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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

Friday, September 26, 2025

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

QuICS Seminar

Interacting electrons in silicon quantum interconnects: From Wigner Crystals to long-range capacitive coupling

Anantha Rao - University of Maryland

ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Friday, September 19, 2025

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

QuICS Seminar

Hiding in Gaussian Boson Sampling

Laura Shou - University of Maryland

ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Thursday, September 18, 2025

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

QuICS Seminar

Gauge‑theory dynamics with tensor networks

Navya Gupta - University of Maryland

PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/8233244123?omn=98015207563 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

QuICS Seminar

Generalized quantum signal processing and non-linear Fourier transform are equivalent

Lorenzo Laneve - Università della Svizzera Italiana

Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=98702890920 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123

Friday, September 12, 2025

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

QuICS Seminar

When can we reach the quantum Fisher information for multiparameter estimation?

Lorcan Conlon - University of Maryland

ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

QuICS Seminar

"It sounded like a good idea" -- Non-asymptotic running-time analysis of quantum convex optimization algorithms

David Gross - University of Cologne, Germany

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=92806012793&jst=2, ID: 9893676372, Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Friday, September 5, 2025

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

QuICS Seminar

Breakdown of the thermodynamic limit in quantum spin and dimer models

Jeet Shah - University of Maryland

ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Friday, August 29, 2025

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

QuICS Seminar

Scalable error correction strategies and the memory capacity of open quantum neural networks

Lukas Bödeker - Forschungszentrum Jülich

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95105272821?pwd=DWsCPV31ldla5y8ZGwbMAI08N6XBIa.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

QuICS Seminar

Quantum polylog-LDPC error correcting codes achieving the hashing bound on the depolarizing channel

Thomas Van Himbeeck - INRIA

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97629964395?pwd=ZXBUTZ3pgxeRk530gMabDxOqrvQ0Wv.1 Meeting ID: 976 2996 4395 Passcode: 869509 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

QuICS Seminar

Quantum Error-Correcting Codes: Dynamics, Non-Classicality, and a Unified Framework

Andrew Tanggara - National University of Singapore

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9137887602?pwd=ei84WW1MZG9aUWtiempMWVNCWVY3dz09&omn=97873044341 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Friday, July 18, 2025

12:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

QuICS Seminar

PhD Defense: Quantum error corrections for fermionic and bosonic systems

Yijia Xu - University of Maryland

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2639797355 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Thursday, July 17, 2025

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

QuICS Seminar

PhD Defense: Locality and Complexity in Quantum Information Dynamics

Dhruv Devulapalli - University of Maryland

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94509639588?pwd=nCsEBo26jxvGa6wrw4syXkgKhvRQbE.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

QuICS Seminar

PhD Defense: Discrete and continuous variable systems: Properties, protocols, and applications

Joseph T. Iosue - University of Maryland

ATL 3332 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98758996580?pwd=13URJiwygjYWbaMrymXARskJj0hIXv.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

QuICS Seminar

PhD Defense: Practical Applications for Partial Quantum Error Correction

Noah Berthusen - University of Maryland

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3498884997?pwd=SURCT1ZkTTNaZzlzbmlaT2lrTVBaZz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

This list is organized by Andrew Childs,Javiera Caceres, and Andrea F. Svejda