Past Events
Spring 2024
Thursday April 25
Ceren Dag, Harvard
4 p.m., Bausch & Lomb 109
Thursday April 18
Emily Edwards, Illinois
4 p.m., Bausch & Lomb 109
Thursday April 11
Federico Roccati, Columbia University
4 p.m., Bausch & Lomb 109
Thursday March 28
Mike Raymer, University of Oregon
3:30 p.m., Goergen 109
Monday March 11
Felix Binder, Trinity College Dublin
4 p.m., Bausch & Lomb 109
Thursday February 29
Patrick Potts, Basel University
4 p.m., Bausch & Lomb 109
Monday February 19
Zekai Chen, University of Innsbruck
4 p.m., Bausch & Lomb 372
Thursday February 15
Valla Fatemi, Cornell University
4 p.m., Bausch & Lomb 109
Thursday February 8
Todd Krauss, University of Rochester
4 p.m., Bausch & Lomb 109
Thursday February 1
Chang Woo Kim, Chonnam National University
4 p.m., Bausch & Lomb 109
2023
Thursday November 30
Sabre Kais, Purdue
4 p.m., Bausch & Lomb Hall 109
Thursday November 9
Erin Sheridan, AFRL Rome
4 p.m., Bausch & Lomb Hall 109
Thursday November 2
Ankit Disa, Cornell University
4 p.m., Bausch & Lomb Hall 109
Thursday October 19
Shambhu Ghimire, Stanford
4 p.m., Bausch & Lomb Hall 109
Thursday October 12
Changjiang Liu, University at Buffalo
4 p.m., Bausch & Lomb Hall 109
Thursday September 28
James Schneeloch, AFRL
4 p.m., Bausch & Lomb Hall 109
Tuesday September 26
Christos Flytzanis, ENS
4 p.m., Bausch & Lomb Hall 109
Thursday March 2
Mark Mitchison, Trinity College Dublin
4 p.m., Bausch & Lomb Hall 109
Thursday February 9
Katja Nowack, Cornell University
4 p.m., Bausch & Lomb Hall 109
2022
Thursday November 17
Sethuraj Raju, The University of Rochester
John Steinmetz, The University of Rochester
4 p.m. Bausch & Lomb Hall 109
Thursday November 3
Luis Cortes Herrera, The University of Rochester
Nicholas Achuthan, The University of Rochester
4 p.m. Bausch & Lomb Hall 109
Thursday October 27
Saleem Iqbal, The University of Rochester
Austin Graf, The University of Rochester
4 p.m. Bausch & Lomb Hall 109
Thursday October 20
Professor Gerd Leuchs, Max Planck Inst. for the Science of Light, MPG Erlangen, Germany
Maxwell and the quantum vacuum
4 p.m. Bausch & Lomb Hall 109
Wednesday October 19
Hannes Bernien, Univ. Chicago
Joint CCQO/Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Building quantum processors and quantum networks atom-by-atom
3:45 p.m. Bausch & Lomb Hall 106
Thursday September 29
Professor Steven Chu, Stanford University
Clark Carrol Colloquium
Single-molecular step resolution of neuraon transport and non-thermal equilibrium statistical physics
4 p.m. Bausch & Lomb Hall 109
Thursday September 22
Mitesh Amin, The University of Rochester, Krauss group
Photon Statistics of Solution Based Nanocrystals
Yadav Kandel, The University of Rochester, Nichol Group
The out of academic experience
4 p.m. Bausch & Lomb 109
Thursday September 8
Dan Younis, The University of Rochester
Vishal Tiwari, The University of Rochester
4 p.m. Bausch & Lomb 109
Thursday September 1
Thesis Defense, Elliot Connors
Nichol Group
Advancement of Silicon-Based Spin Qubits: Fast Readout, Noise Spectroscopy, and Coherent Control in Si/Sige Quantum Dots
2:00 p.m. Bausch & Lomb 109
Wednesday August 31
Dr. Raffi Budakian, IQC Waterloo
Nuclear magnetic resonance detection with mechanical oscillators
Joint Colloquium with Physics and Astronomy
3:45 p.m. Bausch & Lomb 109
Thursday August 25
Professor John Nichol, The University of Rochester
Coherent spin-valley oscillations in silicon
4 p.m. Bausch & Lomb 109
Thursday August 18
Ray Parker, The University of Rochester
From qubits to qudits: Simultaneous pulses for multi-level quantum control
Arjun Iyer, The University of Rochester
Novel Frequency Tunable Optomechanical Interactions
4 p.m. Bausch & Lomb 109
Thursday August 11
Elisha Haber, The University of Rochester
Using a Bose-Einstein condensate to control an array of cold atom qubits
Yuhan Mei, The University of Rochester
Upgrade your Fermi's Golden Rule: Beat the textbooks
4 p.m. Bausch & Lomb 109
Thursday August 4
Professor Joseph H. Eberly, The University of Rochester
How entagled are you?
