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 4 and 5 June 2025 at Imperial College.
Industrial and academic partners will be invited to give talks and exchange ideas on topics relevant to the project.
3rd DQC Annual Conference
4 - 5 June 2025
Room 611 (Gabor Seminar Room - Level 6), EEE Building
Imperial College London
Confirmed Speakers
- Prof. Osvaldo Simeone, King's College London, UK
- Prof. Florian Mintert, Imperial College London, UK
- Mr Adrian Wonfor, University of Cambridge, UK
- Dr Alejandra Beghelli, BT, UK
- Dr Joseph Goodwin, University of Oxford, UK
- Dr Stavroula Kapoulea, University of Glasgow (EPICQ project), UK
- Dr Nitish K. Panigrahy, Binghamton University, USA
- Dr Jessica Wade, Imperial College, UK
- Prof. Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
Conference Schedule
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Day 1 (4 June 2025)
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Tea/Coffee Reception |
| 10:00 | Welcoming Remarks (Kin Leung and Myungshik Kim) |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Dr Joseph Goodwin, University of Oxford, UK "Maximally modular quantum computation via cavity-mediated ion-photon networks" |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Prof. Osvaldo Simeone, King's College London, UK "Efficient and Reliable Quantum Machine Learning" |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Tea/Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Prof. Florian Mintert, Imperial College London, UK "Optimal control of ion shuttling and state preparation with quantum invariants" |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Prof. Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK "On the Cleansing Power of Quantum Codes" |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Onsite Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Adrian Wonfor, University of Cambridge, UK "The UK Quantum Network" |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Dr Stavroula Kapoulea, University of Glasgow (EPICQ project), UK "Cryoelectronics for Scalable Qubit Control & Readout" |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Dr Jessica Wade, Imperial College, UK "The Centre for Quantum Engineering, Science and Technology at Imperial" |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Tea/Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Dr Alejandra Beghelli, BT, UK "Quantum research at BT" |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Dr Nitish K. Panigrahy, Binghamton University, USA (online) "Scheduling in Quantum Satellite Networks: Fairness and Performance Optimization" |
| 18:00 - 21:00 |
Dinner @ Ognisko Polskie |
Day 2 (5 June 2025) - 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 – "Using 'Faulty' States in Cat Code Error Correction" |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Investigator: Ian Walmsley Shang Yu - "Experimental Realization of Distributed Photonic Quantum Computing" |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Investigators: George Zervas and Alfonso Ruocco Victor Virag - "Free-space optics switch development for distributed quantum computing" |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Tea/Coffee Break |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Investigator: Kin Leung Felix Burt - "Partitioning Quantum Circuits across Quantum Networks" Louis Chen - "Distribution Quantum Algorithms and Applications" |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | Investigators: Mario Berta and Roberto Bondesan Stepan Smid - "Polynomial Time Quantum Gibbs Sampling for Fermi-Hubbard model at any Temperature" |
| 12:45 - 13:15 | Investigator: Jack Jacquier Jack Jacquier - "From Machine Learning to Quantum Machine Learning" |
| 13:15 - 14:00 | Onsite Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Investigator: Silvain Laizet Peter Brearley - "Quantum circuits for transport in shear flows" |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | DQC-App Future Work Planning (Internal - DQC Project members only) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | DQC-App Advisory Committee Meeting (Internal - DQC Project members only) |