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CQIQC community are all invited to a monthly Quantum Tea to socialize, discuss, learn - and argue everything quantum (and classical).

2026 Schedule

Forthcoming:

  • August 05, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; Mikhail Mamaev
  • September 16, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; Nanako Shitara
  • October 07, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South
  • November 04, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South
  • December 02,12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South

Past Events:

  • July 08, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; Maggie Lawrence, "Maximizing Exciton Transport in Open Quantum Systems By Tuning Site Energies"
  • June 03, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; Chad Sakac; Senior Vice President, Quantum Field Engineering, IonQ
  • May 06, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; Ignacio Gustin, "El Agente Cuántico"
  • April 08, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; Michael Silver, "Experimenting with Distributed Quantum Algorithms"
  • March 04, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; Praaveenyan Vangara, "Building quantum startups"
  • February 11, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; Kathleen Hart, "The interplay of multipolar moments and lattice vibrations in spin-orbit coupled insulators"
  • January 14, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; Yehonadav Bekenstein, "Superfluorescence from excitons in ordered nanocrystals"

CQIQC Quantum Tea

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2025 Quantum Speakers
  • December 03, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; Brett Min, "Separation of relaxation timescales via strong system-bath coupling"
  • November 05, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; Andrea Barbieri, “From Identification to Fabrication: Toward Rhombohedral Graphene Heterostructures”
  • October 08, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; Barbara Amaral, "Non-Locality and Contextuality as Resources for Quantum Information, Quantum Computing, and Certification of Quantum Devices"
  • September 10, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; Pria Dobney, “Experimental quantum state learning from pairs of photons”
  • August 06, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; and Jeffrey Li, "Entanglement on the Go: Fiber-Based Photonic Qubit Sources for Quantum Communication and Computation"
  • July 09, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; Junan Lin, "Classical Bounds for Quantum Overlaps: Estimating Wavefunction Overlap for Efficient Quantum Simulation"
  • June 04, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; Xiang Zou, “Algebraic Topology Principles behind Topological Quantum Error Correction”
  • May 07, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; Albert Chen, "From Researcher to CTO to Investor, an unexpected journey”
  • April 09, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; Andy Jiao, "Single Photon Cross Phase Shift Enhanced Simultaneously by Localization in Frequency and Time"
  • March 12, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m at MP 110/South; Nicholas Sullivan, "Magneto-optical trapping with a fictitious magnetic field"
  • February 12, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. at MP 110/South; Matt Pocrnic, "The cost of expressing classical dynamics as a linear combination of Hamiltonian simulations"
  • January 08, 1-2 at MP 110/South; Mingyu Fan, "Probing new physics using rare earth ion sensors in crystals"
2024 Quantum Speakers
  • December 04, 1-2 at MP 110/South; Suyash Pati Tripathi, "Developing Quantum Computers using Commercial CMOS Technologies"
  • November 13. 1-2 at MP 110/South; Reem Mandil, “A practical approach to twin field quantum key distribution”
  • October 09, 1-2 at MP 110/South; Erica Nielsen, "Momentum resolved tunneling in 2D materials with the scanning van der Waals microscope."
  • September 11 1-2 at MP 110/South; Kaalkidan Sahele, "Pulse-Based Representation of Quantum Encoder Circuits in Quantum Machine Learning"
  • August 07 1-2 at MP 110/South; Priyansh Parakh, "Non-linear Optical Processes in Bragg Reflection Waveguides"
  • July 03 1-2 at MP 110/South; Adrien Devolder, "Coherent control of molecular collisions"
  • June 05 1-2 at MP 125, the Undergrad Lounge; Jakub Garwola, "Open quantum systems with non-commuting coupling operators"
  • May 08 1-2 pm at MP 110/South; Andrew Hardy, "A Quantum Information Perspective on Quantum Criticality"
  • April 10 1-2 pm at MP 110/South; Smik Patel, "Quantum computation of energies using measurable Hamiltonian fragments"
  • March 06 1-2 pm at MP 110/South; Kristen Cote, "Exciting an electric quadrupole transition with a single photon"
  • Feb 07 1-2 pm at MP 110/South; Juan Castaneda, "Hamiltonian Learning"
  • January 10 1-2 pm at MP 110/South; Y. Batuhan Yilmaz, "sub-Rayleigh imaging of two unequal light sources."
2023 Quantum Speakers
2022 Quantum Tea Speakers