IQUIST Master Calendar

Monday, September 29, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Operation of a high frequency, phase slip qubit," Cheeranjeev Purmessur, Kou Group

  Talk Title: "Operation of a high frequency, phase slip qubit" Speaker: Cheeranjeev Purmessur, Kou Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Paul Goldbart (Stony Brook U.), "Random proximity measurements in quantum fluids and the hidden organization they induce"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Studying multipartite entanglement through the lens of symmetries," Felix Leditzky, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Universal distillation of quantum resources," Xinan Chen, Chitambar Group

  Speaker: Xinan Chen, Chitambar Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 1022 Lincoln Hall

  Quantum Working Group Seminar: What are heat engines?

  Speaker: Advith Govindarajan

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Charles P. Slichter Memorial Colloquium - "Negotiations with Nature - What Happens When a Physicist Tries to be a Chemist."

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 6, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Zohar Nussinov (WashU), "Inhomogeneous phases and glasses- a many-body perspective"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

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  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum computing and simulation with multimode superconducting random-access memories," Srivatsan Chakram, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

  Speaker: Srivatsan Chakram, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB Lab 3110

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Bruno Uchoa (University of Oklahoma), "Quantum geometry in flat bands"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Faithful quantum teleportation via a nanophotonic nonlinear Bell state analyzer," Joshua Akin, Fang Group

  Speaker: Joshua Akin, Fang Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 1022 Lincoln Hall

  Quantum Working Group Seminar: Improving quantum communication rates with permutation-invariant codes

  Speaker: Sujeet Bhalerao

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium Eric Kuo (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) “Developing the Skills and Mindsets for Future Success Through Physics Education”

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 13, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yin-Chen He (Stonybrook), "A Fuzzy Sphere Journey: from 3D Ising to Chern-Simons-matter CFT "

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

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  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Broadband quantum-limited amplification and near-ultrastrong nonlinear light-matter coupling with superconducting circuits", Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Speaker: Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 3110

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - Darius Shi (Stanford)), "Chiral superconductivity from non-Abelian anyon fluids"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Optimal Sample Complexity of Quantum Hypothesis Testing and its Private Variant," Theshani Nuradha, Leditzky Group

  Speaker: Theshani Nuradha, Leditzky Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 1022 Lincoln Hall

  Quantum Working Group Seminar: Testing product states, quantum Merlin-Arthur games and tensor Optimisation

  Speaker: Yueying Wu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) "Conformal Invariance in Strange Metals" TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

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  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum trajectories and stochastic excursions of thermal machines," Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

  Speaker: Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Jierui Hu, Fang Group

  Speaker: Jierui Hu, Fang Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 1022 Lincoln Hall

  Quantum Working Group Seminar: A Classifying Space for Phases of Matrix Product States

  Speaker: Daniel Spiegel (Harvard)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted MoTe₂: discovery and recent advances

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 27, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Sukbum Chung (University of Seoul)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

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  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Point Defects in Crystals: Trapped Atoms for Quantum Technologies," Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

  Speaker: Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: John Floyd, Kwiat Group

  Speaker: John Floyd, Kwiat Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 1022 Lincoln Hall

  Quantum Working Group Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium "Chirality Meets Quantum"

  • Seminar/Symposium