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Debanjan Chowdhury Cornell 4/14/2026 Planckian Bounds in Quantum Matter Steven Girvin Yale 4/7/2026 The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics: A Brief History of Superconducting Qubits and Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics Jason Alicea CalTech 3/10/2026 Measurement-altered Quantum Matter Hrvoje Petek University of Pittsburgh 2/17/2026 Structured Light, a Portal to Dark Matter? Daniel Gottesman UMD 1/2/2026 Fault Tolerance with Dynamical Codes Matthias Troyer & Chetan Nayak Microsoft 12/2/2025 Utility-Scale Quantum Computing with Topological Qubits Ruben Verressen Chicago 11/18/2025 Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological Codes: from Theory to Trapped Ions Martin Claassen UPenn 10/21/2025 Designing Matter with Photons and Many Electrons Liang Jiang Chicago 10/7/2025 Co-Designed Quantum Error Correction Dan Gunlycke Naval Research Lab 9/16/2025 NRL Priorities in Quantum Science Paul Ohodnicki & Youtao Zhang University of Pittsburgh 9/2/2025 Portable and Robust Sensing with Quantum Material Enabled Fiber Optic Sensors
Evaluating Large Quantum Circuit on Small Quantum Devices --- An Integrated Circuit Cutting and Qubit Reuse Approach
Juan Jose Mendoza Arenas/Tutorial on Tensor Network Theory PQI 5/19-5/20/2025 Tutorial on Tensor Network Theory | Pittsburgh Quantum Institute Jay Sau 4/15/2025 Towards Rabi oscillation in Majorana nanowires: theory of nonlocal transport and microwave measurements Peter Armitage Johns Hopkins 3/4/2025 Axions and axion electrodynamics in condensed matter physics Eslam Khalaf Harvard 2/21/2025 Mott physics in topological bands with concentrated quantum geometry: nonlocal moments and Mott semimetals Stephen Wilson UCSB 2/4/2025 Kagome metals as quantum materials Denys Bondar Tulane 1/21/2025 Alchemy as an optical problem: Theory and Experiments Nathaniel Bishop Intel 12/17/2024 Intel Silicon Qubits and Research Partnerships Michael Zaletel UCB 11/19/2024 John Goold University College Cork 10/15/2024 The Thermodynamics of the Quantum Mpemba Effect Emily Davis New York University 10/8/2024 Spin-squeezing in a two-dimensional ensemble of solid-state spins Nathalie de Leon Princeton 10/1/2024 New platforms for quantum sensing and quantum computing Paola Cappellaro MIT 9/17/2024 Diamond defects shine a bright light for quantum technology Ania Jayich UCSB 9/3/2024 Quantum sensing in the solid-state: from one spin to many spins Georg Scmidt University of Halle 8/16/2024 Three dimensional YIG nanoresonators for hybrid magnonics Georg Schmidt University of Halle 8/15/2024 The physics of organic spin valves - Or: Be careful when you play with oxides Joaquin Matres Google X 5/15/2024 Revolutionize our Chip Design with GDSfactory Margarita Davydova MIT 4/23/2024 Dynamic codes Bernard Zygelman University of Nevada 4/9/2024 Effective magnetic monopoles, molecular dynamics, and holonomic quantum computing. Kin Fai Mak Cornell 4/2/2024 Electron fractionalization under zero magnetic field Douglas Stone Yale 3/19/2024 Time-reversing a laser: What it means and why it’s important. Miles Stoudenmire FlatIron Institute 2/20/2024 Quantum Computing on Classical Machines with Tensor Networks Sufei Shi Carnegie Mellon University 1/16/2024 Correlated Excitons in TMDC Moiré Superlattice Christopher Richardson University of Maryland 12/12/2023 PQI Seminar University of Chicago 12/5/2023 Physics-Aware, Full-Stack Quantum Software Optimizations
Rolando Somma Google 11/9/2023 Quantum algorithm for simulating coupled classical oscillators
Steven Cundiff University of Michigan 10/31/2023 PQI Distinguished Seminars in Quantum Science and Engineering Wolfgang Pfaff University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 10/25/2023 Robust entanglement generation between separated superconducting qubits
Edith Bellet-Amalric Univ. Grenoble Alpes 10/17/2023 Two-monolayer steps in vapor-solid-solid nanowire growth: regulated dynamics
Peter Jacobse University of Groningen 10/10/2023 Building future nanoelectronics from carbon, atom by atom
Moira Hocevar University of Pittsburgh 10/6/2023 InAs/ZnTe core-shell nanowires for hybrid superconductor-semiconductor structures
Robert Baker Brigham Young University 10/3/2023 Observing Ultrafast Electron Motion in Catalytic Systems: New Ways to Visualize Charge and Spin Dynamics at Interfaces
Mo Li University of Washington, Seattle 9/26/2023 Steering Light with Sound--from 3 nanometers to 300 meters Anja Metelmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 9/25/2023 Nonlinearity and Dissipation as a Formidable Resource in Engineered Quantum Systems
P. Chris Hammel Ohio State University 9/12/2023 PQI Distinguished Seminars in Quantum Science and Engineering Huili Grace Xing Cornell University 8/8/2023 PQI Distinguished Seminars in Quantum Science and Engineering Kenneth Jordan University of Pittsburgh 5/16/2023 Challenges of Applying Bound State Methods to Characterize Temporary Anion States of Molecules Brenda Rubenstein Brown University 5/2/2023 Using Random Numbers to Design and Probe 2D Materials. Andrea Alu City University of New York 4/18/2023 Extreme Light Control with Metamaterials Tony Heinz Stanford University 2/22/2023 PQI Distinguished Seminars in Quantum Science and Engineering Daniel Froidevaux CERN 10/31/2022 From the discovery of the W/Z vector bosons to that of the Higgs boson and beyond Brennan Bell 10/21/2022 Reconstructing Quantum Circuits Through Side-Channel Information on Cloud-Based Superconducting Quantum Computers Vladimir Shiltsev Fermi National Laboratory 10/17/2022 Landscape of Accelerators and Snowmass’21 Planning for Future Meenakshi Narain Brown University 9/26/2022 Postcards from the Future — Addressing Big Questions at the Energy Frontier Sergey Frolov University of Pittsburgh ######## Superconductors and Semiconductors, Nanowires and Majorana, Research and Integrity Priyotosh Bandyopadhyay Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad ######## Angular distributions probing beyond Standard Models David Neira Carnegie Mellon University ######## Stakeholder perspectives of QC in