Seminar Speaker List

June 2022

Prof. Mikko Möttönen, Aalto University,

  • Held: Friday 10th June 2022
  • Title: New superconducting qubit and millikelvin electronics for it

Prof. Mikko Möttönen, Aalto University,

  • Held: Friday 17th June 2022
  • Title: Quantum Simulations for Scientific Discovery

May 2022

Dr Pedram Roushan, Google, Santa Barbara, UK  

  • Title: Experiments on superconducting processors at the dawn of NISQ era
  • Held: Friday 6th May 2022

Dr Siddarth Joshi, from the University of Bristol, UK

  • Held: Friday 20th May 2022 
  • Title: Entanglement Based Quantum Networks: QKD and beyond

April 2022

Prof. Jonas Bylander, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

  • Held: Friday 4th April 2022
  • Title: Two-level system loss and noise, and the development of superconducting integrated quantum processors at Chalmers

Prof. Vladimir Manucharyan, University of Maryland - College Park, USA

  • Held: Friday 29th April 2022
  • Title: Down-conversion of a single photon as a probe of many-body localization

March 2022

Dr Jharna Paul, University of Glasgow, UK  

  • Held:Friday 4th March 2022 
  • Title: Optimisation of Wafer-Scale Superconducting Qubit-devices

Dr Wang Qian, A*STAR Singapore  

  • Held: Friday 11th March 2022  
  • Title: Reconfigurable nanophotonic platform based on phase change materials

Prof Anthony E Kelly, University of Glasgow, UK

  • Held: Friday 25th March 2022  
  • Title: Non-QT semiconductor devices for QT

February 2022

Dr Corey Rae McRae, National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, USA

  • Held: Friday 4th February 2022 
  • Title: Measurement Techniques for Superconducting Microwave Resonators Towards Quantum Device Applications

Dr Sven Friedemann, University of Bristol, UK

  • Held: Friday 11th February 2022
  • Title: High-temperature Superconductivity in Hydrides at High Pressures

Dr Ross Millar, University of Glasgow, UK

  • Held: Friday 18th February 2022  
  • Title: Group IV single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detectors for the short-wave infrared

Dr Yuimaru Kubo, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

  • Held: Friday 25th February 2022 
  • Title: A "masing" Spin Ensemble: Maser for Quantum Information Technologies 

January 2022

Prof. Yvonne Gao, National University of Singapore  

  • Held: Friday 21th January 2022  
  • Title: Towards Universal Quantum Computation with Bosonic Qubits

November 2021

Dr Luca Sapienza, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK

  • Held: Friday 12th November 2021
  • Title: On chip quantum photonics: controlling light down to the single photon level

Dr Jonathan Breeze, University College London, UK

  • Held: Friday 19th November 2021
  • Title: Solid-state room-temperature masers

Dr Sam Bayliss, UofG, UK

  • Held: Friday 26th November 2021
  • Title: Spin-light interfaces for molecular qubits

October 2021

Dr Sarah Croke, University of Glasgow, UK

  • Held: Friday 1st October 2021
  • Title: A quantum algorithm for gravitational wave matched filtering

Prof. William D. Oliver, from MIT, USA

  • Held: Friday 8th October 2021
  • Title: Giant Artificial Atoms and Waveguide QED

Professor Philip Kim, Harvard University, USA

  • Held: Friday 15th October 2021
  • Title: Induced Superconductivity in the Fractional Quantum Hall Edge in Graphene Heterostructures

Prof. Mohammad Hafezi, University of Maryland, USA

  • Held: Friday 22th October 2021
  • Title: Characterizing, measuring, and comparing many-body states using statistical correlations of randomized measurements

September 2021

Prof. Robin (Chen-Bin) Huang, National Tsing Hua, Taiwan 

  • Held: Friday 3rd September 2021
  • Title: Molding the flow of surface plasmon polaritons and their spin textures

Dr Shang-Hua Yang, National Tsing Hua, Taiwan

  • Held: Friday 10th September 2021
  • Title: Plasmonic-enhanced Terahertz Tomographic System

Dr A. Zagoskin, Loughborough University, former D-Wave's co-founder, Chief Scientist, and VP of Research 

  • Held: Friday 24th September 2021
  • Title: Qualitative description of quantum evolution and criteria of “quantumness ” for a large system of qubits'

September 2021

Prof. Robin (Chen-Bin) Huang, National Tsing Hua, Taiwan  

  • Held: Friday 3rd September 2021 
  • Title: Molding the flow of surface plasmon polaritons and their spin textures

