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QuICS Seminar
Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science Seminar
See past talks
Today, Monday, October 20, 2025
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Mechanisms for Quantum Advantage in Global Optimization of Nonconvex Functions
Shouvanik Chakrabarti - JPMorganChase
ATL 3100A (VIRTUAL ONLY) Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94443622917?pwd=VqDYvKLHfBVEb9rnYP3C8XobjCbq6K.1 Password: nonconvex Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Fault-tolerant quantum input/output
Matthias Christandl - University of Copenhagen
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97579721804 Meeting ID: 975 7972 1804 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, October 23, 2025
9:30 am
-11:00 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: Quantum End-to-end Solvers for Partial Differential Equations
Mahathi Vempati - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/7474810823 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, October 24, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum-inspired Benchmark for Estimating Intrinsic Dimension
Aritra Das - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Next week
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Getting to Know QuICS
Various Speakers - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, October 31, 2025
11:30 am
- 1:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Semi-Quantum Cryptography: Designing Protocols with Classical Verification
Yusuf Alnawakhtha - University of Maryland
PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/my/nawakhtha?omn=92116776053 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
No-go theorems for logical gates on product quantum codes
Xiaozhen Fu - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Further ahead
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum algorithms through graph composition
Arjan Cornelissen - UC Berkeley
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94466915159?pwd=Vd2kQMT3VdnMrne1ixo670ohuhTapo.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, November 7, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantized topological phases beyond square lattices in Floquet synthetic dimensions
Samarth Sriram - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: New Directions From Old Codes
Nolan Coble - University of Maryland
3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95150714511?pwd=0fn2vQPJNZoD7NFihlaxXrn2ipVc0X.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Fault-tolerant protocols through spacetime concatenation
Yichen Xu - Cornell University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: To be announced Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, November 13, 2025
12:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: To be announced
Srilekha Gandhari - University of Maryland
PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: To be announced Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Friday, November 14, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Optimal Distillation of Coherent states with Phase-insensitive operations
Shiv Akshar Yadavalli - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Code-switching revisited: high-fidelity logical magic state preparation using color codes
Lucas Daguerre - University of California, Davis
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95583554326?pwd=iZC5M9UAO6mTxnqsCq1pHvK2MvFyzz.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
To be announced
Thomas Barthel - University of Maryland/Duke University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=91238398672 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Local fault-tolerant error correction with simulated confinement
Ethan Lake - UC Berkeley
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=93545772585 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372, Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
This list is organized by Andrew Childs,Javiera Caceres, and Andrea F. Svejda