Chemical Engineering Heeseon Lim University of Pittsburgh ######## Two-dimensional elemental Ca sd2 Dirac honeycomb Jake Repicky Ohio State University 6/3/2022 Topological Spin Textures at the Surface of Chiral Magnet MnGe Dr. Mads Bahrami Wolfram Alpha ######## Wolfram Alpha's Quantum Framework Pok Man Tam University of Pennsylvania ######## Counting holes in a Fermi sea without diving in Aniruddha Bapat Lawrence Berkeley National Lab ######## Quantum simulation using variational techniques Brian LeRoy Arizona ######## Designer electronic states in van der Waals heterostructures David Keith Harvard University 4/6/2022 Climate policy in four dimensions: A case for solar geoengineering Martin Gruebele University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4/1/2022 High Resolution Imaging of Excited State Dynamics in Nanomaterials Jorn Venderbos Drexel University ######## Quantum Materials as a Resource Yonglong Xie Harvard/MIT ######## Probing Quantum Materials with Scanning Probe Microscopy Beth Dickey CMU 3/2/2022 Local to Meso-scale Structure and Polarization in Electronic Oxides Characterized by Aberration -Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Brian Kim Columbia ######## Van der Waals polaritons: From fundamental probes to applications Shouvik Chatterjee Mumbai ######## Designer Quantum Materials Mengxing Ye UC Santa Barbara ######## Understanding emergent quantum phenomena in the real world Sufei Shi Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ######## Light-Matter Interaction in Flatland: Excitonic Physics in 2D Jong Yeon Lee UC Santa Barbara 2/7/2022 Exploring New Physics in Moire Materials Marianna Safronova University of Delaware ######## Searches for New Physics with Quantum Sensors in the Laboratory and in Space Shubhayu Chatterjee Berkeley ######## Skyrmion pairing: a topological route to superconductivity Kayla Nguyen UIUC, Urbana ######## New Direct Electron Imaging Techniques for Quantum Materials Cyprian Lewandowski CalTech ######## Bose-Einstein condensation with a twist Justin Song NTU, Singapore ######## Topological plasmonics and out-of-equilibrium plasmonic ferromagnetism Xin Gui Princeton ######## Exploring New Quantum Materials with Chemistry Yu Zhong University of Chicago ######## Molecular Nano-Architectures for Energy and Electronics Ian Spielman NIST and University of Maryland ######## Quantum simulation of relativistic physics with atomic Bose-Einstein condensates Jonah Waissman Harvard University ######## Embarking on a Thermal Journey in Low Dimensions with a 21st century thermometer: Graphene Nonlocal Noise Thomas Frederiksen Donostia International Physics Center ######## Spin physics in graphene nanostructures Martin Greven University of Minnesota ######## Structural Inhomogeneity in Oxide Superconductors Elizabeth Dickey CMU ######## Local to Meso-scale Order in Electronic Ceramics Characterized by Aberration-Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Kaushik P. Seshadreesan University of Pittsburgh ######## Quantum Advantage in Optical Laser Communications using NISQ-era Quantum Processors Nitin Samarth Penn State ######## Topological Spintronics Eli Levenson-Falk Berkeley ######## Continuous Single-Shot Detection of Quasiparticle Trapping Guido Burkard University of Konstanz ######## Spin Qubits in Carbon and Silicon Igor Klebanov Princeton ######## Strong Interactions, Color Confinement, and Strings Dong Hee Son Texas A&M ######## Properties of exciton in strongly quantum confined lead halide perovskite nanocrystals Carlos RÃos Ocampo University of Maryland ######## Nonvolatile light modulation in optoelectronic nanodevices George Winkler Microsoft ######## Realistic modelling of Majorana devices Chris Van de Walle UC Santa Barbara ######## Materials for Quantum Computing: An Interview with Prof. Chris Van de Walle Ayres Freitas University of Pittsburgh ######## Ayres Freitas, Pitt (Pitt/CMU Colloquium) Michael Hatridge University of Pittsburgh ######## Michael Hatridge, Pitt (Pitt/CMU Colloquium) Evan Reed Stanford University ######## Evan Reed, Stanford (CMU MSE) Tae Min Hong University of Pittsburgh ######## Tae Min Hong, Pitt (Pitt/CMU Colloquium) Gus Hart Brigham Young University ######## Gus Hart, Brigham Young University (CMU MSE) Matthias Troyer ######## Matthias Troyer, Microsoft (ISC2021 Keynote) Nathaniel Rosi University of Pittsburgh 6/8/2021 Nathaniel Rosi, Pitt (JACS In Session Webinar) Hassan Halataei Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences ######## Hassan Halataei, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (PQI Seminar) Carly Anderson, Chris Boshuizen, Russ Wilcox ######## Panel Discussion on Challenges and Unique Industry Opportunities in Quantum Machine Learning Dr. Stefano Sanvito Trinity College, Ireland 5/7/2021 Stefano Sanvito, Trinity College (CMU MSE seminar) Dr. Alba Cervera-Lierta University of Toronto 5/6/2021 Alba Cervera-Lierta, University of Toronto (SciML Webinar) Dr. Lilo Pozzo University of Washington 5/5/2021 Lilo Pozzo, University of Washington (CMU Chemistry) Dr. Andrea Skolik Leiden University ######## Andrea Skolik, Leiden University (SciML Webinar) Dr. Konstantinos Vogiatzis University of Tennessee ######## Dr. Konstantinos Vogiatzis, University of Tennessee (CMU Chemistry Seminar) Dr. Moïra Hocevar Institut Néel CNRS, France 4/2/2021 Dr. Moïra Hocevar, Institut Néel CNRS, France (CMU MSE Seminar) Dr. Vlad Pribiag University of Minnesota ######## Dr. Vlad Pribiag, UMN (STO Seminar) Dr. Wissam Saidi University of Pittsburgh ######## Wissam Saidi, Pitt (CMU Chemistry) Dr. Beate Heinemann Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Germany ######## Dr. Beate Heinemann, DESY (Pitt/CMU Colloquium) Dr. Lu Wei University of Michigan ######## Quantum Bipartite Systems: Theory and Applications Natalia Berloff University of Cambridge ######## Natalia Berloff (University of Cambridge) Dr. Kaushik Seshadreesan University of Arizona 3/4/2021 "Quantum Advantage in Quantum-Limited Classical Optical Communications using NISQ Processors Dr. Vladyslav Kozii University of California, Berkeley 3/2/2021 Superconductivity in low-density Dirac