Thursday, 10/17, Marquez Hall 322 @ 10AM

Precision Hamiltonian Engineering of Flux-Tunable Superconducting Qubits
Joel Howard received his master’s in applied physics at Mines. Working with Drs. Meenakshi Singh and Zhexuan Gong, he developed fast entangling gates on a two-transmon system in collaboration with the Quantum Electrodynamics group at NIST-Boulder. He is currently a quantum engineer on the design team at Rigetti Computing where he develops processes for precision frequency targeting of transmon qubits and builds and maintains core circuit quantization software.