Invited talks
- QuAMP 2025 (Quantum, Atomic and Molecular Physics) Conference, Newcastle, UK. Title TBD, September 2025.
- CCMP 2025 (Conference of Condensed Matter Physics), Liyang, China. Title TBD, August 2025.
- Workshop on Quantum Technology, University of Tennesee-Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Title TBD, June 2025.
- Lecture series, ICFO -- The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain.
Fermions in lattices and SU(N) Hubbard models (4 lectures), June 2025.
- Workshop on Controlled Quantum Magntism, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana. Title TBD, April 2025
- Colloquium, College of Science, Engineering, and Technology, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas. Title TBD, April 2025.
- Joint Quantum Institute Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Title TBD, March 2025.
- Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computation Workshop, EQUATE: Emergent Quantum Materials and Technologies, Lincoln, Nebraska. Title TBD, March 2025.
- Lectures, Harish-Chandra Institute, Allahabad, India. Programmable Ultracold Quantum Matter (Lecs. 1-4)
and Locality and Quantum Many-Body Physics (Lecs. 5-6), February 2025.
- Ankara Condensed Matter Colloquium, Turkey (virtual). A Strange Exchange: Paraparticles and Where to Find Them, February 2025.
- Physics Seminar, University of Houston Clear-Lake, Houston, Texas. Programmable Quantum Matter, February 2025.
- Australian Institute of Physics Online Theoretical Physics seminar (virtual). A Strange Exchange: Paraparticles and Where to Find Them, February 2025.
Video (including slides) online
- New Developments with Synthetic Quantum Matter, Thouless Institute of Quantum Matter, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Programmable Quantum Matter: From Quantum Simulation to Paraparticles, January 2025.
- PQE (Physics of Quantum Electronics) Workshop, Snowbird, Utah. Paraparticles: Fantastic Particles & Where to Find Them, January 2025.
- Physics Colloquium, Miami University, Ohio. Programmable Quantum Matter, October 2024.
- Physics Colloquium, Sam Houston State University, Texas Programmable Quantum Matter, October 2024.
- School on "Modeling strongly correlated electrons: Numerics, analytics, and quantum simulations", Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany Theory of SU($N$) systems: fundamentals and cold atoms, (two lectures), September 2024.
Video (including slides) online: Lecture 1, Lecture 2,
- Workshop: Cold and Controlled Molecules and Ions (CCMI) 2024, Institute for Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria. Shielded molecules: a new frontier of SU(N) physics, September 2024.
- Texas Defense Research Workshop, Washington, D.C. Panelist on panel discussion. August 2024
- American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, Symposium: The Mutual Chair-Lift of Chemistry and Quantum Computing, Denver, Colorado.
Shielded molecules: a new frontier of SU(N) physics,
August 2024
- Dipolar Quantum Matter (ICAP Satellite Meeting), Durham, UK. Shielded molecules: a new frontier of SU(N) physics, July 2024
- International Workshop on SU(N) physics in quantum many-body systems: theory, experiment, and
numerics, Sendai, Japan. What can the ultracold SU(N) Hubbard model teach us about correlated matter?, July 2024.
- Seminar, Department of Physics of Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Programmable Quantum Matter, July 2024.
- Flatiron Center for Computational Quantum Physics Ultra Cold Fermionic Atoms Workshop, New York City, Panelist for panel discussion, April 2024
- School on "Frontiers at the Intersection of Quantum Simulation and Machine Learning", International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. Programmable Quantum Matter, April 2024.
Video (including slides) online
- Workshop on Ultracold Molecules, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. Programmable Quantum Matter, September 2023.
Video (including slides) online
- Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering (IQSE) Summer Conference, Casper, Wyoming. Programmable quantum matter, July 2023.
- Seminar, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany. Programmable quantum matter, June 2023.
- Institute of Theoretical Physics Seminar, University of Goettingen, Germany. Programmable quantum matter, June 2023.
- Physics Seminar, King's College, London, UK. Programmable quantum matter, June 2023.
- Quantum Science with Ultracold Molecules workshop, Hertfordshire, UK. Programmable quantum matter, June 2023.