materials Dr. Kyle Shen Cornell University 3/1/2021 Shedding Light on the Enigma of High Temperature Superconductivity in Monolayer FeSe / SrTiO3 Judy Wu University of Houston ######## Dr. Judy Wu, University of Houston (Pitt Chemistry Seminar) Prineha Narang Harvard University ######## Public Lecture: Prineha Narang (Harvard University) Timothy Berkelbach Columbia & Flatiron Institute ######## Timothy Berkelbach (Columbia & Flatiron Institute) Dr. Patrick Rinke Aalto University, Finland ######## Dr. Patrick Rinke, Aalto University, Finland (CMU MSE Seminar) Vikesh Siddhu Carnegie Mellon University ######## Vikesh Siddhu (Carnegie Mellon University) Abraham Asfaw IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 2/9/2021 Why Engineers Should Care about Quantum Computing -- From Quantum Hardware to Programming Umesh Vazirani University of California, Berkeley ######## Theoretical Reflections on Quantum Supremacy Paul Crowell University of Minnesota ######## Heusler alloys for Spin Transport Zubin Jacob Purdue University ######## Topological Electromagnetic Phases of Matter Ognjen Ilic University of Minnesota ######## Steering Photons to Control Light and Heat on the Nanoscale Ya-Ping Hsieh, Mario Hofmann Academia Sinica, National Taiwan University ######## Why and How to Integrate 2D Materials in Future Electronics David Wallace University of Pittsburgh ######## What is 'Orthodox' Quantum Mechanics? Erica Carlson Purdue University ######## Critical pattern formation at the Mott metal-insulator transition Roger Mong University of Pittsburgh ######## Fractionalized excitations in the quantum Hall effect Chris Lirakis IBM ######## What does it Take to Build a Quantum Computer Paul Ohodnicki University of Pittsburgh ######## Energy Infrastructure Sensing Technologies and Opportunities for Quantum Venkat Gopalan Pennsylvania State University ######## Antisymmetry: Fundamentals and Applications Greg Fuchs Cornell University ######## Spin and Orbital Resonance Driven by a Mechanical Resonator Arthur Davidson Carnegie Mellon University ######## Rings and tunnel junctions: Quantum mechanics on a circle James Freericks Georgetown University 9/3/2020 Operator Mechanics: A new form of quantum mechanics without waves or matrices Scott Aaronson UT Austin ######## PQI2020 Public Lecture: Quantum Computational Supremacy and Its Applications Michael Pretko University of Colorado ######## Fractons: A New Type of Particle So Hirata, Rongchao Jin N/A ######## PQI2020 Week 8: Quantum Chemistry Chris Van de Walle, Linda Peteanu N/A 8/6/2020 PQI2020 Week 7: Quantum Materials Dan Stamper-Kurn, Andrew Daley, Tom Purdy N/A ######## PQI2020 Week 6: Quantum Optics Xiaodong Xu, Jimmy Zhu, Nathan Youngblood N/A ######## PQI2020 Week 5: Quantum Materials Yang Wang, Shiwei Zhang N/A 7/9/2020 PQI2020 Week 4: Quantum Computing Olexandr Isayev, Heather Kulik, Peng Liu N/A 7/2/2020 PQI2020 Week 3: Quantum Chemistry Sridhar Tayur, Fred Chong, Ryan O'Donnell N/A ######## PQI2020 Week 2: Quantum Computing Jeremy Levy, Amir Yacoby, Sara Majetich N/A ######## PQI2020 Week 1: Quantum Materials Hideo Mabuchi Stanford University ######## Coherent nonlinear dynamics and the physics of computation Eric Johnston PsiQ ######## Anatomy of a Photonic QPU Sean Hartnoll Stanford University ######## Planckian transport [remote] Douglas Natelson Rice University ######## ONLINE: New Surprises in High Tc Tunnel Junctions Thomas Kempa Johns Hopkins University ######## Revealing the Scaling Properties of Matter Through Low-Dimensional Crystals Victor Batista Yale University ######## Studies of Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis Nicole Yunger Halpern Harvard University ######## Quantum steampunk: Quantum information meets thermodynamics Yizhi You Princeton University ######## Yizhi You (Princeton University) Eric Fullerton University of California, San Diego 2/7/2020 Shining Light on Magnetism: Controlled Magnetic Switching With Ultrafast Optical Pulses Inti Sodemann Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems 2/3/2020 The Sounds of Quantum Fermi Fluids Itamar Kimchi University of Colorado Boulder ######## 'Dirty' Quantum Magnets Lillian Chong University of Pittsburgh ######## The Art of Possibility: Weighted Ensemble Simulations of Long-timescale Kinetics Martin Claassen Flatiron Institute ######## Guiding Principles for Engineering Quantum Matter far from Equilibrium James Williams University of Maryland ######## Josephson Detection of Multiband Effects in Superconductors Mathias Scheurer Harvard University ######## Topology and correlations in two-dimensional systems Ashley Cook UC Berkeley 1/9/2020 The Search for Topological Phases of Matter Xiayun Zhao University of Pittsburgh ######## To Advance Additive Manufacturing / 3D Printing with Quantum Perspectives Josef Michl University of Colorado Boulder ######## Chromophore Packing and Singlet Fission Rates Marcel Franz University of British Columbia, Vancouver ######## Diagnosing quantum chaos in many-body systems using entanglement Marcel Franz University of British Columbia, Vancouver ######## From solids with topology to black holes and back Feliciano Giustino University of Texas, Austin ######## Discovering Perovskites Jia Li Brown University ######## Highly tunable emergent quantum phenomena in double-layer graphene Benjamin Lawrie Oak Ridge National Laboratory ######## Quantum sensing and quantum nanophotonics at ORNL Erik Henriksen Washington University ######## Cyclotron resonance spectroscopy of symmetry broken states in monolayer graphene Laura Ruetsche University of Michigan ######## Thoroughly Modern Zeno: The Arrow, Quantum Mechanically Maxwell Hutchison Citrine Informatics ######## Machine Learning for Materials Discovery Joshua Folk University of British Columbia, Vancouver ######## Measuring the entropy of a single spin Moonsub Shim University of Illinois ######## Nanorod Heterostructures: from Colloidal Solutions to Light Emitting/Harvesting Devices Yingmei Liu Oklahoma State University ######## Quantum quench and nonequilibrium dynamics in lattice-confined spinor Bose-Einstein condensates Gurudev Dutt University of Pittsburgh ######## Quantum Information Processing with Spins in Diamond David Snoke University of Pittsburgh ######## Superfluids of Light Alicia Kollar University of Maryland and Joint Quantum Institute ######## Band Engineering for Quantum Simulation in Circuit QED Eugene Mele University of Pennsylvania ######## Anomalous Velocity and Geometry in Wave Mechanics Stefano Curtarolo Duke University ######## Don't Cry Over Spilled Entropy Edward (Ned) Flagg West Virginia University ######## Artificial Atoms: Quantum Optics and Spin Physics of Quantum Dots Dr. Nathan Youngblood University of Pittsburgh ######## Phase-change photonics for all-optical memory, computation, and beyond Michiel Sprik University of Cambridge ######## From Electrode to Interface Potentials Michiel Sprik University of Cambridge ######## Electromechanics of the Water Vapour-Liquid Interface Qing Li Carnegie Mellon University ######## Integrated Photonic Circuits for Classical and Quantum Information Processing Tim McKay University of Michigan ######## SEISMIC: The Sloan Equity and Inclusion in STEM Introductory Courses Project Heather Kulik Massachusetts Institute of Technology ######## Accelerating the Computational Discovery Of Catalyst Design Rules and Exceptions with Machine Learning Dr. Brian J. Anderson National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) ######## Research Lecture: Fueling America’s Energy Future James Skinner University of Chicago ######## Anomalies in Ambient & Supercooled Water: Is There a Second Critical Point Lurking Nearby? Dr. Vidya Madhavan University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) ######## Creating and measuring the elusive Majorana fermions Ou Chen Brown University ######## Self-Assembly of Anisotropic Nanocrystals: How Complex Can We Push To? Bill Philips University of Maryland and NIST 4/3/2019 Time, Einstein, and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe Dr. Jungsang Kim Duke University 4/3/2019 Quantum Computing based on Trapped Ion Technology Salvatore Mandra NASA Ames's QuAIL Artificial Intelligence Lab 4/2/2019 Benchmark NISQ Devices using State-of-the-art Classical Tools Long-Qing Chen Penn State University ######## Phase-field Modeling of Polar States in Ferroelectric Heterostructures Dr. Samindranath Mitra ######## PRL at 60: You have your physics results, now what? Dr. Matteo Cavalleri Chief-Editor at Int. Journal of Quantum Chemistry ######## A look inside the black box of scientific publishing Dr. Matteo Cavalleri Chief-Editor at Int. Journal of Quantum Chemistry ######## My escape from the lab: scientific publishing Dr. Nathan Youngblood University of Oxford ######## Phase-Change Photonics for All-Optical Memory and Computation Dr. Nai Phuan Ong Princeton University ######## A Gap Protected zero-Hall Effect State in a Semimetal with Glide Symmetry Dr. Shuo Sun Stanford University ######## Quantum Nanophotonics: Engineering Atom-Photon Interactions on a Chip Christopher Hendon University of Oregon ######## Electrically conductive metal-organic frameworks: insights from theory Christopher Hendon University of Oregon ######## Chemical and Physical Considerations in the Production of a Cup of Coffee Mikel Holcomb West Virginia University 2/7/2019 Interfacial Coupling and Magnetic Competition in Magnetic and Magnetoelectric Systems Dr. Robert Kleinberg Columbia University ######## mK to km: How Millikelvin Physics is Reused to Explore the Earth Kilometers Below the Surface Dr. Andrew Keller Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) at Caltech ######## Synthesizing quantum matter with electrons and microwave photons Mikael Kuisma University of Jyväskylä ######## Plasmon Decay and Hot Carrier Generation in Plasmonic Nano Particles from Ab Initio Leeor Kronik Weizmann Institute ######## Understanding Molecular and Hybrid Crystals from First Principles Dr. John Keith University of Pittsburgh ######## How Quantum Chemistry can Save Humanity Dr. Susan Coppersmith ######## Nonlinear Dynamics and Quantum Computers Dr. Susan Coppersmith ######## Thermal Equilibrium vs. The Real World Dr. Anja Metelmann Freie Universität Berlin, Germany ######## Reciprocal and nonreciprocal amplification at the quantum level Dr. Britton Plourde Syracuse University ######## Coupling a Superconducting Qubit to a Metamaterial Resonator Ting Xu University of California, Berkeley ######## Explore Chemical Diversity in Complex System Toward Functional Materials Dr. Michael Hilinski University of Virginia ######## Selective Oxidation of Strong & Weak Bonds: New Catalytic & Synthetic Methods Dr. Vincent Sokalski Carnegie Mellon University ######## Dr. Vincent Sokalski (Carnegie Mellon University) Dr. Rashid Williams-Garcia University of Pittsburgh ######## The Physics of Brain Science: Quasicriticality, An Organizing Principle? Corinna Schindler University of Michigan ######## Catalytic Carbonyl-Olefin Methathesis & Oxygen Atom Transfer Songi Han UC-Santa Barbara ######## Hydration Water Dynamics as a Characterization Tool of Surface Properties of Proteins to Silica Dr. Debdeep Jena Cornell University ######## Classical to Quantum Logic and Memory with 2D crystals: Promises and Current Realities Dr. Lena F. Kourkoutis Cornell University ######## Dr. Lena F. Kourkoutis (Cornell University) Brandi Cossairt University of Washington ######## The Chemistry of Nanoscale Phosphides: Building & Manipulating Complex Inorganic Molecules with Atom-Level Precision Dr. Stéphane Kéna-Cohen Montreal Polytechnique ######## Room-temperature quantum fluids of light Dr. Peter Hirschfeld University of Florida ######## Orbital selective pairing in Fe-based superconductors Matthew Fisher University of California Santa Barbara ######## Are we quantum computers, or merely clever robots? Dr. Venkatraman Gopalan Pennsylvania State University ######## Ultrafast Optical Probing of Correlated Polar Metals Dr. Sue Coppersmith University of Wisconsin-Madison ######## Building a quantum computer using silicon quantum dots Dr. Jesse Berezovsky Case Western Reserve University ######## Coupling Spin Qubits to Dynamic Nanoscale Magnetic Textures for Enhanced Quantum Sensing and