experimental atomic physics and coherent microwave-to-optical conversion based on atomic vapors and microwave cavities for quantum networking. |
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| Series: | Special Talk | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
“Quantum Biology”: how nature harnesses quantum processes to function optimally, and how might we control such quantum processes to therapeutic and tech advantage |
| Presenter: |
Clarice Aiello:
Dr. Clarice D. Aiello is a quantum engineer interested in how quantum physics informs biology at the nanoscale. She is an expert on nanosensors harnessing room-temperature quantum effects in noisy environments. Clarice received her B.S. in Physics from the Ecole Polytechnique; her M.Phil. in Physics from the University of Cambridge, Trinity College; and her Ph.D. from MIT in Electrical Engineering. She also held postdoctoral appointments in Bioengineering at Stanford, and in Chemistry at Berkeley. Two months before the pandemic, she joined UCLA, where she led the Quantum Biology Tech (QuBiT) Lab. Since Nov 2023, she is the CEO of a startup unsurprisingly named Quantum Biology Tech (QuBiT) Lab, and is writing the first-ever textbook about Quantum Biology. |
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| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday March 7, 2024
| 8:30 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Optical Science and Engineering, (OSE) Program Celebrates 40th Anniversary |
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| Presenter: | Various, including Richard Rand, UNM Physics and Astronomy Dept Chair | |
| Series: | Special Talk | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / optics.unm.edu/ news-events/ 2024-3-7-40-th-anniversary.html | |
| Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Algorithms, Complexity, and Quantum Many-Body Physics |
| Presenter: | Cunlu Zhou | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday March 8, 2024
| 1:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Optical Science and Engineering, (OSE) Program Celebrates 40th Anniversary Day 2 |
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| Presenter: | Various, including Richard Rand, UNM Physics and Astronomy Dept Chair | |
| Series: | Special Talk | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / optics.unm.edu/ news-events/ 2024-3-7-40-th-anniversary.html | |
| Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
Thursday March 28, 2024
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Many-body entanglement dynamics under adaptive quantum evolution |
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| Presenter: | Aashish Clerk | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday April 3, 2024
| 1:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Cosmic Explorer: a next-generation gravitational-wave observatory |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Joshua Smith (Cal State Fullerton) and Dr. Kathryne Daniel (U Arizona) | |
| Series: | Special Talk | |
| Host: | Richard Rand | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 4, 2024
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Utilizing motional states of tweezer arrays |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Manuel Endres | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 11, 2024
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Benchmarking trapped-ion QCCD quantum computers |
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| Presenter: | Charlie Baldwin | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 25, 2024
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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| Presenter: | Jun Takahashi | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday May 2, 2024
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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| Presenter: | Mehdi Soleimanifar | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Monday May 20, 2024
| 8:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
NQI Joint Algorithms Workshop |
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This workshop will include the following invited speakers
Jay Gambetta (IBM) Tom Iadecola (Iowa State, SQMS) Henry Lamm (Fermilab, SQMS) Eliot Kapit (Colorado School of Mines, SQMS) David Weld (UC Santa Barbara, QSC) Lukasz Cincio (LANL, QSC) Sasha Boltasseva (LANL, Purdue) Fred Chong (U Chicago, QNEXT) Bill Fefferman (U Chicago, QNEXT) Bryan Clark (UIUC, QNEXT) Kaitlin Smith (NW, QNEXT) Sergey Bravyi (IBM, C2QA) Yanzhu Chen (Virginia Tech, C2QA) John Preskill (Caltech, QSA) Peter Love (Tufts, QSA) Akimasa Miyake (UNM, QSA) Misha Lukin (Harvard, QSA) |
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| Series: | Special Talk | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ 2024/ 05/ nqi.html | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
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