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Spring 2024 Featured Events
February
BU Quantum Science and Engineering Symposium
Talk title: Building Quantum Networks: From Solid-state Defects and Rydberg Atoms in Cavities to a New Scientific Frontier with Hybrid Quantum Systems
Speaker: Aziza Suleymanzade, Harvard University
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm ET
Location (In-Person): Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering (KCILSE), 610 Commonwealth Ave, Room 101 (1st floor), Boston, MA 02215
FRI, February 8, 2024
BU Quantum Science and Engineering Symposium
Talk title: Detecting Nanoscale Two-Point Field Correlators with Defects in Diamond
Speaker: Jared Rovny, Princeton University
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm ET
Location (In-Person): Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering (KCILSE), 610 Commonwealth Ave, Room 101 (1st floor), Boston, MA 02215
THURS, February 15, 2024
Quantum Convergence Lunch
Talk title: Molecular Qubits – Chemical Stability and Design Principles
Speaker: Linda Doerrer (Chemistry)
Time: 12 – 1:30 PM
Location (Hybrid): 665 Commonwealth Ave, CDS 548
WED, February 21, 2024
Center for Computational Science (CCS) Seminar, followed by a Quantum Convergence Afternoon Tea Social
Talk title: Classical and quantum thermodynamic theory described by a system–baths model: The minimum work and exothermic principles
Speaker: Yoshitaka Tanimura, Professor, Kyoto University
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm ET
Location: Center for Computing & Data Sciences, 665 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215, Room 1101
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March
April
BU Condensed Matter Seminar
Talk title: Long-range order and symmetry breaking in mixed states triggered by local quantum channels
Speaker: Yizhi You, Professor of Physics, Northeastern University
Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm ET
Location (In-Person): Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering (SCI), 590 Commonwealth Ave, Room 352 (3rd floor), Boston, MA 02215
FRI, April 19, 2024
BU Condensed Matter Seminar
Talk title: Thermalization Universality Classes for Weakly Nonintegrable Many-Body Dynamics
Speaker: Sergej Flach, Professor of Physics, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea
Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm ET
Location (In-Person): Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering (SCI), 590 Commonwealth Ave, Room 352 (3rd floor), Boston, MA 02215
WED, April 24, 2024
BU Condensed Matter Seminar
Talk title: Programmable Simulations of Molecules and Materials with Reconfigurable Quantum Processors
Speaker: Nishad Maskara, Harvard University
Time: 3:30 pm – 5 pm ET
Location (In-Person): Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering (SCI), 590 Commonwealth Ave, Room 352 (3rd floor), Boston, MA 02215
FRI, April 26, 2024
BU Condensed Matter Seminar
Talk title: Solvable models for 2+1D quantum critical points: Loop soups of 1+1D conformal field theories
Speaker: Thomas Scaffidi, Unversity of California Irvine
Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm ET
Location (In-Person): Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering (SCI), 590 Commonwealth Ave, Room 352 (3rd floor), Boston, MA 02215
May
BU Condensed Matter Seminar
Talk title: Approximately-symmetric neural networks for quantum spin liquid problems
Speaker: Dominik Kufel, Harvard University
Time: 3:30 pm – 5 pm ET
Location (In-Person): Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering (SCI), 590 Commonwealth Ave, Room 352 (3rd floor), Boston, MA 02215
FRI, May 10, 2024
BU Condensed Matter Seminar
Talk title: Classifying disordering transitions using generalized symmetries
Speaker: Salvatore Pace, MIT
Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm ET
Location (In-Person): Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering (SCI), 590 Commonwealth Ave, Room 352 (3rd floor), Boston, MA 02215
WED, May 15, 2024
BU Condensed Matter Seminar
Talk title: S3 topological order for universal computation
Speaker: Leo Lo, Harvard University
Time: 3:30 pm – 5 pm ET
Location (In-Person): Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering (SCI), 590 Commonwealth Ave, Room 352 (3rd floor), Boston, MA 02215
For more Quantum Convergence events visit the Hariri Institute Calendar
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