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SUMMARY:CREATE Accessibility Hackathon\, Summer ‘26
DESCRIPTION:Event interval: Ongoing eventCampus location: Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2)Accessibility Contact: create-contact@uw.eduEvent Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion\,Special Events\,Student Activities\,WorkshopsEvent sponsors: CREATE and the UW Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and EngineeringTarget Audience: Everyone\, regardless of technical experience. People with lived experience of disability encouragedLink: https://create.uw.edu/2026-create-accessibility-hackathon/ \nJoin CREATE to brainstorm ideas for an accessible future through AI.  \nOver two days\, participants will meet as a whole and in groups\, brainstorm project ideas\, start to build solutions\, present their ideas\, and provide feedback. Lunch\, snack\, mentoring and support will be provided. The event will take place on the UW Seattle campus. Virtual attendance is possible for some portions of the event. \nSee the Hackathon web page for details and schedule.Register now
URL:https://create.uw.edu/2026-create-accessibility-hackathon/#new_tab
LOCATION:Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2)
CATEGORIES:Computer Science & Engineering
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SUMMARY:Supporting disabled students in research: AccessComputing discussion
DESCRIPTION:Event interval: Single day eventAccessibility Contact: blaser@uw.eduEvent Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion\,Information Sessions\,Lectures/SeminarsEvent sponsors: AccessComputingLink: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/JMkgqE94R2qKuYs29t5vZg#/registrationAccessComputing invites you to join us for an online (Zoom) community discussion about supporting disabled students in research.  We'll have an interactive discussion about the 2022 article Students with Disabilities in Life Science Undergraduate Research Experiences: Challenges and Opportunities by Gin\, Pais\, et al (check out the abstract below!) and how the computing community can benefit from the findings.  Registrants may wish to read the paper in advance of the meeting.Registration RequiredAccommodation Note: Zoom auto captions will be enabled. For ASL\, CART\, or additional accommodations contact Brianna Blaser at blaser@uw.edu. ———————-Students with Disabilities in Life Science Undergraduate Research Experiences: Challenges and Opportunities. Gin LE\, Pais D\, Cooper KM\, Brownell SE. CBE Life Sci Educ. 2022 Jun; 21(2): ar32.Abstract: Individuals with disabilities are underrepresented in postsecondary science education and in science careers\, yet few studies have explored why this may be. A primary predictor of student persistence in science is participating in undergraduate research. However\, it is unclear to what extent students with disabilities are participating in research and what the experiences of these students in research are. To address this gap in the literature\, in study 1\, we conducted a national survey of more than 1200 undergraduate researchers to determine the percent of students with disabilities participating in undergraduate research in the life sciences. We found that 12% of undergraduate researchers we surveyed self-identified as having a disability\, which indicates that students with disabilities are likely underrepresented in undergraduate research. In study 2\, we conducted semistructured interviews with 20 undergraduate researchers with disabilities. We identified unique challenges experienced by students with disabilities in undergraduate research\, as well as some possible solutions to these challenges. Further\, we found that students with disabilities perceived that they provide unique contributions to the research community. This work provides a foundation for creating undergraduate research experiences that are more accessible and inclusive for students with disabilities.This discussion is supported by AccessUR2PhD. Any opinions\, findings\, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Computing Research Association or the DO-IT Center.