Control Dr. Jillian Buriak University of Alberta, Canada ######## Dr. Jillian Buriak (University of Alberta) Dr. James N. Eckstein University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ######## Topological Insulators and Superconductors Dr. Julia Mundy Harvard University ######## Using Interfacial Electric Fields at Domain Walls to Stabilize Novel Ground States Sir Michael Victor Berry University of Bristol ######## Optica fantastica: images to illuminate the physics of light Dr. Nigel Goldenfeld University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ######## Statistical mechanics of the transition to turbulence Steve Hellberg (ONR) Office of Naval ######## Steve Hellberg Visit Sir Michael Victor Berry University of Bristol ######## Variations on a theme of Aharonov and Bohm Dr. Chunlong Chen Pacific Northwest National Lab ######## Designing Sequence-Defined Peptoids for Bio-Inspired Synthesis of Functional Nanomaterials Sir Michael Victor Berry University of Bristol ######## Faster than fourier (pre)revisited: vorticulture, fractals, escape… Dr. Jeremy Levy University of Pittsburgh ######## Correlated Nanoelectronics Dr. Jacob Blumoff Yale University ######## SiGe Isotopically Enhanced Triple-Dot Qubits Dr. Nikhil Malvankar & Sibel Yalcin Yale University ######## Mechanism of metal-like transport in bacterial protein nanowires Dr. Peng Liu University of Pittsburgh ######## Predictive Models for Transition Metal Catalyzed Organic Reactions Capture, Chemical Reactions, and Energy Storage Dr. Neal Mankad University of Illinois at Chicago ######## Reduction and C-C Coupling Reactions of Alkynes Enabled by Bimetallic & Tandem Copper Analysis Dr. Daniel Lambrecht University of Pittsburgh ######## What Do Macroscopic Observables Teach Us About the Molecular World? Yuan-Chi Yang University of Wisconsin-Madison ######## Theory of strong driving of silicon quantum dot qubits Dr. Sergey Frolov University of Pittsburgh ######## Status of the Search for Majorana Fermions in Semiconductor Nanowires Stephen J. Watson University of Glasgow ######## Lorentzian symmetry predicts universality beyond scaling laws Alice Mizrahi NIST ######## Using the dynamics of nanodevices for artificial intelligence Zhigang Shuai Tsinghua University ######## Theory and Modeling of Excited State and Carrier Dynamics in Organic Functional Materials Stefan Ilic Grenoble University ######## Enhancement of the Upper Critical Field in Disordered Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers Masato Ohnuma 6/1/2018 Temperature Memory Effect of Soft Magnetic Amorphous Ribbons Jeil Jung Woo University of Seoul, Korea ######## Moire Superlattice Bands in Dirac Materials A. G. Unil Perera Georgia State University ######## Infrared Radiation for Healthy Living: Disease Diagnostics William Barford Oxford University ######## Ultra-Fast Relaxation, Decoherence, and Localization of Photoexcited States in p-Conjugated Polymers Nick Nystrom Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 5/9/2018 Accelerating Your Research with No-Cost Resources for Computing, AI, and Data with PSC Simranjeet Singh Ohio State University 5/1/2018 Two Dimensional Quantum Materials - An Atomically Thin Platform for Spintronics and Novel Spin Phenomena François Damanet University of Strathclyde ######## Open system approaches for quantum transport through tunneling junctions Victor Berdichevsky Wayne State University ######## Beyond Classical Thermodynamics Cheng Chin University of Chicago ######## Coherent quantum critical dynamics in a driven Bose-Einstein condensate Edward Dunlea Carnegie Mellon University ######## Careers in Science: Science Policy and General Advice Andrew Cleland Institute for Molecular Engineering / University of Chicago ######## Coupling superconducting qubits and mechanics: A path to quantum communication? Brian D. Urso Montana State University ######## Large-Scale Forces and Small-Scale Experiments: Levitated Optomechanics for Precision Gravitational Measurements Angela Wilson NSF ######## NSF's Big Ideas: Understanding the Rules of Life and The Quantum Leap Xavier Roy Columbia University 4/5/2018 Molecular Clusters: Building Blocks for Nanoelectronics and Material Design Javier Vela Iowa State University 4/5/2018 Soft Chemistry Routes to Complex Semiconductors: Ternary Pnictide and Dichalcogenide Nanocrystals Manuel Houzet CEA - Grenoble Alpes University ######## Andreev and Majorana Weyl crossings in multi-terminal Josephson junctions Kenneth Burch Fractional Statistics from Topological Magnetism There is considerable excitement about in realizing non-Abelian Anyons, particles whose phase upon exchange depends on the path taken. Their.. Alex Sushkov Boston University ######## CASPEr: The lab-scale NMR-based search for axion-like dark matter Yossi Paltiel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ######## Canceled due to weather delays - Surface Magnetization and Superconducting Order Parameter Changes Using Chiral Molecule Xiaopeng Li Fudan University, Shanghai ######## Machine learning approaches to entangled quantum states Reginald Penner University of California, Irvine ######## In Pursuit of an Immortal Cathode: Electrical Energy Storage using MnO2 Nanowires that Never Die Milan Yager Executive Director, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering ######## The Science for Failed Public Policy: Why Congress Doesn’t Fund Research Michel Janssen University of Minnesota ######## Mermin in Bananaworld: Bub on Quantum Mechanics Zhongzhou Chen University of Central Florida ######## How will online learning change the future of STEM courses? Chen-Bin (Robin) Huang Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing Hua University 3/8/2018 Exploiting Orbital Angular Momenta and Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in Plasmonic Devices Sudarshan Narayanan Vitro Glass ######## AVS Western Pennsylvania Chapter Student Poster Session & Lab Tour Jyoti Katoch  Ohio State University ######## Quantum Phenomena in Two-Dimensional Materials Driven by Atomic Scale Modifications Jim Chelikowsky University of Texas at Austin ######## "Seeing'' The Covalent Bond: Simulating Atomic Force Microscopy Images Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi Harvard University ######## Current Instability in a Driven 2D Electron Liquid Probed by Nanoscale Magnetometry Chunhui Du Harvard University 2/9/2018 Control and Local Measurement of the Spin Chemical Potential in a Magnetic Insulator Peter Maurer Stanford University 2/9/2018 Lunch Talk: Peter Maurer Peter Maurer Stanford University 2/8/2018 Quantum sensing in a new single-molecule regime Hannes Bernien Harvard University 2/6/2018 Lunch Talk: Hannes Bernien Daniel S. Fisher Stanford University 2/5/2018 Can Evolutionary Dynamics Be Understood Quantitatively? Hannes Bernien Harvard University 2/5/2018 Quantum LEGOs: Building large quantum systems atom-by-atom Thomas Purdy NIST 2/2/2018 Lunch talk: Thomas Purdy (NIST) Thomas Purdy NIST 2/1/2018 Quantum Measurements in Cavity Optomechanics Susumu Takahashi University of South Carolina 2/1/2018 EPR Spectroscopy with Single Spin Sensitivity Using a Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamond Valerie Browning, Susan Shean, Ale Lukaszew DARPA Defense Science Office 2/1/2018 Webcast: DARPA DSO Driven and Nonequilibrium Quantum Systems (DRINQS) Proposers Day Shuolong Yang Cornell University ######## Lunch Talk : Shuolong Yang Shuolong Yang Cornell University ######## Interfacial Engineering of Quantum Materials Emrah Turgut Cornell University ######## Spin Dynamics of Topological Spin Textures in Chiral Magnets Kevin Leonard University of Kansas ######## Characterizing Electrocatalysts with Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy Ryan Champagne Office of Research ######## Finding Funding: Resources & Opportunities for New Researchers Long Ju Cornell University ######## Tunable Berry Phase and Berry Curvature Effects in 2D and 3D Materials Sanfeng Wu MIT ######## Topology and Correlations in Monolayer Crystals Kristin Beck University of Maryland/JQI ######## Lunch Talk: Kristen Beck Kristin Beck University of Maryland/JQI ######## Prototyping a Quantum Computer with Trapped Ions Philip Feng Case Western University ######## Atomic Layer Semiconductor 2D Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS) Eugene Demler Harvard University ######## Quantum disequilibrium Dennis Christensen Technical Institute of Denmark ######## Emergent Phenomena at Oxide Interfaces Mark S. Hybertsen Brookhaven National Laboratory ######## Structure-Property Relationships in Nanostructured Materials: Aqueous Semiconductor Interfaces Yiwen Chu Quantum Acoustics with Superconducting Qubits The ability to engineer and manipulate different types of quantum mechanical objects allows us to take advantage of their unique properties and.. Pedram Roushan Google-Santa Barbara ######## Quantum technologies at the dawn of the second machine age Pedram Roushan Google ######## Interview with Dr. Pedram Roushan Pedram Roushan Google-Santa Barbara ######## Spectral signatures of many-body localization with interacting photons Michael Fiddy DARPA, Defense Sciences Office ######## DARPA DSO Nascent Light-Matter Interactions (NLM) Proposers’ Day Yong P. Chen Purdue University ######## Topological and 2D materials: new playground for physics and devices Lorenz Cederbaum University of Heidelberg ######## On systems with and without excess energy in environment Ajit Srivastava Emory University ######## 2D Materials - A New Platform for Strong Light-Matter Interactions Timothy Zwier Purdue University ######## Single Conformation Spectroscopy from the Microwave to the Ultraviolet Ryan Champagne Office of Research, University of Pittsburgh ######## Federal Funding: Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Gleb Finkelstein Duke University ######## Supercurrent in the quantum Hall regime Keith Nelson MIT ######## Strong THz fields and nonlinear THz interactions with charges, dipoles, and spins Dr. Weitao Yang Duke University ######## 7th Henry Frank Lecture- Fresh Perspectives on Electronic Excited States and Multiscale Simulations Kater Murch Washington University-St. Louis ######## Quantum Thermodynamics with Superconducting Qubits Dr. Weitao Yang Duke University ######## 7th Henry Frank Lecture- The Wonders of Electron Density: From Half of an Electron to Noncovalent Interactions of Biomolecular Complexes Valla Fatemi Massachusetts Institute of Technology ######## The Many Phases of Two-Dimensional WTe2 Mingzhong Wu Colorado State University ######## Spin Orbit Torque Switching of Magnetic Insulators Paul Bohn University of Notre Dame ######## Bifunctional Nanostuctures for Imaging Single Electron Transfer Reactions Paul Bohn University of Notre Dame ######## The Fascinating Failures of Ohm's Law JR Gaines, Kurt J. Lesker Co. Ron Hawranko, Leybold USA, and Chris Horwitz Electrogrip ######## Plasma Processing; Reactive Sputter Etching and Deposition Jean J. Heremans Virginia Tech ######## Mesoscopic spin- and quantum phase coherence: geometrical effects and spin-orbit interaction David Vanderbilt Rutgers University ######## The Search for Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulators JR Gaines, Kurt J. Lesker Co. Ron Hawranko, Leybold USA, and Chris Horwitz Electrogrip ######## Vacuum Fundamentals, Techniques, and Deposition Technology Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin Ohio State University ######## On the Road to Quantum Magnonics: Extremely Low Loss Spin Waves in V[TCNE]2 Shyam Shankar Yale University ######## Friction and Measurements that Preserve rather than Destroy Quantum Entanglement Marsha Lester University of Pennsylvania ######## Photo-Induced Dynamics of Atmospherically Important Criegee Intermediates James Fraser, Center Postdoc Fellow Hebrew U. of Jerusalem ######## Towards a Realist View of Quantum Field Theory Marsha Lester University of Pennsylvania ######## The Atmosphere's Detergent: Exploring Significant New Pathways for Hydroxyl Radical Formation Gregory Poon Georgia State University ######## Molecular Phenotypes of Structurally Homologous ETS Transcriptions Factors Christopher White Caltech IQIM ######## Quantum dynamics of thermalizing systems Sean Garrett-Roe University of