Dr. Aeysha Khalique is an Associate Professor at Department of Physics, in School of Natural Sciences, NUST Islamabad. Dr. Khalique have a PhD in Physics from Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany in 2008 and since then she is working in NUST. She have been working in quantum communication since two decades and started working in quantum computation for a few years, including guiding research students in these areas at all undergraduate and graduate levels. She have several current national and international collaborations and publications in reputable journals.

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In this presentation I would talk about the density functional theory – a reformulation of quantum mechanics for many body systems. How density functional theory can be helpful in understanding the nature of electrides – a purportedly new phase of matter that occurs at very high pressures. I would also discuss the time dependent analogue of density functional theory and its applications to the problem of radiation matter interaction.

I am a pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum gravity at the University of New Brunswick, and I am interested in various approaches to quantum gravity, including but not limited to canonical quantum gravity, loop quantum gravity, and string theory. Currently, I am engaged in exploring the limits of semiclassical gravity. 

Nidhal Guessoum is Professor of Astrophysics at American University of Sharjah (AUS), UAE. He is a science communicator and a public intellectual author of two books: 'Islam's Quantum questions' and 'Young Muslim's guide to modern science'. 

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Mr. Abdullah Irfan graduated with a BS Physics from LUMS in 2021 and came to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a PhD in Physics. He is working in Wolfgang Pfaff's lab on experimental quantum information. His area of research broadly falls into quantum networks with superconducting qubits. 

Effective teaching and learning of science and math requires the alignment of various components of a course such as course content, learning outcomes, instructional strategies, and assessment methods. This alignment impacts students’ learning and informs the teachers’ teaching. In addition, it is crucial to know how teaching and learning work cognitively. 

In this talk I will introduce a new course whose primary audience is graduate and undergraduate students of science and math who see themselves as future educators. 

Additionally, work on Teaching Certification Program geared to our graduate students is in the works. preliminary thoughts on this certification shall also be shared in this talk. 

The study of phases of matter and transitions between them is a central theme of condensed matter physics. In this regard, Landau’s symmetry-breaking theory has been hugely successful. More recently, it has been found that there are phase transitions in (topological) materials which fall outside the paradigm of Landau’s theory. Ideas borrowed from topology have played a vital role in this understanding. In this talk, I will begin with an overview of topological materials and their phase transitions. I will also relate these ideas to some of our recent work in a class of 2D materials.

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