Agenda

RQS2024

Monday, June 24, 2024

8:30am - 9:00am - Breakfast (Convocation Room) 

9:00am - 9:45am - Welcome and Institute update (FC101)

9:45am - 10:15am - Research Challenge Overview (FC101)

10:15am - 10:45am - Break

10:45am - 12:15pm - RC1 Presentations (FC101)

  • Marko Cetina (Duke), Comparing Shor and Steane Error Correction Using the Bacon-Shor Code
  • Yi Kai Liu (UMD), Kaixin Huang (UMD): Random Pulse Sequences for Qubit Noise Spectroscopy
  • Zhenning Liu (UMD): Efficiently verifiable quantum advantage on near-term analog quantum simulators

12:15pm - 1:30pm - Lunch

1:30pm - 3:00pm - RC2 Presentations (FC101)

  • Jeff Thompson (Princeton), Hardware efficient error correction with neutral Yb qubits
  • Michael Gullans (UMD), Complexity, Compilation, and Verification of Logical Qubit Random Sampling
  • Grace Sommers (Princeton), Statistical mechanics of quantum codes and circuits

3:00pm - 3:30pm - Break

3:30pm - 4:30pm - Seed Presentations (FC101)

  • 3:30-3:45: Seed: Building Quantum Computing Education Recruitment and Outreach Capacity, Branislav Vlahovic (NCCU) 
  • 3:45-4:00: Seed: Zero noise extrapolation for analogue quantum simulators, Thomas Steckmann (UMD)
  • 4:00-4:15: Seed: Innovative quantum education in science & technology (iQuEST) summer 2024 program, Willie Rockward (MSU) 
  • 4:15-4:30: Seed: Statistical mechanics of coding transitions, Grace Sommers (Princeton)

4:30pm - 5:30pm - Seed Grant Breakout Session (FC101)

4:30pm - 6:30pm - Poster Session (FC Upper Atrium)

6:30pm - Dinner (Nassau Inn)

 

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

8:30am - 9:00am - Breakfast (Convocation Room)

9:00am - 9:45am - Research Presentation (FC101)

  • Lawrence Cheuk (Princeton), Programmable Molecular Arrays for Quantum Science

9:45am - 10:15am - RC3 Presentation (FC101)

  • Alicia Kollár (UMD), Quantum Simulation with Coplanar Waveguide Lattices

10:15am - 10:45am - Break

10:45am - 11:45pm - RC3 Presentations (FC101)

  • Henry Luo (Duke), Real Time String Breaking Dynamics in a Trapped Ion Quantum Simulator
  • Jacob Whitlow (Duke), Quantum Simulation of Conical Intersections using Trapped Ions

11:45pm - 2:00pm - Working Lunch and RC Breakouts

  • RC1 (FC108)
  • RC2 (FC109)
  • RC3 (FC101)

2:00pm - 4:00pm - Education/Outreach Sessions and Lab Tours (Meet in Convocation Room)

  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm - Education and Outreach Group 1/Lab Tours Group 2
  • 3:00pm - 4:00pm - Education and Outreach Group 2/Lab Tours Group 1

4:00pm - 6:00pm - Poster Session (FC Upper Atrium)

6:00pm - Adjourn