ML4Q&A - from the lives of quantum physicists ML4Q Cluster of Excellence

In  this episode of ML4Q&A, Federico Grasselli (Postdoc, Bruss group) speaks to Kathrin Dorn, PhD student in the group of Reinhold Egger, head of the Institute for Theoretical Physcs IV in Düsseldorf. They talk about Kathrin's PhD project and how she started off to combine maths, physics and arts in her studies and ended up in analyzing theoretical aspects in topological insulators.

00:00 intro
00:56 searching for a study topic
02:50 from medical physics to condensed matter theory
05:50 joining the ML4Q cluster
08:42 plans for the future after the PhD
10:30 so what are topological insulators?
13:42 why are topological insulators an interesting field of study
22:25 where can we find topological insulators?
23:25 how about topological quantum computing?
25:00 how do you perceive the future of the field?
28:16 1 or 2?

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Contact Kathrin via E-mail: kathrin.dorn(at)uni-duesseldorf.de

Host: Federico Grasselli

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Title: Lunar Levitation
Artist: Aakash Gandhi

In a new podcast episode of ML4Q&A, Kathrin Dorn (PhD student, Egger group) speaks to Dagmar Bruss, professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physcs III in Düsseldorf. They talk about Dagmar's passion about quantum information theory, how a coffee break in Oxford changed her research focus to quantum key distribution, her experience with the impostor phenomenon and how she got involved in a supercosmos project in astronomical technology.

00:00 intro
01:35 from astronomical technology to quantum information
06:23 working at ISI in Turin and joining talks by Grover and Shor
08:10 from experiment to theory
10:38 how is your working day?
14:43 struggles and experiencing the impostor phenomenon
19:24 work on quantum key distribution
25:27 ongoing work in ML4Q
32:28 1 or 2?

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Visit the homepage of Dagmar's institute: https://www.tp3.hhu.de/en/
Contact Dagmar via E-mail: dagmar.bruss(at)uni-duesseldorf.de  

Host: Kathrin Dorn

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Title: Lunar Levitation
Artist: Aakash Gandhi

ML4Q&A continues featuring theoretical physicists in ML4Q. In the second episode, Chris Dickel is talking to David Gross, professor in Cologne and vice spokesperson of the ML4Q cluster. David's research interests lie on the application of rigorous mathematical methods to problems in quantum information theory and many-body theory. We talk about his career path, advising student projects in theoretical physics, teaching quantum mechanics and the Google event he was probably never invited to.

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Visit David's homepage: http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/gross/david_gross.html
Contact David: david.gross(at)thp.uni-koeln.de

Host:
Christian Dickel

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Title: Lunar Levitation
Artist: Aakash Gandhi

The first episode of ML4Q's podcast - ML4Q&A - is now online!

Our guest is Martino Calzavara, a PhD researcher in the PGI-8 Institute for Quantum Control at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. We talk about him moving to Germany for his PhD and learning German, his experiences in academia as part of ML4Q as well as ultracold atom systems and how quantum control could help to cool these. We also talk about his simulations of these systems and machine learning, conferences in the times of a pandemic and Italian Pannetone vs. Pandoro.

Listen to the full podcast episode with Martino in the ML4Q&A podcast at your podcatcher.

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Contact Martino via E-mail: m.calzavara(at)fz-juelich.de

Host:
Jonas Kölzer

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Title: Lunar Levitation
Artist: Aakash Gandhi