Center for Nonlinear Studies

2023 Visitors

Joanna Piotrowska-Karpov, Caltech

Paolo Zanardi , University of Southern California

Tameem Albash, University of New Mexico

Host: Frederic Sauvage (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 29th, 2023.
Quantum Lunch Seminar Speaker. Dr. Tameem Albash is a theorist working at the interface of classical and quantum computing. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics studying applications of AdS/CFT to condensed matter systems at the University of Southern of California (USC) in 2010. He continued at USC as a postdoc and subsequently joined the Information Sciences Institute at USC, where he worked on open quantum system simulations, quantum annealing and more generally adiabatic quantum computing. In 2019, Dr. Albash joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of New Mexico. He has a joint appointment in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and is an associate member of the Center for Quantum Information and Control.

Hao Li, University of Houston

Andrew King, D-Waves Systems

David Weld , University of California, Santa Barbara

Sanjubuala Sahoo , University of Connecticut

Yair Shokef, Tel Aviv University

Joel Rosenfeld, University of South Florida

Nuno Gomes-Loureiro, MIT

Host: William Daughton (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 1st, 2023 to May. 31st, 2023.
I am a theoretical plasma physicist with interests ranging from fundamental plasma theory to fusion, space and astrophysical plasmas. I tend to work on nonlinear problems of plasma dynamics that can typically only be addressed via state-of-the-art numerical computations or, in some cases, approximate analytical methods guided by a phenomenological understanding of the phenomena at hand; often, I employ a combination of both. Rather than focus on the details of plasma behavior in specific environments, I frequently opt to identify and study the essential ingredients of a given plasma phenomenon, thereby rendering my results more widely applicable than otherwise. Thus, some of my research has been found relevant to a large variety of environments, from fusion devices and the solar corona to exotic astrophysical phenomena such blazars and gamma-ray bursts.