<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b>    </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">    Thurs</font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">day, February 20,<span class="gmail_default"> </span>2025</span><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> at</font><b><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </font><u><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">10:00</font></u></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font color="#000000"><b><u><font face="arial, sans-serif"> am</font></u></b><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u> CT</u> </font><font style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </font><font style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </font></b></font></span></font></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><b><font color="#500050" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></p><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><font color="#500050">Where:       </font></b><font color="#000000"><span>Talk</span> will be given </font><font color="#000000" style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font>at<br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#500050">               </font><font color="#000000">    <span>TTIC</span>, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">                   5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px">Virtually:</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px">  </span><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px"><font color="#000000"> </font><i><font color="#000000">livestream via </font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=a89559d3-dbdc-49bf-a3e6-b28500093a9a">panopto</a></b></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><i><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)">                 </b><b><font color="#000000" face="garamond, times new roman, serif">  Restricted access to TTIC/UChicago</font></b></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);letter-spacing:0.2px"><font size="1" face="tahoma, sans-serif">                         </font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">                     </font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b> <font color="#500050">    </font><font color="#000000"><font color="#500050">    </font></font></font></font></font>Ainesh Bakshi, MIT</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p><div style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:2.25pt solid rgb(11,118,159);padding:0in 0in 1pt"></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Title:</b> Understanding Quantum Systems via the Algorithmic Lens<u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">Abstract</span></b><b><span style="color:black">:</span></b><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">Quantum mechanics is one of our most profound and successful theoretical frameworks for understanding the physical world. It continues to drive remarkable technological and theoretical breakthroughs, spanning computing, coding theory, cryptography, material science, and chemistry. In this <span>talk</span>, I will describe how the algorithmic lens has been pivotal in rigorously analyzing such quantum systems and revealed deeper structural properties that were previously inaccessible through traditional approaches. I will also describe algorithmic progress on related computational tasks and discuss the implications for Quantum Advantage.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">Bio:</span><span style="color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black">Ainesh</span><span style="color:black"> Bakshi is a Postdoctoral Fellow jointly appointed in the Mathematics</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">and</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">Computer Science departments at MIT. Prior to that, he obtained his PhD in Computer Science at CMU. He is broadly interested in theoretical computer science</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">and</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">quantum information. His main research thread revolves around using the algorithmic toolkit, consisting of iterative methods</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">and</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">convex hierarchies, to underst</span><span style="color:black">and</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">large quantum systems. These results have gained significant attention recently, including two Quanta articles, two QIP Invited Plenaries, </span>a QIP<span style="color:black"> Best Student Paper. He is also interested in extending this algorithmic toolkit</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">and</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">applying it to problems arising in high-dimensional statistics, privacy, metric embeddings,</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">and</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">numerical linear algebra.</span></font></p></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Host: </b><a href="mailto:madhurt@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><b>Madhur Tulsiani</b></a></font></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Rm 517</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">773-834-1757</font></i></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b>    </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">    Thurs</font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">day, February 20,<span class="gmail_default"> </span>2025</span><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> at</font><b><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </font><u><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">10:00</font></u></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font color="#000000"><b><u><font face="arial, sans-serif"> am</font></u></b><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u> CT</u> </font><font style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </font><font style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </font></b></font></span></font></font></div><div><div><div><div><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><b><font color="#500050" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></p><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><font color="#500050">Where:       </font></b><font color="#000000"><span>Talk</span> will be given </font><font color="#000000" style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font>at<br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#500050">               </font><font color="#000000">    TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">                   5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px">Virtually:</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px">  </span><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><font color="#0000ff" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b> </b></font></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px"><font color="#3c4043"> </font><i><b><font color="#0000ff">tba</font></b></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);letter-spacing:0.2px"><font size="1" face="tahoma, sans-serif">                         </font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">                     </font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b> <font color="#500050">    </font><font color="#000000"><font color="#500050">    </font></font></font></font></font>Ainesh Bakshi, MIT</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p><div style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:2.25pt solid rgb(11,118,159);padding:0in 0in 1pt"></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Title:</b> Understanding Quantum Systems via the Algorithmic Lens<u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span><b><span style="color:black">Abstract</span></b></span><b><span style="color:black">:</span></b><span><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black">Quantum mechanics is one of our most profound<span> </span><span>and</span><span> </span>successful theoretical frameworks for underst<span>and</span>ing the physical world. It continues to drive remarkable technological<span> </span><span>and</span><span> </span>theoretical breakthroughs, spanning computing, coding theory, cryptography, material science,<span> </span><span>and</span><span> </span>chemistry. In this talk, I will describe how the algorithmic lens has been pivotal in rigorously analyzing such quantum systems<span> </span><span>and</span><span> </span>revealed deeper structural properties that were previously inaccessible through traditional approaches. I will also describe algorithmic progress on related computational tasks and discuss the implications for Quantum Advantage.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">Bio:</span><span style="color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black">Ainesh</span><span style="color:black"> Bakshi is a Postdoctoral Fellow jointly appointed in the Mathematics</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">and</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">Computer Science departments at MIT. Prior to that, he obtained his PhD in Computer Science at CMU. He is broadly interested in theoretical computer science</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">and</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">quantum information. His main research thread revolves around using the algorithmic toolkit, consisting of iterative methods</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">and</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">convex hierarchies, to underst</span><span style="color:black">and</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">large quantum systems. These results have gained significant attention recently, including two Quanta articles, two QIP Invited Plenaries, </span>a QIP<span style="color:black"> Best Student Paper. He is also interested in extending this algorithmic toolkit</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">and</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">applying it to problems arising in high-dimensional statistics, privacy, metric embeddings,</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">and</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">numerical linear algebra.</span></font></p></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div></div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Host: </b><a href="mailto:madhurt@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><b>Madhur Tulsiani</b></a></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Rm 517</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">773-834-1757</font></i></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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