The Women in Physics Canada (WIPC) sixth annual conference day 2 schedule.
Paulina Corona Ugalde of the Department of Physics and Astronomy is defending her thesis:
Experimental Prospects for Detecting the Quantum Nature of Spacetime
Paulina is supervised by IQC associate Robert Mann
Come play in The Quantum Mechanics Golf Tournament and join the fight against cancer
The Quantum Mechanics are asking for your support in the fight against cancer.
The team, made of University of Waterloo, Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and Perimeter Institute members, is participating in the Grand Ride in honour of Pearl Sullivan, Dean of Engineering and Raymond Laflamme, Executive Director of IQC at the University of Waterloo and all those in our communities who have been touched by cancer.
The Women in Physics Canada (WIPC) sixth annual conference day 3 schedule.
We use a combination of Raman spectroscopy and transport measurements to study thin flakes of the type-II Weyl semimetal candidate MoTe2 protected from oxidation. In contrast to bulk crystals, which experience a phase transition from monoclinic to the inversion symmetry breaking, orthorhombic phase below ~250 K, we find that in moderately thin samples below 10 nm, a single orthorhombic phase exists up to and beyond room temperature.
Allison Sachs of the Department of Physics and Astronomy is defending her thesis:
Entanglement Harvesting and Divergences in Unruh-DeWitt Detector Pairs
Allison is supervised by IQC associates Robert Mann and Eduardo Martin-Martinez.
Optical precursors are transient electromagnetic wave packets propagating precisely at the speed of light in vacuum through a dispersive and absorptive dielectric. Even though its existence was conjectured by Sommerfeld and Brillouin 100 years ago, the detection seemed to be impossible due to its exceedingly small amplitude and femtosecond time scale in ordinary linear dispersive media.
Helen Percival of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is presenting her thesis:
Characterization of Lambda Systems Using Superconducting Qubits
Helen is supervised by IQC faculty member Christopher Wilson.
Christopher Pugh of the Department of Physics and Astronomy is presenting his thesis:
Free Space Quantum Key Distribution to Moving Platforms
Christopher is supervised by IQC faculty member Thomas Jennewein.
Yongchao Tang of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is presenting his thesis:
Superconducting Resonator with Composite Film and Circuit Layout Design for Quantum Information.
Youngchao is supervised by IQC faculty members Guo-Xing Miao and David Cory.