Quantum Information Science Talks

Schedule of Quantum Information Science Talks

Monday 12:00 - 13:00 in Building E2 6, Room E.04

Summer Semester 2026     
   
DateSpeakerTitle and Abstract
16.03.2026Stephan Welte (Uni Stuttgart)Quantum coherent networks with atom arrays in optical cavities
Tuesday, 24.03.2026 
in Room E.11		Elisa Vallini (Uni Köln)Local Rotational Invariance and Free Probability for refining the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis
13.04.2026Nico Döttling (CISPA)(Quantum) Pseudorandom Codes
20.04.2026Tobias Binninger (Forschungszentrum Jülich)Opportunities for Quantum Computing in Energy Materials Modelling
27.04.2026Guido Burkard (Konstanz University)Solid-state qubits: Quantum spins and quantum circuits
04.05.2026Mariami Gachechiladze (TU Darmstadt)TBA
11.05.2026Jonas Helsen (CWI Amsterdam)TBA
01.06.2026Mats Granath (Chalmers Univ)TBA
Thursday, 11.06.2026Sebastian Deffner (Univ Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)TBA
29.06.2026Silvia Pappalardi (University of Cologne)TBA

Previous Speakers

Winter Semester 2025/26     
   
DateSpeakerTitle and Abstract
10.10.2025Mark Saffmann (University of Wisconsin)Quantum computing with atomic qubit arrays
Thursday, 30.10.2025Scott Parkins (Univ Auckland)Nonclassical light – getting more out of a single atom
03.11.2025David Gross (University of Cologne)"It sounded like a good idea" -- Non-asymptotic running-time analysis
10.11.2025Alessandro Ciani (Forschungszentrum Jülich)Protected superconducting circuits and how to find them
17.11.2025Domenik Eichhorn (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)The Path to Making Quantum Computing Accessible to Everyone: A Research Experience
24.11.2025Max Kiefer-Emmanouilidis (DFKI)Disorder, Memory, and Learning: Parallels Between Quantum Many-Body Systems and Quantum Neural Networks
08.12.2025Jonas Haferkamp (Universität des Saarlandes)Random unitaries from random quantum circuits
12.01.2026Shozab Qasim (Freie Universität Berlin)Emergent statistical mechanics of holographic random tensor networks 
26.01.2026Gian Luca Giorgi (IFISC)Bridging Theory and Experiment in Quantum Reservoir Computing
02.02.2026Simon Schmidt Ruhr-Universität Bochum)Compiled nonlocal games
Summer Semester 2025     
DateSpeakerTitle and Abstract
07.04.2025Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler (Universität Mainz)Spin-selective coherent light scattering from ion crystals and the way towards scalable quantum computing
14.04.2025Jeroen Zuiddam (University of Amsterdam)Asymptotic spectrum duality and entanglement polytopes
05.05.2025Leonardo Banchi (Florence University)Quantifying the Complexity of Learning Quantum Features
12.05.2025Martin Kliesch (Hamburg University of Technology)Quantum System Characterization
26.05.2025 (virtueller Termin)Zoë Holmes (EPFL)Pauli and Majorana propagation methods for classically simulating quantum circuits​
Mittwoch, 04.06.2025Sevag Gharibian (Universität Paderborn)Hardness of approximation for quantum problems
16.06.2025 (virtueller Termin)Michael J. Kastoryano (University Kopenhagen and AWS)Quasi-local non-commutative Gibbs sampling
30.06.2025Marko Rancic (University Luxembourg)How quantum and supercomputers work in synergy to solve problems of the future
14.07.2025Jakob Kottmann (Augsburg)Bridging Quantum and Classical Algorithmics
Winter Semester 2024/25     
DateSpeakerTitle and Abstract
Thursday, 12.12.2024, 12 - 13
(Note different day)		Markus Müller (RWTH Aachen und FZ Jülich)The Dawn of Quantum Fault Tolerance
20.01.2025Stefan Kühn (DESY Zeuthen)Quantum-inspired methods​ for lattice field theory​
03.02.2025Dagmar Bruss (HHU Düsseldorf)Does Quantum Mechanics Need Complex Numbers?