WORKSHOP AGENDA

All times PT

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SEPTEMBER 16 (LIVE LINKS ADDED BELOW)

9:00 AM – 9:20 AM

Opening Remarks (LINK)

University of Washington Provost Mark Richards and Associate Professor Kai-Mei Fu

9:30 AM – 10:20 AM

It starts in the lab – controlling instruments and acquiring data with QCoDeS. (LINK)

William Nielsen (MSFT)

10:20 AM – 11:10 AM

Quantum Programming for Controlling Experiments and Expressing Algorithms (LINK)

Ken Brown (Duke University)

11:10 AM – 12:10 PM

Breakout Rooms – Open Topic Discussions:

  • Quantum Programming in Experiments (LINK)
  • Quantum Programming in Theory (LINK)
  • Quantum Programming in the Classroom (LINK)

12:10 PM – 1:00 PM

Programming a Train Track While You’re on the Train (LINK)

Dave Bacon (Google)

1:00 PM – 1:50 PM

Software at Gate Set Tomography (LINK)

Erik Nielsen (Sandia National Laboratory)

1:50PM – 2:20 PM

Breakout Rooms – Open Topic Discussions:

  • Quantum Programming in Experiments (LINK)
  • Quantum Programming in Theory (LINK)
  • Quantum Programming in the Classroom (LINK)

2:20 PM – 3:10 PM

Teaching Quantum Computing Through a Practical Software-Driven Approach Using Microsoft QDK (LINK)

Mariia Mykhailova (MSFT)

3:10 PM – 4:00 PM

Flipped Seminar  (LINK)

Chris Ferrie (UTS)

4:00 PM

Adjourn

SEPTEMBER 17

9:00 AM – 9:50 AM

“Hack” in the Classroom – A Perspective From Teaching 120+ Students on Multiple Systems and Using Multiple Languages (LINK)

Jens Palsberg (UCLA)

9:50 AM – 10:40 AM

Quantum Computing – Research Perspectives and Funding/Education Programs (LINK)

Margaret Martonosi (NSF)

10:40 AM – 11:40 AM

Breakout Rooms – Open Topic Discussions:

  • Quantum Programming in Experiments (LINK)
  • Quantum Programming in Theory (LINK)
  • Quantum Programming in the Classroom (LINK)

11:40 AM – 12:30 PM

Use of Quantum Programming for Algorithm Testing and Assessment (LINK)

Yuan Su (UMD/CalTech)

12:30 PM – 1:20 PM

Introduction to Microsoft Quantum Development Kit Libraries (LINK)

Guen Prawiroatmodjo (MSFT)

1:20 PM – 1:50 PM

Breakout Rooms – Open Topic Discussions:

  • Quantum Programming in Experiments (LINK)
  • Quantum Programming in Theory (LINK)
  • Quantum Programming in the Classroom (LINK)

1:50 PM – 2:40 PM

Visualization – Building Tools for Intuitive QPU Programming (With live demos of Teleportation and Shor) (LINK)

Eric Johnston (PSI Quantum)

2:40 PM – 4:00 PM

Student Poster Session – Lightning Round Followed by Individual Poster Breakout Rooms (Accommodate N&S American Timezones) (LINK)

Poster Session 1 – Raphael Koh – Staring into the soul of a Q# program (LINK)

Poster Session 2 – Parth Shroff – Simulating Quantum Physics and Quantum Computer Science Phenomena using a Virtual Quantum Optics Laboratory (VQOL) (LINK)

Poster Session 3 – Hector Hernandez Corzo – Learning Potentials of Quantum Systems by Deep Neural Networks (LINK)

Poster Session 4 – Xiruo Yan – A Quantum Computer Architecture Based on Silicon Donor Qubits Coupled by Photons (LINK)

Poster Session 5 – Francisco Delgado – Indefinite causal order performance in quantum communication on generic Pauli channels (LINK)

Poster Session 6 – Carlos Cardoso-Isidoro – Indefinite causal order enhances quantum teleportation (LINK)

4:00 PM

Adjourn

SEPTEMBER 18

9:00 AM – 10:10 AM

Student Poster Session – Lightning Round Followed by Individual Poster Breakout Rooms (Accommodate European and APAC Timezones) (LINK)

Poster Session 1 – Zeki C. Seskir – Assessing the effectiveness of Teaching Quantum Computing Through a Hands-on Quantum Programming Workshop (LINK)

Poster Session 2 – Utkarsh Azad – Electronic Energy Calculations using Hybrid Quantum-Classical Algorithms (LINK)

Poster Session 3 – Luis Jiménez Navajas – Reverse engineering of quantum programs toward KDM models (LINK)

Poster Session 4 – Anthony Ciavarella – Quantum Computation of Particle Decays (LINK)

Poster Session 5 – Christopher Kang – Extending the Scale of Exact Molecular Simulations Via Memory-Efficient Quantum Phase Estimation (LINK)

10:10 AM – 11:00 AM

Resource Estimation – Using Q# and the Extension Possibilities Through Custom Simulators or Rewriting Steps (LINK)

Mathias Soeken (MSFT/EFPL)

11:00 AM – 11:50 AM

Design, Properties and Programming of Trapped-Ion Quantum Information Processors (LINK)

Peter Maunz (IONQ)

11:50 AM – 12:50 PM

Breakout Rooms – Open Topic Discussions:

  • Quantum Programming in Experiments (LINK)
  • Quantum Programming in Theory (LINK)
  • Quantum Programming in the Classroom (LINK)

12:50 PM – 1:40 PM

Using IBM Qiskit for Quantum Algorithm Benchmarking and High-School Outreach (LINK)

Edwin Barnes (Virginia Tech)

1:40 PM – 2:30 PM

The Virtual Quantum Optics Laboratory Tool (VQOL) (LINK)

Brian La Cour (UT – Austin)

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Breakout Rooms – Open Topic Discussions:

  • Quantum Programming in Experiments (LINK)
  • Quantum Programming in Theory (LINK)
  • Quantum Programming in the Classroom (LINK)

3:30 PM

Adjourn