QO/AMO Seminars Past Events /
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
19
Nov
2025
5 p.m.
- 6 p.m.
Physics Department, McLennan Physical Laboratories, 60 St. George Street, MP 137
Prof. Joseph Lukens, Associate Professor,
Taste the quantum rainbow: frequency bins for on-chip quantum information processing
14
Nov
2025
11 a.m.
- noon
Fields Institute, Room 309 (the Stewart Library)
Marco Liscidini
An ignorant Maxwell demon at work
07
Nov
2025
11 a.m.
- noon
Fields Institute, Room 309 (the Stewart Library)
Alexei Bylinskii
Science With Programmable Neutral Atom Quantum Computers.
24
Oct
2025
11 a.m.
- noon
Fields Institute, Room 309 (the Stewart Library)
Johan Henaff
Complex quantum networks for machine learning protocols
17
Oct
2025
4 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Room MP 137
Jack Harris
Testing quantum mechanics with the motion of a massive object
17
Oct
2025
11 a.m.
- noon
Fields Institute, Room 309 (the Stewart Library)
Nicolas Quesada
Simulating lossy and partially distinguishable quantum optical circuits
10
Oct
2025
10 a.m.
- 11 a.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 408
Wenyuan (Mike) Wang
Decoy-state optical quantum information processing with coherent states
10
Oct
2025
11 a.m.
- noon
Fields Institute, Room 309 (the Stewart Library)
Eduardo Martin-Martinez
Impossible measurements and particle detectors in relativistic quantum information