Events

Roger Melko: Language Models for Quantum Simulation

Abstract: As the frontiers of artificial intelligence advance more rapidly than ever before, generative language models like ChatGPT are poised to unleash vast economic and social transformation. In addition to their remarkable performance on typical language tasks (such as writing undergraduate research papers), language models are being rapidly adopted as powerful ansatze states for quantum many-body systems.

Strange metals from not-so-strange quasiparticles

Brad Ramshaw
Cornell University

Wednesday, April 5, 2023
11:00 a.m.

In-person: QNC 1201

The good, the bad and the strange: unconventional metallic behavior in the vicinity of Mott insulators

Debanjan Chowdhury
Cornell University

Wednesday, April 12, 2023
11:00 a.m.

In-person: QNC 1201

Produced by the Critical Media Lab at the University of Waterloo, Critical Tech Talks is a series of honest dialogues about technological innovation. From data harvesting to the conflict minerals in our smartphones, critical thinking is shifting the momentum towards positive change – towards Tech for Good®.

On Fermi surfaces

Dominic Else
Perimeter Institute

Wednesday, October 4, 2023
10:30 a.m.

In-person: QNC 1101

Lessons from dilute antiferromagnetic domains towards a new wave of coherent x-ray scattering experiments

Alex Frano
UCSD

Wednesday, October 11, 2023
10:30 a.m.

In-person: QNC 1101

Bridging spin models and magnetic materials

Hae-Young Kee
University of Toronto

Wednesday, October 18, 2023
10:30 a.m.

In-person: QNC 1101

Tuning the optical properties of layered semiconductors through sliding ferroelectricity

Ziliang Ye
UBC

Wednesday, November 15, 2023
10:30 a.m.

In-person: QNC 1101

No, you have not discovered a Majorana Fermion

Sergey Frolov
University of Pittsburgh

Wednesday, December 6, 2023
10:30 a.m.

In-person: QNC 1101

Semiconductor moiré materials

Kin Fai Mak
Cornell University

Wednesday, December 13, 2023
10:30 a.m.

In-person: QNC 1101