OMQ Fall Research Symposium 2024

By Oregon Center for Optical Molecular and Quantum Science, University of Oregon

  • Event Type: Symposium
  • Date and Time: 09/12/2024 1:00 pm - 09/14/2024 2:00 pm
  • Location: SpringHill Suites - Bend, Oregon

The OMQ Fall Research Symposium 2024 is scheduled for September 13th-14th, at the SpringHill Suites in Bend, Oregon. The event will feature talks from OMQ faculty and students as well as our invited guest speakers: 

We have a busy program planned, with engaging talks, a Friday night banquet highlighting our student poster session, as well as recreation break options. We will be offering van pool transportation from Eugene to Bend on Thursday September 12th leaving the University at 1:30pm, returning after the program on Saturday. Hotel nights will include September 12th and 13th. 

Schedule of Events: 

September 12th - Day 1 

12:00                             Pick up vans 

1:30                               Depart UO for Bend 

4:00 –5:30                  Arrive in Bend, Check in to Hotels

6:00                             Dinner at 10 Barrel Brewery Eastside 62950 NE 18th Street, Bend, OR

September 13th – Day 2 

8:30– 9:00am            Registration 

9:00 – 9:10am            Opening Remarks (Nik Zhelev) 

9:10 – 10:05am          Ella Lachman (Rigetti Computing): Quantum Computing with Superconducting Qubits 

10:05 – 10:15am        Coffee Break 

10:15 – 10:55am        Jameson O’Reilly (postdoc Allcock/Wineland group): Metastable qudits in trapped ions 

10:55 – 11:20am        Sean Brudney (graduate student Allcock/Wineland group): Stimulated Raman 2-qubit logic gates in metastable trapped-ion qubits 

11:20 – 12:00pm       Andy Marcus (OMQ faculty talk): Studies of local DNA structure and dynamics by nonlinear spectroscopy and single-molecule optical approaches

12:00 – 1:00pm          Lunch 

1:00 – 2:00pm            William Koehl (HRL): Encoded Silicon Qubits:  A High-Performance & Scalable Platform for Quantum Computing 

2:00 – 2:10pm            Coffee Break 

2:10 – 2:50pm            Hailin Wang (OMQ faculty talk): Ultracoherent Diamond Spin-Mechanical Resonators  

2:50pm – 6:00pm      Recreation Break: High Desert Museum 59800 US-97, Bend, OR

6:00pm – 7:30pm      Banquet Dinner 

7:30pm – 9:00pm      Poster Session 

September 14th - Day 3 

9:00 – 10:00am          Matthias Agne (University of Oregon, Chemistry): Relating phonon occupations to ion transport in solids

10:00 – 10:15am        Coffee Break 

10:15 – 10:40am        Winston Goldthwaite (graduate student Ostroverkhova’s group): Morphology-dependent singlet fission and photodegradation in functionalized tetracenes 

10:40 – 11:20am        Benjamín Alemán (OMQ faculty talk): Spatial Mapping and Analysis of Graphene Resonator Networks

11:20 – 12:00pm       Satya Yadav (postdoc Widom’s group): Sequence landscape of RNA structure and dynamics revealed by high-throughput single-molecule FRET 

12:00 – 1:00pm          Lunch 

1:00 – 1:25pm            Kevin Randles (graduate student Van Enk’s group): Time-reversal based hybrid quantum state transfer 

1:25 – 1:50pm            Matthew Brown (graduate student Smith’s group): Quantum Telescopy 

1:50 – 2:00pm            Closing Remarks. Leave Bend