Theory division seminars

Upcoming:

27/01/2026, Marin Bukov, MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Learning to stabilize nonequilibrium phases of matter with active feedback using partial information

 


2025

11/12/2025, Peter Rabl, TU Munich / Walther-Meißner Institute, Autonomous entanglement distribution in squeezed and thermal reservoirs 

11/11/2025, Natalia Ares, University of Oxford, Machine learning-based control of quantum devices and nanoscale thermodynamics

30/09/2025, Lingzhen Guo, Tianjin University, China, Engineering fault-tolerant Bosonic codes with quantum lattice gates

18/09/2025, Martina Hentschel, TU Chemnitz, Complex optical microcavities: a non-Hermitian perspective

08/09/2025, Henning Schomerus, University of Lancaster, Physical manifestations of non-Hermiticity and topology in photonic systems

05/08/2025, Markus Heyl, University of Augsburg, Active quantum flocks

15/07/2025, Renato Renner, ETH Zürich, Artificial agents as probes of quantum foundations

17/06/2025, Diego Porras, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Topological amplification in linear and non-linear systems

21/05/2025, Wolfram Pernice, Münster University, Embracing uncertainty: a photonic approach to probabilistic computing 

06/05/2025, Mario Chemnitz, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Towards Computing with Nonlinear Schrödinger Systems: Mimicking neuromorphic capabilities with information-loaded femtosecond pulses and nonlinear fibers

25/04/2025, Marc Serra Garcia, AMOLF, Amsterdam, Computing with unconventional physical phenomena 

01/04/2025, Antonio Acín, ICFO Barcelona, From Bell's theorem to the device-independent quantum information scenario 

11/03/2025, Babak Rahmani, Microsoft Research, Dynamics in computation: From the analog optical computer to iterative language models

11/03/2025, Jacob Daniel Benestad, NTNU Trondheim, Real-time Hamiltonian estimation in single qubit experiments

20/02/2025, Zakari Denis, EPFL, Towards simulating quantum-optical systems with neural quantum states 

19/02/2025, Jannes Nys, ETH Zürich, Neural Representations of Correlated Quantum Matter in and out of Equilibrium

2024

17/12/2024, Zidu Liu, MPQ Garching, Studies on the trainability of tensor network based machine learning

18/10/2024, Maxine McCarthy, University of Sheffield, Exact topological properties of finite structures

18/07/2024, Pascal Weckesser, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Quantum gas microscopy of Rydberg-based extended Bose Hubbard models

27/02/2024, Tong Wang, School of Physics, Peking University, Numerical Study of Disorder-driven Quantum Phase Transitions

13/02/2024 Maciej Koch-Janusz, Haiqu Inc. & University of Zurich, Effective descriptions of statistical and dynamical systems through the lens of compression theory

06/02/2024 Johannes Brandstaetter, MS-AI4Science and JKU Linz, Is it the network, or is it the data? Quo vadis, scientific research?

23/01/2024 Daniel Burgarth, FAU, Strong Error Bounds for Trotter & Strang-Splittings and their Implications for Quantum Chemistry

2023

13/12/2023 Ki Young Lee, Hanyang University, Korea, Revealing new topological effects in metasurfaces

21/11/2023 Linglin Fan, MIT, Energy-efficient photonic computing with physics-hardware co-learning

27/10/2023  Alexander Cerjan, Sandia National Laboratories, An Operator-Based Approach to Topological Physics: Band Structures and Bloch Eigenstates not Required

13/10/2023  Alexander Felski, Universität Heidelberg, Non-Hermitian fermions in effective QCD

15/09/2023 Lingzhen Guo, Tianjin University, Arbitrary Phase-space Hamiltonian Engineering for Bosonic Codes

12/09/2023 Jonathan Conrad, Freie Universität Berlin, Twirling GKP codes between theory and application

12/09/2023 Christopher Wächtler, University of California, Berkeley, Topological synchronization of classical and quantum systems

11/09/2023 Lei Du, Chalmers University of Technology, Giant atoms in a synthetic frequency dimension

14/08/2023  Peter McMahon, Cornell University, Computing with Physical Systems

14/08/2023 Lucas Winter, Universität Konstanz, Topological Protection of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in a Cavity

04/07/2023  Julian Arnold, Universität Basel, Replacing neural networks by optimal predictive models for the detection of phase transitions

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