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QuICS Seminar
Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science Seminar
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Friday, September 25, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
The Pound-Drever-Hall Method for Superconducting-Qubit Readout
Won Chan Lee - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
9:00 am
-10:00 am
QuICS Seminar
Hands-On Quantum Computing with IQM Resonance
Daniel Bulmash - IQM Quantum Computers
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5871875361?omn=92012257919 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Exploring Magic in Quantum Computers and Many-Body Systems
Tobias Haug - Technology Innovation Institute
https://umd.zoom.us/j/5871875361?omn=98865799545 Meeting ID: 587 187 5361 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Career Connections Seminar
Martin Schuetz - Amazon Advanced Solutions Lab
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5871875361?omn=94564542716 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, September 18, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A Monolithic Blade Trap for Quantum Information Processing
Michael Straus - University of Maryland & Duke University
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 17, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Exponentially-improved effective descriptions of physical bosonic systems
Varun Upreti - École normale supérieure - Paris
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9137887602?pwd=ei84WW1MZG9aUWtiempMWVNCWVY3dz09&omn=97860117099 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Monday, September 14, 2026
3:15 pm
- 4:15 pm
QuICS Seminar
Optimal spectroscopy via quantum sensing
Leo Liu - MIT
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5871875361?omn=95212870971 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, September 11, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Probing Higgs oscillations across the BEC-BCS Crossover in a Cavity-QED Quantum simulator
Haoqing Zhang - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 10, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Wigner crystal polarons & quantum anomalous Hall states
You Zhou - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99533468432 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
The code intersection problem and its applications in quantum complexity theory
John Bostanci - Simons Institute and UC Berkeley
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94359815285 Meeting ID: 943 5981 5285 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, September 4, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A Hardware-Safety-Gated System for LLM-Written native ARTIQ control code on a Trapped Ion Platform
Yuanheng Xie - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Monday, August 10, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Steepest Entropy Ascent, No-Signaling, and Non-Abelian Thermal States
Rohit Ray - Virginia Tech
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5972416689 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
10:00 am
-11:00 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Dimer Models and Mixed-State Topological Phases: Geometry and Stability
Jeet Shah - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6022663536?omn=92882108272&jst=2 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Monday, July 27, 2026
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
On State Distinguishing Without Inverse Queries
Emma Wang - White Station High School
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3202954736?pwd=l66vevFdsmXkvyZWBKjx4i1MPwQKaw.1&omn=93036842485 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
10:00 am
-11:00 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Toward real-time hadronic physics with quantum computers
Chung-Chun Hsieh - University of Maryland
PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/8862981837?pwd=a4BYSI7r83l9URCNch1jc2RboYglGZ.1&omn=93095432067 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Friday, June 12, 2026
9:30 am
-11:30 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Cryptography in the Presence of Side Information
Manasi Shingane - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/4408046564?pwd=jxxFPSb0TCV3qYiZv6WbLncFIvVyPX.1 Password: 628758 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A whole new woRLD of Fisher information
Sujay Kazi - Duke University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://duke.zoom.us/j/93506619765?pwd=2YW3yHGiPeqXI71VtWVUq68qmvvaOb.1 Meeting ID: 935 0661 9765 Passcode: 857763 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, June 5, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A complexity phase transition at the EPR Hamiltonian
James Sud - University of Chicago
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3010642404?pwd=5Bwsxvwne0QwXBs5ra9d4wr4J56OTi.1&omn=96345801307 Meeting ID: 301 064 2404 Passcode: 590870 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, June 4, 2026
10:00 am
-11:00 am
QuICS Seminar
From Preparing Quantum Spin Lakes to Measuring Chaos with Hamiltonian Learning: Quantum Simulation Beyond the Ground State
Nik Gjonbalaj - Harvard University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5871875361?omn=98612137949 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, May 14, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Giant enhancement of exciton diffusion near an electronic Mott insulator
Pranshoo Upadhyay - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94259669724 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Friday, May 8, 2026
9:45 am
-11:45 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: The Boundaries of Computational Hardness in Noisy Quantum Circuits
Joel Rajakumar - University of Maryland
PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3010642404?pwd=5Bwsxvwne0QwXBs5ra9d4wr4J56OTi.1&omn=96440539296 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Exactly Solvable Topological Phase Transition in a Quantum Dimer Model
Jeet Shah - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, May 7, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Career Connections Seminar
Joe Iosue - Microsoft Quantum
PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98782095372 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Monday, May 4, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: Scalable Quantum Dynamics under Noise: Error-Mitigation Thresholds and Bosonic Error Correction
Jiayao Zhao - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2646398485?pwd=VkNNUjBKTERYTFBhRnE4a1hSTEw0UT09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, May 1, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Strategic Codes: The Universal Spatio-temporal Framework for Quantum Error-Correction
Kishor Bharti - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, April 30, 2026
10:00 am
-11:00 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Preparation of Ground-State Ultracold Lithium Dimers and Coherent Control of Their Reactions: A Theoretical Study
Jing-Chen Zhang - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3161863135?pwd=Mmh0bm12aUpPYk1pMzFvS1UxbWh2UT09&omn=93159059288 Meeting ID: 316 186 3135 Passcode: morecoffee Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum witnesses with no classical substitutes (i.e., QMA vs QCMA)
