10th International Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC-X)

August 26 - 30, 2024, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Description

(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.

Bell Prize Award Session

John Preskill, California Institute of Technology - 2024 Bell Prize Winner
Nicole Yunger Halpern, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland & National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Daniel Gottesman, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland

List of Invited Speakers

Shabir Barzanjeh, University of Calgary
Andrew Briggs, University of Oxford
Marcel Franz, University of British Columbia
John Goold, Trinity College Dublin
David Gosset, University of Waterloo
Eun-Ah Kim, Cornell University
Jungsang Kim, Duke University
Brian Kirby, United States Army Research Laboratory
Christiane Koch, Freie Universität Berlin
Ronnie Kosloff, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gabriel Landi, University of Rochester
Dietrich Leibfried, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Xiongfeng Ma, Tsinghua University
Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley
Nicolás Quesada, Polytechnique Montréal
Fabio Sciarrino, Sapienza Università di Roma
Christine Silberhorn, Universität Paderborn
Rolando Somma, Google
Andrei Vrajitoarea, University of Chicago

List of Contributed Talk Speakers

Alexandre Cooper-Ray, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
Paolo Andrea Erdman, Freie Universität Berlin
Stepan Fomichev, Xanadu
Farzad Ghafari, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University
Aaron Goldberg, National Research Council Canada
Anaelle Hertz, National Research Council Canada
Hong-Ye Hu, Harvard University
Kyle Jordan, University of Ottawa
Haggai Landa, IBM Quantum Computing
Shayan Majidy, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
John Martyn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adi Pick, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Annie Ray, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
Phila Rembold, Atominstitut, TU Wien
Luca Sapienza, University of Cambridge
Graeme Smith, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
Andrew Stasiuk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alexander Ungar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shang Yu, Imperial College London
Cunlu Zhou, University of New Mexico

Talk Schedule

Poster Schedule

Previous CQIQC Events

Registration Instruction:

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Local Accommodation:

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Schedule

Monday, August 26th, 2024
08:55 to 10:00	Morning Chair: Hae Young Kee (University of Toronto)
09:00 to 09:10	Welcome Remarks
09:10 to 09:45	Assembling and Controlling Photonic Quantum Matter: Solids, Fluids and Cats Andrei Vrajitoarea (NYU)
09:50 to 10:15	Observation of a Prethermal U(1) Time Crystal Andrew Stasiuk (MIT)
10:20 to 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 to 11:25	Hybrid Photonics Platform for Quantum Information Processing Fabio Sciarrino (Sapienza Università di Roma)
11:30 to 11:55	Quadrature Coherence Scale of Linear Combinations of Gaussian Functions in Phase Space Anaelle Hertz (National Research Council of Canada)
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch (on your own)
14:00 to 14:10	Poster Presentations
14:00 to 17:00	Afternoon Chair: Aepharim Steinberg (University of Toronto)
14:10 to 14:45	Measuring impossible parameters with indefinite causal order Aaron Goldberg (National Research Council of Canada)
14:50 to 15:15	Dissipative Dynamics of Graph-State Stabilizers with Superconducting Qubits Haggai Landa (IBM Quantum)
15:20 to 15:50	Coffee Break
15:50 to 16:25	Triply efficient shadow tomography David Gosset (University of Waterloo)
16:30 to 16:55	Searching for applications of realistic quantum computers Stepan Fomichev (Xanadu)

Tuesday, August 27th, 2024
08:55 to 10:00	Morning Chair: Raymond Kapral (University of Toronto)
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	Quantum control of adiabatic quantum computation Adi Pick (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
10:10 to 10:40	Coffee Break
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	Simultaneous Amplitude and Phase Spectroscopy Using Spectrally-Resolved Hong- Ou-Mandel Interference Kyle Jordan (University of Ottawa)
11:50 to 12:15	Noncommuting charges can increase entanglement and induce critical dynamics Shayan Majidy (Perimeter Institute)
12:20 to 14:10	(Provided on site) Lunch Break Poster Session I (13 posters)
14:00 to 15:05	Morning Chair: John Sipe (University of Toronto)
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
15:50 to 16:25	Attention to Quantum Complexity Eun-Ah Kim (Cornell University)
16:25 to 16:50	Fault-tolerant logical gates on LDPC codes Patrick Rall (IBM)

