Oxford Ionics develops trapped-ion quantum computers. We are UK headquartered and opened our US office in Boulder last year. We will present the work we do in Boulder developing our architecture and our future plans to open a lab and grow the team here. We will also discuss our recent acquisition by IonQ and what it means for the companies' joint roadmap.
Abstract: Social bonds live in our biology. To understand the computations that allow our brains to form social bonds, my lab studies monogamous prairie voles. Unlike laboratory mice and rats, these rodents often mate for life, parenting together and defending a shared home. We have found that social information is organized at multiple scales in the brain's reward center—from stable encoding in individual neurons to coordinated ensembles—to enable bond formation.
The Department of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder in collaboration with CUbit and JILA is hosting the third annual Physics and Quantum Career & Internship Fair on Friday, October 17th from 12:00 - 3:00 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom.
This event will feature employers across all areas of theoretical, experimental, and computational physics. The fair will connect physics undergraduate and graduate students and recent alumni with laboratory and industry leaders to learn about internships and employment opportunities.
Join us as we relaunch the Graduate Association of Students in Physics (GASP) with an ice cream sundae party on the Duane field. All physics students, faculty, and staff are invited.
Abstract: Black holes are often portrayed as cosmic vacuum cleaners that swallow everything, even light. In reality, they are far richer and more revealing: each black hole is a natural laboratory where the two great pillars of modern physics — Einstein’s general relativity and quantum mechanics — meet head-on. In this talk, we will venture from the known, the black holes that we can observe in our sky, into the unknown, where we begin to understand how black holes obey the rules of quantum mechanics.
Speaker: Peter Zoller
Title: Bounded-Error Quantum Simulation via Hamiltonian and Liouvillian Learning
Physics Frontiers Centers (PFCs)
The Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) program supports university-based centers and institutes where the collective efforts of a larger group of individuals can enable transformational advances in the most promising research areas. The program is designed to foster major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics by providing needed resources such as combinations of talents, skills, disciplines, and/or specialized infrastructure, not usually available to individual investigators or small groups, in an environment in which the collective efforts of the larger group can be shown to be seminal to promoting significant progress in the science and the education of students. PFCs also include creative, substantive activities aimed at enhancing education, broadening participation of traditionally underrepresented groups, and outreach to the scientific community and general public. Read more about this program at the NSF website.