Quantum Information Science and Technology Workshop
The QIST workshop is designed to bring together a diverse group of researchers working on various aspects of quantum information spanning across computation, communication, precision measurements, and sensing applications.
Time: Monday, 04/29, 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM. The talks will start at 9:00 AM.
Location: Marriot Center, Hotel UMass (1 Campus Center Way, Amherst, MA 01003)
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner are covered.
List of speakers:
Chen Wang, Department of Physics, UMass Amherst, “Quantum error correction with superconducting microwave cavities”
Warit Asavanant, University of Tokyo and RIKEN, “How to build an optical quantum computer”
Robert Niffeneggar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMass Amherst, “Qubit operations with visible photonic lasers for portable and scalable quantum systems”
Mehdi Namazi, CEO Qunnect, “TBA”
James Teoh, Quantum Circuits, Inc., “TBA”
Stefan Krastanov, Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst, “Faster-than-Clifford Simulations of Entanglement Purification Circuits and Their Full-stack Optimization”
Don Towsley, Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst, “TBA”
Taqi Raza, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMass Amherst, “Formal Analysis of Quantum Security Protocols”
Filip Rozpedek, Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst, Quantum repeaters based on concatenated bosonic and discrete variable quantum codes
Kan Takase, University of Tokyo and RIKEN, “How to generate logical qubits in optical traveling wave?”
Akito Kawasaki, University of Tokyo, “Broadband observation of quantum states using optical phase sensitive amplification”
Kazuma Takahashi, University of Tokyo, “Non-Gaussian States Generation Using a High-Speed Single-Pixel Superconducting Nano-Strip Photon-Number-Resolving Detector”
Nicolas Quesada, École Polytechnique de Montréal, “Linear cross-entropy certification of quantum computational advantage in Gaussian Boson Sampling”
Martin Houde, École Polytechnique de Montréal, “Perfect pulsed inline twin-beam squeezers”
Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Cornell and NTT Research, “Non-Gaussian quantum physics of mesoscopic nonlinear optics: from phenomenology to function”
