IQS Seminar Series

Previous Semesters (Fall 2002 - Fall 2006)

The Institute for Quantum Sciences (IQS) at MSU is sponsoring a series of interdisciplinary lectures, seminars, and discussions on Quantum Computation and Information.

Seminars and discussions will be held Wednesdays at 5:30 pm in Room 4270 Biomedical Physical Sciences Building unless otherwise specified.

Refreshments will be served.

Date	Speaker or Discussion Leader	Topic
8 November 2006 5:20 pm Room 4270 BPS	Alex Kamenev, Univ. of Minnesota (joint CMP)	One-Dimensional Fermions: Going Beyond Luttinger Model
6 November 2006 4:10 pm Room 1400 BPS	Wonho Jhe, Korea (joint CMP)	Nonlinear dynamics and critical phenomena in driven cold atoms Monday at 4:10 pm, Room 1400
11 October 2006 NSCL Seminar room	Leonid Levitov, (MIT)	Quantum Optics in Solid-State Qubits
10 October 2006	Leonid Levitov, (MIT)	Spin and Charge Quantum Hall States in Graphene (Note: Tuesday)
11 May 2006 3:40 1400 BPS	Special Seminar Subir Sachdev, Harvard University	Detecting Boson-Vortex Duality in Experiments: How Superfluids Become Solids in two Dimensions SPECIAL NOTE: Time change to 3:40 and room 1400 Biomedical Physical Sciences Bldg.
8 May 2006 4:10 1400 BPS	Special Seminar Markus Buttiker University of Geneva	Quantum Shot Noise: From Schottky to Bell SPECIAL NOTE: Time change to 4:10 and room 1400 Biomedical Physical Sciences Bldg.
14 April 2006	Special Seminar Felix M. Izrailev, Univ. of Pueblan, Mexico	Dynamical Aspects of Many-Body Chaos in Quantum Systems
12 April 2006 3:30 1400 BPS	Michael G. Moore, Clippinger Laboratory, Ohio University	Nonlinear and Quantum Atom Optics SPECIAL NOTE: Time change to 3:30 and room 1400 Biomedical Physical Sciences Bldg.
22 March 2006	Roberto Onofrio, Dartmouth (Joint with CMP Seminar)	Quantum Vacuum and Casimir Effects
1 March 2006	Norman Birge, Michigan State University	Non Equilibrium Phenomena in S/N/S Josephson Junctions
22 February 2006	Luming Duan, University of Michigan	Probabilistic Quantum Computation, and Quantum Simulation with Strongly Interacting Atoms in an Optical Lattice
15 February 2006	Christian Hicke, MSU	Heat-bath Algorithmic Cooling
8 February 2006	Allan MacDonald, Univ. of Texas (Joint with CMP Seminar)	Current Driven Dynamics of Quantum Hall Superfluids
18 January 2006	Michael Requa, UCSB	Realizations of Parametric Excitation in Microscale Devices
7 December 2005	Sven Rogge, Delft University Kavli Inst. of Nano Science, Netherlands	Electrical Transport Through a Single Dopant Atom
16 November 2005	Pavel D. Grigoryev, Florida State University	Localized Electron States on the Liquid Helium Surface as Qubits
9 November 2005	Aashish Clerk, McGill University	Quantum nano-electromechanics with electrons, quasiparticles and Cooper-Pairs
2 November 2005 Joint Seminar with CMP	Steven M. Girvin, Yale University	Quantum Optics with Superconducting Qubits
26 October 2005 Joint Seminar with CMP	Carlton Caves, University of New Mexico	Physical Resources Entanglement and the Power of Quantum Computation
19 October 2005 Joint Seminar with CMP	Ravindra Bhatt, Princeton	Cancelled
12 October 2005	Janos Bergou, Hunter College NY	State Discrimination: a Novel Quantum Information Paradigm
14 September 2005	Alexander Korotkov, University of California Dept. of Electrical Engineering	Continuous Quantum Measurement of Solid State Qubits and Quantum Feedback-(tutorials) Friday Sept. 16th
27 April 2005	Andrew Cleland, Physics, University of CA Santa Barbara	Mechanical Quantum Resonators
MONDAY 25 April Room 1400 4:10 p.m.	John Clarke, Physics, University of CA Berkeley	Large-Inductance Superconducting Flux Qubits: Coherent Oscillations and Controllable Coupling
19 March 2005	George Martins, Physics and Astronmy, Oakland University	Understanding Transport Properties of Strongly Correlated Electrons in Quantum Dots Using a Simple Circuit Model
16 March 2005	Cemil Kayis, Physics and Astronmy, Michigan State University	Probing Single Electrons in Quantum Dots
16 March 2005	Lorenza Viola, Physics and Astronmy, Dartmouth College	Entanglement as an Observer-Dependent Concept: An Application to Quantum Phase Transitions
