2nd DQC Annual Conference

16 - 17 May 2024
Room 611 (Gabor Seminar Room - Level 6), EEE Building
Imperial College London

The main objective of the DQC Annual Conference is to engage partners and members in the wider research community and disseminate the project’s research outcomes.
This conference will be a two-day event, which will take place on 16 and 17 May 2024 at Imperial College.
Industrial and academic partners will be invited to give talks and exchange ideas on topics relevant to the project.

Tentative Conference Schedule

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Confirmed Speakers

  • Prof Sabrina Maniscalco, Co-founder and CEO, Algorithmiq Ltd, Finland
  • Prof Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
  • Prof Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
  • Prof Alexander Lvovsky, University of Oxford, UK
  • Tracy Keys, Joint Head of Quantum Technologies, EPSRC UKRI
  • Prof Thomas Melham, University of Oxford, UK (EPSRC-RoaRQ Project)
  • Dr Michael Hart, Queen's University Belfast, UK (EPSRC-RoaRQ Project)
  • Prof Martin Weides, Univeristy of Glasgow, UK (EPSRC-EPIQC Project)
  • Prof Wayne Luk, Imperial College London, UK
  • Marco Paini, Rigetti Computing, UK

Day 1 (16 May 2024)

09:00 - 10:00 Tea/Coffee Reception
10:00 Welcoming Remarks (Kin Leung and Myungshik Kim)
10:00 - 10:30 Tracy Keys (Joint Head of Quantum Technologies, EPSRC)
"EPSRC Strategy for Quantum Technologies"
10:30 - 11:00 Prof Lajos Hanzo (University of Southampton)
"On mitigating decoherence"
11:00 - 11:30 Prof Wayne Luk (Imperial College)
"Simulating quantum circuits"
11:30 - 11:45 Tea/Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:15 Prof Martin Weides (University of Glasgow)
"Interfacing cryogenic quantum computing hardware: an update from the EPIQC consortium"
12:15 - 12:45 Dr Michael Hart (Queen’s University Belfast) and Prof Tom Melham (University of Oxford)
"The RoaRQ Programme and Entanglement-Aware Quantum Circuit Cutting and Reconstruction"
12:45 - 14:00 Onsite Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 Prof Sabrina Maniscalco (Co-founder and CEO, Algorithmiq Ltd, Finland)
Keynote Talk: "Scalability of quantum error mitigation techniques: from utility to advantage"
14:45 - 15:30 Prof Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Keynote Talk: "A Connectionless Architecture for the Quantum Internet" [online talk]
15:30 - 16:00 Tea/Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30 Prof Alexander Lvovsky (University of Oxford)
"Optical Neural Networks: Promises and Challenges"
16:30 - 17:00 Marco Paini (Rigetti Computing)
"An efficient readout error mitigation technique - theory and a few results"
18:00 - 21:00
Dinner @ Coco Momo, Kensington

Day 2 (17 May 2024) - DQC-App Project Talks

09:30 - 10:00 Tea/Coffee Reception
10:00 DQC-App project introduction (Kin Leung and Myungshik Kim)
10:00 - 10:30 Investigator: Myungshik Kim
Michael Hanks – "Modelling Noise in Modular Systems"
10:30 - 11:00 Investigator: Ian Walmsley
Sarah Thomas – "Multi-mode telecom quantum memories"
11:00 - 11:30 Investigator: George Zervas
John Stack – "Random Circuit Sampling on Simulated Distributed Quantum Computers"
Yanwu Liu - "Free Space Optical Switches with Applications to Distributed Quantum Computing"
11:30 - 11:45 Tea/Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:15 Investigator: Kin Leung
Felix Burt – "Circuit Partitioning for Distributed Quantum Computing"
12:15 - 12:45 Investigators: Mario Berta and Roberto Bondesan
Richard Meister – "Algorithmic Shadow Spectroscopy"
12:45 - 13:30 Onsite Lunch
13:30 - 14:00 Investigator: Jack Jacquier
Rita Ahmadi – "The ZX-Calculus for General Spin Net Models"
14:00 - 14:30 Investigator: Silvain Laizet
Peter Brearley – "A Quantum Algorithm for Solving the Advection Equation using Hamiltonian Simulation"
Josh Dees - "Unsupervised Random Quantum Networks for Partial Differential Equations"
14:30 - 16:00 DQC-App Advisory Committee Meeting (Internal - DQC Project members only)