Community & Events

From individual researchers and laboratories to departments, institutes, and organizations, modern science and engineering are team efforts. Communities large and small coordinate to expand our understanding of the world and apply that new understanding to inform, involve and advise colleagues and the public, and help develop novel products and services for the economy.

Q-SEnSE investigators are involved with the community in many ways, with recent examples included below.

 

2025

Center & Site Events

  • Thu, May 22 — 2025 NSF Site Visit (remote) — Lead PI: Jun Ye.
  • Thu–Fri, Jan 23–24 — 2025 Annual Meeting 

2024

Center & Site Events

  • Thu–Fri, Jun 27–28 — NSF Site Visit (Hybrid, Boulder).

Convergence Seminar Series (2:00pm Mountain)

Special Events

  • UNM Summer Course on Optimization for Quantum Information & Quantum Foundations — Wednesdays, ~4:00–5:00pm MDT. Coordinators: Cunlu Zhou (czhou@unm.edu), John DeBrota (jdebrota@unm.edu). 

Center & Site Events

  • Wed, Aug 9 — Annual Meeting (in person, Boulder).
  • Thu–Fri, Aug 10–11 — NSF Site Visit (in person, Boulder).

Convergence Seminar Series (2:00pm Mountain)

  • Mon, Dec 11 — Optical Networks and Interconnects — Shalm, Diddams, Sinclair.
  • Mon, Nov 6 — Precision Optical Cavities in Atomic Coupling and Mechanical Sensing — Regal, Leibfried, Sun, Papp.
  • Thu, May 25 — All Q-SEnSE Convergence Seminar — Anderson & Hume.
  • Thu, Apr 20 — All Q-SEnSE Convergence Seminar — Miyake & Holland.
  • Thu, Mar 16 — All Q-SEnSE Convergence Seminar — Thompson (+ Education snapshots from Harvard, UNM, JILA).
  • Thu, Feb 16 — All Q-SEnSE Convergence Seminar — Safronova & Newbury.
  • Thu, Jan 26 — All Q-SEnSE Convergence Seminar — Ye & Bennett.

Special Events

  • UNM Summer Course on Quantum Internet & Quantum Metrology — Sessions: Apr 27 & May 4 (3:30–4:30pm MT); May 31–Jun 28 (3:00–4:00pm MT); Jul 12–Aug 2 (3:00–4:00pm MT). Details: Course Description and Particulars.

2022

Center & Site Events

  • Tue–Wed, Aug 16–17 — NSF Site Visit — ALL TIMES MOUNTAIN; all sessions via Zoom.
  • Wed–Thu, Jun 29–30 — 2022 Annual Meeting — delivered via Zoom.

Convergence Seminar Series — Fall

  • Thu, Dec 8 — All Q-SEnSE — Industry Roundtable on “National Quantum Infrastructure for Sensing and Measurement: Case Study – Strontium”; 15 Q-SEnSE Investigators; 19 collaborators/students/postdocs; 9 industry experts.
  • Thu, Nov 3 — All Q-SEnSE — Sun & Wineland; 12 Investigators; 64 collaborators/students/postdocs.
  • Thu, Oct 6 — All Q-SEnSE — Knappe & Vuletic; 18 Investigators; 19 collaborators/students/postdocs.

Convergence Seminar Series — Spring

  • Wed, May 25 — All Q-SEnSE — Regal & Huang; 19 Investigators; 10 collaborators/students/postdocs.
  • Wed, Apr 27 — All Q-SEnSE — Jau & Hollberg; 16 Investigators; 22 collaborators/students/postdocs.
  • Wed, Mar 2 — All Q-SEnSE — Education & Workforce Special Edition; 12 Investigators; 23 collaborators/students/postdocs.
  • Wed, Feb 23 — All Q-SEnSE — Gopinath & Diddams; 17 Investigators; 17 collaborators/students/postdocs.
  • Wed, Jan 19 — All Q-SEnSE — Hogan & Allcock; 23 Investigators; 32 collaborators/students/postdocs.

 Summer Schools

  • Summer 2022 — CQuIC summer course on “tensor network methods”: A ten-week hybrid seminar course (starting June 1) covering tensor network methods, including matrix product states. In-person at UNM, with Zoom participation available. Instructor: Dr. Philip Blocher (blocher@unm.edu). More info at the course website.
  • Summer 2021 — Quantum Undergraduate Research Experience at CHTM (QU-REACH): A ten-week summer research program for historically excluded groups in STEM, hosted at UNM. Projects included NV centers in diamond (Prof. Victor Acosta) and optical interferometry for simulated gravitational waves (Prof. F. Elohim Becerra).
  • Summer 2021 — Quantum Computing Summer School: A 10-week immersive program led by Los Alamos National Lab with UNM Q-SEnSE faculty (Profs. Tameem Albash, Milad Marvian). Included tutorials by world experts and mentored student-led projects in quantum computing.
  • Summer 2021 — Q-SEnSE–CQuIC Summer Fellows: Beginning graduate students trained in QIS through research rotations and a summer seminar course on “Many-body Quantum Chaos” (Instructor: Dr. Pablo Poggi).

