Remit and Mode of Delivery
We meet weekly during term time for an informal discussion of relevant topics. All are welcome to join. Location: the meetings are delivered in hybrid mode, meaning that you have a choice (whether you are leading the discussion or are just a regular participant) to join online using Teams or in person. The room for each seminar is given in the program, below. Before joining the meeting, please familiarise yourself with our instructions and guidelines.
For any queries, or to be added to our mailing list, please contact the acting seminar organiser, Dr Gunnar Möller.
Organisation
Members take turns for leading the meetings, either by presenting their own research or reviewing a scientific article of choice. Whiteboard presentations are encouraged, but screen and projector can also be used. The atmosphere of the meetings is informal and so are meant to be the presentations. Occasionally the discussion is led by one of our visitors or a colleague from another institute joining us in person or via video-conference.
If you would like to volunteer for a presentation, please add your name and a topic, below, for an available date (if you do not have editing access to this page, could you please email someone who does – currently that’s all the academics listed under “Faculty” on the “People” page). “Offered” indicates the date has been proposed to a potential speaker and therefore it is not free at present. “TBA” means the slot is available. “No seminar” means there will be no DG scheduled that week (usually because of a clash with some other event).
Speakers are encouraged to email a title and abstract for their discussion to the group on the day prior to their presentation.
Scheduled Dates for this year’s presentations
Term 3: Wednesdays at 11am (UK Time, room: KENSR1)
- dates between 15/04/2026 – 17/06/2026
- 17/04/2026 – Open Discussion: planning & requests for content / Gunnar Möller: Introduction to Tensor Networks & Algorithms I
- 22/04/2026 – Gunnar Möller: Introduction to Tensor Networks & Algorithms II
- 29/04/2026 – Manuel Pino García, Salamanca: “Superconducting Quantum Circuits Beyond the Qubit Approximation”
- 06/05/2026 – Xuan-Chen Liu (Northeastern London): TBD
- 13/05/2026 – Prof Ginestra Bianconi – “Gravity from Entropy”
- 20/05/2026 – MPhys Project Presentations by B. Wilson, K. Haggag & T. Vlassi – Note Unusual Location: Stacey Lecture Theatre 2
- 27/05/2026 – Sam Carr: Could YOU invent the Schrödinger equation (history of how Schrödinger came up with his famous equation 100 years ago this year)
- 03/06/2026 – Naivasha Williams: Hermitian Matrix Product Operators on Quantum Computers
- 10/06/2026 – Sam Carr: Introduction to Green’s functions and Feynman diagrams in many-body physics
- 17/06/2026 – Laurens Vanderstraeten (University of Brussels)- Introduction to uniform tensor networks
Autumn / Term 1 2026-27: Timing TBD (UK Time)
- 7/10/2026 – TBD
- 14/10/2026 – TBD
- 21/10/2026 – TBD
- 28/10/2026 – TBD
- 4/11/2026 – TBD
- 11/11/2026 – TBD
- 18/11/2026 – Prof. Luigi Amico, Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- 25/11/2026 – TBD
- 2/12/2026 – TBD
- 9/12/2026 – TBD
Past talks
Autumn / Term 1 2025-26: Wednesdays at 10am (term weeks 1-4) or at 11am afterwards (UK Time)
- 8/10/2025 – 10am: Prof. Séamus Davis, Oxford University
- 15/10/2025 – 10am: Introduction to the Group and Welcome to new group members
- 22/10/2025 – 10am: Sam Carr – “The Social Electron: 100 years of Quantum Mechanics applied to Materials”
- 29/10/2025 – 10am: Gunnar Möller – “Introduction to Quantum Many-Body Physics”
- 5/11/2025 – 11am: Gunnar Möller – “Introduction to Quantum Many-Body Physics (continued)”
- 12/11/2025 – 11am: Ben Blain – “Simulation of quantum solitons with superconducting qubits“
- 19/11/2025 – 11am: Joseph Chapman – “A study of critical phenomena in a bilayer Ising model”
- 26/11/2025 – 11am: Sam Carr – “Simple analytical solution for the 2D Ising Model on a Square Lattice”
- 3/12/2025 – 11am: Peter Drmota, Oxford University – “Remote entanglement for distributed quantum information processing and operational quantum advantage“
- 10/12/2025 – 11am: Felix Flicker, University of Bristol – “Witnessing the Quantum Spin Liquid in Herbertsmithite“
- ADDITIONAL SEMINAR – NOTE DAY, TIME AND LOCATION: Friday 12/12/2025 – 10am, Howard Rogers Room (Ingram 234): Chris Hooley, Coventry University – Why doesn’t the surface of the superconductor Sr2RuO4 superconduct?
Spring / Term 2 2025-26: Wednesdays at 11am (UK Time – room: SLT1 / Teams)
- 14/01/2026 – no seminar
- 21/01/2026 – Frank Wang (School of Computing) – Magneton-Mediated Quantum Computing
- 28/01/2026 – Philip Kitson, “Rydberg atom Networks for Quantum Technologies“.
- 04/02/2026 – Gavin Mountjoy (PQM) – What should undergraduates be taught about Quantum Physics?
- 11/02/2026 – Riccardo Rossi (EPFL Lausanne) – “Majorana Diagrammatics for Quantum Spin-1/2 Models”
- 18/02/2026 – Tobias Hartung (Northeastern London) – “On Convergence and Efficiency of Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution”
- 25/02/2026 – Xavier Waintal (CEA Grenoble) – “Hybrid between biologically inspired and quantum inspired many-body states“
- 04/03/2026 – Lee Armstrong – “On the feasibility of Quantum Cryptocurrency Mining Talk”.
- 11/03/2026 – Alex Appleby – “Local Structure Signature of Transitions in Hybrid Improper Ferroelectric Sr3Zr2O7“
- 18/03/2026 – Chris Weeks – “Quantum advantage in the graph domination game”
See also the record of past group meetings (including the Quantum Theory and Simulation Discussion Group prior to September 2019) under Past Events.