We host a weekly seminar on theoretical aspects of quantum science, bringing together researchers interested in quantum information, quantum computation, quantum complexity theory, and mathematical physics. If you would like to attend the seminar or give a talk, please feel free to contact one of our faculty members.
Fall 2026 Date Time Place Speaker Title Sep. 21, 2026 2:00 PM TBD Zhaoyi Li MIT TBA Aug. 18, 2026 2:00 PM TBD Tom Gur Cambridge TBA
Spring 2026 Date Time Place Speaker Title May 26, 2026 2:00 PM Online Shankar Balasubramanian Caltech A passive self-correcting quantum memory in three dimensions Apr. 28, 2026 2:00 PM Goel 132 Jake Tan Harvard 1 Qubit Apr. 21, 2026 2:00 PM Goel 132 Wenjie Gong MIT Robust multiparameter estimation using quantum scrambling Apr. 14, 2026 2:00 PM Goel 418 Andrew Huang MIT Separating quantum and classical advice with good codes Apr. 7, 2026 2:00 PM Goel 132 Luke Coffman Harvard - Mar. 31, 2026 2:00 PM Goel 132 Jordan Cotler Harvard - Mar. 24, 2026 2:00 PM Goel 132 Ishaan Kannan Harvard Foundations for quantum speedups in noisy quantum experiments Mar. 10, 2026 2:00 PM Goel 132 Chi-Fang (Anthony) Chen UC Berkeley Tomography when you know the Hamiltonian Mar. 3, 2026 2:00 PM Goel 132 Jonathan Lu MIT Average-case complexity of quantum stabilizer decoding Feb. 24, 2026 2:00 PM Goel 132 Antonio Anna Mele FU Berlin Optimal learning of quantum channels in diamond distance Feb. 17, 2026 2:00 PM Goel 132 Alexander Zlokapa MIT - Feb. 10, 2026 2:00 PM Goel 132 Alexander (Sascha) Schmidhuber MIT - Feb. 3, 2026 2:00 PM Goel 132 Anirudh Krishna IBM Quantum -
Fall 2025 Fall 2024 Date Time Place Speaker Title Nov. 7, 2024 4:00 PM Ory Forum Ting-Chun Lin UC San Diego - Oct. 31, 2024 4:00 PM Ory Forum Louis Golowich UC Berkeley - Oct. 17, 2024 4:00 PM Ory Forum Ainesh Bakshi MIT - Oct. 10, 2024 4:00 PM Ory Forum Sisi Zhou Perimeter - Oct. 3, 2024 4:30 PM Jefferson 250 Aram Harrow MIT Randomized truncation Sep. 26, 2024 4:00 PM Ory Forum Jonathan Conrad FU Berlin Decoding, uncomputing and cryptography from GKP codes Aug. 15, 2024 4:00 PM Ory Forum Thiago Bergamaschi UC Berkeley Quantum computational advantage with constant-temperature Gibbs sampling
Fall 2023 Date Time Place Speaker Title Nov. 30, 2023 4:00 PM Jefferson 250 Nikolas Breuckmann Bristol Quantum codes Nov. 16, 2023 4:00 PM Jefferson 250 Ewin Tang UC Berkeley Learning quantum Hamiltonians at any temperature in polynomial time Oct. 26, 2023 4:00 PM Jefferson 250 Liang Jiang Chicago Co-designed quantum error correction Sep. 14, 2023 4:00 PM Jefferson 250 James Daniel Whitfield Dartmouth At the intersection of quantum computing and quantum chemistry