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October 31, 2025 past

PUG Seminar

Whitmore 321

PUG Seminar

Abstract: We will explore what it means for a set of gates to be universal. Then we will see the role symmetry plays when introduced into a a gate set. Utilizing symmetry, we will demonstrate there are four local gates that cannot be realized using two local gates. Finally , we explore a strict kinetically constrained model and generalize it using quantum circuts containing only symmetry respecting gates. Tese are examples of modules taht exhibit out of equilibrium behavior.

Program

Date Time Speaker Title
2025-10-31 11:00 Jeysen Flores-Velazquez Symmetry-Constrained Quantum Circuits
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Monica Rincon Ramirez

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.