QSA holds cross-cutting monthly Science Meetings for all center members via Zoom. The director, Bert de Jong, provides opening remarks and center-wide updates. Two early-career researchers highlight recent scientific advances. These meetings offer the opportunity to catch up on QSA’s latest accomplishments, provide feedback to presenters, enhance collaboration across areas, and share lessons learned.
The Meeting schedule can be found below. Zoom credentials are sent in advance.**
UPCOMING:
7 May 2024
- Arinjoy De (Duke/University of Maryland) “Programmable Trapped Ion Quantum Spin Simulator”
- Muqing Xu (Harvard) “A Programmable Fermi Hubbard Quantum Simulator”
Previous 2024 meetings:
9 April 2024
- Manuel Humberto Munoz Arias (Sherbrooke) “Low-depth Clifford circuits approximately solve MaxCut.”.You can find their preprint in the arXiv.
- Dr. Jeff Gertler (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) will update us on their work leading a major software project for Lincoln Laboratory, enabling qubit control infrastructure to scale up with chip size and to make it much more seamless to swap out qubit types, change connectivities, and add tunable couplers.
27 February
- Frankie Fung (Harvard) “Towards a Programmable Spin-Mechanics Platform with Dynamic Qubit Transport”
- Ilyoun Na (UC Berkeley) materials science update from LBNL’s Molecular Foundry.
16 January
- Jack Schrott (UC Berkeley) “Laser cooling and trapping of titanium atoms.”
- Anupam Mitra (UNM) “Macrostates versus microstates in the classical simulation of critical phenomena in the quench dynamics of 1D Ising models” Preprint available in the arXiv.
**Please contact Eileen Dawson (QSA Associate Director of Operations) if you have not received the meeting Zoom information.
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