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SUMMARY:Spring 2026 Colloquium Schedule
DESCRIPTION:How to join\nColloquia are held on Thursdays in Webster Physical Sciences Building room 11 on the Pullman campus from 12:10 to 1:00pm. \nColloquia are held in person. For those who cannot attend in person\, please join us on Zoom. \n\nMeeting ID: 965 8240 9398\nPasscode: physastro\n\nPast colloquia can be viewed on our library on YouTube. \nYou can support these events by giving to the Physics Excellence Fund or the S. Towne Stephenson Lectureship.
URL:https://nwquantum.uw.edu/event/spring-2026-colloquium-schedule/
LOCATION:Pullman\, Webster Physical Sciences Building room 11\, Pullman\, WA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Partner Events
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SUMMARY:TIQM 2026 Winter Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Venue: Alder Auditorium and Commons\, University of Washington campus\, Seattle \nRegistration: There is no registration fee and it is open to all. Please register by completing this form. \nHousing: The University Inn is recommended. All invited participants will be staying there. A discount rate is available until December 31 by following this link. \nTravel: From Seatac airport\, Link Light Rail takes you (in 47 minutes for $3.25) to the U District Station which is 0.4 miles from the hotel and 0.4 miles from Alder Hall. A taxi from Seatac costs about $70. The closest parking is in the Central Plaza garage. \nDescription: Open quantum systems range from condensed matter to trapped atom systems\, from theory to experiment\, and from fundamental science to applications. To create a uniquely stimulating environment in this workshop\, some invited participants will be asked to speak while others will be tasked with keeping the audience discussions lively.  \nSponsorship: TIQM activities are sponsored by the University of Washington Department of Physics\, Department of Materials Science and Engineering\, College of Arts and Sciences\, and College of Engineering. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInvited Attendees\n\nAndrew Higginbotham \nNon-equilibrium Josephson Systems in One and Two Dimensions \n\nArchana Kamal \nDecoherence in the NISQ era: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde \n\nAleksander Kubica \nLayer codes as partially self-correcting quantum memories\n\nEli Levinson-Falk \nUnderstanding and harnessing decoherence for sensing and gate calibration \n\nYaodong Li \nSlow mixing from emergent one-form symmetries in three-dimensional Ising gauge theory \n\nAlex Ma \nControlling and probing quantum correlations with engineered dissipation \n\nKanu Sinha\nNon-Markovian collective dynamics of waveguide-coupled atoms\n\nRahul Trivedi \nOpen quantum systems beyond the Born Markov approximation \nEhud Altman\nJoshua Folk\nMichael Gullans\nMatthew Hastings\nDietrich Leibfried\nYuri Lensky\nSylvia Lüscher\nChristopher Monroe\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizing Committee\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMo Chen\nYaodong Li\nCharles Marcus\nSara Mouradian\n\n\nHelpers\nTBD\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\nThursday Jan 15\n9.00 - 5.00\n\nFriday Jan 16\n9.00 - 5.00\nSaturday Jan 17\n9.00 - 1.00
URL:https://nwquantum.uw.edu/event/tiqm-2026-winter-workshop/
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SUMMARY:A Fault-Tolerant Neutral-Atom Architecture for Universal Quantum Computation
DESCRIPTION:Sasha Geim\, Harvard University\nQuantum error correction enables coherent computation on encoded logical qubits while simultaneously removing errors from the underlying physical qubits. Here we utilize reconfigurable arrays of up to 448 neutral atoms to experimentally explore the key elements of a fault-tolerant quantum processing architecture\, including below-threshold correction\, fault-tolerant gate operations\, universality\, and physical error removal during deep-circuit computation. We first demonstrate performance of 2.14(13)x below-threshold in a four-round characterization circuit on individual surface codes\, leveraging loss detection and machine learning decoding. We further explore the physics of repeated error correction in logical entanglement based on transversal gates and lattice surgery and extend to universal logic using transversal teleportation with 3D color codes for analog-angle synthesis. Finally\, we demonstrate a method for mid-circuit qubit re-use\, increasing the experimental cycle rate by two orders of magnitude and implementing deep-circuit protocols involving hundreds of logical teleportations while maintaining constant internal entropy. These results establish foundations for scalable\, universal error-corrected processing and its practical implementation with neutral atom systems.
URL:https://nwquantum.uw.edu/event/a-fault-tolerant-neutral-atom-architecture-for-universal-quantum-computation/
LOCATION:C421 Physics and Astronomy Building
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:PNAA Advance 2026
DESCRIPTION:Visit the official 2025 show wrap-up page \nPacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance (PNAA) is a coalition of aerospace companies serving North America’s largest commercial aerospace manufacturing cluster which centers round growing segments in the Pacific Northwest. \nFor more information\, contact\nShannon McCarty
URL:https://nwquantum.uw.edu/event/pnaa-advance-2026/
LOCATION:Lynnwood\, Lynnwod\, WA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Krysta Svore (NVIDIA): UW Public Lecture in Quantum Science and Engineering
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Krysta Svore\nVice President of Applied Research for Quantum Computing at NVIDIA \nFebruary 10 | 7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.\nUW Seattle Campus\nKane Hall Auditorium – Room 130 \nDesigning the Accelerated Quantum Supercomputer: AI‑First\, Real‑Time Required \nAbstract: Quantum computing is often framed as a hardware challenge\, but the next breakthroughs will come from the fusion of AI\, advanced systems software\, and real‑time quantum–classical integration. As quantum processors scale\, the bottlenecks shift: calibration becomes a data problem\, decoding becomes an AI problem\, and system performance becomes a real‑time orchestration problem. This talk will explore how accelerated emulation\, AI‑driven calibration and decoding\, and ultra‑low‑latency quantum–classical links are redefining what a quantum computer is. These capabilities enable rapid iteration\, higher‑quality qubits\, and system‑level designs that were previously out of reach\, opening the door to architectures that can genuinely scale. By examining the emerging blueprint of an accelerated quantum supercomputer\, we will look at the key requirements for building such systems—from real‑time control to heterogeneous acceleration—and how advances across the ecosystem are bringing this future closer\, faster\, and with far greater impact than qubits alone could achieve. \nBio: Dr. Krysta Svore is Vice President of Applied Research for Quantum Computing at NVIDIA\, joining the company after 19 years at Microsoft\, where she served as Technical Fellow and VP of Advanced Quantum Development and pioneered reliable quantum computing through the co‑design of hardware\, software\, and error correction. She began her career developing machine learning methods for web search before founding Microsoft’s quantum computing software\, algorithms\, and architecture program.  She led efforts that brought the first quantum computers to Azure\, advanced state‑of‑the‑art quantum software and algorithms\, created an open‑source quantum software stack\, developed a scalable quantum architecture\, and in collaboration with Quantinuum and Atom Computing demonstrated the first logical qubits with better‑than‑physical error rates in 2024. She has published more than 70 refereed articles\, filed over 30 patents\, and is a fellow of the AAAS\, APS\, and WSAS\, as well as a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences\, one of UNESCO’s Quantum100 leaders. Dr. Svore has advised the National Quantum Initiative\, the U.S. Department of Energy\, and DARPA\, and is internationally recognized for transforming foundational research into breakthrough technologies and for building and empowering high‑performing teams. She now brings her visionary leadership to NVIDIA to accelerate the future of quantum computing.
URL:https://nwquantum.uw.edu/event/krysta-svore-nvidia-uw-public-lecture-in-quantum-science-and-engineering/
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