Academic

Name	Primary Category	Discipline/Position	Phone	Office
Smith Naftali	Graduate Students	Nonlinear	02 6585 263	Levin 14
Smolkin Michael	Faculty	High Energy Physics	02 6584 374	Kaplun 106
Solomon Sorin	Faculty	Biophysics and Interdisciplinary Research	02 6585 761	Danciger B 227
Sompolinsky Haim	Faculty	Biophysics and Interdisciplinary Research	02 6584 563	Silberman 3-303
Sonin Edouard	Emeriti	Condensed Matter Physics	02 6586 164	Danciger B 101
Sourabh Singh	Post-Docs	Condensed Matter Physics		Kaplun 29
Steinberg Hadar	Faculty	Condensed Matter Physics	02 6584 339	Kaplun 15
Stein Josef	Emeriti	Astrophysics and Relativity	02 6584 806	Popick 109
Svetitsky Elisha	Graduate Students	Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics	02 6586 745	Kaplun Bldg.
Taget Devidas	Post-Docs	Condensed Matter Physics	02 6585 229	Kaplun 29

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Seminar Quantum Center:"Demonstration of algorithmic quantum speedup"
- Start time: 12:00pm
- End date: Tuesday, January 14th
- End time: 01:30pm
- Lecturer: Prof. Daniel Lidar, Viterbi Professorship of Engineering at the University of Southern CaliforniaAbstract:Despite the development of increasingly capable quantum computers, an experimental demonstration of a provable algorithmic quantum speedup employing today's non-fault-tolerant devices has remained elusive. In this talk, I will report on the first two demonstrations of such a speedup, quantified in terms of the scaling of time-to-solution with problem size. The first demonstration is based on the single-shot Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm, which efficiently solves the problem of identifying a hidden bitstring that changes after every oracle query. We implemented this algorithm utilizing two different 27-qubit IBM QPUs. The second demonstration, using 127-qubit IBM QPUs, is based on the restricted Hamming weight Simon’s problem, which likewise efficiently solves the problem of identifying a hidden bitstring encoded into an unknown periodic function. The speedups are observed when the computation is protected by dynamical decoupling — an open-loop quantum control protocol designed to suppress noise due to the environment — but not without decoupling. In contrast with quantum supremacy demonstrations, the quantum speedup reported here does not rely on complexity-theoretic conjectures. Time permitting, I will report on the first demonstrated speedup in quantum optimization using D-Wave's quantum annealers, where custom quantum error-detecting codes prove essential for maintaining the quantum advantage.References:PRL 130, 210602 (2023)arXiv:2401.07934arXiv:2401.07184
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Astrolunch: Ido Irani
- Start time: 12:30pm
- End date: Tuesday, January 14th
- End time: 01:30pm
- Speaker: Dr. Ido Irani (Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot, Israel)Title: Early UV-optical observations of supernovae and what they tell us about the last moments in stellar evolutionAbstract:In my talk, I’ll discuss how UV-optical observation of supernovae very early (<3d) in their evolution can inform us about their progenitor stars and the explosion itself. I’ll start by showing how in Type II supernovae, the early UV-optical light curve can be used to map out the density profile of the progenitor before explosion. I’ll show this for the very well-observed case of the M101 SN2023ixf, and discuss what can be learned from a sample of SNe II from the ZTF survey with early UV data. Using this sample, I will argue that while most SNe II have a shell of dense CSM affecting the UV-optical light curve, this is due to a luminosity bias, and up to 80% of red supergiant stars result in a supernova shock breakout from the stellar envelope itself. During the second half of my talk, I will discuss ongoing instrumentation efforts at the Weizmann Astronomical Observatory. In particular, I will present the Weizmann Multi Aperture Spectroscopic Telescope array, and DeepSpec - its dedicated broad-band r~650 spectrograph with multiplexing capabilities. MAST/DeepSpec is capable of either acting as a single 2.7m telescope or multiplexing over the entire sky using smaller flexible groups. This approach will make the combination of MAST/DeepSpec a unique facility worldwide in terms of its low cost, flexibility, and efficiency, capable of observing up to hundreds of targets per night spread over large areas. Zoom link:https://huji.zoom.us/j/87473647143?pwd=sOhzjw0Den9bUQjdxDySCbbj44Aaah.1Meeting ID: 874 7364 7143Passcode: 566616 Contact: Dima Ofengeim
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Thursday, January 16th

Special Astrolunch: Reinhard Genzel
- Start time: 12:30pm
- End date: Thursday, January 16th
- End time: 01:30pm
- In-person astrolunchTitle: Black Holes in Galaxies: Experimental Evidence & Cosmic EvolutionSpeaker: Reinhard GenzelAbstract: About a century after Albert Einstein's presentation of General Relativity and Karl Schwarzschild's first solution, have three experimental techniques made remarkable progress in proving the existence of the Schwarzschild/Kerr black hole solution. I will describe the impressive progress of high resolution near-infrared and radio imaging and interferometry, and of precision measurements of gravitational waves in the Galactic Center and other galaxies. I will then discuss what we now know about the cosmic co-evolution and growth of galaxies and black holes, and finish with the riddle of massive black holes detected by JWST only a few hundred Myrs after the Big Bang.Zoom: https://huji.zoom.us/j/86991266018?pwd=UWRmWDhGM3NudnhHVUJXdmQ4RnFTZz09Meeting ID: 869 9126 6018 Passcode: 537391Contact: Avishai Dekel
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Monday, January 20th

Physics Colloquium : ""
- Start time: 12:00pm
- End date: Monday, January 20th
- End time: 01:30pm
- Lecturer: Zohar Ringler, HUJIAbstract:
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