This workshop will be held September 20-22, 2018 at Texas A&M University.
The interdisciplinary science of quantum computation has seen rapid development over the last 25 years, encouraged by fundamental progress in computer science, mathematics and physics. Several disparate computation schemes have emerged, including the quantum circuit model, topological quantum computers and quantum annealing machines, contributing to the astonishing breadth of research disciplines with applications to quantum information science.
This workshop will bring together researchers in this quantum information science from physics, computer science and mathematics to provide an overview of the field to interested scientists, discuss the current state of the science, and inspire the next generation of researchers to pursue this topic. The lectures will include one introductory lecture on major themes per day, followed by more technical presentations of the most current directions.
Invited Speakers:
Peter Shor, Henry Adams Morss and Henry Adams Morss Jr. Professor of Applied Math, MIT
*Scott Aaronson, David J. Burton Centennial Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas
Krysta Svore, Principle Research Manager, Microsoft Quantum – Redmond (QuArC), Microsoft Research
Xiao-Gang Wen, Professor, Department of Physics, MIT
*Siu-Hung (Richard) Ng, Professor, Department of Mathematics, LSU
*Helmut Katzgraber, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, TAMU
*Robert Calderbank, Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Computer Science, Duke University
*Steve Simon, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
*Xingshan Cui, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford University
*Fiona Burnell, Assistant Professor, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota
Jeongwan Haah, Theoretical Physicist, Researcher, Microsoft Research
*Xie Chen, Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology
Alexei Kitaev, Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
John Preskill, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology
Michael Freedman, Technical Fellow and Director of Microsoft Quantum – Santa Barbara (Station Q), Microsoft Research
*Parsa Bonderson, Senior Researcher, Theoretical Physics, Microsoft Research
Scott Morrison, Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University
Jon Yard, Associate Professor, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
*Anna Vershynina, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Houston
* Indicates Confirmed
Workshop Organizers:
Eric Rowell, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
Andreas Klappenecker, Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University
Zhenghan Wang, Principle Researcher, Quantum Computing and Technology, Microsoft Research
Bei Zeng, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Guelph
Location and Schedule are TBD
Specific topics will include:
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Quantum Algorithms
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Universal Quantum Computation
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Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers
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Quantum Error-Correction
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Topological Quantum Computation Protocols