Chinmay Nirkhe - University of Washington
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91231569930 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: Practical fault tolerance with quantum error-correcting codes: logical protocols, decoders, and code design
Shi Jie Samuel Tan - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3144621979?pwd=Y2lWYWhJWm5rU2pjdWl3QnRTSmRLUT09&omn=93025505672&jst=2urQY64iTr-eH6qegJDNP Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Monday, April 27, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
AI-Guided Design of Compositionally Complex Alloys with Targeted Properties
Shunshun Liu - University of Virginia
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=99440594483 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, April 24, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Compressed unitary learning from non-markovian interactions
Anantha Rao - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, April 23, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Metrology Enhanced by Effective Time Reversal
Yuxin Wang - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99758309213 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Friday, April 17, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Entanglement and circuit complexity in finite-depth random linear optical networks
Laura Shou - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Memory as a resource for sampling and parameter estimation
Felix Binder - Trinity College Dublin
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91830212793?pwd=DfBquKW9eSy8b9NJkC4mtJFSONB3NM.1 Meeting ID: 918 3021 2793 Passcode: 028955 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Monday, April 13, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Public-Key Quantum Fire and Key-Fire From Classical Oracles
Alper Çakan - Carnegie Mellon University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/4992673461?pwd=ZlEK5cTdd0MBUBqpsF0zQXE6uqb0pB.1 Meeting ID: 499 267 3461 Passcode: 2341459 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, April 10, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Robustness-Runtime Tradeoff for Quantum State Transfer
Twesh Upadhyaya - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Transversal non-Clifford logical gates for quantum error-correcting codes
Eric Huang - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5143281910?pwd=yVnFnQ8H1qenNqHjvVDuNeoMsufWko.1&omn=99297334957 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Achieving Optimal-Distance Atom-Loss Correction via Pauli Envelope
Pengyu Liu - Carnegie Mellon University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/7031888774?omn=91328805747 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum simulation of dissipative non-Markovian dynamics
Abtin Ameri - MIT
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92255190173?pwd=hfjVBcWXsfBKqvW3dJkjDVFxzbzrbi.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Limitations of Quantum Methods for Breaking Cryptography and for Optimization
Kaiyan Shi - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2846460812?pwd=VDEvNmowQ0UrNzRNb1NYTlpFLzJHUT09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, April 3, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Measurement-enhanced entanglement in monitored superconductors
Zhi-Yuan Wei - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: A Systems Perspective on Interconnects for Quantum Computing
Connor Clayton - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98645006306?pwd=WPL4bhZtqvHib5jPLPbYEihNToZtZe.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, March 27, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Efficiency of retrieving light stored in Rydberg media
Alexandra Behne - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, March 26, 2026
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Advantage via Physics-Inspired Methods in Optimization: Empirical and Theoretical Analysis
Yufan Zheng - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Robust state certification from simple measurements
Joseph Slote - University of Washington
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91497937249?pwd=3KQXRPWoCxzvrF3P5LMQgHxEUiayji.1 Meeting ID: 914 9793 7249 Passcode: 078601 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: Universality (or lack thereof) in Quantum Computation
Chaitanya Karamchedu - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Scalable testing of quantum error correction
Jens Palsberg - UCLA
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94312853353?pwd=VgBur73rCVz1G1NLv7BqsRkdKl3xW0.1 Meeting ID: 943 1285 3353 Passcode: 643528 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, March 13, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Disclinations, Dislocations, and Emanant Flux at Dirac Criticality
Chris Fechisin - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Incompressibility of random quantum circuits
Tony Metger - ETH Zürich
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95163429896 Meeting ID: 951 6342 9896 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Efficient classical algorithms for quantum Gibbs states up to phase transitions
Bobak Kiani - Bowdoin College
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91905196295?pwd=8Q3MlSG4HqkeVz2tSaVuUd50hcx1jQ.1 Meeting ID: 919 0519 6295 Passcode: 759102 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
11:30 am
-12:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Fault-tolerant Fermionic Quantum Computing
Alexander Schuckert - École Normale Superieure
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97821701893 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Friday, March 6, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Symmetry-Protected Quantum Control of Ultracold Chemical Reactions
Jing-Chen Zhang - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
9:45 am
-10:45 am
QuICS Seminar
Entangling logical qubits without physical operations
Shayan Majidy - Harvard University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5972416689 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, February 27, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Readout-Free Majority Decoding via Asymmetric Rydberg Antiblockade
Thomas Steckmann - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: In-situ benchmarking of fault-tolerant quantum circuits
Xiao Xiao - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6421864531 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, February 20, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Crosstalk Insensitive Trapped-Ion Entanglement through Coupling Matrix Engineering
Vikram Kashyap - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, February 13, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Syndrome dynamics for some CSS codes
Adam Artymowicz - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, February 12, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A Circuit-QED Lattice System with Flexible Connectivity and Gapped Flat Bands for Photon-Mediated Spin Models
Kellen O'Brien - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99942795838 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Friday, February 6, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Two open problems in categorical quantum theory
