Quantum Seminars

Triangle Quantum Computing Seminar Series

Fall 2022

Date	Speaker	Host	Title	Resources
9/9
9/16
9/23	Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania	UNC Kenan-Flagler's Rethic. Labs	Dynamic Programming on a Quantum Annealer: Solving the RBC Model
9/30
10/7
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
11/11
11/18

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

Spring 2022

Date	Speaker	Host	Title	Resources
1/21	Daiwei Zhu	Duke Quantum Center	Interactive Protocols for Classically-Verifiable Quantum Advantage with an Ion-Trap Quantum Computer	Recording
1/28	Nikitas Stamatopoulos	UNC Kenan-Flagler's Rethic. Labs	Towards Quantum Advantage in Financial Market Risk using Quantum Gradient Algorithms	Recording
2/4	No Speaker This Week
2/11	Pranav Gokhale	Duke Quantum Center	Abstraction barrier between quantum hardware and software	Recording
2/18	Todd Brun	Duke Quantum Center	Quantum field theories from quantum cellular automata	Recording
2/25	Christa Zoufal	IBM Quantum Hub at NC State	Variational Quantum Boltzmann machines	Recording
3/4	Mauricio Gutierrez	Duke Quantum Center	Quantum Error Correction in Costa Rica	Recording
3/11	No Speaker		Spring Break - Duke
3/18	No Speaker		Spring Break - NC State and UNC
3/25	Nathan Earnest-Noble	IBM Quantum Hub at NC State	Error Mitigation and Compiling	Recording
4/1	Elton Zhu	IBM Quantum Hub at NC State	QGAN work using IonQ	Recording
4/8	Joao Doriguello	UNC Kenan-Flagler's Rethic. Labs	Quantum Algorithm for Stochastic Optimal Stopping Problems	Recording
4/15	Dylan Herman	UNC Kenan-Flagler's Rethic. Labs	NISQ-HHL: Portfolio Optimization for Near-Term Quantum Hardware	Recording
4/22	Xiaodi Wu	IBM Quantum Hub at NC State	Computational Thinking Toward End-to-End Quantum Applications	Recording

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