Featured Topics
Our signature PQI event will cover a broad range of research being performed in quantum science and engineering, and will feature prominent invited keynote lecturers, as well as highlighting current research in the PQI. All of the talks will be colloquium-style, and accessible to a broad range of people in quantum-related fields.
| 2D Materials, Phenomena and Devices | Quantum Chemistry |
| Novel Quantum Phases of Matter | Light-Matter Interactions |
| Quantum Gases | Single-Molecule Systems |
| Quantum Computation and Simulation | Quantum Theory |
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Event Agenda
| Time | Speaker | Title |
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| Wednesday | April 20 | |
| 8:00am | Breakfast | |
| Session | Chair: Di Xiao | |
| 9:00am | Martin Zwierlein | Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases of Atoms and Molecules |
| 9:40am | Ben Hunt | Quantum Metal and Ising Superconductivity in Two-Dimensional NbSe2 |
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10:00am |
Susan Fullerton | Nanoionic Two-Dimensional Memory |
| 10:20am | Coffee Break | |
| Session | Chair: Ken Jordan | |
| 11:00am | Cyrus Umrigar | Quantum Monte Carlo Methods in Chemistry and Physics |
| 11:40am | Yang Wang | The Green Function Method in Ab Initio Electronic Structure Calculations |
| 12:00pm | Daniel Lambrecht | Bridging Quantum Mechanics and Chemical Intuition |
| 12:20pm | Lunch | |
| Session | Chair: | Chair: Hrvoje Petek |
| 2:00pm | Nader Engheta | Quantum and Classical Features of "Near-Zero" Optics |
| 2:40pm | Sean Garrett-Roe | Quantum Mechanics at Play in Ionic Liquids |
| 3:00pm | Linda Peteanu | The Optical Properties of Conjugated Materials and their Aggregates: Towards Imaging of Films and Devices |
| 3:20pm | Coffee Break | |
| Session | Chair: | Daniel Lambrecht |
| 3:40pm | Doug Natelson | Heating and Vibrations at the Molecular Scale |
| 4:20pm | David Waldeck | Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity and its Impact on Electron Transfer in Nanoparticle Assemblies |
| 4:40pm | Coffee Break | |
| 5:00pm | Poster Session (view poster list) | |
| Thursday | April 21 | |
| 8:00am | Breakfast | |
| Session | Chair: | Andrew Daley |
| 9:00am | Xiao-Yang Zhu | Many-Body Quantum Coherent Processes in Semiconductors |
| 9:40am | David Pekker | Emergent Conserved Quantities in Strongly Disordered Matter |
| 10:00am | Brian D’Urso | A Magneto-Gravitational Trap for Diamond Nanocrystals |
| 10:20am | Coffee Break | |
| Session | Chair: | David Waldeck |
| 11:00am | David Reichman | Optical and Excitonic Properties of Two Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides |
| 11:40am | Peng Liu | Computational Studies of Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Reactions in Organic Synthesis |
| 12:00pm | Ken Jordan | Using Drude Oscillators to Illustrate the Origin of Dispersion Dipoles and Forces |
| 12:20pm | Lunch | |
| Session | Chair: | Ben Hunt |
| 2:00pm | Huili Grace Xing | Process Toward Thin-TFET: A 2D Material Based Tunnel Transistor |
| 2:40pm | Vincent Sokalski | Energetic Molding of Skyrmion-Like Magnetic Bubbles |
| 3:00pm | Randy Feenstra | Progress Towards Tunneling Devices Based on Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Materials |
| 3:20pm | Coffee Break | |
| Session | Chair | Brian D'Urso |
| 3:40pm | Andrew Daley | Many-Body Entanglement and Novel Dynamics in Quantum Simulators with AMO Systems |
| 4:20pm | Di Xiao | Magnon Chirality Hall Effect in Collinear Antiferromagnets |
| 4:40pm | Coffee Break | |
| 5:00pm | Michel Devoret |
Public Lecture: The Quest for the Robust Quantum Bit |
| 7:00pm | Banquet at Phipps Conservatory | |
| Friday | April 22 | |
| 8:00am | Breakfast | |
| Session | Chair: | Marek Skowronski |
| 9:00am | Yuri Suzuki | Emergent Phenomena at a Mott Insulator/Band Insulator Interface |
| 9:40am | Jeremy Levy | Electron Waveguides at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interface |
| 10:00am | Sangyeop Lee | Hydrodynamic Phonon Transport in Suspended Graphene |
| 10:20am | Coffee Break | |
| Session | Chair: | Roger Mong |
| 11:00am | Liang Fu | Majorana Takes Charge: From Teleportation to Quantum Computation |
| 11:40am | Steve Cundiff | Multidimensional Coherent Photocurrent Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Microcavities |
| 12:20pm | Lunch | |
| Session | Chair: | Michael Hatridge |
| 2:00pm | Raymond Laflamme | Experimental Quantum Error Correction |
| 2:40pm | Robert Griffiths | Where Was the Photon |
Schedule also available in Google Calendar and iCal.
Organizing/Program Committee
Ted Corcovilos, Andrew Daley, Randy Feenstra, Peyman Givi, Ken Jordan, George Klinzing, Daniel Lambrecht, Jeremy Levy, David Pekker, Marek Skowronski, William Stanchina, David Waldeck, Di Xiao