CQIQC Seminars Past Events /
11
Sep
2026
11 a.m.
- noon
Fields Institute, Room 309 (the Stewart Library)
Cihan Okay
Geometry of Quantum Computational Advantage
31
Aug
2026
10 a.m.
- 11 a.m.
Physics Department, 60 St.George Street, MP 408
Prof. Irina Paci
Understanding Polarization in Quantum Materials from First Principles
28
Aug
2026
11 a.m.
- noon
60 St. George Street, Room MP 408
Hanzhen Lin
Exploring Spin Physics and Light Scattering via Ultracold ⁷Li
24
Aug
2026
11 a.m.
- noon
Physics Department, 60 St.George Street, MP 408
Howard Wiseman
Quantum jumps and beyond: do atoms just do it, or do we have to be looking?
19
Aug
2026
2 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
Earth Sciences Centre, Room 1050
2026 Bell Prize Ceremony
30
Jul
2026
11 a.m.
- noon
Physics Department, 60 St.George Street, MP 408
Stefanos Kourtis
Concentration-Free Quantum Kernel Learning in the Rydberg Blockade
15
Jul
2026
3 p.m.
- 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 606
David Weiss
Exciting 1D Gases
19
Jun
2026
11 a.m.
- noon
Fields Institute, Room 309 (the Stewart Library)
Prof. Atac Imamoglu
Optical investigation of strongly correlated electrons
05
Jun
2026
11 a.m.
- noon
Fields Institute, Room 309 (the Stewart Library)
Prof. Roman Korol
How NOT to build control-target gates in semiconductor quantum dots and beyond
29
May
2026
11 a.m.
- noon
Fields Institute, Room 309 (the Stewart Library)
Praveen Jayakumar and Paath Jain
Two presentations: How to Build Exact, Symmetry-Preserving Quantum Circuits; and Exact Unitary Transformations via Adjoint Representations
28
May
2026
11 a.m.
- noon
60 St. George Street, Room MP 606
Joseph Bramante
$N^2$ Enhanced Quantum Detection and the CATCHY experiment
27
May
2026
2 p.m.
- 3 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 606
Antoine Lefebvre
Transport of fermions in an optical lattice
22
May
2026
11 a.m.
- noon
Fields Institute, Room 309 (the Stewart Library)
Jose Antonio Marin Guzman
Proposals for experimentally realizing quantum-autonomous gates
11
May
2026
11 a.m.
- noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 408
Henrik R. Larsson
Tensor network methods for simulating vibrational and electronic dynamics
01
May
2026
11 a.m.
- noon
Fields Institute, Room 309 (the Stewart Library)
Micheline Soley
CQIQC Seminar May 1, 2026- CANCELLED
10
Apr
2026
11 a.m.
- noon
Fields Institute, Room 309 (the Stewart Library)
Randall Dumont
Superluminal tunneling and the Sauter-Schwinger effect
27
Feb
2026
11 a.m.
- noon
60 St. George Street, Room MP 408
Mohit Verma
Using ultracold radioactive jewelry to search for new physics
25
Feb
2026
11 a.m.
- noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 505
Eddy Keming Chen
Typical Quantum States of the Universe are Observationally Indistinguishable
20
Feb
2026
11 a.m.
- noon
Fields Institute, Room 309 (the Stewart Library)
Frederic Bouchard
Programmable Ultrafast Photonic Quantum Circuits
13
Feb
2026
11 a.m.
- noon
Fields Institute, Room 309 (the Stewart Library)
Tirthak Patel
Deriving Utility From Today’s Quantum Computers: Practical Strategies for Reliable Near-Term Quantum Computing
06
Feb
2026
11 a.m.
- noon
Fields Institute, Room 309 (the Stewart Library)
Toni Annala
A Mathematician's Journey in Physics: From Vortex Knots to NISQ Algorithms
23
Jan
2026
11 a.m.
- noon
Fields Institute, Room 309 (the Stewart Library)
Prof. Andrew Jordan
Captured in tunneling: making the virtual actual
04
Dec
2025
11 a.m.
- noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606
Paul W. Ayers
Musings on the Seniority Quantum Number
24
Nov
2025
10 a.m.
- 11 a.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 408
Sisi Zhou
Quantum metrological limits in noisy environments
20
Nov
2025
11 a.m.
- noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jonathan Home
Approaches to scaling quantum computing with trapped ions