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(Daniela Angulo at CQIQC-IX, photo credit: CQIQC)
Quantum Information Sciences (QIS) are enjoying immense fundamental and applied progress, with new ideas and techniques allowing precise design and control of quantum systems. Prominent subfields of QIS include quantum algorithms, computing and simulations, communications and cryptography, metrology, chemicals and materials discovery.
Importantly, ideas and methods from different fields of science: math, computer science, physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, materials design, drug discovery, and even philosophy and finance, are coming together in current QIS research.
At CQIQC, we believe that to make breakthroughs in QIS, scientists need to be well-informed in ongoing developments in different subfields of QIS.
Our tenth annual conference (CQIQC-X), organized jointly by CQIQC and the Fields Institute, will cater to both senior and junior scientists, with sessions devoted to foundations and applications, theory and experiment, and pure and applied research. The conference will gather leaders from these different platforms to share the current state of the art in QIS, and learn from each other.
CQIQC-X will host the awards ceremony for the John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and their Applications, along with talks related to the winner’s research.
While much attention is now being given to the technological ramifications of QIS, this conference's foremost objective is to address the fundamental questions in the field, e.g., to understand the nature of quantum phenomena, complexity of quantum algorithms, protocols for secure quantum communication, algorithms for quantum molecular simulation.
The CQIQC-X meeting will spur interactions between these different sub-fields through a mix of invited and contributed talks, and posters, selected from a large pool of truly ground-breaking work from around the world. Participants will have ample opportunity for in-depth discussions and to meet researchers at all stages of their careers from both academia and industry.
Registration for in-person participation is now closed.
Please be advised that the Fields Institute do not make accommodation bookings or reservations for visitors. If you receive an email pretending to be working with us and soliciting hotel reservation service, it is a phishing attempt. For more information, please see: http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/generalinfo/WARNING-SCAM-ALERT.
09:00 to 09:10 |
Welcome Remarks
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09:05 to 10:10 |
Morning Chair: Li Qian (University of Toronto)
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09:10 to 09:45 |
Assembling and Controlling Photonic Quantum Matter: Solids, Fluids and Cats
Andrei Vrajitoarea (University of Chicago) |
09:50 to 10:15 |
Andrew Stasiuk (MIT) |
10:20 to 10:50 |
Coffee Break
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10:50 to 11:25 |
Hybrid Photonics Platform for Quantum Information Processing
Fabio Sciarrino (Sapienza Università di Roma) |
11:30 to 11:55 |
Anaelle Hertz (National Research Council of Canada) |
12:00 to 14:00 |
Lunch (on your own)
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14:00 to 17:00 |
Afternoon Chair: Aepharim Steinberg (University of Toronto)
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14:00 to 14:10 |
Poster Presentations
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14:10 to 14:45 |
Practical Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions
Jungsang Kim (Duke University) |
14:50 to 15:15 |
Haggai Landa (IBM Quantum) |
15:20 to 15:50 |
Coffee Break
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15:50 to 16:25 |
Nicolás Quesada (Polytechnique Montréal) |
16:30 to 16:55 |
Searching for applications of realistic quantum computers
Stepan Fomichev (Xanadu) |
08:55 to 10:00 |
Morning Chair: Raymond Kapral (University of Toronto)
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09:00 to 09:35 |
Minimizing resources for quantum devices with control theory
Christiane Koch (Freie Universität Berlin) |
09:40 to 10:05 |
Quantum control of adiabatic quantum computation
Adi Pick (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
10:10 to 10:40 |
Coffee Break
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10:40 to 11:15 |
Quantum Control of Open Systems Entropy Changing and Entropy Preserving Maps
Ronnie Kosloff (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
11:20 to 11:45 |
Paolo Andrea Erdman (Freie University Berlin) |
11:50 to 12:15 |
Shayan Majidy (Perimeter Institute) |
12:20 to 14:10 |
(Provided on site) Lunch Break Poster Session I (17 posters)
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14:00 to 17:00 |
Afternoon Chair: Boris Braverman (University of Toronto)
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14:10 to 14:45 |
