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2024

      • Javad gives a colloquium talk at Physics Department, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA [cancelled due to hurricane Francine landing in LA]
      • Javad gives a seminar talk at Oxford Instruments Inc, Oxford, UK
      • Javad gives an invited talk at Hybrid Superconductivity, Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR), Ithaca, NY.
      • Patrick Strohbeen and Ido Levy present contributed talks at 38th North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (NAMBE 2024), Boston, MA
      • Javad works as the program committee at 38th North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (NAMBE 2024), Boston, MA
      • Javad gives an invited talk at “From Solid State to Biophysics XI”, Dubrovnik, Croatia
      • Javad gives an invited talk at International Conference on Quantum Materials and Technologies (ICQMT 2024), Fethiye, Turkey
      • Javad gives an invited talk at StuyQuantum: Stuyvesant High School in New York City
      • Javad gives an invited talk at Big Ideas in Light and Matter Workshop, San Sebastian, Spain.
      • Javad gives an invited talk at Quantum Matter International Conference – QUANTUMatter San Sebastian, Spain.
      • Javad gives a colloquium talk at Physics Department, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
      • Javad gives a plenary Lecture at Pittsburgh Quantum Institute (PQI), Pittsburgh, PA
      • Javad gives an invited talk at Workshop on superconductor-semiconductor hybrid systems – Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen Denmark.
      • Javad gives an invited talk at American Physical Society’s Forum on Graduate Student Affairs (FGSA): “Current state of play in superconducting circuits with a twist”, Minneapolis, MN.
      • Javad gives an invited talk at “Hunting for Anyons” PCTS workshop, Physics Dept., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
      • Javad gives a seminar talk at Quantum Materials and Advanced Nanodevices” (QMAN) and Quantum Science Engineering (QSE), Delaware University, Newark, DE.

2023

      • Javad gives a seminar talk at physics department, Université Paris Cite, CNRS, Paris, France
      • Javad gives an invited talk at the Center for Quantum and Topological Systems, NYUAD, Abu Dhabi, UAE
      • Javad gives a seminar talk at the electrical engineering department at UCLA
      • Javad gives a seminar talk at Microsoft Station Q, Santa Barbara
      • Javad gives an invited talk at Qukit Kickoff meeting, Delft, Netherlands
      • Javad gives an invited talk at the Gordon Goffrey Conference in New South Wales, Australia
      • Ido, Jacob and Pat present their work at 37th North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (NAMBE 2023) conference in Madison Wisconsin, Sep 2023. 
      • Javad gives an invited talk at NYU TandonHAQathon, Superconducting Qubits with a Twist, NYU Tandon, Sep 2023.
      • Javad gives a seminar talk Brookhaven National Lab Instrumentation Division New York 2023.
      • Javad gives an invited talk at COLMO: Quantum Collapse Models investigated with Particle, Nuclear, Atomic and Macro systems, ETC Trento, Italy.
      • Javad gives an invited talk at 2nd New York Quantum Network Partnership Workshop organized by BNL/Stonybrook New York, NY.
      • Javad gives an invited talk at Bound states in superconducting nanodevices conference in Budapest, Hungry. 
      • Javad gives an invited seminar at Electrical Engineering Department at University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. 
      • Javad gives an invited seminar at Electrical Engineering Department at The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Deajeon, South Korea.
      • Javad gives an invited talk at Quantum Information and Quantum Matter Conference at NYU Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi United Emirates [Virtual]. 
      • Javad gives an invited talk at NSF-sponsored Photonics Interfaces for Quantum Technology Workshop, Arlington, VA. 
      • World Science Scholar tour with students from 30+ countries at the Center for Quantum Information Science!
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      • Amro participated in NYUAD hackathon and wins Audience Choice Award!
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      • Amro defends his Masters, congratulations!
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      • Mehdi officially graduates! Good luck at IBM.
      • Sally wins Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund Grant.
      • Sally wins the George Granger Brown Award! Congratulations! The George Granger Brown Scholarship are merit awards presented in the middle of the junior or senior year to undergraduates majoring in physics or chemistry for excellence and promise in these fields. [Link]
      • Mehdi defends his PhD with flying colors! Congratulations. 
      • Javad gives an invited seminar at Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (CBE) department at NYU Tandon, Brooklyn
      • Javad gives an invited talk at Current and Potential Soft and Tender X-ray Spectroscopy and Scattering Capabilities at NSLS-II workshop, held virtually at Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY
      • Javad gives an invited talk at US-Swiss Quantum Symposium, QuantumBasel, Basel, Switzerland
      • Javad/Will give an invited talk at American Physical Society March Meeting, Las Vegas, NV
      • Javad gives an invited seminar at Physics Department, University of Alberta, AB, Canada
      • Javad gives an invited seminar at Physics Department, University of Calgary, AB, Canada 
      • Melissa, Ashley and Lukas attend the 6th Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School and Workshop,  University of Maryland, College Park, MD

