QCTIP 2019: Quantum Computing Theory in Practice
26 Oct 2018, by in Sponsored events8 – 10 April 2019
The past two years have seen rapid advances in building increasingly large-scale quantum computers. It is now widely expected that there will be a demonstration, within the coming months, of a device that cannot be simulated by any classical computer (so called ‘quantum computational supremacy’). The prospect of a relatively near-term device capable of a quantum advantage has sparked a huge amount of excitement both in academia and in industry. The conference will cover the central questions in this emerging field, focusing on how to use quantum computers to solve some of the grand challenges of our time, such as drug discovery or the development of energy-efficient industrial processes or new catalysts.
Topics will include quantum simulation, computational quantum chemistry and quantum algorithms for solving optimization problems. We will also invite speakers to talk about practical aspects of quantum programming and running experiments on current and imminent quantum computing hardware. The final theme will look to the future, with talks on scaling up quantum computers and new quantum algorithms.
The conference will include invited and contributed talks, together with a session bringing together end-users with quantum computing experts, and a poster session.
More information will be provided over the coming months.
Keynote Speakers
Iordanis Kerenidis (CNRS, IRIF, Univ Paris Diderot)
Hartmut Neven (Google)
Invited Speakers
Ryan Babbush (Google)
Andrew Childs (University of Maryland)
Eleni Diamanti (CNRS, Sorbonne University)
Aram Harrow (MIT)
Naomi Nickerson (PsiQuantum)
David Poulin (Université de Sherbrooke)
Marcus da Silva (Rigetti)
Ronald de Wolf (CWI)
Accepted Talks
Oscar Higgott, Daochen Wang and Steve Brierley. Variational Quantum Computation of Excited States
Sam McArdle, Xiao Yuan and Simon Benjamin. Error mitigated digital quantum simulation
Joran van Apeldoorn and Andras Gilyen. Quantum algorithms for zero-sum games
* Daniel Litinski. A Game of Surface Codes: Large-Scale Quantum Computing with Lattice Surgery
Joel Wallman and Steve Flammia. Reconstructing Pauli Error Channels
Sergey Bravyi, Dan Browne, Padraic Calpin, Earl Campbell, David Gosset and Mark Howard. Simulation of quantum circuits by low-rank stabilizer decompositions
* Andris Ambainis, Kaspars Balodis, Jānis Iraids, Martins Kokainis, Krišjānis Prūsis and Jevgēnijs Vihrovs. Quantum Speedups for Exponential-Time Dynamic Programming Algorithms
Juan Bermejo-Vega, Dominik Hangleiter, Martin Schwarz, Robert Raussendorf and Jens Eisert. Architectures for quantum simulation showing a quantum speedup
* Two accepted talks (starred) were selected to be presented as invited talks.
Slides
Programme
The programme can be viewed here.The conference dinner will be taking place on Tuesday 9th April at the Bristol Museum with exclusive access to the very special exhibition, Leonardo Da Vinci: A Life in Drawings.
Registration
Please register here
The registration deadline has been extended to 15 March 2019.
Venue
School of Chemistry, Lecture Theatre 2, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS.
The venue can be found using the University’s Google precinct map.
Accommodation
For planning purposes the venue is located within the main University precinct, postcode BS8 1TS. Information on local hotels and average prices can be found here. Alternatively you can find further information on other accommodation options by visiting the Visit Bristol website.
Conference participants may also be interested in the Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop, to be held in Bristol 1 – 3 April 2019. Registration deadline for that workshop is 18th March.
Restaurants
For a list of recommended local restaurants please see here.
Contacts
Organising committee
Steve Brierley (River Lane Research)
Noah Linden (University of Bristol)
Ashley Montanaro (University of Bristol)
Sponsors
We are very grateful to our sponsors:
The Alan Turing Institute
University of Bristol
GCHQ
Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research
Innovate UK
Microsoft
Rigetti
River Lane Research