Conference Presentations
The following were presented at conferences and competitions. All work is either my own or in collaboration with team members credited on the slides.
Presentations are added below in chronological order, with the most recent one at the top.
Brook, Aurelia, et al. "Characterization of superconductivity in doped Ga: Ge thin films grown by molecular beam epitaxy." Bulletin of the American Physical Society (2023). Link to abstract.
A recording of the talk is also available on the APS site to APS members.
Part 2 of this talk detailing effects of the growth process was presented by Dr. Patrick Strohbeen:
Strohbeen, Patrick, et al. "Superconducting Ge thin films by molecular beam epitaxy for quantum information." Bulletin of the American Physical Society (2023). Link to abstract.
This presentation was part of a “pitch competition” that accompanied the 2022 Womanium Quantum Hackathon. Technical work for the hackathon was performed by Aurelia Brook, and the pitch was presented by Nick Labranche.
The premise of the hack was to use the VQE algorithm to find the ground state energy of LiH molecules for an electric car company. As such, the 2-minute pitch was limited to the successful implementation and why our pretend-team should get more funding from the pretend-company.
The full presentation can be found here, and the hack code (which covered use of a new SDK and competitive analysis of the noise contributions from different qubit mappings in Qiskit) can be found here.
The above presentation won first prize in its category, and had its abstract published in Inquiry. The 2022 edition of this Journal will be posted online soon.
Link to the 2022 NYU Undergraduate Research Conference winners can be found here.
Above presentation: Brook, Aurelia, et al. "Implementation of the Kitaev-Webb and Klco-Savage algorithms on IBM Q Systems." Bulletin of the American Physical Society (2022). Link to abstract.
Contributed research to: Tsantilas, Andreas, et al. "Improving quantum hardware performance using inverse noise matrices." Bulletin of the American Physical Society (2022). Link to abstract.
The presentation to the right also won best undergraduate presentation at APS March Meeting.
Poster was presented at the American Physical Society Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (APS CUWiP) in January of 2022. A talk was also to be given at the University of California, Santa Cruz, before the conference moved to being fully remote.
Presentation: Brook, Aurelia, et al. "Comparison of the Kitaev-Webb and Klco-Savage Algorithms on IBM Q Systems." Bulletin of the American Physical Society (2022). Link to abstract.
Link to virtual conference stream (NYU login required) can be found here.
Publication of abstract: Brook, Aurelia, and Tsantilas, Andreas. “The Gaussian Distribution: Streamlined Noise Benchmarking on Quantum Computing Hardware.” Inquiry: A Journal of Undergraduate Research, vol. 25, no. 1, May 2021, pp. 68, https://cas.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/cas/documents/inquiry/xxv.pdf.
The above was presented at IBM’s Qiskit Summer Jam 2020 to a panel of judges, resulting in a first place win. Link to abstract.
Info regarding the hackathon can be found here.