4 p.m. Bausch & Lomb 109
2021
Thursday May 27
Dr. Leigh Martin, Harvard University
Many-body Ramsey dynamics in a tunable NV simulator
Special Time: 5:00 p.m.
The talk will be projected in Bausch and Lomb Hall Rm 109 or at
https://rochester.zoom.us/j/95173463528
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2020
Thursday September 24
Prof. Alex Gaeta, Dept. of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
Quantum Photonics in the Frequency Domain
To participate via Zoom: https://rochester.zoom.us/j/7319962115
Thursday February 13
Dr. Massimiliano Rossi, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University
Quantum Correlations in an Ultracoherent Optomechanical Cavity
2019
Talks are in B&L 109 at 4 p.m. unless otherwise noted
Thursday December 19
Dr. Debmalya Das, University of Rochester
Estimation of Quantum States Using Weak Measurements
Thursday November 14
Dr. Etienne Jussiau, Université Grenoble Alps
Transition Properties of a Discrete Level Strongly Coupled to a Continuum With a Band Structure
Thursday November 7
Prof. Peter Milonni, LANL and University of Rochester
The Effects of Quantum and Thermal Jitter of Bekensteing's Proposed Experiment to Search for Plank-scale Physics
Thursday October 31
Prof. Kanupriya Sinha, JQI Univ. of Maryland
Tailoring Casimir-Polder Interactions in Nanoscale Quantum Optical Systems
Thursday October 24
Prof. Jacob Khurgin, Johns Hopkins University
Epsilon (and mu) Near Zero Materials - Photonics on Steroids
Thursday October 17
Prof. Yutaka Shikano, Keio University
Quantum Random Numbers Generated by a Cloud Supercomputing Quantum Computer
Thursday June 13
Songbo Xie, University of Rochester
Stories about Ghost Imaging
Dr. Cyril Elouard, University of Rochester
Thermodynamics of Resonance Fluorescence
Thursday April 25
Prof. Xuedong Hu, University at Buffalo
Spin Qubits in Si: Coherence and Control
Thursday April 11
Prof. Prof. John Nichol
A Heisenberg Spin Teleport
Thursday April 4
Dr. Xiaofeng Qian and Songbo Xie, University of Rochester
Entanglement Restriction and Sharing in Multi-qubit Systems
Thursday March 28
Prof. Jaime Cardenas, University of Rochester
Next Gerneration Integrated Photonics: Towards and Integrated Quantum Optoelectronic Circuit
Thursday January 24
Prof. Shanhui Fan, Stanford University
Nanophotonics: Fundamental Aspects and Energy Applications
2018
Talks are in B&L 109 at 4 p.m. unless otherwise noted
Thursday December 13
Prof. Juan Torres, ICFO and Uni. Politecnica de Catalunya Barcelona, SPAIN
Induced Coherence: a Useful Revival or a Reinvention of the Wheel?
Thursday December 6
Prof. Emilio Cobanera, Physics Department, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Quantum Brownian Motion in a Landau Level
Thursday November 16
Prof. Alexander Korotkov, Univ. Calif. Riverside
Continuous Quantum Measurement of Solid-State Qubits
Thursday November 8
Prof.Adolfo del Campo, U. Mass. Boston
Monitoring Quantum Systems: Speed Limits and Symmetry Breaking
Thursday April 19
Prof. Ed Barnes, Virginia Tech.
