Program

All General Sessions will be held in Oneill/Williams, Conference Center

Saturday Program

7:30am - 8:20amBreakfast, Registration & Conference Check-in -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby, and Oneill/Williams (Breakfast)
8:20am - 8:30amOpening Remarks

SESSION 1: Superconducting qubits and quantum computational supremacy

Chair: Carlton Caves (University of New Mexico)
8:30am - 9:20amJohn Martinis (Google and University of California, Santa Barbara) (invited)
Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
9:20am - 10:00amSergio Boixo (Google ) (invited)
Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
10:00am - 10:30amBreak -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby

SESSION 2: Near-term quantum devices and implementations

Chair: Justin Dressel (Chapman)
10:30am - 11:00amSam Gunn (University of Texas, Austin), Scott Aaronson
On the classical hardness of spoofing linear cross-entropy benchmarking
11:00am - 11:30amEleanor Rieffel (NASA - Ames Research Center), NASA QuAIL team
Utilizing NISQ devices for evaluating quantum algorithms
11:30am - 12:00pmHristo Djidjev (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Elijah Pelofske, Georg Hahn
Peering into the anneal process of a quantum annealer
12:00pm - 1:30pmLunch Buffet -- Oneill/Williams

SESSION 3: Quantum characterization and benchmarking

Chair: Robin Blume-Kohout (Sandia)
1:30pm - 2:15pmSteven Flammia (University of Sydney) (invited)
Efficient learning of quantum noise
2:15pm - 2:45pmSeth Merkel (IBM)
Benchmarking near-term quantum computers
2:45pm - 3:15pmJoseph Emerson (University of Waterloo, Quantum Benchmark Inc.), Joel Wallman, Dar Dahlen, Ian Hincks
Full reconstruction of all correlated errors in large-scale quantum computers
3:15pm - 3:45pmBreak -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby

SESSION 4: Solid-state implementations

Chair: Thaddeus Ladd (HRL)
3:45pm - 4:30pmAlicia Kollar (University of Maryland, College Park) (invited)
Band engineering for quantum simulation in circuit QED
4:30pm - 5:00pmMattias Fitzpatrick (Princeton University), Zhiyang Yuan, Nathalie P. de Leon
Charge state instabilities in shallow NV centers for quantum sensing

SESSION 5: Poster Session and Reception

5:00pm - 7:00pmPoster Session and Reception (Refreshments and bar sponsored by TOPTICA) -- Hellman/Wilder

SESSION 5: Workshop attendees may also view posters on Sunday and Monday

SQuInT Chief Organizer
Akimasa Miyake, Associate Professor
amiyake@unm.edu

SQuInT Co-Organizer
Brian Smith, Associate Professor UO
bjsmith@uoregon.edu

SQuInT Program Committee
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Markus Allgaier (UO OMQ)
Sayonee Ray (UNM CQuIC)
Pablo Poggi (UNM CQuIC)
Valerian Thiel (UO OMQ)

SQuInT Event Co-Organizers (Oregon)
Jorjie Arden
jarden@uoregon.edu
Holly Lynn
hollylyn@uoregon.edu

SQuInT Event Administrator (Oregon)
Brandy Todd

SQuInT Administrator (CQuIC)
Gloria Cordova
gjcordo1@unm.edu
505 277-1850

SQuInT Founder
Ivan Deutsch, Regents' Professor, CQuIC Director
ideutsch@unm.edu

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