- Workshop on optical tweezers, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. Programming quantum matter: real space geometry and synthetic dimensions, June 2023.
- Rice-Europe Workshop on Future Directions in Spintronics and Quantum Materials, Paris, France. Programmable Quantum Matter, May 2023.
- IQUIST (Illinois Quantum Institute of Science and Technology) seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. Programmable Quantum Matter, April 2023.
- Physics Colloquium, University of Houston, Houston, TX. Programmable quantum matter , March 2023.
- Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, Texas A&M, College Station, TX. Programmable quantum matter, March 2023.
- AMO/QIS Seminar, Columbia University, New York City, NY. Programmable quantum matter with real and synthetic dimensions, March 2023.
- Theory Seminar, Fudan University, Fudan, China (virtual). Programmable quantum matter with real and synthetic dimensions, March 2023.
- Public Talk on the 2022 Nobel Prize, The Ion, Houston, TX. Quantum nonlocality and the 2022 Nobel Prize: from Einstein's disbelief to quantum technology, January 2023.
- Quantum Simulation of the Doped Hubbard model, Harvard ITAMP workshop, Cambridge, Massachusetts, What can the SU(N) Hubbard model teach us about correlated matter?, November 2022.
Video (including slides) online
- Physics Department Colloquium, CUNY, New York City, Programmable quantum matter with real and synthetic dimensions, October 2022.
- Seminar, Flatiron Institute, New York City, Quantum matter: from consequences of locality to parastatistical particles, October 2022.
- Physics Colloquium, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (virtual), Programmable quantum matter with real and synthetic dimensions, October 2022.
- Keynote talk at Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium (GCURS), Rice University, Houston, Texas. Synthetic ultracold quantum matter, October 2022.
- Theory Seminar, Washington University, St. Louis Quantum matter: from consequences of locality to parastatistical particles, September 2022.
Video (including slides) online
- Programmable Quantum Matter workshop, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, Colorado, Synthetic Dipolar Matter, June 2022.
- APS March Meeting 2022, "Non-Equilibrium Physics with Cold Atoms and Molecules, Rydberg Gases, and Trapped Ions" session, Chicago, Illinois. Exact results for nonequilibrium ultracold matter, March 2022.
- University of British Columbia-Rice Workshop of Topological Quantum Matter (virtual) Topological synthetic dimensions with programmable ultracold matter, December 2021.
- UT Austin Quantum Collective-IBM Quantum Hackathon (virtual) Variational quantum algorithms: from traditional to novel hardware, October 2021.
Video (including slides) online
- Center for Quantum Research and Technology Seminar, Norman, Oklahoma. (virtual) Synthetic dimensions in ultracold matter, August 2021.
- Condensed Matter in the City, London, UK. (virtual) Synthetic dimensions in ultracold matter, July 2021.
Video (including slides) online
- Boulder Summer School on Ultracold Matter seminar, Boulder, Colorado. (virtual) Synthetic dimensions: ultracold molecules, Rydberg atoms, and momentum-space lattices, July 2021.
Video (including slides) online
- International physics and astronomy webinar, Pabna University of Science and Technology, Pabna Bangladesh (virtual). Ultracold quantum matter: science to technology, June 2021.
Video (including slides) online
- DAMOP 2021 "Cold Gases: Frontiers of SU(N) Physics" session (virtual). Correlations and Universality in Ultracold Alkaline Earth Atoms, June 2021.
- Rice Science Cafe & Salon, Houston, TX. Science for the Quantum Revolution, April 2021.
Video (including slides) online
- Durham University Quantum Light and Matter Group (virtual) Seminar, Durham, United Kingdom. Synthetic dimensions: ultracold molecules, Rydberg atoms, and momentum-space lattices, October 2020.
- Rice University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, Houston, Texas. Ultracold matter: How cold can it get? How fast can it move? September 2020.
Video (including slides) online
- Virtual seminar on quantum fluids in isolation, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts Ultracold SU(N) quantum magnetism and structure of correlations in many-body systems, June 2020.
Video (including slides) online
- University of Goettingen Institute of Theoretical Physics virtual seminar, Goettingen, Germany. Ultracold SU(N) quantum magnetism and structure of correlations in many-body systems, June 2020.
