Joint PQSEI-Particle Physics Colloquium

Intersections of Particle Physics Joseph D. Lykken and QIS at Fermilab Deputy Director for Research, Tuesday, November 5, 2019 Fermi National 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Accelerator Laboratory LWSN 1142

Joseph Lykken is Fermilab's Deputy Director of Research The intersections between high energy particle and leads the Fermilab Quantum Institute. A distinguished physics (HEP) and QIS originate with Richard scientist at the laboratory, Lykken was a former member of Feynman’s original suggestion to use quantum the Theory Department, researching string theory and computers to solve quantum problems. HEP phenomenology, and is a member of the CMS experiment physicists have become alpha users of NISQ on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He received his processors, starting to build a pathway to simulating Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the real time dynamics of LHC collisions and the has previously worked for the Santa Cruz Institute for dynamics of quantum gravity. In the near term, Particle Physics and the University of Chicago. Lykken newly-emerging quantum sensor technologies are began his tenure at Fermilab in 1989. He is a former being applied to the challenge of detecting ultralight member of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, which dark matter in the laboratory, including new advises both the Department of Energy and the National experiments launching at Fermilab. At the same time Science Foundation, and served on the Particle Physics technologies and infrastructure developed for HEP Project Prioritization Panel, developing a road map for the are finding quantum applications; these include ultra- next 20 years of U.S. particle physics. Lykken is a fellow of high Q superconducting RF cavities, cryogenic the American Physical Society and of the American electronics, and fast DAQ for high rate quantum Association for the Advancement of Science. communications.