Monday, May 4, 2026 |
| 8:50am |
Lars Bildsten (KITP)
Murphy Niu (UCSB) |
Welcome[Video] |
| 9:00am |
Michel Devoret (UCSB) |
Title TBA[Embargoed] |
| 9:45am |
Kater Murch (Washington U , StL) |
Beyond Unitary Gates: Exploiting Measurement and Dissipation for Quantum Advantage[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
William Oliver (MIT) |
Emulating the Bose-Hubbard Model with Arrays of Superconducting Qubits[Video][CC] |
| 11:45am |
Daniel Lidar (USC) |
Demonstrations of Quantum Speedup[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Edward Farhi (MIT) |
An update on the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm[Video][CC] |
| 2:45pm |
Sarang Gopalakrishnan (Princeton) |
Postselection as a scalable resource[Video][CC] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Hsin Yuan Huang (Caltech) |
Exponential quantum advantage in processing massive classical data[Video][CC] |
| 4:45pm |
Jason Cong (UCLA) |
FT-Weave: Real-time Compilation for Transversal Partial FTQC Architectures[Video][CC] |
| 5:30pm |
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Tuesday, May 5, 2026 |
| 9:00am |
Mikhail Lukin (Harvard) |
Exploring quantum dynamics with analog, digital and fault tolerant quantum systems[Video][CC] |
| 9:45am |
Alexei Bylinskii (Quera Computing) |
Science With Programmable Neutral Atom Quantum Computers[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Yulong Dong (Michigan) |
Programmable Quantum Signal Design for Phase Estimation and Sensing[Video][CC] |
| 11:45am |
Lin Lin (UCB) |
Probing quantum phase transitions through short-time dissipative dynamics[Video][CC] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Zohreh Davoudi (Maryland) |
Quantum Simulation of Quantum Field Theories of Nature: Bridging Now and the Fault-tolerant Era[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 2:45pm |
Norbert Linke (Maryland) |
Hybrid quantum simulation with qubits and phonon modes in trapped ions[Video][CC] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Philipp Schindler (U Innsbruck and IQOQI) |
Beyond Qubits with trapped ions[Video][CC] |
| 4:45pm |
All Conference Participants |
BGM Round Table Discussion[Video][CC] |
| 5:30pm |
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| 6:00pm |
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| 7:30pm |
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Wednesday, May 6, 2026 |
| 9:00am |
Trond Andersen (Google Research) |
Directly probing quasiparticles on a hybrid analog-digital quantum simulator[Embargoed] |
| 9:45am |
Antonio Mezzacapo (IBM) |
Accelerated Quantum Supercomputing[Video][CC] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Andrew Potter (UBC) |
Programmable quantum matter at the frontier of classical simulations[Video][CC] |
| 11:45am |
Jason Petta (UCLA) |
Simultaneous exchange coupling of spins in quantum dot arrays[Video][CC] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Yuan Liu (NC State) |
Quantum advantage of hybrid continuous-discrete-variable quantum computing[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 2:45pm |
Tathagata Karmakar (Berkeley) |
Convergence and schedule optimization of multi-channel quantum Zeno dragging with application to k-SAT
problems[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
All |
Poster Session |
| 4:45pm |
All |
Poster Session |
| 5:30pm |
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| 6:00pm |
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| 7:30pm |
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Thursday, May 7, 2026 |
| 9:00am |
Monika Schleier Smith (Stanford) |
Decoded Quantum Sensing with Cavity-Coupled and Dipolar Spins[Video][CC] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Jiaqi Leng (UCB) |
(Towards) Super-Polynomial Quantum Speedups in Optimization via Continuous Relaxation[Video][CC] |
| 11:45am |
Jens Palsberg (UCLA) |
Scalable Testing of Quantum Error Correction[Video][CC] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Edwin Barnes (Virginia Tech) |
Quantum control, error mitigation, and quantum speed limits[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 2:45pm |
Sophia Economou (Virginia Tech) |
Co-ADAPT-VQE: A codesigned adaptive quantum algorithm[Video][CC] |
| 3:30pm |
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