Seminar Speaker List
June 2022
Prof. Mikko Möttönen, Aalto University,
- Held: Friday 10th June 2022
- Title: New superconducting qubit and millikelvin electronics for it
Prof. Mikko Möttönen, Aalto University,
- Held: Friday 17th June 2022
- Title: Quantum Simulations for Scientific Discovery
May 2022
Dr Pedram Roushan, Google, Santa Barbara, UK
- Title: Experiments on superconducting processors at the dawn of NISQ era
- Held: Friday 6th May 2022
Dr Siddarth Joshi, from the University of Bristol, UK
- Held: Friday 20th May 2022
- Title: Entanglement Based Quantum Networks: QKD and beyond
April 2022
Prof. Jonas Bylander, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Held: Friday 4th April 2022
- Title: Two-level system loss and noise, and the development of superconducting integrated quantum processors at Chalmers
Prof. Vladimir Manucharyan, University of Maryland - College Park, USA
- Held: Friday 29th April 2022
- Title: Down-conversion of a single photon as a probe of many-body localization
March 2022
Dr Jharna Paul, University of Glasgow, UK
- Held:Friday 4th March 2022
- Title: Optimisation of Wafer-Scale Superconducting Qubit-devices
Dr Wang Qian, A*STAR Singapore
- Held: Friday 11th March 2022
- Title: Reconfigurable nanophotonic platform based on phase change materials
Prof Anthony E Kelly, University of Glasgow, UK
- Held: Friday 25th March 2022
- Title: Non-QT semiconductor devices for QT
February 2022
Dr Corey Rae McRae, National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, USA
- Held: Friday 4th February 2022
- Title: Measurement Techniques for Superconducting Microwave Resonators Towards Quantum Device Applications
Dr Sven Friedemann, University of Bristol, UK
- Held: Friday 11th February 2022
- Title: High-temperature Superconductivity in Hydrides at High Pressures
Dr Ross Millar, University of Glasgow, UK
- Held: Friday 18th February 2022
- Title: Group IV single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detectors for the short-wave infrared
Dr Yuimaru Kubo, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
- Held: Friday 25th February 2022
- Title: A "masing" Spin Ensemble: Maser for Quantum Information Technologies
January 2022
Prof. Yvonne Gao, National University of Singapore
- Held: Friday 21th January 2022
- Title: Towards Universal Quantum Computation with Bosonic Qubits
November 2021
Dr Luca Sapienza, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK
- Held: Friday 12th November 2021
- Title: On chip quantum photonics: controlling light down to the single photon level
Dr Jonathan Breeze, University College London, UK
- Held: Friday 19th November 2021
- Title: Solid-state room-temperature masers
Dr Sam Bayliss, UofG, UK
- Held: Friday 26th November 2021
- Title: Spin-light interfaces for molecular qubits
October 2021
Dr Sarah Croke, University of Glasgow, UK
- Held: Friday 1st October 2021
- Title: A quantum algorithm for gravitational wave matched filtering
Prof. William D. Oliver, from MIT, USA
- Held: Friday 8th October 2021
- Title: Giant Artificial Atoms and Waveguide QED
Professor Philip Kim, Harvard University, USA
- Held: Friday 15th October 2021
- Title: Induced Superconductivity in the Fractional Quantum Hall Edge in Graphene Heterostructures
Prof. Mohammad Hafezi, University of Maryland, USA
- Held: Friday 22th October 2021
- Title: Characterizing, measuring, and comparing many-body states using statistical correlations of randomized measurements
September 2021
Prof. Robin (Chen-Bin) Huang, National Tsing Hua, Taiwan
- Held: Friday 3rd September 2021
- Title: Molding the flow of surface plasmon polaritons and their spin textures
Dr Shang-Hua Yang, National Tsing Hua, Taiwan
- Held: Friday 10th September 2021
- Title: Plasmonic-enhanced Terahertz Tomographic System
Dr A. Zagoskin, Loughborough University, former D-Wave's co-founder, Chief Scientist, and VP of Research
- Held: Friday 24th September 2021
- Title: Qualitative description of quantum evolution and criteria of “quantumness ” for a large system of qubits'
September 2021
Prof. Robin (Chen-Bin) Huang, National Tsing Hua, Taiwan
- Held: Friday 3rd September 2021
- Title: Molding the flow of surface plasmon polaritons and their spin textures
Dr Shang-Hua Yang, National Tsing Hua, Taiwan
- Held: Friday 10th September 2021
