The Inevitable Quantum Winter?
UCSB Physics Colloquium
Kavli Auditorium, KITP · University of California, Santa Barbara
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Talks and lectures
What is a Nuclear Clock?
KITP Blackboard Lunch · Thorium-229 Nuclear Clocks
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics · Santa Barbara, California
Nuclear Clocks: What’s next?
KEK Colloquium
KEK · Tsukuba, Japan
Nuclear Clocks: What’s next?
Department of Physics Colloquium
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, California
Nuclear Clocks: What now?
DOE Workshop on Quantum Information Science and Nuclear Physics
University of Massachusetts Boston · Boston, Massachusetts
Nuclear Clocks: What now?
Physics of Quantum Electronics
Snowbird, Utah
Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus
The 9th International Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics (SSSP2025)
Nara, Japan
Quantum control over radioactive ions and nuclei
Seminar
Osaka University · Osaka, Japan
Quantum control over radioactive ions and nuclei
Seminar
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology · Okinawa, Japan
Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus
Department of Physics Colloquium
Stanford University · Palo Alto, California
Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus in a Solid
Materials Science Seminar
Caltech · Pasadena, California
Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus
Department of Physics Colloquium
University of Kentucky · Lexington, Kentucky
Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus
APS March Meeting
Anaheim, California
Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus
Yale Physics Club · Department of Physics Colloquium
Yale University · New Haven, Connecticut
Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus
Department of Physics Colloquium
Michigan State University · East Lansing, Michigan
Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus
Department of Physics Colloquium
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, Michigan
Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus
SPIE Photonics West
San Francisco, California
Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus
Physics of Quantum Electronics
Snowbird, Utah
Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus
Breaking the Standard Model · Moore Foundation Workshop
Denver, Colorado
Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus
Q-FARM Seminar
Stanford University · Palo Alto, California
Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus
Department of Physics Colloquium
Caltech · Pasadena, California
Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus
Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
University of California, Berkeley · Berkeley, California
Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus
Seminar
Northwestern University · Chicago, Illinois
Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus
Princeton Quantum Initiative Colloquium
Princeton University · Princeton, New Jersey
Ions, Molecules, and Nuclei
CalBay Workshop
LMU Munich · Munich, Germany
Laser excitation of the thorium-229 nuclear isomeric transition in a solid-state host
APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics 2024
Fort Worth, Texas
Quantum Chemistry for Quantum Logic
Air Force Chemistry Review 2024
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Legend of Room 13
DeMilleFest 2024
University of Chicago · Chicago, Illinois
The inevitable quantum winter?
Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
UCLA · Los Angeles, California
The role of academia (& government) in the quantum revolution
RAND Corporation Symposium with the Japanese Consul General
Santa Monica, California
What do we do now?
Quantum Seminar
University of Waterloo · Waterloo, Canada
Phenol-menal Phun: Gaining quantum control of ever larger molecules
International Conference on Chemical Bonding
Kapaʻa, Hawaiʻi
Quantum Chemistry for Quantum Logic
International Symposium on Molecular Beams
Rethymno, Greece
Green, EGGs, and SPAM
Berkeley AMO Physics Seminar
Berkeley, California
Winterproofing Quantum Science and Technology
Quantum Science Symposium
Florida State University · Tallahassee, Florida
Optical Cycling of Molecular Ions and Quantum Functional Groups
ITAMP Workshop on Laser Cooling Molecules
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Quantum Chemistry to Quantum Logic with Molecular Ions
ACS Western Regional Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada
Quantum Chemistry to Quantum Logic
Cold and Controlled Molecules and Ions
Durham, United Kingdom
The Inevitable Quantum Winter?
HRL Colloquium
Malibu, California
Quantum Chemistry to Quantum Logic with Molecular Ions
Workshop on Cold Hybrid Ion–Atom Systems
Warsaw, Poland
Quantum Science with Molecules: Function, Complexity, and the Future
DAMOP Graduate Student Symposium
Orlando, Florida
Quantum Tools for Chemistry and Chemistry for Quantum Tools
International School of Solid-State Physics · Dynamics of Electrons in Atomic and Molecular Nanoclusters
Erice, Sicily, Italy
Scaling Quantum Systems
Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation Annual Meeting
Berkeley, California
The Inevitable Quantum Winter?
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Quantum Science and Technologies Group Seminar
Pasadena, California
Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus
Quantum Science Seminar
Virtual
Green EGGs and SPAM
Rice University AMO Seminar
Virtual
New Paths to Molecular Ion Quantum Logic
APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics 2021
Virtual
Laser Spectroscopy of a Nucleus
Duke Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Durham, North Carolina
Can we stop the Quantum Apocalypse?
National Society of Black Physicists 2020
Virtual
Can we stop the Quantum Apocalypse?
ECE Seminar · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Duke University · Durham, North Carolina
Can we stop the Quantum Apocalypse?
Department of Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
California State University, Los Angeles · Los Angeles, California
Can we stop the Quantum Apocalypse?
