Colloquium & Seminar Schedule
Fall 2026 Colloquium Schedule
Jack Hare, Cornell University
Magnetic Reconnection Experiments Driven by Pulsed-Power
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
3:45 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=21989ebf-0831-46bc-a131-b4a901499ef6
Bayan Karmi, University of Chicago
Superconducting Circuits: A Platform for Quantum Thermodynamics
Thursday, September 3, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6feb12b2-a1fe-450b-933e-b4a90147f4f9
Carlos Lousto, Rochester Institute of Technology
What Have We Learned from 20 Years of Full Numerical Simulations of Binary Black Holes?
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
3:45 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d8a5a4a1-6645-4183-b89a-b4a901499f23
Nik Zhelev, Oregon University
Training The Next-Generation of Hardware Quantum Engineers:
Lessons from the Quantum and Nanotechnology Specialization Track of the Applied Physics MS Program at the University of Oregon
Thursday, September 10, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7d89c253-fb94-49dd-af08-b4a90147f541
Daniel Carney, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
The end of measurement and the last lab
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
3:45 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=640fa368-c73e-4090-b55c-b4a901499f86
Ana Asenjo-Garcia, Columbia University
Emergent Behavior in a Noisy Quantum World
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
3:45 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d01a6df6-2f47-48b8-a880-b4a901499fbd
Eva Takou, Duke University
Suppressing logical errors with syndrome-determined detector error models
Thursday, October 1, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=000fc6a2-bf5f-40d2-9051-b4a90147f612
Stepan Bulanov, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
Strong Field QED effects and plasma based colliders for high energy
physics studies
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
3:45 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=4e215121-b564-4101-bd9e-b4a901499ffd
Sarah Shandera, Pennsylvania State University
K-Markov Circuits
Thursday, October 8, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=dd58d8bb-f85b-432a-b0fc-b4a90147f66c
Yannick Meurice, University of Iowa
Gauge dynamics with qutrits
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
3:45 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=3d71a0af-598c-4854-9e60-b4a90149a026
Wilson S. Martins, The University of Massachusetts Boston
Quantum simulation with Rydberg ions in a Penning trap
Thursday, October 15, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7acb4db3-ee3c-428b-87ca-b4a90147f6b0
Kevin Luhman, Pennsylvania State University
JWST Surveys for Free-floating Brown Dwarfs Down to the Mass of Jupiter
Monday, October 19, 2026
4:00 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=5c1480d0-e0c9-436f-a491-b4a90149a03c
Jonathan Aurnou, University of California, Los Angeles
On Dynamo Action in Earth’s Basal Magma Ocean
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
3:45 p.m.
Recording Link: https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=24584f86-fad9-4646-974f-b4a90149a04e
Andrei Ruskuc, Harvard University
Quantum Networking with Neutral Atom Arrays.” I have attached the abstract and a photo
Thursday, October 22, 2026
4:00 p.m.
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Douglas Beck, University of Illnios at Urbana-Champaign
Measurement of the neutron electric dipole moment: the next generation
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
3:45 p.m.
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Mads Bahrami, Wolfram U
From Jaynes-Cummings to QAOA: Computing Quantum Physics Exactly
Thursday, October 29, 2026
4:00 p.m.
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John L. Crassidis, University of Buffalo
TBD
Monday, November 2, 2026
4:00 p.m.
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Pedro E. Harunari, Aix Marseille Université · CNRS · CINAM
Recent unfoldings on Mutual Linearity
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
4:00 p.m.
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Philip Richerme, Indiana University Bloomington
4Making Heads and Tails of Quantum Information Science
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
3:45 p.m.
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Ke Wang, University of Rochester
Kekulé superconductivity in twisted magic angle bilayer graphene
Thursday, November 5, 2026
4:00 p.m.
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Andrew Cleland, University of Chicago
Mechanical quantum states
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
3:45 p.m.
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William Braasch, University of Maryland
TBD
Thursday, November 12, 2026
4:00 p.m.
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Dora Biro, University of Rochester
TBD
Wednesday, November 18, 2026
3:45 p.m.
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Doran Raccah, University of Texas, Austin
TBD
Thursday, December 3, 2026
4:00 p.m.
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Héctor G. Arce, Yale University
TBD
Wednesday, December 9, 2026
3:45 p.m.
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