- Texas Quantum Institute planning workshop on Quantum Algorithms, Austin, Texas Connecting Quantum Algorithms to Analog Quantum Simulation, March 2020.
- Minerva-Gentner Symposium on "Quantum Simulations With Atoms, Molecules and Photons", Tze'elim, Israel Harnessing internal states for quantum simulation, February 2020.
- Texas Quantum Institute planning workshop on Quantum Advantage with Quantum Simulation, Houston, Texas Tutorial on Quantum Simulation, February 2020.
- Michigan State University AMO seminar, East Lansing, Michigan. The power within:
Quantum magnetism in alkaline earth atoms & synthetic dimensions in molecules, February 2020.
- Imperial College London AMO seminar, London, United Kingdom. Synthetic dimensions in ultracold molecules (and elsewhere) , November 2019.
- "Exploring new regimes of dipolar physics with ultracold molecules," Durham University workshop, Durham, United Kingdom. Synthetic dimensions in ultracold molecules (and elsewhere), November 2019.
- Keynote talk at Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium (GCURS), Houston, Texas. Quantum simulation and computation, November 2019.
- Texas Quantum Institute Kickoff Workshop, College Station, Texas. Quantum algorithms and computation in the TQI, October 2019.
- Georgia Tech condensed matter and AMO seminar, Atlanta, Georgia. Ultracold molecules: from topology to quantum strings, August 2019.
- "Emergent phenomena in ultracold atoms: merging topology, interaction, and dynamics" workshop, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences (KITS), Beijing, China. Synthetic dimensions and sticky collisions in ultracold molecules, June 2019.
Video (including slides) online
- Few-body Physics in Cold Atomic Gases conference, Zhuhai, China. Sticky collisions and synthetic dimensions in ultracold molecules, June 2019.
- New frontiers in cold molecules, Harvard ITAMP workshop, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Synthetic dimensions and sticky collisions in ultracold molecules, May 2019.
Video (including slides) online
- University of Houston Physics Colloquium, Houston, Texas. Ultracold molecules as a new form of matter: from topology to quantum strings, Feb 2019.
- Advances on Quantum Simulation with Ultracold Atoms, International Institute of Physics (IIP), Natal, Brazil, Synthetic dimensions in ultracold molecules: strings and topology, November 2018.
Video (including slides) online
- Zyvexlabs Workshop on Designed 2D Quantum Metamaterials, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Ultracold matter for quantum simulations: achievements, challenges, and opportunities, April 2018.
- American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, "Cold Molecules for Chemistry" symposium, New Orleans, Louisiana, Synthetic dimensions in ultracold molecules: from strings to chemical synthesis, March 2018.
- APS March Meeting 2018, ``Synthetic Physics: Synthetic Dimensions, Gauge Fields, and Spin-Orbit Coupling" session, Los Angeles, California. Synthetic dimensions in ultracold molecules: strings, membranes, topology, March 2018.
- Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE) workshop, Snowbird, Utah. Synthetic dimensions in ultracold molecules, January 2018.
- Brazilian Physical Society Meeting, XL ENFMC, Buzios, Brazil, Synthetic dimensions and chaotic collisions in ultracold molecules, August 2017.
- Aspen Center for Physics workshop: "Correlations and Entanglement In and Out of Equilibrium", Aspen, Colorado, Synthetic dimensions and chaotic collisions in ultracold molecules, June 2017.
- Smalley-Curl Institute Lunch Seminar, Rice University, Houston, Texas, Ultracold matter as an analog of quantum materials... and beyond, April 2017.
- Geometry-Analysis seminar, Rice University Department of Mathematics, Houston, Texas, Ultracold matter: a window into many-particle quantum physics, April 2017
- Zhejiang University Physics Seminar, Hangzhou, China. Ultracold nonreactive molecules: from chaotic collisions to exotic physics, October 2016.
- Fudan University Physics Seminar, Shanghai, China. Ultracold nonreactive molecules: from chaotic collisions to exotic physics, October 2016.