- Title: Plasmonic-enhanced Terahertz Tomographic System
Dr A. Zagoskin, Loughborough University, former D-Wave's co-founder, Chief Scientist, and VP of Research
- Held: Friday 24th September 2021
- Title: Qualitative description of quantum evolution and criteria of “quantumness ” for a large system of qubits'
July 2021
Dr. Dmitry Morozov, UofG, UK
- Held: Friday 09th July 2021
- Title: Superconducting photon detectors: physics and applications
Professor Mohsen Razavi, University of Leeds, UK
- Held: Friday 16th July 2021
- Title: Quantum communications at a distance: Going beyond fundamental bounds for repeaterless links
Dr Luke McLellan, UofG, UK
- Held: Friday 23th July 2021
- Title: Ubiquitous Photonics: a journey from light emitting nanoparticles to medical treatments to microwaves and magnets
Lucia Caspani, University of Strathclyde, UK
- Held: Friday 30th July 2021
- Title: Generation and characterisation of discrete photonics cluster states on-chip
June 2021
Professor Kazuo Kadowaki, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Held: Friday 04th June 2021
- Title: Superconductivity: from Basic to Applied Science
Professor Sonja Franke-Arnold, UofG, UK
- Held: Friday 11th June 2021
- Title: Structured light- structured matter
Dr Mojtaba Abdi-Jalebi, UCL, UK
- Held: Friday 18th June 2021
- Title: Highly Luminescent and Stable Metal Halide Perovskite Optoelectronic Devices via Chemical Modifications and Passivation Approaches
May 2021
Professor Richard A. Klemm, University of Central Florida, USA
- Held: Friday 07th May 2021
- Title: Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Two-Dimensional Metals without Spin-Orbit Coupling
Dr Muhammd Usman, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Held: Friday 14th May 2021
- Title: Advancing Quantum Technologies through Materials Discovery and Device Benchmarking
Professor David Hutching, University of Glasgow
- Title: A Twist of the Light
- Held: Friday 21st May 2021
Dr Rair Macedo
- Title: Polaritons: looking beyond ‘the electromagnetic modes of media
- Held: Friday 28th May 2021
Dr Oliver Sander
- Title: Heterogenous systems as key technology for superconducting sensors and quantum bits
April 2021
Dr Sergey Danilin, Univeristy of Glasgow, UK
- Title: Cryogenic microwave frequency filters beyond 20 GHz and their impact on superconducting quantum circuits
- Held: Friday 16th April 2021
Dr Paul Baity, Univeristy of Glasgow, UK
- Title: Strong magnon-photon coupling in YIG in the zero-temperature limit
- Held: Friday 23th April 2021
Dr Frank Deppe, Walther-Meißner-Institut (WMI), Germany
- Title: Microwave quantum teleportation
- Held: Friday 30th April 2021
Dr Eran Ginossar, University of Surrey, UK
- Title: Topological phases of a dimerized Fermi-Hubbard model for dopant nano-lattices in silicon
March 2021
Dr. Kotaro Hiramatsu, Research Center for Spectrochemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Title: Seeing molecular vibrations of cells in flow
- Held: Friday 5th March
Professor Fedor Kusmartsev, Loughborough University, UK,
- Title: Engineering novel quantum ferroelectric 2D materials
- Held: Friday 12th March
Professor Llorenç Serra, from IFISC and Phys. Dept., University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
- Title: Conductance oscillations in 2D strips with chiral or localized Majorana modes,
- Held: Friday 19th March 2021
Professor Steven M. Anlage, from Quantum Materials Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD USA
- Title: Quantum Chaos or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Decoherence
- Held: Friday 26th March 2021
February 2021
Dr. Giorgos Georgiou, University of Glasgow, UK
- Title: Single Electron Quantum Nano-Electronics
- Held: Friday 5th Feb
Dr. Pol Forn-Díaz, from the Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE), Barcelona, Spain,
- Title: Superconducting qubits for near-term applications at IFAE
- Held: Friday 12th Feb
Dr. Teresa Hönigl-Decrinis, Institute for Experimental Physics, Innsbruck, Austria,
- Held: Friday 19th Feb
- Title: Towards a novel current standard based on coherent quantum phase slips (CQPS)
Dr. Shiro Kawabata, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
- Title: Engineering for scalable superconducting quantum annealers
- Held: Friday 26th Feb