• New Student Orientation

    Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute Room 311, 2235 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    New students are invited to learn about the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (Blusson QMI) from our Scientific Director, Andrea Damascelli, and gain practical advice from other members of Blusson QMI and the student committee. Save the date and await more information in the upcoming days. Lunch will be served.

  • Careers in Academia

    Virtual event

    Speakers: Dr. Andrew (Drew) Potter Educational Background: Ph.D. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology B.Sc. in Engineering Physics, Brown University Research Interest: basic research problems in quantum materials, atomic-molecular and optical systems, quantum information science, and quantum computing. Apart from academia, Drew worked in industry quantum computing R&D at Honeywell. Dr. Ludmila Szulakowska Educational Background: […]

  • Careers in Industry

    Virtual event

    Speakers: Prakash Verma, PhD in Theoretical Chemistry (University of Florida), Computational Chemist, 1Qbit - a scientist with a background in quantum chemistry research, most of which is in developing and benchmarking computational tools to compute molecular properties accurately and efficiently. Christin Wiedemann, PhD in Physics (University of Stockholm), Director of Quality Engineering, Slalom Build, - […]

  • Careers in Research

    Speakers: Kateryna Foyevtsova Research Associate, Density Functional Theory Silvia Lueschner-Folk Research Associate, Topological Devices Fengmiao Li Research Associate, Molecular Beam Epitaxy

  • Careers in Outreach

    Virtual event

    Speakers: Theresa Liao, Communications Coordinator, Storyteller, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC Andrew Jamison, Senior Manager, Geering Up and Outreach, UBC Ella Meyer, Quantum Computing Outreach Coordinator, Geering Up, UBC

  • Careers in Industry

    Hamed Taheri, Robust Choice Cloud Solutions Inc.   Sarah D'Ettorre Microsoft Yony Bresler

  • Careers in Research

    Virtual event

    This Careers in Research panel will focus on the quantum chemistry world where we will discuss the careers after graduation, job search, challenges and opportunities for graduate students of chemistry, physics and engineering with:   Dr. Prakash Verma, Computational Chemist & Psi Quantum Dr. Alexandre Fleury, Scientific Researcher @1 Qbit

  • Careers in Academia

    Speakers:   Jorge Quintanilla University of Kent Fazel Tafti Boston College Maxime Dion QC Developer,  Université de Sherbrooke

  • CM Seminar: Joyce Poon: Visible-light Silicon Integrated Photonics for Future Computing

    BRIM 311 2355 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Joyce Poon - University of Toronto Title: Visible-light Silicon Integrated Photonics for Future Computing Abstract: The emerging demands of computing require hardware advances to realize new types of computing architectures and interfaces. Foundry silicon photonics leverages the maturity of microelectronics manufacturing to fabricate photonic integrated circuits. Today, silicon photonics is mostly used in the short-wave infrared […]