23 February 2005	Carlo Piermarocchi, Physics (MSU)	Optical Quantum Control of Spins in Semiconductors
16 February 2005	Jon Hall, Mathematics (MSU)	Quantum Cryptography
9 February 2005	Sue Coppersmith, Physics, University of Wisconsin	Comparing Classical and Quantum Complex Systems
FRIDAY 10:00 a.m. 4 February	Mikhail Fistul, Department of Theoretical Physics III, Ruhr-University, Bochum,Germany	Transport in Low-dimensional Inhomogeneous Superconducting Systems: Interaction Between "Classical" and "Quantum" Worlds
2 February 2005	Michael Lilly, Sandia National Laboratories	Tunneling, Interactions and Coherence in Ballistic Quantum Wires
19 January 5:00 p.m.	Zinovi Gribnikov, Physics (MSU)	Split Donor Centers and Split Excitons in a Semiconductorheterostructure.
5 January 2005	Ilari Maasilta, Nanoscience Center, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland	Heat Transport Mechanisms in Mesoscopic Systems: Any Implications for Quantum Computing?
15 December 2004	Tom Kaplan, Physics (MSU)	The Concept of Entanglement Revisited
1 December 2004	Mark Dykman, Physics (MSU)	Multiphoton Antiresonance
10 November 2004	Dmitry Novikov, Princeton	Electron Properties of Carbon Nanotubes in a Periodic Potential
8 November 2004 Monday Room 1400 BPS 4:10 p.m.	Robert Schoelkopf, Physics, Yale University	Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics: Doing Quantum Optics with Superconductors
3 November 2004	Philip Bucksbaum, Physics, University of Michigan	Ultrafast Quantum Control
20 October 2004	Mark Eriksson, Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Spins in Silicon: Can the Material of Today be the Material of Tomorrow?
13 October 2004	Yuriy Pershin, Michigan State University	Evolution of Electron Spin Polarization in Semiconductor Heterostructures
6 October 2004	Nikolai Zhitenev, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies	Molecular Electronics: Recent Progress and Outstanding Challenges
29 September 2004	Kimitoshi Kono, RIKEN, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Wako-shi, Japan	Electrons on Normal and Superfluid Helium-3 as a Unique Surface Probe
22 September 2004	Vadim Smelyanskiy, NASA Ames Research Center	Power of Quantum Adiabatic Computation for Solving Random NP-hard Problems
15 September 2004	Paul Hewitt, Mathematics, University of Toledo	The Gottesman-Knill Theorem and Computational Complexity
21 April 2004	Irfan Siddiqi, Yale University	The Josephson Bifurcation Amplifier: A New Readout for Superconducting Cubits.
15 April 2004	Leonid Pryadko, University of California - Riverside	Designing Quantum Logic Gates for Potentially Large Quantum Computers.
14 April 2004	Daniel Lidar, University of Toronto	Methods for Reducing Decoherence and Design Constraints in Solid-State and Trapped-Ion Quantum Computers.
7 April 2004	Ghislain Granger, MIT	Singlet-Triplet Transitions in Single-Electron Transistors.
31 March 2004	Xuedong Hu, Buffalo University	Nuclear Spin Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanostructures.
3 March 2004	Mikhail V. Fistul, Univ. Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany	Macroscopic Quantum Dynamics in Spatially Extended Josephson Systems.
25 February 2004	Irinel Chiorescu, Physics (MSU)	Towards Quantum Computation Using Superconducting Flux Qubits. Part 2
18 February 2004	Irinel Chiorescu, Physics (MSU)	Towards Quantum Computation Using Superconducting Flux Qubits. Part 1
11 February 2004	Lea Ferreira dos Santos, Physics (MSU)	Measured Quantum Fourier Transform of 1024 Qubits on Fiber Optics.
4 February 2004	Stuart Tessmer, Physics (MSU)	Imaging the Quantum State of Electrons in Nanosystems.
28 January 2004	Marcos Dantus, Chemistry (MSU)	Coherent Manipulation of Quantum States Using Shaped Femtosecond Laser Pulses.
19 November 2003	Steve Lyon, Electrical Engineering, Princeton University	“Spin-Based Quantum Computing with Electrons Floating on Liquid Helium”
29 October 2003	Michael Lea, Physics, University of London, UK	“Counting Electrons on Liquid Helium”
8 October 2003	Phillip Duxbury, Physics (MSU)	“Introduction to NP-completeness”
