2025: Year of Quantum

How physics at the smallest scales impacts materials, human health, computing, communications and more

“Public interest technologists and the battle for privacy in the quantum age”

January 25, 2025

Sascha Meinrath.

“How chemistry and physics come together in quantum materials”

February 1, 2025

Lukas Muechler.

“What can quantum computing do for scientific computing?”

February 8, 2025

Xiantao Li.

“A tale of two gases: Classical and quantum”

February 15, 2025

Marcos Rigol.

“Title to be announced”

February 22, 2025

Abhinav Kandala.

“Building a quantum information highway network with topological edge states”

March 1, 2025

Jun Zhu.
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Free Public Lectures

Saturday mornings January 25 through March 1, 2025, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Lectures will be held in 100 Thomas Building.

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Photo of the audience listening during a 2024 Ashtekar Frontiers of Science lecture.

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