URL:https://www.quantumx.washington.edu/calendar/supporting-disabled-students-in-research-accesscomputing-discussion/
LOCATION:Washington
CATEGORIES:Computer Science & Engineering
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SUMMARY:IRL: Qiskit Global Summer School
DESCRIPTION:Qiskit Global Summer School kicks off on Monday\, July 13. \n\n\n\nThis meetup is designed for anyone who has registered with IBM Quantum as a participant in QGSS26. \n\n\n\nCome join us so that we can meet each other\, ask questions\, and find ways to connect during the summer school. \n\n\n\nIf you aren’t registered for QGSS26\, but are interested in learning how to get started with Qiskit\, you can check out these resources: \n\n\n\n\nQiskit YouTube Channel – there are several videos under the heading\, Get Started with Qiskit Today\n\n\n\nIBM Quantum Learning Platform – you could look at this class first\, “Start Using a Quantum Computer”.\n\n\n\n\nNatalie Hawkins is a Tier 2 Qiskit Advocate and mentor for the QGSS26\, as well as a UW CSE alum; she will be hosting the event. She can share things she has learned as a participant at past QGSS’s. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.meetup.com/seattle-quantum-computing-meetup/events/315633098/?eventOrigin=group_events_list
URL:https://www.quantumx.washington.edu/calendar/irl-qiskit-global-summer-school/
LOCATION:Gates Center (CSE2)\, G04\, 3800 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, Washington\, 98195
CATEGORIES:Computer Science & Engineering
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SUMMARY:CSE Distinguished Lecture Series: Mike Dodds
DESCRIPTION:Event interval: Single day eventCampus room: Gates Center (CSE2)\, G20 | Amazon AuditoriumAccessibility Contact: dso@uw.eduEvent Types: Lectures/SeminarsEvent sponsors: Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering\nwww.cs.washington.eduLink: https://www.cs.washington.edu/events/colloquia/details?id=3381AbstractAbstract is forthcoming.BioMike Dodds joined Galois in 2017 as a Principal Scientist. He specializes in applying formal methods to systems engineering problems in areas such as cryptography\, distributed protocols\, cyber-physical systems\, and hardware semantics. Much of Mike’s work has focused on building tools that can be used by non-expert developers as part of their regular engineering workflow.Mike has led a range of projects at Galois\, including our work on CN\, a unified testing and verification tool for C code; Daedalus\, a safe parsing language developed under the DARPA SafeDocs project; c2rust\, a transpiler used by several popular Rust crates; and several verified cryptography projects using SAW and Cryptol\, including a long-running collaboration with Amazon Web Services on core components of their AWS-LibCrypto library.Mike received his PhD from the University of York\, UK\, in 2008\, under the supervision of Dr. Detlef Plump. He then spent four years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge\, working with Dr. Matthew Parkinson and Prof. Peter Sewell. He returned to the University of York as a lecturer (in US terms\, an associate professor) from 2012 to 2017\, before joining Galois.This lecture will be streamed live and recorded.
URL:https://www.quantumx.washington.edu/calendar/distinguished-lecture-series-mike-dodds-forthcoming/
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SUMMARY:Bo Peng (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)\, QISE Seminar: When Quantum Systems Remember: Fractional Open-System Dynamics via Random Time
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Real quantum systems are never perfectly isolated: coupling to an environment causes relaxation and decoherence. The standard “memoryless” (Markovian) description—Lindblad dynamics—often predicts simple exponential decay. Yet in many physical settings\, environmental correlations persist\, producing memory effects and non-exponential relaxation. The key question is not whether history matters\, but how memory decays in time. In this talk\, I will introduce a fractional-calculus framework that organizes unitary dynamics\, Markovian master equations\, and long-memory non-Markovian behavior within a single hierarchy. The central idea is “selective memory”: long-time behavior is often governed by a small subset of slowly decaying correlations rather than the full microscopic history. Technically\, fractional dynamics can be understood as standard Lindblad evolution running under a randomized clock (Bochner–Phillips subordination)\, which preserves physical consistency (complete positivity) while generating algebraic long-time tails. I will illustrate how memory alters the shape of relaxation—not just the decay rate—using simple qubit examples and published benchmarks\, and I will briefly discuss how the same structure would enable scalable simulation without explicit time-history storage. \n\n\n\nBio: Bo Peng is a computational scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in the Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate. His research operates at the intersection of many-body electronic structure theory\, Green’s-function approaches to spectroscopy and excited states\, quantum algorithms for chemistry and materials\, and advanced computing/HPC for large-scale simulation. He develops both theoretical frameworks and production-quality computational tools\, with contributions ranging from coupled-cluster/downfolding ideas to open quantum dynamics models that incorporate environmental memory. More broadly\, his work aims to connect accurate microscopic theory with scalable computation and emerging quantum hardware\, enabling predictive simulations of complex molecular and condensed-phase systems. He is also dedicated to mentoring and collaborates widely across national laboratories and academia.