2022

      • Will and Bassel present our work at International Electron Devices Meeting, IDEM 2022, San Francisco, CA
      • Bassel and Billy give talks at Materials Research Society Fall Meeting in Boston, MA
      • Javad gives a colloquium at Georgia Tech University, Physics department, Atlanta, GA
      • Center for Quantum Information Physics inauguration was celebrated in NYC Summit 2022 hosting 100+ professionals, over 25 talks from government, industry and academia experts focusing on creating a quantum hub in New York City
      • Javad gives an invited seminar at Cornell LASSP+AEP Seminar, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2022)
      • Javad gives an invited seminar at International Conference on Quantum Materials and Technology in Bodrum, Turkey (2022)
      • Javad gives an invited seminar at Northern Lights Conference 2022 on spin, topology and superconductivity in National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland (2022)
      • Javad gives an invited seminar at Advances in Quantum Transport in Low Dimensional Systems hosted by Institute of Physics in London, UK (2022)
      • It was a pleasure to host 30 high school students from 17 countries as world science scholars!
      • PhD candidate Billy Strickland was chosen as a finalist for the Graduate Student Award at the 2022 MRS Fall Meeting. Congrats Billy! 
      • Our lab moves to the newly established Center for Quantum Information Physics (CQIP), Sept (2022)
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      • Javad gives an invited seminar at Yale Quantum Institute/Applied Physics Department,Yale University, New Haven, CT (2022)
      • Javad serves on a panel on Quantum Simulations organized by IBM, Live YouTube, Aug (2022)
      • Javad gives an invited seminar at Physics Department, IST Vienna, Vienna, Austria (2022)
      • Javad gives a short course in Cryogenic Computing Devices, Device Research Conference (DRC), Columbus, Ohio (2022)
      • William Schiela participate at The Q4I Quantum Information Science 4th Annual International Workshop, Rome, NY (2022)
      • William Schiela presents at NDSEG fellows conference, Boston, MA (2022)
      • Billy and Bassel participate at Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School and Workshop, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (2022)
      • William Strickland, is selected to receive the Quantum Computing Research (QuACR) fellowship awarded by national security agency’s laboratory for physical sciences (LPS) and army research office (ARO). Congratulations!
      • High school student, Anisha Musti, has secured a third place award in cybersecurity in 2022 international Regenerate research fair in Atlanta, GA. Congratulations!
      • Javad gives an invited talk at MRS Spring Meeting, Honolulu, HI 
      • Javad gives an invited talk at Focused Topic Seminar, Boston College, MA 
      • Javad gives an invited talk at New York Quantum Meetup, New York, NY 
      • Andreas Tsantilas is awarded the 2022 Goldwater scholar [Link] 
      • High school students, Miriam Kim and Anisha Musti, both receive awards at 2022 Regeneron Westchester (NY) Science and Engineering Fair (Link) Congratulations!
      • Billy, Peng, Will, Mehdi, Bassel, Neda, Mohammad, Ami and our start undergraduate students Andreas and Aurelia presented their work at American Physical Society meeting at Chicago, IL
      • Javad gives an invited talk at Packer Collegiate Institute high school 
      • Javad gives a colloquium at University of Texas Austin, Electrical Engineering department, Austin, TX 