Dr Shang-Hua Yang, National Tsing Hua, Taiwan

  • Held: Friday 10th September 2021
  • Title: Plasmonic-enhanced Terahertz Tomographic System

Dr A. Zagoskin, Loughborough University, former D-Wave's co-founder, Chief Scientist, and VP of Research

  • Held: Friday 24th September 2021 
  • Title: Qualitative description of quantum evolution and criteria of “quantumness ” for a large system of qubits'

July 2021

Dr. Dmitry Morozov, UofG, UK

  • Held: Friday 09th July 2021   
  • Title: Superconducting photon detectors: physics and applications

Professor Mohsen Razavi, University of Leeds, UK

  • Held: Friday 16th July 2021
  • Title: Quantum communications at a distance: Going beyond fundamental bounds for repeaterless links

Dr Luke McLellan, UofG, UK

  • Held: Friday 23th July 2021
  • Title: Ubiquitous Photonics: a journey from light emitting nanoparticles to medical treatments to microwaves and magnets

Lucia Caspani, University of Strathclyde, UK

  • Held: Friday 30th July 2021
  • Title: Generation and characterisation of discrete photonics cluster states on-chip

June 2021

Professor Kazuo Kadowaki, University of Tsukuba, Japan

  • Held: Friday 04th June 2021
  • Title: Superconductivity: from Basic to Applied Science

Professor Sonja Franke-Arnold, UofG, UK

  • Held: Friday 11th June 2021
  • Title: Structured light- structured matter

Dr Mojtaba Abdi-Jalebi, UCL, UK

  • Held: Friday 18th June 2021
  • Title: Highly Luminescent and Stable Metal Halide Perovskite Optoelectronic Devices via Chemical Modifications and Passivation Approaches

May 2021

Professor Richard A. Klemm, University of Central Florida, USA

  • Held: Friday 07th May 2021
  • Title: Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Two-Dimensional Metals without Spin-Orbit Coupling

Dr Muhammd Usman, University of Melbourne, Australia

  • Held: Friday 14th May 2021
  • Title: Advancing Quantum Technologies through Materials Discovery and Device Benchmarking

Professor David Hutching, University of Glasgow

  • Title: A Twist of the Light
  • Held: Friday 21st May 2021

Dr Rair Macedo

  • Title: Polaritons: looking beyond ‘the electromagnetic modes of media
  • Held: Friday 28th May 2021

Dr Oliver Sander

  • Title: Heterogenous systems as key technology for superconducting sensors and quantum bits

April 2021

Dr Sergey Danilin, Univeristy of Glasgow, UK 

  • Title: Cryogenic microwave frequency filters beyond 20 GHz and their impact on superconducting quantum circuits
  • Held: Friday 16th April 2021

Dr Paul Baity, Univeristy of Glasgow, UK       

  • Title: Strong magnon-photon coupling in YIG in the zero-temperature limit
  • Held: Friday 23th April 2021

Dr Frank Deppe, Walther-Meißner-Institut (WMI), Germany  

  • Title: Microwave quantum teleportation
  • Held: Friday 30th April 2021

Dr Eran Ginossar, University of Surrey, UK

  • Title: Topological phases of a dimerized Fermi-Hubbard model for dopant nano-lattices in silicon

March 2021

Dr. Kotaro Hiramatsu, Research Center for Spectrochemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan

  • Title: Seeing molecular vibrations of cells in flow
  • Held: Friday 5th March

Professor Fedor Kusmartsev, Loughborough University, UK,

  • Title: Engineering novel quantum ferroelectric 2D materials
  • Held: Friday 12th March   

Professor Llorenç Serra, from IFISC and Phys. Dept., University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

  • Title: Conductance oscillations in 2D strips with chiral or localized Majorana modes,
  • Held: Friday 19th March 2021

Professor Steven M. Anlage, from Quantum Materials Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD USA

  • Title: Quantum Chaos or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Decoherence
  • Held: Friday 26th March 2021

February 2021

Dr. Giorgos Georgiou, University of Glasgow, UK

  • Title: Single Electron Quantum Nano-Electronics
  • Held: Friday 5th Feb

Dr. Pol Forn-Díaz, from the Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE), Barcelona, Spain,

  • Title: Superconducting qubits for near-term applications at IFAE
  • Held: Friday 12th Feb

Dr. Teresa Hönigl-Decrinis, Institute for Experimental Physics, Innsbruck, Austria,

  • Held:  Friday 19th Feb
  • Title: Towards a novel current standard based on coherent quantum phase slips (CQPS)

Dr. Shiro Kawabata, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

  • Title: Engineering for scalable superconducting quantum annealers
  • Held: Friday 26th Feb