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Past Events

RQS Seminar
Leveraging Hamiltonian Simulation Techniques to Compile Operations on Bosonic Devices
Christopher Kang (University of Chicago)
Monday, May 22, 2023 - 11:00am
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5942646305
Dissertation Defense
Variational Algorithms and Resources for Near-Term Quantum Simulation
Troy Sewell (QuICS)
Monday, May 15, 2023 - 3:00pm
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3105721424?pwd=SWVmRTBLUzcyNXBnM0NsdUdweTVKZz09 Meeting ID: 310 572 1424 Passcode: 1285
RQS Seminar
SimuQ: A Domain-Specific Language for Quantum Simulation with Analog Compilation
Yuxiang Peng (QuICS)
Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 10:00am
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97880726390
QuICS Seminar
Unconditional Separations with Constant Depth Circuits
Adam Bene Watts (IQC and University of Waterloo)
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - 11:00am
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97965418547?pwd=dDhPWVIxYUtMRUZXajFWT0NQSDJUQT09 Meeting ID: 979 6541 8547 Passcode: 356099
QuICS Seminar
Unitary Property Testing Lower Bounds by Polynomials
Adrian She (University of Toronto)
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 2:00pm
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom
Friday Quantum Seminar
Excitonic Mott insulator in a Bose-Fermi-Hubbard system of moire WS2/WSe2 heterobilayer
Beini Gao (JQI)
Friday, May 5, 2023 - 12:00pm
ATL 3332
QuICS Seminar
Will quantum interior point methods be practical? An end-to-end resource analysis for portfolio optimization incorporating improvements to state preparation
Alexander Dalzell (Amazon)
Wednesday, May 3, 2023 - 11:00am
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom
QuICS Special Event
Inspiring Science with Music
Xiaodi Wu & Maissam Barkeshli, with musical performances by Lucy Liuxuan Zhang & Benjamin Himpel (QuICS, CMTC/Physics, Reutlingen University/University of Plymouth)
Friday, April 28, 2023 - 1:00pm
ATL 3100A
Friday Quantum Seminar
Entanglement-enabled symmetry-breaking orders
Jacob Lin (RQS and QuICS)
Friday, April 28, 2023 - 12:00pm
ATL 3332
QuICS Seminar
Another Round of Breaking and Making Quantum Money: How to Not Build It from Lattices, and More
Jiahui Liu (University of Texas, Austin)
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - 11:00am
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom
Friday Quantum Seminar
Phonon-Polaritons via the Cavity Born-Oppenheimer Approximation
Iman Ahmadabadi (JQI)
Friday, April 21, 2023 - 12:00pm
ATL 3332
QuICS Special Seminar
Learning properties of interacting fermionic systems with limited hardware
Ellen Derbyshire (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 11:00am
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom
QuICS-Math Seminar
Geometry of Music Perception
Benjamin Himpel (Reutlingen University/University of Plymouth)
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 2:00pm
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97669778337
QuICS Seminar
Quantum algorithm for simulating coupled classical oscillators
Rolando Somma (Google)
Monday, April 17, 2023 - 2:00pm
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom
QuICS Special Seminar
Stabilizer codes: the continuous, the infinite, and the exotic
Lane Gunderman (IQC and University of Waterloo)
Monday, April 17, 2023 - 12:00pm
Virtual Via Zoom