2021

      • Javad gives an invited talk at workshop on Andreev reflection in QHE, virtual organized by Anton Akhmerov, Valla Fatemi and Christian Schoenberger
      • Andreas receives Deans’ Undergraduate Research Fund grant and becomes a Goldwater Scholarship nominee 
      • Aurelia receives Deans’ Undergraduate Research Fund and Joan Kupersmith Larkin Research Scholar award 
      • Javad gives an invited talk at MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA 
      • Billy gives a contributed talk at MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA 
      • Mehdi gives a contributed talk at EP2DS-24/MSS-20 conference  [Virtual]
      • Javad gives an invited talk at Physics department, Fordham University, NY
      • Javad gives an invited talk at Nano- and Quantum Physics Seminar, University of Basel (2021) [Virtual]
      • Billy presents a poster at 21st International Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (ICMBE) conference [virtual]
      • Javad gives a colloquium at University of Maryland, Physics department, College Park, MD
      • Javad gives an invited talk at Peta Spin: Trends in magnetism, Cefalu, Italy [Virtual]
      • Aurelia was selected to attend Caltech Future Program
      • Javad gives a talk and serves on the panel at IBM quantum educator summit, August 3rd [Virtual]
      • Javad gives an invited talk at TopoSuper2021 – online conference on emergent topological superconductivity, Denmark  [Virtual]
      • Javad serves as a panelist at Quantum Devices and Systems Manufacturing Workshop, Duke University, May [Virtual]
      • Javad serves as a panelist at NSF Workshop on Quantum Engineering Infrastructure: Topological Quantum Devices, University of Minnesota, April 13-15, [Virtual]
      • Javad gives an invited talk at Bloomberg LP, London, UK [Virtual]
      • Billy presented at the quantum economic development consortium (QED-C) e-poster session, April [Virtual]
      • Javad and Peng gave two invited talks at DCMP Symposium Invited talk in topological materials, APS March meeting [Virtual]
      • Bassel, Billy, Joe, Josh, Mehdi, Kasra, Matthieu, Will presented at APS March Meeting, Boston, MA [Virtual]
      • Javad gives an invited talk at University of Sydney Quantum Information seminar  [Virtual]
      • Javad gives an invited talk at North Carolina University Materials Department, NC  [Virtual]

