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Past Monthly Meetings

2024

June 6, 2024 | 1-3pm CT

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May 2, 2024 | 1-3pm CT

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April 4, 2024 | 1-4pm CT

  • Lecture: Coupling spins and photons in molecular qubits for quantum technologies, Dr. Leah Weiss - Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
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March 7, 2024 | 1-3pm CT

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January 11, 2024 | 1-3pm CT

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2023

December 7, 2023 | 1-3pm CT

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October 5, 2023 | 1-3pm CT

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September 7, 2023 | 1-3pm CT

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August 3, 2023 | 1-3pm CT

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July 6, 2023 | 1-3pm CT

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June 1, 2023 | 1-3pm CT

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May 4, 2023 | 1-3pm CT

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April 6, 2023 | 1-4pm CT

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March 2, 2023 | 1-4pm CT

  • Lecture: Quantum Machine-Learning for Complex Many-Body Systems on Quantum Devices, Professor Sabre Kais - Department of Chemistry, Purdue University
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February 2, 2023 | 1-4pm CT

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January 5, 2023 | 1-4pm CT

  • Lecture: Single Photon emitters: challenges and opportunities, Professor George Schatz - Department of Chemistry; Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University
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2022

November 3, 2022 | 1-4pm CT

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October 6, 2022 | 1-4pm CT

  • Lecture: Chiral Polaritons: A Hand-Waving Introduction, Roel Tempelaar - Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
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September 8, 2022 | 1-4pm CT

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August 4, 2022 | 1-4pm CT

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  • Lecture: Opportunities in Quantum Magnonics, Zeke Johnston-Halperin - Ohio State University

June 2, 2022 | 1-4pm CT

  • Tutorial: Optical Microcavities: A Low-Q Introduction, Professor Randall Goldsmith - Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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March 3, 2022 | 1-4pm CT

  • Lecture: Magnetic Exchange Interactions in Both Ground- and Excited States, From Evaluation of Electronic Coupling Parameters to Photoinduced Electron Spin Polarization in Ground States, Professor David Shultz - Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University
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February 3, 2022 | 1-4pm CT

  • Lecture: Chiral Material and the Electrons’ Spin - A Miraculous Match, Professor Ron Naaman - Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute, Israel
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January 6, 2022 | 1-4pm CT

  • Lecture: Engineering the Quantum Interface of Light and Nano-scale Materials, Nathaniel Stern - Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
  • Tutorial: Demystifying the Nature of Magnetic Order in Vanadium Tetracyanoethylene: Joint Theory-Experiment Investigations into Atomic, Electronic, and Magnetic Structure - Seth Kurfamn, Graduate Student, Johnston-Halperin Research Group, Ohio State University
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2021

December 2, 2021 | 1-4pm CT

  • Lecture: Running circuit model algorithms on a neutral atom quantum computer, Mark Saffman - Director, Wisconsin Quantum Institute Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chief Scientist, Quantum Information at ColdQuanta, Inc.
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November 4, 2021 | 1-4pm CT

  • Tutorial Talk: Doped Nanocrystals Towards Quantum Information Applications, Wooje Chang, 5th year Graduate Student , Weiss Group- Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
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  • Lecture: From materials to quantum devices and back again using quantum simulations, Giulia Gallio - Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory; Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago

October 7, 2021 | 1-4pm CT

  • Lecture: Magnetic molecules in quantum nanoscience, Professor Roberta Sessoli - Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Italy
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September 2, 2021 | 1-4pm CT

  • Lecture: Attempting to make supramolecular assemblies to perform quantum gates, Professor Richard Winpenny - Chair of Inorganic Chemistry, EPSRC Advanced Fellow, University of Manchester, England
  • Tutorial Talk: Nanofabrication of 2D van der Waals materials and heterostructures, Dr. M. Iqbal Bakti Utama - Postdoctoral researcher, Hersam group, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
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August 5, 2021 | 1-4pm CT

  • Lecture: Quantum Technology with Spins, Jorg Wrachtrup - University of Stuttgart, Germany
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June 10, 2021 | 1-4pm CT

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April 1, 2021 | 1-4pm CT

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  • Lecture: Molecular Quantum Optics, Vahid Sandoghdar - Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Department of Physics, Friedrich Alexander University
  • Tutorial Talk: What is Quantum Transduction?, Denis Candido, Postdoc, University of Iowa, Michael Flatte Group

March 4, 2021 | 1-3pm CT

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February 4, 2021 | 1-4pm CT

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  • Lecture: Interfacing Molecular Spin Qubits with Light, Dr. Samuel Bayliss - University of Chicago

January 7, 2021 | 1-4pm CT

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  • Lecture: Probing Elementary Chemical Events by X ray Pulses and in Optical Cavities, Professor Shaul Mukamel - University of California, Irvine

2020

December 3, 2020 | 1-2:30pm CT

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November 5, 2020 | 1-3pm CT

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  • Lecture: Towards Ideal Single Photon Sources: A Materials Perspective, Dr. Xuedan Ma - Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory

October 1, 2020 | 1-2pm CT

  • Review of award requirements and structure for future monthly meetings