Some Publicly Available Recorded Talks

  • Local minima in quantum systems
  • Performance and limitations of the QAOA at constant levels on large sparse hypergraphs and spin glass models
  • Exploring Quantum Advantages in Optimization Problems
    • video (Invited talk at the NISQAH 2023 conference, June 2023)
  • The QAOA at High Depth for MaxCut on Large-Girth Regular Graphs and the SK Model
    • video (Outstanding Paper Award talk at TQC, July 2022)
  • Complexity, Algorithms, and Applications of Programmable Quantum Many-Body Systems
    • video (Harvard PhD defense, May 2021)
  • Strongly Universal Hamiltonian Simulators
  • The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm and the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model at Infinite Size
  • Hamiltonian Sparsification and Gap-Simulation