2020

      • Javad gives an invited talk at Machine Learning in Science & Engineering (MLSE), Columbia University, NY [virtual]
      • Javad serves as an organizing committee member of Materials Research Society Symposium NM05: Emerging Materials for Quantum Information, Boston, MA [virtual]
      • Joe presented at the quantum economic development consortium (QED-C) e-poster session, November [Virtual]
      • Javad gives an invited talk at UCSB Quantum Foundry, Santa Barbara, CA [virtual]
      • Javad gives a colloquium talk at Rhode Island College, Physical Sciences Department, Providence, RI [virtual]
      • Mehdi presented his poster at Sandia Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) Annual Meeting [virtual]
      • Javad gives a webinar at Oxford Instrument seminar series on Transport properties of low dimensional semiconductors: topological superconductivity
      • Javad gives an invited talk at IBM Quantum Summit, September [virtual]
      • Javad gives an invited talk at CMD2020Gefes mini-coloquium: Hybrid semiconductor-superconducting nanostructures, Madrid, Spain [virtual]
      • Javad gives an invited talk at, IBM Quantum Computing Live Seminar, August [virtual](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKU-dla3jI0)
      • Javad serves as a panelist for IBM Virtual Roundtable on “How to Build a Quantum Workforce” July [virtual]
      • Javad serves as an organizing committee of Quantum Education IEEE Quantum QCE20 [virtual]
      • Javad will give an invited talk at Trends in MAGnetism, Cefalu, Italy (2020) [cancelled due to COVID-19]
      • Javad will give an invited talk at International Symposium on Majorana Physics in Hamburg, Germany (2020) [cancelled due to COVID-19]
      • Javad will give an invited talk at UCSB quantum foundry, Santa Barbara, CA [cancelled due to COVID-19]
      • Javad will give an invited talk at Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, CA [cancelled due to COVID-19]
      • Javad will give an invited talk at Computational Science Initiative at Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY [cancelled due to COVID-19]
      • ShabaniLab will help to held the first high school hackathon at NYC [cancelled due to COVID-19]
      • Billy, Matthieu, Will, Mehdi, Kasra and Mehdi will present their work at American Physical Society meeting at Denver, Co [cancelled due to COVID-19]
      • ShabaniLab partners with AFRL quantum hub and IBM-Q to advance quantum computing for simulation and advance quantum education (News)
      • Javad serves on New Lab Quantum Summit: From Research to Reality, New York, NY (Link)
      • Javad gave a talk at ARO review meeting on Gatemon progress, Durham, NC
      • Javad joined NYU AI and Quantum Work Group, New York, NY

2019

      • Javad gave an invited talk at Microsoft Station Q meeting, Santa Barbara, CA
      • Javad gave an invited talk at Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
      • Javad presented at NQN workshop on Quantum Transduction, Seattle WA
      • Javad served as a panelist on Education for Tomorrow’s Quantum Workforce at NYC Quantum Summit, New Lab, Brooklyn, NY (Link)
      • Javad co-organized 2019 Gotham Metro Condensed Matter Meeting with Paul Chaikin and Piers Coleman (Link)
      • Javad presented in French-US workshop on Nanoelectronics, C2N, Palaiseau, France
      • Billy Mayer gives a contributed talk at superconductivity in low-dimensional and interacting systems, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany (Link)
      • Javad gave a webinar on transport properties of low dimensional semiconductors on Oxford Instruments 12 Tesla Teslatron superconducting top-loader magnet system
      • Javad gave an invited talk at Bloomberg LP, New York, NY
      • NYU Press highlighted Billy and Matthieu’s work on topological superconductivity (News)
      • Javad presented at Workshop on Enabling Quantum Leap – Braiding and Fusing Majoranas, University of Maryland, MD
      • Javad served as a panelist on Quantum Computation: What Device Platform will Reign Supreme? at 77th Device Research Conference, Michigan Ann Arbor, MI. (Link)
      • Javad presented at McGill University, Physics Department condensed matter seminars, Montreal, QC
      • Javad presented at IBM Q Summit, How to Teach Quantum (Education Workshop) Yorktown Heights, NY
      • Co-organizing MRS/Kavli workshop on Solid-State Materials for Quantum Computing, Phoenix, AZ
      • Co-organizing MRS Symposium QN06: Emerging Materials for Quantum Information, Phoenix, AZ (Link)
      • Kasra and Joe presented at MRS Spring Meeting 2019, Phoenix, AZ (See photos here!)
      • Co-organizing 2nd Joint Quantum Symposium at Columbia University (Link)
      • Javad presented at University of Texas, Dallas, Physics Department colloquium, Dallas, TX
      • Joe, Billy, Kasra, Sichao, Shahrzad, Matthieu, Kaushini and Mehdi presented at APS March Meeting, Boston, MA (See photos here!)
      • Javad, Matthieu and Eric participated in IBM Qiskit Hackathon, Killington, VT (See highlights of the Qcamp here!)
      • Joe presented at Q-Club seminar at Columbia university
      • Javad gave a lecture at Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School and Workshop at University of Maryland, College Park, MD
      • Mehdi and Sichao attended the Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School and Workshop at University of Maryland, College Park, MD
      • Javad presented an invited talk at 46th Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces, New Mexico, NM

