2026 CMQT Symposium Speakers
DAY 1: Thursday, April 23
Dmitri Basov
Keynote Speaker
Chair, Department of Physics, Columbia University
Higgins Professor of Physics, Columbia University
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Biography: Dmitri N. Basov (PhD 1991) is a Higgins professor and Chair of the Department of Physics at Columbia University [http://infrared.cni.columbia.edu], the Director of the DOE Energy Frontiers Research Center on Programmable Quantum Materials and co-director of Max Planck Society – New York Center for Nonequilibrium Quantum Phenomena. Prizes and recognitions: Sloan Fellowship (1999), Genzel Prize (2014), Humboldt research award (2009), Frank Isakson Prize, American Physical Society (2012), Moore Investigator (2014, 2020), K.J. Button Prize (2019), Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (U.S. Department of Defense, 2019), National Academy of Sciences (2020).
Lecture Title: Toward Programmable Quantum Systems
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DAY 2: Friday, April 24
Claudia Avalos
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, New York University
Lecture Title: Predicting J-mediated Enhanced Intersystem Crossing in Chromophore-Radical Systems
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Justin Caram
Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
Lecture Title: Atomic Physics in a Beaker?
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Gregory Fuchs
Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University
Lecture Title: Quantum and nonlinear magnonics with the ultralow damping molecular material vanadium tetracyanoethylene
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Ryan Hadt
Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
Lecture Title: Ultrafast Molecular Spin Coherence for Quantum Transduction in Complex Environments
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Martin Holt
Director of Q-NEXT, Argonne National Laboratory
Lecture Title: Q-NEXT National QIS Research Center: Progress and Outlook
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Martin Kirk
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of New Mexico
Lecture Title: The Role of Excited State Exchange Interactions in the Generation of Electron Spin Polarization
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