Conference

APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) are three-day regional conferences for undergraduate physics majors held simultaneously around the US and Canada. Their goal is to empower undergraduate women and gender minorities in their pursuits and aspirations in the field of physics by providing them with an opportunity to connect with peers and leaders, learn strategies for success, and be inspired by experts.

The 2020 program in Pittsburgh will include research talks, panel discussions...

Schedule:

Morning Session Chair: Sergey Frolov, University of Pittsburgh

9:00 Benjamin Hunt, Carnegie Mellon University Tuning Ising Superconductivity with Layer and Spin-Orbit Coupling in 2D Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Superconductors

9:40 Javad Shabani, New York University Josephson junctions in two-dimensional epitaxial Al-InAs structures

10:20 Coffee Break

10:50 Leonid Glazman, Yale University Demkov-Osherov tunneling of Majorana fermions

11:30 Julia Meyer, CEA Saclay Spontaneous spin polarization of non-equilibrium...

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Morning Session Chair: Michael Hatridge, University of Pittsburgh

9:00 Manuel Houzet, CEA Grenoble Microwave spectroscopy of a weakly-pinned charge density wave in a Josephson junction chain

9:40 Erik Bakkers, TU Eindhoven Bottom-up grown nanowire quantum devices

10:20 Coffee Break

10:50 Michel Devoret, Yale University Addressing spectroscopically single Andreev levels in super-semi nanowires

11:30 Peter Krogstrup, Microsoft Quantum and Niels Bohr Institute Hybrid epitaxy of magnetic-semiconductor-superconductor materials...

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Morning Session Chair: Victor Vakaryuk, Physical Review

9:00 Chris Palmstrøm, UCSB

9:40 Barbara Jones, IBM. The Keldysh-ETH quantum computation algorithm

10:20 Coffee Break

10:50 Philip Kim, Harvard University. Interlayer Excitons and Magneto-Exciton Condensation in van der Waals Heterostructures

11:30 Andrei Bernevig, Princeton. Topology of Twisted Graphene from Topological Quantum Chemistry

12:10 Lunch Break

Afternoon Session Chair: Benjamin Hunt, Carnegie Mellon University

2:00 Andrea Young, UCSB....

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Morning Session Chair: Roger Mong, University of Pittsburgh

9:05 Jay Sau, University of Maryland. Transport and Josephson response signatures of Andreev versus Majorana states

9:45 Vlad Pribiag, University of Minnesota. Magneto-transport in ballistic InSb nanowires with ferromagnetic contacts 

10:55 David Cobden, University of Washington. Topological, superconducting, ferroelectric and magnetic phenomena in thin WTe2

11:35 Felix von Oppen, FU Berlin. Quantum Computation with Majorana fermion codes

12:15 Lunch Break...

Women in Data Science (WiDS) is an international conference primarily located in Stanford, CA with 80+ satellite conferences across every continent except Antarctica. In 2017, over 75,000 people attended the conference in person and via the livestream and Facebook Live. The purpose of WiDS is to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide, regardless of gender, and support women in the field; the conference features exclusively female speakers from academia and industry.

Speakers include Marlene Behrmann, Maria Mori Brooks, Amelia Haviland, Kathryn Roeder, and Manuela Veloso.