Quantum Alberta Research Showcase 2024

Quantum Alberta Research Showcase 2024 Poster session, showing several poster boards and workshop attendees mingling and discussing posters

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

The Quantum Alberta Research Showcase includes talks from Quantum Alberta members from across the province, and provide networking opportunities for researchers and students, as well as with other invitees from across Alberta’s quantum ecosystem, including industry, government, and nonprofit. Quantum Alberta research trainees will present their research in a series of talks, followed by a poster session.

Thank you to the day’s sponsor!

Location

Red & White Club, Olympic Volunteer Centre
1833 Crowchild Trail NW, Calgary AB 

Agenda
9:00 – 9:15Lindsay LeBlanc – Welcome and opening remarks
9:15 – 9:30Elham Zohari –  Nonlinear Multimode Dynamics in Diamond Optomechanical Crystal Cavities (Barclay group, UCalgary)
9:30 – 9:45Ujjwal GautamMicrowave-to-Optical Transduction with Rare-Earth Ions in Loop-Gap Resonator (Oblak group, UCalgary), 
9:45 – 10:00Travis Hosack  – Single Photon Generation Using Superradiance in Cold Alkali Ensembles  (LeBlanc group, UAlberta)
10:00 – 10:15Elia Zanoni Entanglement, thermodynamics, and beyond (Scandolo group, UCalgary) 
10:15 – 10:30Fariba Hosseinynejad Khaledy  – AI-Driven Quantum Error Correction on Photonic Cluster States (Feder group, UCalgary)
10:30 – 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:15Hadi Zadeh-Haghighi Quantum explorations in biology, computing and sensing  (Simon group, UCalgary)
11:15 – 11:30Pragati GuptaUniversal transversal gates (Sanders group, UCalgary)
11:30 – 11:45Sajad F. Hafshejhani Quantum Algorithms for Optimization Problems (Gaur group, ULethbridge)
11:45 – 12:00Lizandra Barrios – Towards ML-Accelerated Discovery of Nanocatalytic Mechanisms (Salahub group, UCalgary)
12:00 – 12:15Canon Sun – Topological Landau Theory (Maciejko group, UAlberta)
12:15 – 13:05Lunch Break
13:05 – 13:20Quantum CityRemarks from Cecilia Oteiza Ayres and Adam Bene Watts
13:20- 14:20Keynote speaker: Urbasi Sinha  – Photonic Quantum Science and Technologies
14:20 – 14:30 Quick Break 
14:30 – 14:45Pooja Woosaree The future of precision antihydrogen measurements with ALPHA (Friesen group,  UCalgary)
14:45 – 15:00Mitja Fridman General Formalism of the Quantum Equivalence Principle (Das group, ULethbridge)
15:00 – 15:15James Maldaner The Laser Science Lab and a Feasibility Analysis of a Proposed Test of Quantum Gravity via Optical Magnetometry in Xenon (Porat group, UAlberta)
15:15 – 15:30Linh Ly – Metal Nanoparticles to Semiconductor Nanowires: Catalysis to Battery Applications (Shi group, UCalgary)
15:30 – 17:00 Poster Session & Snack Break

Full agenda and poster list available as pdf.