Robust Quantum Control for Quantum Technologies
2017
Talks are in B&L 109 at 4 p.m. unless otherwise noted
Thursday December 14
Prof. Juan Torres, ICFO and Uni. Politecnica de Catalunya Barcelona, SPAIN
Coherence and Correlations in the Quantum and Classical Worlds
Thursday December 1
Dr. Xu Wang, China Academy of Engineering Physics
Double Ionization with Circular Polarization: Current Status and Explanation of Unexpected New Data
Thursday October 19
Prof. Peter Milonni, LNAL and the University of Rochester
Zero Point Energy: Fact or Fiction
Thursday October 12
Prof. Vinko Zlatic,Rudjer Boskovic Institute
Friday June 16
Prof. Mark R. Dennis, University of Bristol
Getting Tangled in Structured Light: knotted wave fields
Thursday April 27
Clark Caroll Lecture
Prof. Paul Brumer, The University of Toronto
Seeking Quantum Effects in Biological Systems: from Photosynthesis to Vision
Thursday April 13
Prof. Ariel Caticha, University at Albany
Entropic Dynamics: from Entropy and Information Geometry to Quantum Mechanics
Thursday March 23
John Nichol, University of Rochester
Coherence and quantum optics with single electron spins in solids
Thursday March 16
No meeting today (Spring Break and APS March Meeting)
Thursday March 9
Special Colloquium - Institute of Optics, Goergen
René Essiambre, Bell Labs Alcatel Lucent
Thursday March 2
Spring Semester Get Together - see you at 4!
Fall 2016
Talks are in B&L 109 at 4 p.m. unless otherwise noted
Thursday November 10th
Prof. Antonio Zelaquett-Khoury, Univ. Fluminense, Rio de Janiero
Classical and quantum non-deparability of vector vortices
Friday November 4th
Ralf Menzel, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany
Complementarity, light modes and vacuum fields
NOTE: This talk will be at 2:30 p.m. in B&L 106
Thursday November 3th
Xiao Feng Qian, Univ. Rochester, Institute of Optics
Non-quantum Complementarity – Triality Rather than Duality
Friday October 14th
Paul Kwiat, U. of Illinois
Quantum sources, memories, and applications:
Better living through time multiplexing
NOTE: This talk will be at 2:00 p.m. in B&L 106
Thursday September 29th
Benjamin D'Anjou, McGill University
Optimization of real-world qubit measurements
Spring 2016
Thursday May 5th
Yiming Lai, University of Rochester
A genetic approach to confine and to slow light in photonic crystals
Thursday March 24th
Shival Buch, University of Rochester
Inspecting non-linear phenomena in multi-mode fibers
Aku Antikainen, University of Rochester
Optical event horizons and temporal fluctuations in supercontinuum generation
*SPECIAL SEMINAR*
Monday March 21st – Goergen 108
Professor Jason Smith, University of Oxford, UK
Open access optical microcavities for controlled light-matter interaction
Thursday March 10th
Govind Agrawal, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
Space-time duality in optics
Thursday February 25th
Professor Miguel Alonso, University of Rochester
Can [optical device n] perform [seemingly unphysical task n]?
Thursday February 18th
Xiaofeng Qian, University of Rochester
Quantifying quantum resource sharing
Professor Miguel Alonso, University of Rochester
A geometric description of entanglement (and polarization)
Thursday February 5th
Yunjin Choi, University of Rochester
Thermoelectric energy harvesting at the nano scale
Omar Magaña-Loaiza, University of Rochester
Measuring exotic looped trajectories of light in a three-slit interferometer
Fall 2015
Thursday November 19th
Frank Hou, University of Rochester
Electronic coherence and the kinetics of energy transfer in light-harvesting systems
Thursday November 12th
Liping Chen, University of Rochester
Laser induced currents along nanoscale junctions
Arnad Kar, University of Rochester
Understanding the fundamental connection between electronic correlation and decoherence
Thursday November 5th
Herschel Rabitz, Princeton University
Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Controlled Quantum Dynamics
Thursday October 29th
Andrew Jordan, The University of Rochester
What I did at my Côte d'Azur conference -- Spooky energy gain in a weakly measured fluorescing qubit
Thursday October 22tnd
Donut Gathering
Thursday October 8th
Yakir Aharanov
TBA
Thursday September 24th
Shengshi Pang, University of Rochester
Enhancing the precision of weak measurements
Thursday September 17th
Ryan Camacho, Sandia National Laboratories
TBA
Thursday September 10th
Xiaofeng Qian, University of Rochester
Detecting hidden coherences in classical light
Summer 2015
Tuesday August 11th
Yoko Miyamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Interferometric methods for probing orbital angular momentum of light
Spring 2015
Thursday April 30th
Michael Hartridge, Yale University