Department of Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
University of California, Riverside · Riverside, California
HUNTER: A laser-cooled atom based search for sterile neutrinos
PACIFIC 2019
UC Gump Station · Moorea, French Polynesia
Can we stop the Quantum Apocalypse?
A Rare Earth Quantum Science Gathering
Château de Balleroy · Normandy, France
Dipolar and Dipole-Phonon Quantum Logic with Sympathetically-Cooled Molecular Ions
2nd North American Conference on Trapped Ions
College Park, Maryland
Delivered by: Michael Mills
Laser spectroscopy of a nucleus: The search for the isomeric transition in thorium-229
APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics 2019
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
New paths to molecular ion quantum logic
ITAMP New Frontiers in Cold Molecules
Harvard University · Cambridge, Massachusetts
HUNTER: Precision Sterile Neutrino Search Based on a Laser Cooled Atomic Source
New Ideas in Dark Matter Searches · APS Workshop
Denver, Colorado
Can we stop the Quantum Apocalypse?
Emerging Directions and Opportunities in Quantum Science
University of California, Santa Barbara · Santa Barbara, California
Can Chemists Stop the Quantum Bear?
Department of Chemistry Colloquium
Harvard University · Cambridge, Massachusetts
Your Grandkid’s Quantum Computer
Department of Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Brigham Young University · Provo, Utah
Quantum chemistry and non-equilibrium thermodynamics in an atom-ion hybrid trap
1st North American Conference on Trapped Ions
NIST · Boulder, Colorado
Delivered by: Prateek Puri
The road to entanglement of freely-rotating molecular ions
Few-body and Collective Many-body Behavior with Charge Impurities in Atomic Quantum Gases
Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain
Low temperature quantum-state-resolved chemistry using physics tools
255th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition
New Orleans, Louisiana
Delivered by: Michael Mills
Zen and the Art of Atomic Physics
IME Seminar · Institute for Molecular Engineering
University of Chicago · Chicago, Illinois
Zen and the Art of Atomic Physics
Department of Physics Colloquium
University of Colorado Boulder · Boulder, Colorado
Boltzmann’s Beating
Department of Physics Colloquium
Temple University · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hybrid traps, molecular ions, and radioactive qubits
Institute for Terahertz Science and Technology
University of California, Santa Barbara · Santa Barbara, California
Quantum chemistry and non-equilibrium thermodynamics in an atom-ion hybrid trap
North American Conference on Trapped Ions I
Boulder, Colorado
Delivered by: Prateek Puri
Laser-cooling and trapping the Goldilocks qubit: ¹³³Ba⁺
North American Conference on Trapped Ions I
Boulder, Colorado
Delivered by: David Hucul
Cooling molecular ions and ultracold atom-ion interactions
IRTG CoCo Summer School
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
Hybrid traps, molecular ions, and radioactive qubits
Charge Impurities in Cold Atomic and Molecular Systems · ITAMP
Harvard University · Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hybrid traps, molecular ions, and radioactive qubits
Gordon Research Conference on Atomic Physics
Salve Regina University · Newport, Rhode Island
Hybrid traps, molecular ions, and radioactive qubits
Cold Molecular Ions Workshop
École de Physique des Houches · Les Houches, France
Search for the isomeric transition in thorium-229
Precision Physics, Quantum Electrodynamics, and Fundamental Interactions
IESC Cargèse · Corsica, France
Delivered by: Justin Jeet
Beating Boltzmann?
Department of Physics Colloquium
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, California
Towards quantum-state-resolved charged-neutral chemistry
252nd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A new frontier in chemical dynamics
Quantum Systems in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology · QSCP-XXI
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Towards a nuclear clock based on the isomeric transition in thorium-229
IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium
New Orleans, Louisiana
Beating Boltzmann?
Department of Physics Colloquium
University of Toronto · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Non-equilibrium physics in an ultracold atom-ion hybrid trap
Physics of Quantum Electronics
Snowbird, Utah
Towards quantum-state-resolved charged-neutral chemistry
Dynamics of Molecular Collisions XXV
Asilomar · Pacific Grove, California
Sympathetic Cooling of Molecules with Laser-cooled Atoms
Defining New Directions in Cold Chemical Physics
Boulder, Colorado
Sympathetic cooling of molecules with laser-cooled atoms
Applied Physics: Optics & Electronics Seminar
Stanford University · Stanford, California
Sympathetic cooling of molecules with laser-cooled atoms
Trapped Ions Meet Cold Atoms
Bad Honnef, Germany
What’s so cool about the ultracold?
Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
UCLA · Los Angeles, California
Sympathetic Cooling of Molecules with Laser-cooled Atoms
European Conference on Trapped Ions 2014
Budenheim, Germany
Sympathetic Cooling of Molecules with Laser-cooled Atoms
Cold and Controlled Molecules and Ions 2014
Locarno, Switzerland
Sympathetic Cooling of Molecules with Laser-cooled Atoms
International Conference on Atomic Physics
Washington, District of Columbia
Sympathetic Cooling of Molecules with Laser-cooled Atoms
APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics 2014
Madison, Wisconsin
Sympathetic cooling of molecules with laser-cooled atoms
Cold and Ultracold Molecules Workshop
Granada, Spain
Sympathetic cooling of molecules with laser-cooled atoms
Atomic Physics Seminar
Center for Ultracold Atoms · Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sympathetic cooling of molecules with laser-cooled atoms
Quantum Applications with Trapped Ions
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics · Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sympathetic Cooling of Molecules with Laser-cooled Atoms
IOTA-COST Workshop on Cold Molecular Ions
Arosa, Switzerland
Sympathetic Cooling of Molecules with Laser-cooled Atoms
New Science with Ultracold Molecules
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics · Santa Barbara, California
MOTION Trap: A Hybrid Neutral-Ion Environment
Fundamental Science and Applications of Ultracold Polar Molecules
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics · Santa Barbara, California
Towards a Solid-State Optical Clock Based on a Thorium Doped Crystal
Advanced Light Source Chemical Dynamics Meeting
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · Berkeley, California
Towards a Solid-State Optical Clock Based on a Thorium Doped Crystal
QuASAR/ORCHID Meeting
Santa Cruz, California
Towards a Solid-State Optical Clock Based on a Thorium Doped Crystal
QuASAR/ORCHID Meeting
Boulder, Colorado
Molecular ions: a new addition to the quantum toolbox
Physics Department Colloquium
East China Normal University · Shanghai, China
Towards a Solid-State Optical Clock Based on a Thorium Doped Crystal
Physics Department Colloquium
East China Normal University · Shanghai, China
Towards a Solid-State Optical Clock Based on a Thorium Doped Crystal
Workshop on Thorium-229
GSI Helmholtz Centre · Darmstadt, Germany
Molecular ions: a new addition to the quantum toolbox
Physics Department Colloquium
University of Connecticut · Storrs, Connecticut
Molecular ions: a new addition to the quantum toolbox
Physics Department AMO Seminar
University of California, Berkeley · Berkeley, California
Molecular ions: a new addition to the quantum toolbox
Physics Department Colloquium
North Carolina State University · Raleigh, North Carolina
Towards a Solid-State Optical Clock Based on a Thorium Doped Crystal
QuASAR/ORCHID Meeting
Santa Barbara, California
Molecular ions: a new addition to the quantum toolbox
Physics Department AMO Seminar
Yale University · New Haven, Connecticut
Towards a Solid-State Optical Clock Based on a Thorium Doped Crystal
QuASAR/ORCHID Meeting
Boulder, Colorado
Optical Production of Ultracold Polar Molecules
Physics Department Colloquium
University of Nevada, Reno · Reno, Nevada
A new method for producing ultracold molecular ions
Physics Department Colloquium
University of Nevada, Las Vegas · Las Vegas, Nevada
Investigation of the optical transition in ²²⁹Th
Physics Department Colloquium
San Diego State University · San Diego, California
A new method for probing ultracold molecular ions
Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science
Rochester, New York
Delivered by: Wade G. Rellergert
Investigation of the optical transition in ²²⁹Th
Physics Department Colloquium
Pomona College · Claremont, California
Investigation of the optical transition in ²²⁹Th
Workshop on the Evolution and Control of Complexity
Argonne National Laboratory · Lemont, Illinois
Molecular ions: a new addition to the quantum toolbox
Physics Department Colloquium
University of Melbourne · Melbourne, Australia
Molecular ions: a new addition to the quantum toolbox
Physics Department Colloquium
University of New South Wales · Sydney, Australia
Molecular ions: a new addition to the quantum toolbox
Physics Department Colloquium
University of Sydney · Sydney, Australia
Investigation of the optical transition in ²²⁹Th
Variation of Fundamental Constants and Symmetries
Cairns Convention Centre · Cairns, Australia
Constraining the evolution of the fundamental constants with a solid-state optical frequency reference based on the ²²⁹Th nucleus
European Conference on Defects in Insulating Materials
University of Pécs · Pécs, Hungary
A new method for producing ultracold molecular ions
Cold Atoms and Molecules: Collisions, Field-Effects, and Applications
Kyoto University · Kyoto, Japan
A thorium-doped solid-state optical frequency reference
Physics of Quantum Electronics
Snowbird, Utah
Towards a Solid-State Optical Clock Based on a Thorium Doped Crystal
QuASAR/ORCHID Meeting
San Diego, California
Investigation of the optical transition in ²²⁹Th: Solid-state optical frequency standard and fundamental constant variation
Invited Seminar
Los Alamos National Laboratory · Los Alamos, New Mexico
Investigation of the optical transition in ²²⁹Th: Solid-state optical frequency standard and fundamental constant variation
AMO Seminar
University of California, Berkeley · Berkeley, California
A new method for producing ultracold molecular ions
New Laser Scientist Meeting of the OSA
Rochester, New York
Optical Production of Ultracold Polar Molecules
Laser Science XXIV
Rochester, New York
Optical Production of Ultracold Polar Molecules
Physics Department Colloquium
UCLA · Los Angeles, California