Workshops & Special Events

  • Oct 20–22 — SQuInT Workshop (Berkeley). Q-SEnSE partner UNM’s SQuInT Center held its 2022 workshop at UC Berkeley. See the full program.
  • Aug 19 — Summer School on Many-Body Physics for Quantum Information & Sensing (student-organized; virtual, 1 day). Lectures, career panel, and interactive workshop. Accessible to all Q-SEnSE participants.

Collaboration Builders: Grand Challenges 2 & 3

  • Tue, May 24 — Noon MT
  • Mon, Apr 11 — Noon MT
  • Wed, Mar 2 — Noon MT
  • Thu, Nov 18, 2021 — 12:30pm MT

2021

Convergence Seminar Series (All Q-SEnSE)

  • Tue, Dec 14 — Martin & Combes; 18 Q-SEnSE Investigators; 8 collaborators/students/postdocs.
  • Tue, Nov 30 — Axelrad; 21 Investigators; 11 collaborators/students/postdocs.
  • Tue, Oct 19 — Stick & Yelin; 23 Investigators; 45 collaborators/students/postdocs.
  • Tue, Sep 21 — Doyle & Rieker; 16 Investigators; 18 collaborators/students/postdocs.
  • Tue, Jun 8 — Deutsch & Rey; 18 Investigators; 21 collaborators/students/postdocs.
  • Tue, May 4 — Chiaverini & Nam; 22 Investigators; 22 collaborators/students/postdocs.
  • Tue, Apr 20 — Kasevich & Kaufman; 22 Investigators; 28 collaborators/students/postdocs.
  • Tue, Mar 23 — Papp & Newbury; 17 Investigators; 20 collaborators/students/postdocs.
  • Tue, Feb 23 — Monteleoni & Lehnert; 21 Investigators; 21 collaborators/students/postdocs.

2020

Workshops & Special Events

  • Fri, Dec 18 — Social Intelligence Workshop for Q-SEnSE Leadership (attendees Ye, Regal, Thompson, Lehnert, ONeil et al.).
  • Fri, Oct 23 — Grand Challenge 3 “Crystallization Workshop” (14 Q-SEnSE Investigators).
  • Thu, Oct 22 — Grand Challenge 2 “Crystallization Workshop” (25 Q-SEnSE Investigators).
  • Tue, Oct 13 — Grand Challenge 1 “Crystallization Workshop” (26 Q-SEnSE Investigators).

Center & Leadership Meetings

  • Thu, Nov 5 — Q-SEnSE Executive Committee Meeting (9 XC Members).
  • Thu, Oct 8 — Q-SEnSE Executive Committee Meeting (9 XC Members).
  • Thu, Sep 10 — Q-SEnSE Executive Committee Meeting (9 XC Members).

