Talk Title: Many-Body Thermodynamics on Quantum Computers via Partition Function Zeros Speaker:  Dr. Lex Kemper is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at NC State. Abstract:  Interacting quantum systems illustrate complex phenomena including phase transitions to novel ordered phases. The universal nature of critical phenomena reduces their description to determining only the transition…

Talk Title: Quantum Earth Mover's Distance: A New Approach to Learning Quantum Data Speaker: Professor Milad Marvian, University of New Mexico Milad Marvian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico and also a member of the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC). He…

Talk Title: Quantum Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning for Open Quantum System Simulation Speaker:  Dr. Mekena Metcalf, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Merced. Dr. Metcalf was the first graduate student in Prof. Chih-Chun Chien's theory group, and she…

Talk Title: Logical Abstractions for Noisy Variational Quantum Algorithm Simulation. Speaker: Professor Yipeng Huang, Rutgers University Abstract: Existing quantum circuit simulators do not address the traits of variational algorithms, namely: 1) their ability to work with noisy qubits and operations, 2) their repeated execution of the same circuits but with different parameters, and 3) the…

Talk Title: Quantum Coding for Classical Communication Speaker: Travis C. Cuvelier, University Texas at Austin Abstract: Notable features of quantum error correction include the decomposition of continuous communication impairments into discrete channels and the ability of quantum error correcting codes (and their recovery operations) to protect against wide varieties of noise given such a discrete description.  Motivated…