Events

Back by popular demand, CryptoWorks21 will once again launch the Intellectual Property (IP) Management Lunch and Learn Lecture Series! Our knowledgeable speakers will provide more in-depth presentation built from the previous sessions.

The lectures are designed for researchers working in areas related to information technology, including cryptography and quantum technology.

Physics and Astronomy - Milestone Series

Corey Rae McCrae

​PhD student
Department of Physics & Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Computing

Colloquium: Ania Jayich, University of California, Santa Barbara

The nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond is an atomic-­scale defect that exhibits remarkably coherent quantum properties in a uniquely accessible way: at room temperature, in ambient conditions, and even immersed in biological environments. NV centers are being explored for a variety of quantum technologies, including quantum sensing and quantum information processing.

Colloquium: Mohammad Hafezi, University of Maryland/Joint Quantum Institute

There are tremendous efforts underway to better understand systems with topological order --- global properties that are not discernible locally. The best-known examples are quantum Hall effects in electronic systems, where insensitivity to local properties manifests itself as conductance through edge states which are insensitive to defects and disorder.

Colloquium: Jayakanth Ravichandran - University of Southern California

Perovskite Chalcogenides are a new class of semiconductors, which have tunable band gap in the visible to infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Besides this band gap tunability, they offer a unique opportunity to realize large density of states semiconductors with high carrier mobility. In this talk, I will discuss some of the advances made both in my research group and in the research community in theory, synthesis of these materials and understanding their optoelectronic properties.

M.Sc. Thesis Presentation

Candidate: Zimeng Wang

Seminar: Bhaskaran Muralidharan

We describe two distinct applications of quantum dots [1-3] from a quantum transport perspective. In the first part, we bring in a Bayesian viewpoint to the analysis of clocks, specifically taking the Salecker Wigner clock formulation [4] and explore a novel set up to estimate the tunneling time [1] between electrons in a contact and a quantum dot weakly coupled to it. Using the exponential tunneling distribution as priors for clocks, we analyze the case of a single precessing spin in a quantum dot.

Speaker: Jeffrey Wong

Abstract: Is your work new, and is it useful? Who else knows about it, and how? These are fundamental questions to whether or not a patent can be obtained. Is your idea abstract or tangible? Can software be patented, and if so how? This lecture will cover the criteria for patentability, the process for obtaining a patent and the timeline, and the costs and strategies involved in developing a patent portfolio.

Nigar Sultana 

Colloquium: Zhengcheng Gu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Searching for p+ip topological superconducting (SC) state has become a fascinating subject in condensed matter physics, as a dream application awaits in topological quantum computation. In this talk, I will report the theoretical discovery of a p+ip SC ground state (coexisting with ferromagnetic order) in honeycomb lattice Hubbard model with infinite repulsive interaction at low doping(< 0.2), by using both the state-of-art Grassmann tensor product state(GTPS) approach and a quantum field theory approach.