URL:https://www.quantumx.washington.edu/calendar/bo-peng-pacific-northwest-national-laboratory/
LOCATION:Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)\, Room 037\, 185 W Stevens Wy NE\, Seattke\, Washington\, 98185
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SUMMARY:William Kretschmer (University of Texas at Austin)\, QISE Seminar: Demonstrating an unconditional separation between quantum and classical information resources
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \n\n\n\nA longstanding question in the foundations of quantum mechanics is whether the exponential state space of a quantum system is a physically accessible resource\, or whether the observed behavior of quantum devices admits a succinct classical explanation. In this talk I will discuss an experimental work in which\, leveraging quantum-classical separations in communication complexity\, we performed a task using 12 trapped-ion qubits that would provably require at least 62 bits of storage to replicate using classical information resources. Consequently\, no classical ontological model of fewer than 62 bits can explain the observed behavior of the 12-qubit system. Our separation does not rely on any unproven conjectures\, and demonstrates how today’s quantum processors can generate and manipulate entangled states of sufficient complexity to access the exponentiality of Hilbert space. Based on arXiv:2509.07255. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: \n\n\n\nWilliam Kretschmer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UT Austin. Previously\, was a Quantum Postdoctoral Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. His research lies broadly in quantum information and computation\, with connections to complexity theory\, cryptography\, and learning. Kretschmer is especially interested in understanding computational problems that involve operation on quantum inputs.
URL:https://www.quantumx.washington.edu/calendar/william-kretschmer-university-of-texas-at-austin/
LOCATION:Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)\, Room 037\, 185 W Stevens Wy NE\, Seattke\, Washington\, 98185
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SUMMARY:CSE Distinguished Lecture Series: Scott Aaronson
DESCRIPTION:Event interval: Single day eventCampus room: Gates Center (CSE2)\, G20 | Amazon AuditoriumAccessibility Contact: dso@uw.eduEvent Types: Lectures/SeminarsEvent sponsors: Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineeringwww.cs.washington.eduLink: https://www.cs.washington.edu/events/colloquia/details?id=3379 \nAbstractAbstract is forthcoming. \nBio \nI’m the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin\, and director of its Quantum Information Center. My research interests center around the capabilities and limits of quantum computers\, and computational complexity theory more generally. For the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 academic years\, I was on leave to work at OpenAI on the theoretical foundations of AI safety. \nThis lecture will be streamed live and recorded.
URL:https://www.quantumx.washington.edu/calendar/distinguished-lecture-series-scott-aaronson-forthcoming/
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SUMMARY:Separating QMA and QCMA with a classical oracle\, Chinmay Nirkhe
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  \n\n\n\nWe construct a classical oracle proving that\, in a relativized setting\, the set of languages decidable by an efficient quantum verifier with a quantum witness (QMA) is strictly bigger than those decidable with access only to a classical witness (QCMA). The separating classical oracle we construct is for a decision problem we coin spectral Forrelation — the oracle describes two subsets of the boolean hypercube\, and the computational task is to decide if there exists a quantum state whose standard basis measurement distribution is well supported on one subset while its Fourier basis measurement distribution is well supported on the other subset. This is equivalent to estimating the spectral norm of a “Forrelation” matrix between two sets that are accessible through membership queries. \n\n\n\nOur lower bound derives from a simple observation that a query algorithm with a classical witness can be run multiple times to generate many samples from a distribution\, while a quantum witness is a “use once” object. This observation allows us to reduce proving a QCMA lower bound to proving a sampling hardness result\, which does not simultaneously prove a QMA lower bound. To prove said sampling hardness result for QCMA\, we observe that quantum access to the oracle can be compressed by expressing the problem in terms of bosons — a novel “second quantization” perspective on compressed oracle techniques\, which may be of independent interest. Using this compressed perspective on the sampling problem\, we prove the sampling hardness result\, completing the proof. \n\n\n\nJoint work with John Bostanci\, Jonas Haferkamp\, and Mark Zhandry: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09551 
URL:https://www.quantumx.washington.edu/calendar/separating-qma-and-qcma-with-a-classical-oracle/
LOCATION:Washington
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