Ariel Rosenfield - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, February 5, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Approximation and Optimization Problems in Quantum Information Science
Chi-Kwong Li - College of William and Mary
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97747371942 Meeting ID: 977 4737 1942 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Understanding noise-robustness in analog quantum simulation
Rahul Trivedi - Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92594095095 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: Distinguishing classical and quantum systems through the computational lens
Jon Nelson - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3080179084 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
10:30 am
-11:30 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: Measuring gravitational lensing time delays with quantum information processing
Zhenning Liu - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92746313746 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, December 12, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Andreev Optoelectronics: Absorption Spectroscopy and Microwave-Optical Transduction
Benyamin Remez - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Query Algorithms: Design, Optimality, Complexity
Matt Kovacs-Deak - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, December 11, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Polynomial-Time Classical Simulation of Noisy Circuits with Naturally Fault-Tolerant Gates
Joel Rajakumar - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92879287051 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
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)
Monday, December 8, 2025
5:00 pm
- 6:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Career Connections at UMD: Meet RQS Postdocs and learn about their career journeys
Dr. Jacob Lin and Dr. Alexander Schuckert - University of Maryland & QuEra
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95165641180 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, December 5, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Exponential entanglement advantage in sensing spatially correlated noise
Yuxin Wang - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, December 4, 2025
3:15 pm
- 4:15 pm
QuICS Seminar
Approximate Markovianity and the Classical Simulability of Noisy Quantum Circuits
Yifan Frank Zhang - Princeton University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/94173454653 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Cost scaling for matrix-product and tree-tensor-network simulations of 2D and 3D systems with area-law entanglement
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)
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum advantage in noisy simulations of random circuit OTOCs
Brayden Ware - Google Quantum AI
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Asymptotically good CSS codes in which physical transversal T realizes logical transversal S^{\dag}
Navin Kashyap - IISC, Bangalore
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9137887602?pwd=ei84WW1MZG9aUWtiempMWVNCWVY3dz09&omn=98012977889 Meeting ID: 913 788 7602 Passcode: 542956 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, November 21, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Levin-Wen is a gauge theory: entanglement from topology
Kyle Kawagoe - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Optimal bounds and computational complexity of perfect quantum state classification
Jamie Sikora - Virginia Tech
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91679364399 Meeting ID: 916 7936 4399 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Monday, November 17, 2025
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
MIPco=coRE
Junqiao Lin - CWI
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92049544549 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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)
Thursday, November 13, 2025
12:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Characterization of quantum states and dynamics
Srilekha Gandhari - University of Maryland
PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95990801447?pwd=wCgQLhUF4zpi3uQZyYqyzyRaGE68va.1 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Random Pulse Sequences for Quantum Noise Spectroscopy
Kaixin Huang - University of Maryland
PSC 2204 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/8902553848 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
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: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5356797043?pwd=b1OnafMkEt6s4gbFfL4gqFKxUbaVLU.1&omn=96911691897 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
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95150714511?pwd=0fn2vQPJNZoD7NFihlaxXrn2ipVc0X.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Free fermions beyond Jordan-Wigner
Sam Elman - University of Technology Sydney
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/4139825524?omn=95620093490 Meeting ID: 413 982 5524 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)
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, 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)
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 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)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Optical Interconnects
Marco Loncar - Harvard University
Kay Boardrooms (1107/1111) - The Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building - and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94713331885?pwd=RG3W5dgoeorpYbXfbbgiNSDTrJ7uqL.1 Meeting ID: 947 1333 1885 Passcode: 646883 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building (KEB)
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)
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)
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)
Friday, October 17, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Probing Criticality in Error Mitigated Quantum Circuits via heavily Truncated Matrix Product State
Jiayao Zhao - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, October 16, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Absorption-Emission Codes for Atomic and Molecular Quantum Information Platforms
Shubham Jain - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97311616882 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Friday, October 10, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Nonlinear topological photonics
Lida Xu - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, October 3, 2025
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Learning About Quantum States and Processes: A Modern Approach
Jonathan Kunjummen - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: umd.zoom.us/j/5518192201 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Adaptive Syndrome Extraction
Shi Jie Samuel Tan - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
5:00 pm
- 6:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Career Connections: Experts discuss non-technical writing skills for researchers at Princeton
Alaina O’Regan & Nicole Yunger Halpern - Princeton University & University of Maryland
Princeton University [EQuad room J40] and Virtual Via Zoom: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/97559729542
This list is organized by Andrew Childs,Javiera Caceres, and Andrea F. Svejda