When: Monday, July 29, 2024 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: ERC 161 & Atrium, 5640 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637
Description: Join the third cohort of Open Quantum Initiative fellows as they present summaries of their summer quantum information science and engineering research. CQE members and partners are invited to attend, meet the fellows, and share opportunities for the following summer.
Agenda
| Time | |
| 10:00 am – 10:15 am CT |
Welcome Kate Waimey Timmerman, Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Quantum Exchange |
| 10:15 am – 11:45 am CT |
Group 1 Presentations Tala Alkabbani (Fermilab); Pedro Henrique Alves Silva Dos Santos (UW–Madison); Vatsal Bandaru (UW–Madison); Margaux Basart (UIUC); Bonde Borca (Argonne); Otis Buras (Northwestern) |
| 11:45 am – 12:45 pm CT | Lunch break |
| 12:45 pm – 2:15 pm CT |
Group 2 Presentations Praise Daniels (UIUC); Adriana Frick (UW–Madison); Josh Gao (Northwestern); Carissa Kiehl (Argonne); Kofi Klutse (OSU); Hsien-Wei Lin (OSU) |
| 2:15 pm – 2:30 pm CT | Break |
| 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm CT |
Group 3 Presentations Wanda Lindquist (Argonne); Abdulsalam Odofin-Kamorudeen (UIUC); Joel Benjamin Ruzindana Manzi (UIUC); Clarice Yekeh (UChicago); Zoe Zuro (Argonne) |
| 4:00 pm – 4:15 pm CT |
Concluding Remarks Jen Choy, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 4:15 pm – 5:00 pm CT | CQE Celebration Reception |
Meet the fellows:
Home Institution: Passaic County Community College
Major: Computer Science
OQI Institution: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Faculty Mentor: Gabriel Perdue
Research Topic: Investigating the implementation and behavior of surface code algorithms, with a focus on applying diverse noise channels and analyzing their effects, to enhance machine learning models for quantum error correction optimization
Home Institution: Colby College
Major: Physics, Mathematics
OQI Institution: University of Wisconsin–Madison
Faculty Mentor: Mark Friesen
Research Topic: Spin qubit transport in Si/SiGe heterostructures
Home Institution: University of Connecticut
Major: Engineering Physics
OQI Institution: University of Wisconsin–Madison
Faculty Mentor: Mark Friesen
Research Topic: Novel gate architectures for spin qubit shuttling in Si/SiGe heterostructures
Home Institution: Colorado School of Mines
Major: Engineering Physics
OQI Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Goldschimdt
Research Topic: Designing electrodes towards creating an atomic mirror in a rare-earth ion-doped crystal
Home Institution: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Major: Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics
OQI Institution: Argonne National Laboratory
Faculty Mentor: Joseph Heremans
Research Topic: Utilizing preferential growth of diamond surfaces for nitrogen vacancy center localization and orientation
Home Institution: Illinois Wesleyan University
Major: Physics, Studio Art
OQI Institution: Northwestern University
Faculty Mentor: Michael Wasielewski
Research Topic: Investigating relaxation dynamics of photogenerated electron spins in single crystals
Home Institution: Wilbur Wright College - City Colleges of Chicago
Major: Computer Science
OQI Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Faculty Mentor: Andre Schleife
Research Topic: Prediction of electronic stopping power by combining time-dependent density functional theory and machine learning
Home Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology
Major: Physics
OQI Institution: University of Wisconsin–Madison
Faculty Mentor: Randall Goldsmith
Research Topic: Characterization and optimization of multi wall carbon nanotubes deposition for single particle photothermal microscopy via nanophotonic devices
Home Institution: Virginia Tech
Major: Computer Science
OQI Institution: Northwestern University
Faculty Mentor: Kaitlin Smith
Research Topic: Error characterization with Pauli check sandwiching
Home Institution: Carthage College
Major: Physics, Computer Science
OQI Institution: Argonne National Laboratory
Faculty Mentor: Charudatta Phatak
Research Topic: Microwave characterization of magnetic and superconducting devices for quantum information science
Home Institution: Lipscomb University
Major: Professional Chemistry, Biochemistry
OQI Institution: The Ohio State University
Faculty Mentor: Jay Gupta
Research Topic: Exploring techniques and parameters for the intercalation of Erbium atoms in 2D crystal structures for application in spin qubits
Home Institution: University of Maryland College Park
Major: Electrical Engineering
OQI Institution: The Ohio State University
Faculty Mentor: Ron Reano
Research Topic: Implementing the measurement device independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) with the focus of FPGA programming for attenuation purposes
Home Institution: Illinois Wesleyan University
Major: Physics, Mathematics
OQI Institution: Argonne National Laboratory
Faculty Mentor: Supratik Guha
Research Topic: Development of erbium doped oxides for quantum network applications
Home Institution: Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Major: Physics
OQI Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Faculty Mentor: Mikael Backlund
Research Topic: Quantum sensing with nitrogen-vacancy centers in Diamond
Home Institution: University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
Major: Physics
OQI Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Faculty Mentor: Chris Anderson
Research Topic: Simulation and fabrication of an efficient inverse taper edge coupler for maximal quantum information (photon) collection & Setting up a confocal microscope to visualize and localize SiC defects.
Home Institution: Howard University
Major: Computer Engineering
OQI Institution: University of Chicago
Faculty Mentor: David Awschalom
Research Topic: Charge state dynamics of vanadium defects in silicon carbide
Home Institution: University of Illinois Chicago
Major: Engineering Physics
OQI Institution: Argonne National Laboratory
Faculty Mentor: Stephan Hruszkewycz
Research Topic: Mapping NV center photoluminescence in diamonds through optics lab setup and Python coding
Learn more about the Open Quantum Initiative Undergraduate Fellowship.
Questions about the event can be directed to quantum@uchicago.edu.