Seminar Series

The next PQI student seminar talk will be held next Thursday, 02 February at 2:00pm in Allen Hall room 321. The speaker will be "group IV-VI semiconductor materials for applications in quantum devices" by Maksim Gomanko from the University of Pittsburgh Department of Physics and Astronomy. Coffee and cookies will be provided; we hope to see everyone there!

If you are interested in presenting, please choose a date to present here.

The PQI Student Seminar Series begins this week with Melanie Dieterlen presenting "Nanoscale THz spectroscopy of electrically gated quantum materials." The seminar will be held in Allen 321 on the University of Pittsburgh campus at 2pm, on Thursday 1/19.

Rongchao Jin, CMU, “Quantum-Sized Metal Nanoclusters”

So Hirata, UIUC, “Numerical Evidence Invalidating Textbook Finite-Temperature Perturbation Theory”

The format is a plenary talk from our invited speaker (40 min, including questions) accompanied with a shorter talk (20 min, including questions) from our PQI membership. This is a format that is modeled after the previous PQI20XX events. 

Click this link to watch live on the PQI Youtube channel and ask questions in the livechat.

Linda Peteanu, CMU, “TBD” 

Chris Van de Walle, UCSB, “Modeling Point Defects for Quantum Information Science”

The format is a plenary talk from our invited speaker (40 min, including questions) accompanied with a shorter talk (20 min, including questions) from our PQI membership. This is a format that is modeled after the previous PQI20XX events. 

Click this link to watch live on the PQI Youtube channel and ask questions in the livechat.

Andrew Daley, University of Strathclyde, “Reaching Practical Quantum Advantage in Quantum Simulation” 

Dan Stamper-Kurn, UC Berkeley, “TBD”

Tom Purdy, UPitt, “The Quantum Optical Lever”

The format is a plenary talk from our invited speaker (40 min, including questions), sandwiched between two shorter talks (20 min each, including questions) from our PQI membership. This is a format that is modeled after the previous PQI20XX events. 

Click here to watch live on the PQI...

Jimmy Zhu, CMU, “Field Free Spin Hall Switching of Perpendicular MTJs”

Xiaodong Xu, University of Washington, “2D Magnets and Heterostructures”

Nathan Youngblood, UPitt, “Highly parallel in-memory computing with phase-change photonics”

The format is a plenary talk from our invited speaker (40 min, including questions), sandwiched between two shorter talks (20 min each, including questions) from our PQI membership. This is a format that is modeled after the previous PQI20XX events. 

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Yang Wang, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, “Ab initio electronic structure calculation at the dawn of exascale computing”
Shiwei Zhang, Flatiron Institute and College of William & Mary, “Towards the solution of the many-electron problem: ground-state properties of the hydrogen chain from ab initio computation"”

The format is a plenary talk from our outside speaker (40 min, including questions) following a talk (20 min, including questions) from our PQI membership. This is a format that is modeled after the previous PQI20XX events. 

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Olexandr Isayev, CMU, “Supercharging quantum mechanics with artificial intelligence (AI)”

Heather Kulik, MIT, “Molecular design blueprints: new simulation and machine learning tools for inorganic discovery”

Peng Liu, Pitt, “Using Energy Decomposition Analysis to Guide Rational Catalyst Design”

The format is a plenary talk from our outside speaker (40 min, including questions), sandwiched between two shorter talks (20 min each, including questions) from our PQI membership. This is a format that is modeled after the previous PQI20XX events. 

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Sridhar Tayur, CMU, “Quantum Integer Programming (QuIP)”
Fred Chong, University of Chicago, “Closing the Gap between Quantum Algorithms and Machines with Hardware-Software Co-Design”
Ryan O’Donnell, CMU, “Quantum Learning for Quantum Data”

The format is a plenary talk from our outside speaker (40 min, including questions), sandwiched between two shorter talks (20 min each, including questions) from our PQI membership. This is a format that is modeled after the previous PQI20XX events. 

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Jeremy Levy, UPitt, “Correlated Nanoelectronics: The Next Dimension”
Amir Yacoby, Harvard University, “Quantum Sensing Of Quantum Materials”
Sara Majetich, CMU, “TBD” 

The format is a plenary talk from our outside speaker (40 min, including questions), sandwiched between two shorter talks (20 min each, including questions) from our PQI membership. This is a format that is modeled after the previous PQI20XX events. 

Watch here and submit...