2018

      • Javad presented at the University of Rochester, Physics Department colloquium, Rochester NY
      • Javad presented at the William and Mary University, Physics Department colloquium, Williamsburg VA
      • Javad gave an invited talk at Rutgers, Physics Department condensed matter seminars, Piscataway, NJ. 
      • Javad presented at City Tech CUNY, Physics Department seminars, Brooklyn, NY.
      • Javad gave an invited talk at Center for Functional NanoMaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY.
      • Javad gave an invited talk at PIRE:HYBRID NSF Hybrid symposium, Pittsburgh, PA.
      • Javad gave an invited talk at Penn State University, Physics Department CAMP seminars, PA.
      • Javad gave an invited talk at NTTI/NGS Conference, Luxembourg.
      • Javad gave an invited talk at DRC Conference, Santa Barbara, CA.
      • Javad gave an invited talk at CSW Conference, MIT, Boston, MA.
      • Javad gave an invited talk at ICSM, Antalya, Turkey.

2017

      • Joseph Yuan is awarded Quantum Computing Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations!

      • Javad gave an invited talk at University of Texas, Austin, Electrical Engineering Department, TX.

      • Javad organized a Materials Research Society symposium on quantum materials, MRS, Boston.

      • Javad gave an invited talk at Workshop on Majorana fermions, Yale Quantum Institute, CT.

      • Javad presented at the Virginia Tech, Physics Department, VA 

      • Javad gave an invited talk at International Conference on Modulated Semiconductor Structures.

      • Javad gave an invited talk at Army Research Oce Quantum Information Workshop, Cocoa Beach, FL. 
      • Javad gave a lecture at NSF/DOE Quantum Science Summer School (QS3), MD. 
      • Javad gave an invited talk at NSF CMP PI Workshop, The Quantum Revolution, NSF, VA. 
      • Javad gave an invited talk at Army Research Laboratory (ARL), MD. 
      • Javad gave an invited talk at Laboratory of Physical Sciences (LPS), MD. 
      • Javad gave an invited talk at Applied Physics and Materials Engineering department, Columbia University, NY. 
      • Javad gave an invited talk at Frontiers of Condensed Matter Physics Lecture Series at Columbia university, NY (2017). 
      • Javad presented at the University of Arkansas, Physics Department, AR. 
      • Javad presented at the New York University, Department of Electrical Engineering, NY. 
      • Javad gave an invited talk at the University of Wisconsin, Physics Department, WI. 
      • Javad presented at the New York University, Physics Department, NY. 

2016

      • Javad gave an invited talk at the Frontiers in Topological Superconductivity (FTSC), HI.

      • Javad presented at the Texas A& M University, Physics Department, TX.

      • Javad presented at the University of Missouri, Physics Department, MI.

      • Javad presented at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Physics Department, NY.

      • Javad gave an invited talk at the Spintronics IX, SPIE, San Diego, CA.

      • Javad gave an invited talk at the Air Force Young Investigators Research Program Annual Meeting, June, Arlington, VA.

      • Javad presented at the American Physical Society, March meeting, Baltimore, MD.

      • Javad presented at the University of Connecticut, Physics Department, CT.

      • Javad gave an invited talk at the Harvard University, Physics Department, MA.

      • Javad gave an invited talk at the Topological Quantum Matter: Progress and Applications, Aspen, CO.

      • Javad gave an invited talk at the Purdue University, Physics Department, IN.

      • Javad presented at the Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces, Palm Springs, CA.

      • Javad presented at the Physical Phenomena at High Magnetic Fields, Tallahasse, FL.

2015

      • Javad presented at the National Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conference, Cancun, MX.