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Past Events

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
RQS Seminar
Quantum simulation of entangled matter with continuous symmetry breaking in a trapped-ion quantum computer
Lei Feng (Duke University)
Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 10:00am
Duke University - 4700 Chesterfield (UMD attendees can meet in PSC 2136) and Virtual Via Zoom
QuICS Special Seminar
Extrinsic Geometry of Quantum States
Alex Avdoshkin (UC Berkeley)
Monday, April 10, 2023 - 12:00pm
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom
Friday Quantum Seminar
Investigating the feasibility of a trapped atom interferometer with movable traps
Gayathrini Premawardhana (QuICS)
Friday, April 7, 2023 - 12:00pm
ATL 3332
Dissertation Defense
Optimization Problems in Quantum Machine Learning: when are variational algorithms trainable
Xuchen You (QuICS)
Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 4:00pm
IRB 4107 and Virtual Via Zoom