Invited Talks

  • Jul, 2022: “Entanglement-Enhanced Matter-Wave Interferometry in a High-Finesse Cavity,” ICAP International Conference on Atomic Physics, invited talk, Toronto, Canada (Thompson)
  • Jun, 2022: “Entanglement for Quantum Sensing in Matter-wave Interferometers, Clocks, and Molecules,” Q-SENSE Annual Meeting, Boulder, CO (Thompson)
  • Jun, 2022: "Towards Realizing a Quantum Repeater based on a Spin-Photon Quantum Interface", invited talk at DAMOP, Orlando, Florida (Sun)
  • Jun, 2022: "Towards Realizing an All-Photonic Quantum Repeater Based on a Spin-Photon Quantum Interface", invited talk at Quantum 2.0, Boston (Sun)
  • Jun, 2022: “Entanglement-Enhanced Matter-Wave Interferometry in a High-Finesse Cavity,” DAMOP Invited talk, Orlando, FL (Thompson)
  • May, 2022: “Approaching the Solar Planck Limit with Dual-Comb Passive Thermal Light Spectroscopy” Invited Talk, CLEO 2022 (Diddams et al.)
  • Apr, 2022: "Deterministic Single-photon Optical Nonlinearity Enabled by a Quantum Dot Spin", invited talk at PIERS 2021, Hangzhou, China (Hybrid) (Sun)
  • Mar, 2022: “Optical lattice clocks: From Timekeepers to Spies of the Quantum Realm”, School of Physics Colloquium (virtual), Georgia Tech (Rey)
  • Mar, 2022: “Spin squeezing with finite range spin-exchange interactions”, 85th DPG Spring Meeting (virtual), Erlangen, Germany (Rey)
  • Feb, 2022: “Optical lattice clocks: From Timekeepers to Spies of the Quantum Realm”, CCQ/CQOM Colloquium (virtual), Aarhus Univ. (Rey)
  • Jan, 2022: “Experiments in Many-body Cavity QED: Entangled Matterwave Interferometers, Superradiant Lasers, and Dynamical Phase Transitions”, Quantum Science Seminar Mainz (virtual) (Thompson)
  • Dec, 2021, "How Does Laser Cooling of Molecules Work?", high school outreach (Ye group grad students).
  • Nov, 2021, “Preparing for the Quantum Revolution: What Is the Role of Higher Education?” 2nd European Quantum Technologies Conference (virtual) (Lewandowski)
  • Nov, 2021: "Quantum nanophotonics: engineering atom-photon interactions on-a-chip", Rice University, Quantum Seminars (Sun)
  • Oct, 2021: "Quantum nanophotonics: engineering atom-photon interactions on-a-chip", IUPUI Physics Seminar (Sun)
  • Sep, 2021: "Single-photon level nonlinear optics with nanophotonic cavity QED", APS Four Corners (virtual) (Sun)
  • Oct, 2021: “Preparing to enter the quantum workforce,” SQuInT Workshop (virtual) (Lewandowski)
  • Sep, 2021: “Twists, Gaps, Dynamical Phases, and Superradiant Emission on Ultra-Narrow Optical Transitions,” COSCALI, Porqerolles, France (Thompson)
  • Sep, 2021: “Preparing to enter the quantum workforce,” C^2QA Quantum Career Fair (virtual) (Lewandowski)
  • Aug, 2021: “Hiring Challenges in Quantum Information Science”, Keynote, LPS Workshop (virtual) (Lewandowski)
  • Aug, 2021: “QED-C Workforce TAC Webinar: NSF Quantum Centers and engagement with industry” (Regal)
  • Jul, 2021: “Cavity QED systems: metrology with collective states,” Boulder School (virtual) (Thompson)
  • Jun, 2021: “Preparing for the Quantum Revolution: …” STAQ Summer School (virtual) (Lewandowski)
  • Jun, 2021: “Preparing for the Quantum Revolution: …” QUEST Workshop (virtual) (Lewandowski)
  • Apr, 2021: “Preparing for the Quantum Revolution: …” Univ. of Utah Physics Colloquium (virtual) (Lewandowski)
  • Mar, 2021: “Cavity-enhanced non-destructive measurements … 30 μHz resolution,” SPIE Photonics West (Thompson)
  • Mar, 2021: “Preparing for the Quantum Revolution: …” DOE QIS Education WG (virtual) (Lewandowski)
  • Mar, 2021: “QED-C Quantum Industry Workforce Needs Survey: Preliminary Results”, QED-C Plenary (virtual) (Lewandowski)
  • Feb, 2021: “Preparing for the Quantum Revolution: …” NSF Quantum Engineering Education Workshop (virtual) (Lewandowski)
  • Jan, 2021: Aerospace Corporation Distinguished Speaker Series (Ye)
  • Dec, 2020: “Breaking Quantum and Thermal Limits with Collective Physics,” ETH Zurich (Thompson)
  • Dec, 2020: USAF Virtual Quantum Collider 2.0, panel (Lewandowski)
  • Dec, 2020: NSF Project Scoping Workshop: “Does the QISE Community Need a Goal-Oriented Distributed User Facility?” (Ye)
  • Dec, 2020: NQI Community Meeting: NSF, NIST, DOE (Ye, Lewandowski)
  • Dec, 2020: Overview of Q-SEnSE, CUbit, and JILA for MDA ATD (Regal)
  • Nov, 2020: Overview of CUbit & Quantum for CO-Labs and U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse (Ye)
  • Nov, 2020: OSA High Brightness Virtual Conference (Ye)
  • Nov, 2020: 2020 Chicago Quantum Summit, CQE (Ye)
  • Oct, 2020: Quantum 2020, IOP/CPS/USTC (Ye)
  • Oct, 2020 onward: National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee, OSTP & DOE (Ye)
  • Oct, 2020: ColdQuanta announces public availability of Albert, a remote access platform for students to form, manipulate, and study Bose–Einstein condensates (Anderson)
  • Oct, 2020: IEEE Quantum Week, Workforce Track, Chair (Lewandowski)
  • Sep, 2020: NSF QLCI Grantees' Meeting (Ye)
  • Sep, 2020: DOE OSA Quantum 2.0 Conference (Ye)
  • Aug, 2020: Photonics for Quantum 2 Workshop, RIT (Regal)