Northwestern University

INSTITUTE FOR QUANTUM INFORMATION RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING (INQUIRE)

Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction

2026 CMQT Symposium Speakers

DAY 1: Thursday, April 23

Dmitri Basov

Dmitri Basov

Keynote Speaker

Chair, Department of Physics, Columbia University
Higgins Professor of Physics, Columbia University

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: TBD

DAY 2: Friday, April 24

Claudia Avalos

Claudia Avalos

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, New York University

Lecture Title: TBD

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Justin Caram

Justin Caram

Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

Lecture Title: Atomic Physics in a Beaker?

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Gregory Fuchs

Gregory Fuchs

Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University

Lecture Title: TBD

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Ryan Hadt

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

Martin Holt

Director of Q-NEXT, Argonne National Laboratory

Lecture Title: TBD

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Martin Kirk

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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