- Joint ICQM-RCQM Workshop on Quantum Matters, Beijing, China. Ultracold nonreactive molecules: from chaotic collisions to exotic physics, October 2016.
- Aspen Center for Physics workshop: "Light-matter Interaction and Quantum Control In Many-body Systems", Aspen, Colorado. Ultracold nonreactive molecules in an optical lattice: nonstandard Hubbard models from chaotic collisions, June 2016.
- Rice Center for Quantum Materials workshop: "Interacting Quantum Systems Driven Out of Equilibrium", Houston, Texas. Entanglement in "hot" (100 nK) nonequilibrium matter, May 2016.
- Trinity University Physics Seminar, San Antonio, Texas. Novel ultracold platforms for quantum science, November 2015.
- Aspen Center for Physics "Ultra-Cold Quantum Matter with Atoms and Molecules" Workshop, Aspen, Colorado. Nonreactive ultracold molecules in a lattice: harnessing complex collisions for many-body physics, July 2015.
- DAMOP "Non-equilibrium dynamics in strongly interacting atomic
systems" session, Columbus, Ohio. Spin-motion coupled dynamics in ultracold atoms and molecules, June 2015.
- Ohio State University Condensed Matter seminar, Columbus, Ohio. Quantum magnetism with ultracold molecules far-from-equilibrium, April 2015.
- Ohio University Condensed Matter and Surface Science colloquium, Athens, Ohio. What I create, I understand: engineering ultracold matter to decipher real materials, April 2015.
- Lousiana State University quantum science and technology seminar, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. No democracy for entanglement: not all entanglements are created equal, March 2015.
- Louisiana State University physics colloquium, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The miracle of molecules: exploring quantum magnetism in ultracold matter, March 2015.
- National Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stellenbosch workshop on "Quantum Many-Body Systems Far From Equilibrium," Stellenbosch, South Africa. Correlations and entanglement in open quantum systems, March 2015.
- Joint ICQM Peking - RCQM meeting, Houston, Texas. Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics at Rice University, March 2015.
- U.S.-France Workshop on Nano, Extreme Measurements, and Theory (NEXT), an RCQM International Initiative, Houston, Texas. Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics at Rice University, February 2015.
- Rice Center for Quantum Materials inaugural symposium, Houston, Texas. Ultracold molecules: quantum magnetism far-from-equilibrium, December 2014.
- Heidelberg Center for Quantum Dynamics colloquium, Heidelberg, Germany. The miracle of molecules: exploring quantum magnetism in ultracold matter, November 2014.
- Stuttgart University physics seminar, Stuttgart, Germany. The miracle of molecules: far-from-equilibrium quantum magnetism in ultracold matter, November 2014.
- Technical University Munich condensed matter and many-body physics seminar, Munich, Germany. The miracle of molecules: quantum magnetism in ultracold matter, November 2014.
- Sam Houston State University physics colloquium, Huntsville, Texas. The miracle of molecules: exploring quantum magnetism in ultracold matter, October 2014.
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign AMO/quantum information, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Quantum magnetism in ultracold molecules, October 2014.
- University of Texas at Austin complex quantum systems seminar, Austin, Texas. The miracle of molecules: exploring quantum magnetism in ultracold matter, October 2014.
- ECT* workshop on "Hydrodynamics for Strongly Coupled Fluids," Trento, Italy.
Quench of a Bose gas to unitarity: dynamics and novel universal singularities,
May 2014.
- University of Goettingen condensed matter theory seminar, Goettingen,
Germany. Observing quantum magnetism with ultracold polar molecules,
May 2014.
- DARPA optical lattice emulator program workshop, Arlington, Virginia.
Many-body quantum magnetism of dipolar molecules in an optical lattice,
February 2014.
- University of Colorado Condensed Matter Theory seminar, Boulder, Colorado. Quantum magnetism with ultracold molecules, February 2014.
- Rice University physics colloquium, Houston, Texas.
Quantum simulation with strongly-correlated ultracold polar molecules, January
2014.
- University of Chicago James Franck Institute seminar, Chicago, Illinois.
Quantum magnetism in ultracold molecules: comparing theory and experiment, November
2013.
