Morning session
Click on the link below to listen to keynotes, historical commentaries, and live panel discussion on the Qiskit YouTube channel, starting at 8:30 AM EDT (no registration needed).
QC40 is a one-day virtual event that will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Physics of Computation Conference which was jointly organized by MIT and IBM, and held at the MIT Endicott House in 1981.
The conference was a defining moment in the history of quantum computation. At QC40, we will take a close look at the changes in quantum computing over the past 40 years, with a panel discussion and keynote addresses by attendees from the original conference and pioneers in the field of quantum computing.
The day will also feature academic talks highlighting recent work in quantum information science (more details under “What is QC40?”). The top outstanding talk submissions will be recognized with up to $5,000 grants as a way to contribute to future research.
Time (EDT) | Event |
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08:30 AM | An introduction from Olivia Lanes PhD, experimental researcher and education developer at IBM and Charlie Bennett, physicist, information theorist and IBM Fellow at IBM Research. |
08:45 AM | A series of keynote addresses about quantum information science in the 1980s
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10:30 AM | Break |
10:40 AM | A live panel that will bridge Then and Now. Featuring:
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11:40 AM | The Future of Quantum Hardware (Jerry Chow - IBM) |
12:10 PM | IBM Quantum Leadership remarks |
12:15 PM | Closing remarks and lunch break |
Time (EDT) | Event |
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01:30 PM | Introduction to Track 1 – Contributed Talks on Hardware and Experiment (Sarah Sheldon - IBM) |
01:55 PM | Introduction to Track 2 – Contributed Talks on Theory and Applications (Aram Harrow - MIT) |
02:20 PM | Two parallel tracks (9 contributed talks each). See details below * |
05:30 PM | Networking lounges |
Time (EDT) | Track 1 - Quantum Hardware / Experiment | Track 2 - Quantum Software / Theory / Applications |
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02:20 PM | Demonstration of natural iSWAP gate on fixed-frequency transmon qubits (Kentaro Heya - University of Tokyo / IBM Japan) | The impossibility of Landauer's bound for almost every quantum state (Paul Riechers - Nanyang Technological University) |
02:40 PM | Exploring multi-programming for quantum algorithms (Siyuan Niu - University of Montpellier) | How to learn a quantum state - a.k.a. Private learning implies quantum stability (Yihui Quek - Stanford University) |
03:00 PM | Towards a non-local Bell test with superconducting circuits (Paul Magnard - ETH Zurich/QuDev lab) | Compiler design for distributed quantum computing (Davide Ferrari - University of Parma) |
03:20 PM | Deterministic generation and manipulation of entangled microwave photonic qubits (Jean-Claude Besse - ETH Zurich/QuDev lab) | Hardware efficient search on IBM Q. Non-Abelian quantum search reduces noise. (Vladimir Korepin and Kun Zhang - Stony Brook University) |
03:40 PM | Bifluxon: Fluxon-parity-protected superconducting qubit (Konstantin Kalashnikov - Rutgers University) | An optimal quantum sampling regression algorithm for variational eigensolving in the low qubit number regime (Pedro Rivero - Argonne National Laboratory / Illinois Institute of Technology) |
04:00 PM | 5-minute break | 5-minute break |
04:05 PM | Millimeter-wave photons in cavity-QED systems with Rydberg atoms (Aziza Suleymanzade - University of Chicago) | Strongly universal Hamiltonian simulators (Leo Zhou - Harvard University) |
04:25 PM | A modular quantum computer based on 3-wave mixing (Pinlei Lu - University of Pittsburgh) | New properties of interacting quantum systems with algorithmic applications (Mehdi Soleimanifar - MIT) |
04:45 PM | Efficient and low-backaction quantum measurement using a chip-scale detector (Eric Rosenthal - JILA and the University of Colorado, Boulder) | A unified framework for machine learning using physical systems across classical-to-quantum transition (Saeed Khan - Princeton University) |
05:05 PM | Quantum Simulation using Superconducting Quantum Processors (Amir Karamlou - MIT) | Fundamental physical capabilities and limitations in communication and computing (Lev B. Levitin - Boston University) |
05:25 PM | Closing remarks | Closing remarks |
Click on the link below to listen to keynotes, historical commentaries, and live panel discussion on the Qiskit YouTube channel, starting at 8:30 AM EDT (no registration needed).
Click on the link below to join us on the ON24 platform at 01:30 PM EDT and listen to 2 tracks of contributed talks about hardware, experiment, theory and applications (registration required).
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