Pittsburgh ######## Ultrafast Vibrational Spectroscopy of Ionic Liquids: Insight into Carbon Capture, Chemical Reactions, and Energy Storage Cory Dean Columbia University ######## From 3D to 2D and Back Again Xiaofeng Jin Fudan University, China ######## The Hall Effects Edwin Hall Never Imagined George Coulston 9/7/2017 Innovation Institute Overview with Dr. George Coulston The presentation will give an overview of the Innovation Institute, with an emphasis on how the Institute supports faculty and students with their entrepreneurial pursuits. David Rogers University of South Florida ######## Demystifying Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics Binghai Yan Weizmann Institute of Science ######## The Berry Phase and the Spin Current in AFM Weyl Semimetals Fangyuan Yang Fudan University ######## Quantum Transport in Black Phosphorus Two-dimensional Electron Gas Jonathan Ruhman MIT 7/6/2017 Superconductivity at Low Density and its Relation to Superconductivity in Topological Materials Alex Edelman University of Chicago 6/7/2017 Polaron-Plasmon Superconductivity in Strontium Titanate Mohamed Zayed CMU--Qatar 6/6/2017 Quantum Phase Transitions in Magnetic Materials David Snoke University of Pittsburgh ######## Summer Lectures: Phenomenology of Condensates and Superconductors Leena Aggarwal Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali ######## Tip-induced Superconductivity Ofer Kfir Georg-August-Universität Göttingen ######## Circularly Polarized High-Harmonics – From Symmetries to Applications Ramesh Budhani Air Force Research Laboratory ######## Quantum Phases and Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional Highly Correlated Metals at Oxide Interfaces Xiaoxing Xi Temple University ######## Cracking the Nanophysics of Oxide Interface and Heterostructures with ALL-Laser MBE Jill Millstone University of Pittsburgh ######## Women in Quantum Science and Engineering Lecture Series: Jill Millstone Xiaoxing Xi Temple University ######## United States of America vs. Xiaoxing Xi: Why It Matters Geoffrey Beach Massachusetts Institute of Technology ######## Room Temperature Magnetic Skyrmions in Engineered Multilayer Films William Bialek Princeton University ######## 2017 CMU Buhl Lecture: Wiliam Bialek (Princeton) Anastassia Alexandrova University of California, Los Angeles ######## Women in Quantum Science and Engineering Lecture Series: Anastassia Alexandrova Jiwoong Park University of Chicago ######## Paper and Circuits, Only Atoms Thick Vinod Menon The City College of New York 4/6/2017 Control of Light-Matter Interaction in 2D Atomic Crystals Nicole Benedek Cornell University 4/5/2017 Women in Quantum Science and Engineering Lecture Series: Nicole Benedek Mark Eriksson University of Wisconsin-Madison 4/3/2017 Quantum Control of Spins in Silicon Matthew Johnson West Virginia University ######## My Adventures in Nano-Land Konrad Lehnert University of Colorado Boulder ######## Electromechanics: A New Quantum Technology Changgan Zeng Univ. of Science and Technology of China ######## Quantum Behaviors of Graphene Plasmons Rajamani Vijayaraghavan Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) ######## Strongly Coupled Multi-Qubit Systems Using Superconducting Quantum Circuits Richard Williams Wake Forest University ######## Using Ultrafast Laser Pulses and Computational Modeling to Understand Nonproportionality in Spectroscopic Gamma-Ray Detectors Noa Marom Carnegie Mellon University ######## Women in Quantum Science and Engineering Lecture Series: Noa Marom Phillipe Sautet University of California, Los Angeles ######## Structure-Activity Relations in Heterogeneous Catalysis – A View from Computational Chemistry Sanjay Rebello Purdue University ######## Applying Ideas of Visual Cognition to Problem Solving in Physics Chandralekha Singh University of Pittsburgh 3/9/2017 Year of Diversity Workshop: Strategies to Help Women Succeed in STEM Professions Laura Greene Florida State University 3/7/2017 Women in Quantum Science and Engineering Lecture Series: Laura Greene Ran Cheng CMU 3/2/2017 Magnetic Nanostructures: A Playground for Fundamental Physics Rajiv Singh University of California Davis ######## Kagome Spin Liquids and Nuclear Relaxation Rates in Herbertsmithites Jeanie Lau Ohio State University ######## Women in Quantum Science and Engineering Lecture Series: Jeanie Lau Rajiv Singh University of California Davis ######## From Conjectures to Paradigms: the Evolving Influence of Field Theory and Topology in Condensed Matter Vincent Sokalski CMU ######## Magnetic Interface Anisotropy, Domain Walls, and Skyrmions Andy Kent New York University ######## Physics Enabled by the Discovery of Spin-Transfer Torques Matthew Headrick Brandeis University ######## Quantum Entanglement and the Geometry of Spacetime Reinhard J. Maurer Yale University 2/9/2017 Structure and Reactivity of Functional Molecules on Surfaces Susan Fullerton University of Pittsburgh 2/7/2017 Women in Quantum Science and Engineering Lecture Series: Susan Fullerton John Keith University of Pittsburgh 2/3/2017 In Silico Searches for Efficient Renewable Energy Catalysts Through Chemical Compound Space Chad Mirkin Northwestern University 2/2/2017 Nanotechnology: Small Things Matter Jahan Dawlaty University of California-Dornsife ######## Light, Electrons, and Protons: Their Interplay in Model Systems and Applications Joel Moore University of California Berkeley ######## New Topological Phases and Effects in Solids Joonho Jang MIT ######## Joonho Jang (MIT) Joonho Jang MIT ######## Joonho Jang (MIT) Joseph Stroscio National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ######## Whispering Galleries and Berry Phase Switches in Circular Graphene Resonators Eric Evarts National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ######## Understanding Anomalies and Variations in Magnetic Random Access Memory Devices Prof. Keshav M. Dani Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology Graduate University 1/5/2017 Space – The ‘Final’ Frontier: Exploring electron dynamics in the spatial dimensions David Abergel Nordita (Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics) ######## Dipolar