Aspen Winter Conference: Advances in Quantum Algorithms and Computation March 11-17, 2018 PROGRAM

SUNDAY - March 11

5:00 – 7:00 Opening Reception – Aspen Center for

MONDAY - March 12 8:00 – 8:10 Welcome

8:10 – 8:50 Alexandre Blais – “Qubit parity measurements in circuit QED

8:50 – 9:30 Ken Brown – “Compass model codes”

9:30 – 9:50 COFFEE BREAK

9:50- 10:30 Daniel Lidar – “Error suppression for Hamiltonian quantum computation”

MIDDAY BREAK

4:20 – 5:00 Aleksandr Kubica– “Advantages of versatile neural-network decoders for topological codes”

5:00 – 5:40 Jonathan Home – “Error-correction primitives with trapped ions”

5:40 – 6:00 COFFEE BREAK

6:00 – 7:00 Panel Discussion on scaling quantum computers to 1000 qubits and beyond

TUESDAY - March 13 8:00- 8:40 Damian Steiger – “ProjectQ – Software for ”

8:40 – 9:20 Chris Granade – “Quantum Linguistic Relativity”

9:20 – 9:40 COFFEE BREAK

9:40 – 10:20 Andrew King – “Observation of topological phenomena in a programmable lattice of 1,800 qubits”

10:20 – 10:40 Naomi Nickerson – “Almost-linear decoding algorithm for topological codes”

MIDDAY BREAK

4:15 – 4:55 Srinivasan Arunachalam– “Strengths and weaknesses of quantum examples for learning”

4:55 – 5:35 Thorvald Larsen – “Development of Superconducting Qubit Circuits to Coherently Probe Majorana Zero Modes”

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5:35 –– 7:00 Poster Session

WEDNESDAY - March 14 8:00 – 8:40 David Poulin – “Fast quantum algorithms for spectral properties”

8:40 – 9:20 Robin Kothari – “Quantum algorithm for simulating real time evolution of lattice Hamiltonians”

9:20 – 9:40 COFFEE BREAK

9:40- 10:20 Kristan Temme – “Error Mitigation for Short-Depth Quantum Circuits”

10:20 – 10:40 Ian Kivlichan– “Quantum Simulation of Electronic Structure with Linear Depth and Connectivity”

1:00 – 3:00 Ski Race – Aspen Mountain

MIDDAY BREAK

4:30 – 5:30 Physics Café, Wheeler Opera House

5:30 – 6:30 Public Lecture, Wheeler Opera House

THURSDAY - March 15 8:00 – 8:40 Hidetoshi Nishimori – “Exponential Speedup of by Inhomogeneous Driving of the Transverse Field”

8:40 – 9:20 Helmut Katzgraber– “Quantum-driven classical optimization”

9:20 – 9:40 COFFEE BREAK

9:40 – 10:20 Isaac Kim – “Noise-resilient quantum circuits”

10:20 – 10:40 Jarrod McClean– “On the dusty road towards practical NISQ simulations in chemistry and beyond”

MIDDAY BREAK

4:15 – 4:55 Vadim Smelyanskiy – “Multi-fractal states of transverse field quantum spin models and population transfer algorithm”

4:55 – 5:35 Andreas Wallraff – “An Architecture for Deterministic Quantum State Transfer and Generation of Remote Entanglement in Superconducting Circuits”

5:35 – 5:50 COFFEE BREAK

5:50 – 7:00 Panel Discussion on quantum machine learning

7:30 Banquet Dinner – Aspen Meadows

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FRIDAY - March 16 8:00 – 8:40 Tomas Jochym-O'Connor – “The disjointness of stabilizer codes and limitations on fault- tolerant logical gates”

8:40 – 9:20 Andras Gilyen – “Optimizing quantum optimization algorithms via faster quantum gradient computation”

9:20 – 9:40 COFFEE BREAK

9:40 – 10:20 Sergio Boixo – “Advances in experimental quantum supremacy”

10:20 – 10:40 Natalie Klco – “Quantum+Classical: heterogeneous calculations of Schwinger model dynamics”

MIDDAY BREAK

4:15 – 4:55 Barbara Jones – “Calculations of molecules and physics models on a small quantum computer”

4:55– 5:35 Nick Rubin – “Geometry of fermionic marginals and hybrid quantum algorithms”

5:35 – 5:50 COFFEE BREAK

5:50 – 6:10 Sean Hallgren – “On Basing One-way Permutations on NP-hard Problems under Quantum Reductions”

6:10 – 6:50 Mikhail Lukin – “Exploring many-body dynamics on 51-atom quantum simulator”

SATURDAY - March 17

8:30 – 10:30 Discussion: Future applications of quantum computing and important open problems

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