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Towards Quantum Computing with Spins on Surfaces

There is a strong international research effort in the area of quantum information science. Here, the concepts of quantum coherence, superposition and entanglement of quantum states are exploited. These concepts were…

02-04-202402-04-2024

With: Prof. Andreas Heinrich, Center for Quantum Nanoscience, Seoul & Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul
Place and room: CE 1 2
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64905394203
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Imaging Electronic and Atomic Motion in Molecules

25-03-202425-03-2024

With: Prof. Manish Garg, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
Place and room: CE 1 2
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64905394203
Category: Conferences – Seminars

What Do We Know Today About the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model ?

11-03-202411-03-2024

With: Prof. Antoine GEORGES, Collège de France, Paris – Flatiron Institute, New York – Université Genève
Place and room: CM 1 120
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64905394203
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Novel approaches to scaling trapped-ion quantum computing

05-02-202405-02-2024

With: Prof. Jonathan Home, ETHZ, Institut für Quantenelektronik
Place and room: CE 1 2
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64905394203
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Epigenetic factor competition can reshape the EMT landscape in breast cancer cells

23-10-202323-10-2023

With: Prof. Herbert Levine, Northeastern University, Boston
Place and room: CE 1 1
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Local quantum probes of quantum matter

04-10-202304-10-2023

With: Prof. Amir Yacoby, Harvard University
Place and room: CE 1 4
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Exploring New Computational Frontiers in Quantum Many-Body Physics

30-05-202330-05-2023

With: Prof. Giuseppe Carleo, Computational Quantum Science Laboratory, EPFL
Place and room: BSP 231
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62347702816
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Whole brain approaches to C. elegans neuroscience

15-05-202315-05-2023

With: Prof. Aravinthan Samuel, Harvard University
Place and room: CE 1 2
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62347702816
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Improved operation of fusion plasmas via innovative shaping

17-04-202317-04-2023

With: Prof. Christian Theiler, Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL
Place and room: CE 1 2
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62347702816
Category: Conferences – Seminars

On the physics and prospects of fusion energy – an exciting journey

20-03-202320-03-2023

With: Prof. Frank Jenko, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
Place and room: CE 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Testing relativity in the laboratory with a miniature network of optical lattice atomic clocks

20-02-202320-02-2023

With: Prof. Shimon Kolkowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Place and room: CE 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Quantum simulations with atoms and photons

16-01-202316-01-2023

With: Prof. Jean-Philippe Brantut, Lab for Quantum Gases, EPFL
Place and room: CE 1 5
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63907315396
Category: Conferences – Seminars

A Quantum Future of Computing

12-12-202212-12-2022

With: Matthias Troyer, Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
Place and room: CM 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Non-equilibrium matter through the prism of quantum entanglement

25-11-202225-11-2022

With: Prof. Dmitry Abanin, Université de Genève
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Nonequilibrium Physics in Living Systems and Machine Learning

17-10-202217-10-2022

With: Dr Yuhai TU, IBM research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY USA
Place and room: CM 1
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Fundamental Physics with Quantum Sensors

10-10-202210-10-2022

With: Prof. Surjeet Rajendran, Johns Hopkins
Place and room: CM 1
Category: Conferences – Seminars

The Space of Quantum Field Theories

09-06-202209-06-2022

With: Prof. Joao Penedones, Fields and Strings Laboratory, EPFL
Place and room: CE 1 5
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69729277266
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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23-05-202223-05-2022

With: Prof. Erwin Frey, LMU
Place and room: CE 1 4
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Self-organisation and pattern formation in cellular systems

23-05-202223-05-2022

With: Prof. Erwin Frey, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Place and room: CE 1 4
Category: Conferences – Seminars

The Theory, Practice, and Sociology of Physical Cosmology

16-05-202216-05-2022

With: Prof. P. James Peebles, Princeton University, Nobel Prize in Physics 2019  /  recording of the colloquium : https://tube.switch.ch/videos/tVKu3lAwh0
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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