Exciton Condensation in One-dimensional Materials Robert Griffiths CMU ######## What Quantum Measurements Measure Noa Marom Carnegie Mellon University ######## Effect of Crystal Packing on the Electronic Properties of Molecular Crystals Esta Abelev ######## PINSE Nano-Fabrication and Characterization Facility Overview and Services Tim Adamo University College London ######## New Formulations of Perturbative Quantum Field Theory Nitin Samarth Penn State University ######## Topological Spintronics: From the Haldane Phase to Spin Devices David Wallace University of Southern California ######## What Is "Orthodox" Quantum Mechanics? Ryan Steele University of Utah ######## Workshop: Efficient Calculation of Vibrational Anharmonicities Ryan Steele Vibrational Signatures of Electronic Properties in Energy and Biology N/A John Nichol University of Rochester ######## Quantum Information Processing with 4 Electrons and 10^6 Nuclei Axel Hoffmann Argonne National Laboratory ######## Room Temperature Generation and Manipulation of Magnetic Skyrmions Volker Blum Duke University ######## Materials for Solar Energy Capture and Conversion by Scalable All-Electron First-Principles Simulations Robert Wallace University of Texas at Dallas ######## 2D Materials: Challenges and Opportunities for Future Electronics Rajdeep Sensarma Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai ######## Potential Inhomogeneities in Presence of Strong Interactions: Birth and Death of Superconductors Jeffrey Barrett UC Irvine ######## Typical Worlds Pooya Ronagh University of British Columbia ######## Applications of Adiabatic Quantum Computation in Mathematical Optimization Jean Anne C. Incorvia Stanford University ######## Next-Generation Computing using Spin-Based Materials Ichiro Takeuchi University of Maryland ######## Combinatorial Approach to Materials Discovery J. Alexander Liddle CNST Nanofabrication Research Group (NIST) ######## Nanomanufacturing Jing Zhao University of Connecticut ######## Enhanced Biexciton Emission From Quantum Dots Near Plasmonic Nanostructures Johan Carlsson Biovia, Cologne ######## Modelling Carbon Materials from Pencil and Paper to High-throughput Screening Allan MacDonald University of Texas at Austin ######## Electron-electron Interaction Physics in Two-dimensional Materials Peter Hamm University of Zurich ######## 2D-Raman-THz Spectroscopy of Water and Salt Solutions George Crabtree Argonne National Laboratory ######## Storage at the Threshold: Li-ion Batteries and Beyond Angela Kou Yale ######## Decoherence and Flux Noise in Fluxonium-based Qubits Peter Hamm University of Zurich ######## It’s All About Water Talat S. Rahman University of Central Florida ######## CANCELLED: Tailoring Chemical and Optical Properties of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Xiaoguang Zhang University of Florida ######## Generalized Landauer Formula for Finite Biases Jiadong Zhang University of New Hampshire ######## Skyrmion in Helimagnets O. Anatole von Lilienfeld University of Basel ######## Quantum Mechanics, Chemical Space, and Machine Learning Michele Pavanello Rutgers ######## Embedding Ground and Excited States in Real and Imaginary Time Philip Crowley University College London ######## Many Body Localisation with Weak Disorder in the Quantum East Model Rolando Somma Los Alamos National Laboratory ######## Quantum Algorithms for Turbulent Mixing Simulation Vanessa Sih University of Michigan ######## Ultrafast Optical Measurements of Spin Polarization in Semiconductors Paul Zimmerman University of Michigan 9/9/2016 Reaction Pathway Searches for Unexpected Chemical Events Paul Zimmerman University of Michigan 9/6/2016 The Role of Locality in Quantum Chemistry Jordi Ignes University of Barcelona ######## Control of Active Liquid Crystals by Means of Addressable Soft Interfaces Alston Misquitta Queen Mary University Of London 7/8/2016 Intermolecular Potentials from the Iterated Stockholder Atoms Approach Xiong-Jun Liu Peking University 7/5/2016 Symmetry-Protected Non-Abelian Braiding of Majorana Kramers' Pairs Gábor A. Somorjai University of California, Berkeley 5/6/2016 Oxide-metal Interfaces as Active Sites for Acid-base Catalysis: Oxidation State of Nanocatalyst Change with Decreasing Size, Conversion of Heterogeneous to Homogeneous Catalysis, Hybrid Systems Gábor A. Somorjai University of California, Berkeley 5/5/2016 Metal Nanocatalysts, Their Synthesis and Size Dependent Covalent Bond Catalysis: Instrumentation for Characterization under Reaction Conditions Mohammad Hamidian Harvard University 5/5/2016 Directly Imaging the Super States of Nature Eric Heller Harvard University 5/3/2016 Spectroscopy for the Masses (of Carbon Atoms) Noa Marom Tulane University 5/3/2016 Toward Computational Design of Cluster-Based Functional Nano-Structures Eric Heller Harvard University 5/2/2016 Ballistic Branched Flow of Almost Everything Stephen Foiles Sandia National Laboratories ######## Simulating grain boundaries at the atomic scale: more complicated than you think Vipin Varma International Center for Theoretical Physics ######## Energy (and spin) transport in the thermal phase of the disordered Heisenberg chain Mengchen Huang ######## PhD Defense: Mengchen Huang (Levy Group) Yuri Suzuki Stanford University ######## Emergent Phenomena at a Mott Insulator/Band Insulator Interface Silvano De Franceschi CEA and Université Grenoble Alpes ######## Silicon CMOS Platform for Quantum Information Processing Jiwoong Park University of Chicago ######## Jiwoong Park (U. Chicago) Wenyu Huang Iowa State 4/7/2016 Nanostructure-Controlled Heterogeneous Catalysts with Superior Catalytic Properties Cameron Reed Alma College ######## The Manhattan Project: Beyond the Physics Cameron Reed Alma College ######## Simulating an Exploding Fission-Bomb Core With a Desktop Computer Sylvia Ujwary University of Pittsburgh ######## Nanoscale Study of BSCCO on a LAO/STO Interface Haidan Wen Argonne National Laboratory ######## Ultrafast dynamics of ferroelectrics and transition metal dichalcogenides Jimmy Hutasoit Penn State ######## Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Series