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Mason represents Virginia at the 2022 Quantum World Congress

George Mason University was the only university representing Virginia at the 2022 Quantum World Congress (QWC). Representing Mason at QWC, QSEC galvanized faculty and students to make a strong showing and enrich the program of the conference.

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QWC Session: Quantum in your classroom

Quantum in your Classroom is an introduction to quantum science for elementary, middle, and high school teachers. Come learn about what quantum is, why it is important for your students, and where you can find resources to integrate it into your classrooms. No prior knowledge of quantum is required. Future professional development opportunities will be available to participants.

Speaker: Jessica Rosenberg, Nancy Holincheck | George Mason University

Tuesday, November 29, 2022,  5-7 pm at Quantum World Congress

https://www.quantumworldcongress.com/bootcamps/gmu

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Seminar: PostPandemic Tool for Quantum Materials and vice-versa

PostPandemic Tool for Quantum Materials and vice-versa

Speaker: Kenneth Burch

LASE | Laboratory for Assembly and Spectroscopy of Emergence | Boston College

Friday, October 28, 2022,  3:45 pm

Zoom: https://gmu.zoom.us/j/96092544292

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Research Grant: experimental and theoretical studies of iron pnictides through zero field nuclear magnetic resonance

 

QSEC members Dr. Karen Sauer’s team have recently received a grant from NSF to continue the experimental and theoretical studies of iron pnictides through zero field nuclear magnetic resonance.

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QSEC faculty collaborates with NIST, ANL and ORNL to discover a new topological magnetic state

 

QSEC member, Professor Nirmal Ghimire of GMU leads a group of materials science experts from Mason, NIST, ANL, and ORNL to discover a quantum phenomenon that has the potential to become a building block of future electronic technology emerges at high temperatures from a mechanism not before realized, the result of which is published on Science Advances, doi:10.1126/sciadv.abe2680.

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Condense Matter Seminar: Tunneling into emergent topological matter by Dr. Jiaxin Yin of Princeton University 11/16/2020

3 pm, November 16, 2020
Speaker: Dr. Jiaxin Yin, Department of Physics, Princeton University

Topic: Tunneling into emergent topological matter

Location: Zoom

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Featured publication: Density functional theory-based electric field gradient database

 

QSEC members Dr. Igor Mazin, Dr. Karen Sauer and student Jaafar Ansari have recently published their collaborative work of DFT-based EFG calculation, Density functional theory-based electric field gradient database, doi:10.1038/s41597-020-00707-8, on Scientific Data.

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QSEC Quantum Computing Seminar Series: 10/27/2020

12 pm, October 27, 2020
Speaker: Professor Fei Li, GMU Department of Computer Science

Topic: Algorithmic Approaches to the MAX-CUT Problem

Location: Zoom

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QSEC Quantum Computing Seminar Series: 10/20/2020

12 pm, October 20, 2020
Speaker: Xavier Gitiaux, GMU Department of Computer Science; Ian Morris, GMU Department of Physics and Astronomy

Topic: SWAP Test for Arbitrary Number of Quantum States

Location: Zoom

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Science Off Camera Podcast with Prof. Patrick Vora

 

Prof. Patrick Vora, Director of the QSEC, was recently invited by the Science Off Camera Podcast for an interview on quantum materials, their development and methods of characterization, and the role of QSEC in this research area.  The podcast is available here.

The Science Off Camera Podcast is sponsored by Teledyne Princeton Instruments and Teledyne Photometrics and hosted by Dr. Matthew Kose-Dunn and Sebastian Remi, to discuss with scientists and industry leaders in scientific imaging and spectroscopy.

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