Agenda

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Welcome Lunch
Technological Institute | J435
Greeters will be in the lobby to escort you to the room

1:00pm – 4:30pm

CMQT PI Strategy Session
Technological Institute | J435

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Break

5:30pm – 6:30pm

Toward Programmable Quantum Systems
Dmitri Basov, Chair, Department of Physics; Higgins Professor of Physics, Columbia University

Pancoe Auditorium

7:00pm

PIs & Symposium Speakers Dinner
TBD

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Northwestern Lab Tours
Meet at Ryan Hall | Room 1004

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Networking Activities + Therapy Dogs
Ryan Hall | Room 4003

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Fireside Chat with:

      Dmitri Basov, Columbia University
      Claudia Avalos, New York University

Facilitated by Tian-Xing Zheng

Ryan Hall | Room 4003

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Poster Session
Pancoe, second floor lobby

5:30pm – 6:30pm

Toward Programmable Quantum Systems
Dmitri Basov, Chair, Department of Physics; Higgins Professor of Physics, Columbia University

Pancoe Auditorium

7:00pm

CMQT Graduate & Postdoctoral Students Dinner
Location TBD

8:00am – 8:50am

Networking Breakfast
Norris University Center | Northwestern Room

8:50am – 9:00am

Northwestern Leadership

9:00am – 9:15am

JB Pritzker
Governor of Illinois

9:15am – 9:30am

Northwestern Leadership

9:30am – 10:15am

Q-NEXT National QIS Research Center: Progress and Outlook
Martin Holt, Director of Q-NEXT, Argonne National Laboratory

10:15am – 10:30am

Break

10:30am – 11:15am

Quantum and Nonlinear Magnonics with the Ultralow Damping Molecular Material Vanadium Tetracyanoethylene
Gregory Fuchs, Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University

11:15am – 12:00pm

Ultrafast Molecular Spin Coherence for Quantum Transduction in Complex Environments
Ryan Hadt, Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Lunch Break
See the lunch options handout for local recommendations
PIs & Symposium Speakers: private lunch at the Cohen Commons

1:00pm – 1:15pm

Break
Relocate to new space

1:15pm – 2:00pm

The Role of Excited State Exchange Interactions in the Generation of Electron Spin Polarization
Martin Kirk, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of New Mexico

2:00pm – 2:45pm

Predicting J-mediated Enhanced Intersystem Crossing in Chromophore-Radical Systems
Claudia Avalos, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, New York University

2:45pm – 3:30pm

Atomic Physics in a Beaker?
Justin Caram, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

3:30pm – 3:40pm

Closing Remarks