- University of Maryland Condensed Matter Theory Center (CMTC) seminar, College
Park, Maryland. Quantum magnetism in ongoing ultracold molecule and ion
experiments, March 2013.
- Georgetown University physics seminar, Washington, D.C. Quantum magnetism
in ongoing ultracold molecule and ion
experiments, March 2013.
- FINESS-2013 (Finite-temperature Non-Equilibrium Superfluid Systems), Queenstown,
New Zealand. Far-from equilibrium dynamics of frustrated spin models: polar
molecules, ions, and beyond, February 2013.
- University of Queensland Quantum Science Seminar, Brisbane, Australia.
Novel systems in and out of equilibrium bring ultracold quantum magnetism closer
to reality, February 2013.
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), UCSB, Santa Barbara, California.
Non-equilibrium many-body physics in current molecule experiments,
February 2013.
Video and
slides online
- DARPA optical lattice emulator program workshop, Miami, Florida.
Non-equilibrium Ising quenches with decoherence: an exact solution,
November 2012.
- Harvard ITAMP AMO seminar, Boston, Massachusetts. Towards exotic
physics using novel ultracold matter: polar molecules and alkaline earth atoms, March 2012.
- DARPA optical lattice emulator program workshop, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Quantum criticality and
antiferromagnetism in ultracold lattice fermions, December 2011.
- Rice University AMO seminar, Houston, Texas. Towards topological phases via new
ultracold matter: molecules and alkaline earths, September 2011.
- University of California, Davis condensed matter seminar, Davis, California. Spin
liquids and non-quasiparticle matter in ultracold atoms, February 2011.
- Berkeley AMO seminar, Berkeley, California. Spin
liquids and non-quasiparticle matter in ultracold atoms, February 2011.
- Ludwig-Maximilians University/Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics seminar, Munich, Germany. Exploring
the Mott/metal crossover in ultracold alkali and alkaline earth atoms in optical
lattices, December 2010.
- Freiburg University FRIAS seminar, Freiburg, Germany. Exploring the
Mott/metal crossover in ultracold alkali and alkaline earth atoms in optical
lattices, November 2010.
- Stuttgart University physics seminar, Stuttgart, Germany. Exploring the
Mott/metal crossover in ultracold alkali and alkaline earth atoms in optical
lattices, November 2010.
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne seminar, Cologne, Germany. Exploring the Mott/metal
crossover in ultracold alkali and alkaline earth atoms in optical lattices,
November 2010.
- IQOQI Cold Atoms Seminar, Innsbruck, Austria. Exploring the Mott/metal
crossover in ultracold alkali and alkaline earth atoms in optical lattices,
November 2010.
- DAMOP "Novel Probes of Ultra-Cold Atom Gases" session, Houston, Texas.
RF spectra of lattice bosons: a probe of correlations, fluctuations, and
quantum criticality, May 2010.
- Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, colloquium, Lyon, France. Measuring universal
quantum critical behavior in ultracold gases, April 2010.
- Niels Bohr Institute Cold Atoms group meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark. Measuring
universal quantum critical behavior in ultracold gases, April 2010.
- Harvard ITAMP AMO seminar, Boston, Massachusetts. Measuring universal
quantum critical behavior in ultracold gases, March 2010.
- JILA/University of Colorado AMO/condensed matter seminar, Boulder, Colorado. Measuring universal quantum critical behavior in ultracold gases, March 2010.
- Princeton, Marlan Scully group seminar, New Jersey. Detecting many-body physics of quantum phase transitions in cold atoms, February 2010
- DARPA optical lattice emulator program; Phase II kickoff, Miami, Florida. Probing quantum criticality in cold atoms, December 2009.
- John Wilkins group seminar, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Exploring
many-body physics with cold atoms, July 2009.
- Centre for Quantum Computer Technology seminar, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Electrical Simulation of Quantum Algorithms, November 2003.
- Materials Computation Center seminar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL.
New small silicon interstitial clusters, July 2003.
- Semiconductor Research Corporation funding review, Seattle, Washington.
Dopant structures and their electronic properties (Substituting for P.I.), May 2003.
Contributed presentations
I have also contributed over 40 talks and posters to conferences and workshops.