Exploring Nonlinearity: From Superconductivity to Quantum Sensing
Shabir Barzanjeh (University of Calgary) |
14:50 to 15:15 |
Aperiodic devices as a platform for quantum photonics
Luca Sapienza (University of Cambridge) |
15:20 to 15:50 |
Coffee Break
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15:50 to 16:25 |
Attention to Quantum Complexity
Eun-Ah Kim (Cornell University) |
08:55 to 10:00 |
Morning Chair: Young-June Kim (University of Toronto)
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09:00 to 09:35 |
d-mon: an improved transmon qubit based on a cuprate Josephson junction
Marcel Franz (University of British Columbia) |
09:40 to 10:05 |
Demonstration of Robust and Efficient Quantum Property Learning with Shallow Shadows
Hong-Ye Hu (Harvard University) |
10:10 to 10:40 |
Coffee Break
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10:45 to 11:20 |
Accelerating quantum progress through machine learning
Andrew Briggs (University of Oxford) |
11:25 to 11:50 |
Alexander Ungar (MIT) |
11:55 to 12:05 |
Poster Presentations
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12:05 to 14:00 |
(Provided on site) Lunch Break Poster Session II (17 posters)
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14:00 to 17:00 |
Afternoon Chair: Paul Brumer (University of Toronto)
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14:00 to 14:10 |
Intro to Bell Prize Session
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14:10 to 14:50 |
Learning in a quantum world
John Preskill (Caltech) |
14:50 to 15:00 |
Questions
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15:00 to 15:30 |
Coffee Break
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15:30 to 16:10 |
Quantum thermodynamics for lattice gauge theories, or ten lessons I learned from John Preskill
Nicole Yunger Halpern (University of Maryland & NIST) |
16:15 to 16:55 |
Fault Tolerance with Dynamical Codes
Daniel Gottesman (University of Maryland) |
18:00 to 19:30 |
Conference Reception & Dinner - Trinity College
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08:55 to 10:00 |
Morning Chair: Hae Young Kee (University of Toronto)
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09:00 to 09:35 |
Complex quantum matter and the boundaries between classical and quantum computers
Joel Moore (University of California, Berkeley) |
09:40 to 10:05 |
Shang Yu (Imperial College London) |
10:10 to 10:40 |
Coffee Break
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10:45 to 11:20 |
Quantum state reconstruction via machine learning
Brian Kirby (United States Army Research Laboratory) |
11:25 to 12:00 |
Triply efficient shadow tomography
David Gosset (University of Waterloo) |
12:05 to 13:30 |
(Provided on site) Lunch Break
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13:25 to 16:55 |
Afternoon Chair: Amir Helmy (University of Toronto)
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13:30 to 14:05 |
Hamiltonian simulation for low-energy states
Rolando Somma (Google) |
14:10 to 14:35 |
Annie Ray (University of Waterloo) |
14:40 to 15:05 |
John Martyn (MIT) |
15:10 to 15:30 |
Coffee Break
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15:30 to 16:05 |
Limitations of Noisy Quantum Devices in Computational and Entangling Power
Xiongfeng Ma (Tsinghua University) |
16:10 to 16:35 |
Aaron Goldberg (National Research Council of Canada) |
16:40 to 17:05 |
Tensor networks with flexible geometry for quantum simulation
Sukhi Singh (Multiverse) |
17:00 to 18:30 |
POSTERS III & Refreshments (18 posters)
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08:55 to 10:00 |
Morning Chair: John Sipe (University of Toronto)
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09:00 to 09:35 |
Title TBA
Christine Silberhorn (Universität Paderborn) |
09:40 to 10:05 |
Graeme Smith (University of Waterloo) |
10:10 to 10:35 |
Coffee Break
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10:35 to 11:10 |
Addressing challenges in scaling of trapped ion quantum information processors
Dietrich Leibfried (NIST) |
11:15 to 11:40 |
Alexandre Cooper-Roy (University of Waterloo), |
11:45 to 12:10 |
Cunlu Zhou (University of New Mexico) |
12:15 to 13:45 |
Lunch (on your own)
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13:40 to 16:55 |
Afternoon Chair: Dvira Segal (University of Toronto)
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13:45 to 14:20 |
The thermodynamics of the quantum Mpemba effect
John Goold (Trinity College Dublin) |
14:25 to 14:50 |
Farzad Ghafari (Griffith University) |
14:55 to 15:20 |
Simultaneous Amplitude and Phase Spectroscopy Using Spectrally-Resolved Hong- Ou-Mandel Interference
Kyle Jordan (University of Ottawa) |
15:25 to 15:45 |
Coffee Break
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15:45 to 16:20 |
Queued quantum dynamics
[Invited] Gabriel Teixeira Landi (University of Rochester) |
16:50 to 17:00 |
Conference Close + Coffee
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