Name: Quantum Information Science for Fundamental Physics
Start: 2020-02-17T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2020-02-22T22:00:00-07:00
Location: No location set

Quantum Information Science for Fundamental Physics

from Monday, 17 February 2020 (08:00) to Saturday, 22 February 2020 (22:00)

Monday, 17 February 2020

17:00 Reception and registration at the Aspen Center for Physics
Reception and registration at the Aspen Center for Physics
17:00 - 19:00
Tuesday, 18 February 2020
08:00 Big questions
Big questions
08:00 - 11:05
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 Perspectives on Quantum Information Science for Fundamental Physics - John Preskill (Caltech)

08:40 Quantum electromagnetic sensors and the search for axion dark matter below 1 micro-eV - Kent Irwin (Stanford University)

09:40 New Ideas in Dark Matter Detection - Kathryn Zurek

10:20 Quantum technologies for gravitational wave detectors - Nergis Mavalvala (MIT)
16:30 Quantum information and space-time
Quantum information and space-time
16:30 - 17:30
Contributions

16:30 Comments on QI in accelerating cosmology (phenomenological and thought-experimental) - Eva Silverstein (Stanford)

17:00 Quantum entropy generated by dynamical evolution - Josephine Suh
17:30 Posters
Posters
17:30 - 19:00
Wednesday, 19 February 2020
08:00 Quantum sensing and error correction
Quantum sensing and error correction
08:00 - 11:10
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 Sensing, Entanglement, and Scrambling - Alexey Gorshkov

08:30 Advanced Characterization and Sensing with Squeezed Optomechanical Systems - Raphael Pooser (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:30 Cavity Optomechanics: Generating Mechanical Interference Fringes and Brillouin Optomechanical Strong Coupling - Michael Vanner (Imperial College, London)

10:00 Quantum Control of Harmonic Oscillator Motional States of Ions - Dietrich Leibfried
16:30 Physics Cafe
Physics Cafe
16:30 - 17:30
17:30 Public lecture from John Preskill
Public lecture from John Preskill
17:30 - 18:30
Contributions

17:30 Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier - John Preskill (Caltech)
Thursday, 20 February 2020
08:00 Quantum information and black holes
Quantum information and black holes
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 Replica Wormholes and the Black Hole Interior - Geoff Penington (Stanford University)

08:30 A Traversable Wormhole Teleportation Protocol in the SYK Model - Ping Gao
09:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
09:00 - 10:00
10:00 New technologies
New technologies
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

10:00 Superconducting Kinetic Inductance Technologies for Submillimeter Single-Photon Detection and Quantum-Limited Amplification for Spectroscopy in Space - Omid Noroozian

10:30 Superconducting Nanowire Detectors for rare event searches - Sae Woo Nam
16:30 Dark matter detection ideas
Dark matter detection ideas
16:30 - 19:30
Contributions

16:30 Axion and Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Superradiance - Masha Baryakhtar (NYU)

17:00 Searching for Dark Matter with Athermal Phonon Detectors Throughout the Mass Range from 50meV through 500MeV - Matt Pyle (Berkeley)

17:30 ABRACADABRA-10cm: Searching for Axions and Preparing for DMRadio-m3 - Lindley Winslow (MIT)

18:30 Dark Matter Detection with Magnons and Phonons - K. Zhang

19:00 Plasmons and Excesses in Low-Threshold Dark Matter Experiments - Yoni Kahn (UIUC)
20:00 Conference banquet
Conference banquet
20:00 - 22:00
Friday, 21 February 2020
08:00 Holography and quantum simulation
Holography and quantum simulation
08:00 - 11:00
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 Synthesis of Quantum-Noise-"Free" Systems - Rana Adhikari

08:30 Mechanical architectures for fundamental physics detection - Dan Carney

09:00 A Supersonically expanding BEC: An expanding universe in the lab - Gretchen Campbell

10:00 Quantum Gravity in the Lab - Stefan Leichenauer

10:30 Hidden Space-times in Quantum Spin Chains - Charles Cao
16:30 Quantum control of oscillators
Quantum control of oscillators
16:30 - 17:30
Contributions

16:30 Precision searches for new physics using optically levitated sensors - David Moore (Yale)

17:00 Exploring sensing and quantum measurement with membrane cavity optomechanics - Cindy Regal (University of Colorado)
17:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
17:30 - 18:00
18:00 Qubits and quantum sensing
Qubits and quantum sensing
18:00 - 19:40
Contributions

18:00 Quantum metamaterial for nondestructive microwave photon detection - Alexandre Blais

18:30 TBD - Dave Schuster (Chicago)

19:00 HAYSTAC and the Search for Dark Matter Axions above 10 micro-eV - Reina Maruyama (Yale)
Saturday, 22 February 2020
08:00 Particle physics and quantum information
Particle physics and quantum information
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 Quantum algorithms for pattern recognition in high-energy physics experiments - Heather Gray

08:30 Quantum Algorithms for High Energy Physics Simulations - Christian Bauer
09:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
09:00 - 09:30
09:30 New technologies II
New technologies II
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

09:30 Axion Searches from Micro-eV to Milli-eV - Andrew Sonnenschein

10:00 First results of DarkSRF: a dark photon search using SRF cavities - Anna Grasselino (Fermilab)
10:30 Towards the future
Towards the future
10:30 - 12:00
Contributions

10:30 Panel discussion: Strategies for Advancing QIS and Fundamental Science (Raphael Bousso, Joe Lykken, Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Maria Spiropulu + ...) - Aaron Chou Joe Lykken (Fermilab) Kathryn Zurek Konrad Lehnert Maria Spiropulu (Caltech) Raphael Bousso (Berkeley)