1 October 2003	Lea Santos, Physics and Michael Shapiro, Mathematics (MSU)	“Many-Body Localization, or What Quantum Computers Are Good For?” (continued)
24 September 2003	Lea Santos, Physics (MSU)	“Many-Body Localization, or What Quantum Computers Are Good For?”
17 September 2003	Ari Mizel, Physics, Pennsylvania State University	“Ground State Quantum Computations are Embarrassingly Parallelizable”
10 September 2003	Igor Markov, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Michigan	“Minimal Universal Two-qubit Circuits”
23 April 2003	Jonathan Hall, Mathematics (MSU)	Information Theory and Coding (continued)
16 April 2003	Jonathan Hall, Mathematics (MSU)	Information Theory and Coding (continued)
09 April 2003	Jonathan Hall, Mathematics (MSU)	Information Theory and Coding
02 April 2003	Brage Golding, Physics (MSU)	What we need for a solid-state quantum computer. (continued)
26 March 2003	Brage Golding, Physics (MSU)	What we need for a solid-state quantum computer. (continued)
TUESDAY 18 March 2003	C. Piermarocchi and B. Golding, Physics (MSU)	What we need for a solid-state quantum computer.
12 March 2003 (Discussions)	Thomas Kaplan, Physics (MSU), discussion leader	Entanglement revisited
12 March 2003 (Discussions)	Mark Dykman, Physics (MSU), discussion leader	A discussion of how to make a realistic quantum computer universal. This discussion will be led by Mark Dykman initially, but generally it will be a round-table discussion between physicists, chemists, and mathematicians. It will be continued on March 18th.
26 February 2003	Vladimir Zelevinsky, MSU/NSCL	Many-Body Quantum Chaos: Enhancement of Weak Perturbations in Chaotic Systems
19 February 2003	Thomas Kaplan, Physics (MSU)	Dirac-Heisenberg Spins and the Fermion Entanglement Question.
12 February 2003	Vladimir Zelevinsky, MSU/NSCL	Many-Body Quantum Chaos: What Did We Learn From Nuclear Physics? (Part 2)
05 February 2003	Vladimir Zelevinsky, MSU/NSCL	Many-Body Quantum Chaos: What Did We Learn From Nuclear Physics? (Part 1)
29 January 2003	Norman Birge, Physics (MSU)	Superconducting Qubits - A Tutorial Part 3
22 January 2003	Norman Birge, Physics (MSU)	Superconducting Qubits - A Tutorial Part 2
TUESDAY 14 January 2003 Room 1400 BPS Bldg.	Roberto Merlin, Physics, University of Michigan	Optical Implementation of Multi-Spin Entanglement in a Semiconductor Quantum Well
08 January 2003	Norman Birge, Physics (MSU)	Superconducting Qubits - A Tutorial Part 1
04 December 2002	Peter Yuditskii, Mathematics (MSU)	Quantum Computation (continued)
27 November 2002	Peter Yuditskii, Mathematics (MSU)	Quantum Computation (continued)
20 November 2002	Peter Yuditskii, Mathematics (MSU)	Quantum Computation (continued)
13 November 2002	Felix Izrailev, Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico	Quantum Chaos and Quantum Computation Part 3
MONDAY 11 November 2002	Felix Israilev, Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico	Quantum Chaos and Quantum Computation Part 2
06 November 2002	Felix Israilev, Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico	Quantum Chaos and Quantum Computation Part 1
30 October 2002	Peter Yuditskii, Mathematics (MSU)	Quantum Computation (continued)
23 October 2002	Peter Yuditskii, Mathematics (MSU)	Quantum Computation (continued)
16 October 2002	Peter Yuditskii, Mathematics (MSU)	Quantum Computation
09 October 2002 5:15 pm	Mark Dykman and/or Carlo Piermarocchi, Physics (MSU), discussion leader(s)	Physical Implementations of Quantum Gates (continued/completed)
02 October 2002 5:15 pm	Mark Dykman, Physics (MSU), discussion leader, IQS Informal Discussion	Physical Implementations of Quantum Gates (continued)
25 September 2002 5:15 pm	Mark Dykman, Physics (MSU), discussion leader, IQS Informal Discussion	Physical Implementations of Quantum Gates
18 September 2002 5:15 pm Room 1400 BPS Bldg. (1st floor)	Brage Golding, Physics (MSU)	A Solid State Quantum Computer with Dipolar Qubits.

Please contact Darla Conley (355-9200 ext. 2380 or conleyd@msu.edu) if you have any questions regarding this seminar series or if you would like to be included on the IQS e-mail list.

Next Semester's schedule: Spring 2005

Last modified: Wednesday, 29-Dec-2004 13:06:36 EST