Wednesday, August 28th, 2024
08:55 to 10:00	Morning Chair: Young-June Kim (University of Toronto)
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
10:45 to 11:20	Accelerating quantum progress through machine learning Andrew Briggs (University of Oxford)
11:25 to 11:50	Control of spin chains to extend an electronic spin register in diamond Alexander Ungar (MIT)
11:55 to 12:05	Poster Presentations
12:05 to 14:00	(Provided on site) Lunch Break Poster Session II (13 posters)
14:00 to 14:10	Intro to Bell Prize Session Location:Earth Sciences Centre, Room 1050 (Reichman Family Lecture Hall)
14:00 to 17:00	Afternoon Chair: Paul Brumer (University of Toronto)
14:00 to 14:10	Bell Prize: Opening and Introduction Hoi-Kwong Lo
14:10 to 14:50	Learning in a quantum world John Preskill (Caltech)
14:50 to 15:00	Questions
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
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)
18:30 to 21:30	Conference Reception & Dinner - Trinity College

Thursday, August 29th, 2024
08:55 to 10:00	Morning Chair: Li Qian (University of Toronto)
09:00 to 09:35	Practical Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions Jungsang Kim (Duke University)
09:40 to 10:05	A universal programmable Gaussian boson sampler for drug discovery Shang Yu (Imperial College London)
10:10 to 10:40	Coffee Break
10:45 to 11:20	Quantum state reconstruction via machine learning Brian Kirby (United States Army Research Laboratory)
11:25 to 12:00	Gain-induced group delay in spontaneous parametric down-conversion Nicolás Quesada (Polytechnique Montréal)
12:05 to 13:30	(Provided on site) Lunch Break
13:25 to 16:55	Afternoon Chair: Amr Helmy (University of Toronto)
13:30 to 14:05	Hamiltonian simulation for low-energy states Rolando Somma (Google)
14:10 to 14:35	Quasiprobabilistic imaginary time evolution on quantum computers Annie Ray (University of Waterloo)
14:40 to 15:05	Parallel Quantum Signal Processing via Polynomial Factorization John Martyn (MIT)
15:10 to 15:40	Coffee Break
15:40 to 16:15	Minimizing resources for quantum devices with control theory Christiane Koch (Freie Universität Berlin)
16:40 to 17:05	Tensor networks with flexible geometry for quantum simulation Sukhi Singh (Multiverse)
17:00 to 18:30	POSTERS III & Refreshments (14 posters)

Friday, August 30th, 2024
08:30 to 11:30	Afternoon Chair: Boris Braverman (University of Toronto)
09:00 to 09:35	Limitations of Noisy Quantum Devices in Computational and Entangling Power Xiongfeng Ma (Tsinghua University)
09:40 to 10:15	Addressing challenges in scaling of trapped ion quantum information processors Dietrich Leibfried (NIST)
10:10 to 10:35	Coffee Break
10:45 to 11:20	The thermodynamics of the quantum Mpemba effect John Goold (Trinity College Dublin)
11:25 to 11:50	Information Fragility or Robustness Under Quantum Channels Graeme Smith (University of Waterloo)
11:55 to 12:20	Quantum phase estimation by compressed sensing Cunlu Zhou (Université de Sherbrooke)
12:15 to 13:45	Lunch (on your own)
13:40 to 16:55	Afternoon Chair: Dvira Segal (University of Toronto)
14:00 to 14:25	Towards quantum simulation of transport phenomena with Rydberg atom arrays Alexandre Cooper-Roy (University of Waterloo),
14:25 to 14:50	Heralded distributed noiseless linear amplification and boosted distillation of entanglement Farzad Ghafari (Griffith University)
14:55 to 15:20	The Role of Bases in Quantum Optimal Control Phila Rembold
15:25 to 15:45	Coffee Break
15:45 to 16:20	Quantum Jump Patterns in Hilbert Space and the Stochastic Operation of Quantum Thermal Machines Gabriel Teixeira Landi (University of Rochester)
16:25 to 16:50	Conference Close + Coffee