Remote entanglement of transmon qubits
Thursday April 23
Svetlana Lukishova, The University of Rochester
"Single-photon experiments with liquid crystals for quantumscience and quantum engineering applications"
Thursday April 16
Professor John Howell, The Univesity of Rochester
"Physics of Invisibility"
Thursday April 9
Professor Foek Hioe, St. John Fisher College and the University of Rochester
“Analytic Solutions of Two-, Three-State Systems and Others, AReview in Memory of Clark E. Carroll”
Thursday March 26
Justin T. Schultz, The University of Rochester“A ‘Spin’ on Atom Optics: A waveplate for studying atom-optic polarization”
Wednesday March 4
William D. Phillips, JQI at the University of Maryland and NIST, Gaithersburgh
Special Colloquium, Joint with Physics and Astronomy and the Institute of Optics
"Synthetic Fields for Neutral Atoms"
Monday March 2
Professor Alexy Ikimov, Russian QuantumCenter
"Light-mater interfaces for solid-state quantum emiters"
Thursday February 26Mohammad Mirhosseini and Omar Magana Lopez, The University of RochesterLivestreamed: NoMohammad: "Information capacity of a photon: studies in high dimensional QKD"Omar: "Novel interference effects in the angular domain"
Thursday February 6
Professor Peter Knight, FRS
Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, LondonKavli Royal Society International Centre, Chicheley HallUK National Physical Laboratory, and The University of Rochester
this is a special lecture at 2:00 to be held in Sloan Auditorium
"Sustaining Science in a Difficult World"
Thursday January 29
Professor Vladimir K. Ignatovic, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
"Closer look at Bell's inequality and its significance within the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox"
Fall 2014
December 11
Dr. Ryszard Kostecki, Perimeter Institute
"New quantum kinematics and dynamics based on geometry of quantum information"
December 4
Dr. Bianca Dittrich, Perimeter Institute
"Quantum space time engineering"
Nov 13
Ignacio Franco, University of Rochester , Department of Chemistry
“Electronic decoherence in molecules”
Nov 6
David McCamant, University of Rochester Department of Chemistry
“Spectroscopic Pathways through Molecular Energy Levels"
October 30th
Anthony Vella and Stephen Head
"Characterizing subwavelength structures through focused beam
scatterometry; getting inspiration from weak measurements"
October 24
Daniel Campbell, Joint Quantum Institute and the Department of Physics, the University of Maryland.
“Domains and spin-orbit coupling in ultracold gasses”
October 16th
Thomas Brown and Katelynn Sharma
"Measuring spatial coherence through the shadow of small obstacles,
and polarization using stress birefringence"
October 9th
Wayne Myrvold, University of Western Ontario
"Why I am not a QBist: The case for quantum state realism"
October 7, 2014
Prof. Ralf Menzel, Potsdam University (Berlin)
"One-photon Double-Slit Experiments"
Oct 6
Miguel Alonso
September 25th
Xiao-Feng Qian and Bethany Little, The University of Rochester
"Is a Bell test a good test to discriminate quantum from classical?”
September 18th
Gerardo Viza and Julian Martinez, The University of Rochester
“Weak Values and Technical Noise”
September 8 - 10
Prof. Anton Zeilinger, Institute for Quantum Optics & Quantum Information, the University of Vienna
The Elliott W. Montrol Lectures
Sponsored by
The Department of Physics and Astronomy
joint with the
The Institute of Optics and the
Center for Coherence and Quantum Optics
September 8
“Quantum imaging with undetected photons”
September 9
“From Einstein's spook and Schrödinger's cat to quantum communication and quantum computation”
Wed, September 10
“Entangled photons in large spaces”
Spring 2014
April 3
Henry Everitt Chief Scientist, Army Aviation and Missile RD&E Center Adjunct Professor of Physics, Duke University
March 31
Marcelo DavancoNational Institute of Standards and TechnologyNanocenter of University of Maryland
January 30
Mishkat BhattacharyaRochester Institute of Technology
Fall 2013
December 12
Dr. Justin Lovegrove
University of Southampton
December 5
Al Shapere
University of Kentucky
November 21
Daniel James
University of Toronto
November 14
Govind Agrawal and Yuzhe Xiao
University of Rochester
November 7
Prof. Vladan Vuletic
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
October 24
Yuhong Yao
University of Rochester
October 17
Wei Jiang and Xiyuan Lu
University of Rochester
October 10
Qiang Lin
University of Rochester
October 3
Kartik Srinivasan
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
September 26
Areeya Chantasri and Gregory Howland
University of Rochester
September 19
Nick Vamivakas
University of Rochester
September 12
Introduction to the Center