Quantum Seminars
Triangle Quantum Computing Seminar Series
Spring 2023
Seminars held Friday at 2pm ET
| Date | Speaker | Host | Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/6 | No Speaker | |||
| 1/13 | Robert Barr and Colin Trout | Duke Quantum Center | Dephasing Robust Characterization of Qubit Control Noise" and "Provably Optimal Control for Multiplicative Amplitude Control Noise | Recording |
| 1/20 | Bing Qi | IBM Quantum Innovation Center at NC State | Towards Practical Quantum Key Distribution | Not Recorded |
| 1/27 | Sisi Zhou | IBM Quantum Innovation Center at NC State | Quantum Error Correction meets Continuous Symmetries: Fundamental trade-offs and case studies | Recording |
| 2/3 | Ajit Desai and Danica Marsden | UNC Kenan-Flagler's Rethic. Labs | Improving the Efficiency of Payments Systems Using Quantum Computing | |
| 2/10 | Nayeli Rodriguez Briones | IBM Quantum Innovation Center at NC State | ||
| 2/17 | Loic Henriet | UNC Kenan-Flagler's Rethic. Labs | Financial Risk Management on a Neutral Atom Quantum Processor | |
| 2/24 | Yiwen Chu | UNC Kenan-Flagler's Rethic. Labs | ||
| 3/3 | Yuan Liu | Duke Quantum Center | ||
| 3/10 - 3/17 | No Speaker - Spring Break | |||
| 3/27 | Date Changed for Joint NC State Physics/ Quantum Speaker - Bert deJong | IBM Quantum Innovation Center at NC State | ||
| 3/31 | TBD | |||
| 4/7 | TBD | |||
| 4/14 | TBD | |||
| 4/21 | Last Speaker for Spring Semester |
General Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6/23/2022 | Lincoln Carr | Quantum Engineering Opportunities: The National Quantum Initiative and the IBM Quantum Hub at NC State | Recording |
| 4/1/2022 | Lincoln Carr | Entangled quantum cellular automata, physical complexity, and Goldilocks rules | Recording |
| 10/20/2021 | Mark Jackson | Absolute Security Through Quantum Entanglement | Recording |
Previous Semesters
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker | Host | Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/9 | Or Katz of Duke University | Duke Quantum Center | Programmable interactions between spins and bosons in trapped ion systems | Recording |
| 9/16 | Yufei Ding of UC Santa Barbara | IBM Quantum Hub at NC State | Quantum Computing Systems: Challenges and Opportunities | Recording |
| 9/23 | Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania | UNC Kenan-Flagler's Rethic. Labs | Dynamic Programming on a Quantum Annealer: Solving the RBC Model | Recording |
| 9/30 | Zohreh Davoudi of University of Maryland | IBM Quantum Hub at NC State | Simulations of gauge field theories with quantum tools | Recording |
| 10/7 | Nick Bronn, Research Staff Member at IBM Quantum in the IBM TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY | IBM Quantum Hub at NC State | Outlook for Quantum Computing with Superconducting Qubits | Recording |
| 10/14 | Arkopal Dutt of MIT | Duke Quantum Center | Optimal algorithms for learning quantum phase states | Recording |
| 10/21 | Gavin Jones, Manager, Research Staff Member Quantum Applications, IBM Quantum IBM Quantum Technical Ambassador IBM Research, San Jose, CA | IBM Quantum Hub at NC State | Quantum computing for chemistry | Recording |
| 10/28 | Mike Newman, Google | IBM Quantum Hub at NC State | Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit | Recording |
| 11/4 | Ellis Wilson of NC State | IBM Quantum Hub at NC State | Combining Hard and Soft Constraints in Quantum Constraint-Satisfaction Systems | Recording |
| 11/11 | Cancelled | IBM Quantum Hub at NC State | ||
| 11/18 | Adam Kaufman Of NIST/ University of Colorado | Duke Quantum Center | Quantum science with microscopically-controlled arrays of alkaline-earth atoms | Recording |
Spring 2022
Fall 2021
| Date | Speaker | Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/03 | Josh Combes, University of Colorado, Boulder | Quantum computing with rotation-symmetric bosonic codes | Recording |
| 09/10 | Oinam Romesh Meitei, Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Gate-free state preparation for fast VQE molecular simulations | Recording |
| 09/17 | Andrew Houck, Princeton | Circuit QED: From Materials to Mathematics | Recording |
| 09/24 | Craig Gidney, Google AI Quantum | Software and the Honeycomb Code | Recording |
| 10/01 | Fall Break - No Speaker | ||
| 10/08 | Rescheduled to 10/29 | ||
| 10/15 | Franca, Copenhagen | Tensors | Recording |
| 10/22 | Hamed Mohammadbagherpoor, NC State | Applying QC Optimization Algorithms | Recording |
| 10/29 | Layla Hormozi, BNL | Topological Quantum Compiling -- an introduction | Recording |
| 11/05 | Tameem Albash, UNM | Adiabatic Quantum Computing | Recording |
| 11/12 | Tilley/Clark/Brown, GTRI | Optical Gates | Recording |
| 11/19 | Jonathan King, Atom Comput | Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms | Recording |
Spring 2021
| Date | Speaker | Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/29 | Erik Gustafson | Monte Carlo State Preparation in Quantum Computing | |
| 02/12 | Yannick Meurice | Tensor Methods in Quantum Computing | |
| 02/26 | Lex Kemper | Many-Body Thermodynamics on Quantum Computers via Partition Function Zeros | |
| 03/05 | WELLNESS Day No Lunch | ||
| 03/12 | No SPEAKER Yet | ||
| 03/19 | Prof Milad Marvian | Quantum Earth Mover's Distance: A New Approach to Learning Quantum Data | |
| 03/26 | Mekena Metcalf | Quantum Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning for Open Quantum System Simulation | Recording |
| 04/09 | Yipeng Huang | Logical Abstractions for Noisy Variational Quantum Algorithm Simulation | Recording |
| 04/23 | Travis Cuvelier | Quantum Coding for Classical Communication | |
| 04/30 | Last Day of Classes Spring | ||
| 05/07 | Exam Week No Lunch |