RIKEN-Vancouver Joint Workshop on Quantum Computing

Name: RIKEN-Vancouver Joint Workshop on Quantum Computing
Start: 2021-08-24T08:30:00+09:00
End: 2021-08-25T13:30:00+09:00
Location: zoom

24 Aug 2021, 08:30 → 25 Aug 2021, 13:30 Asia/Tokyo

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Description

Date & Time:

Aug. 24 - Aug. 25 (Tokyo) starting at 8:30 am
Aug. 23 - Aug. 24 (Vancouver) starting at 4:30 pm

Purpose of the workshop:

The main aim of this workshop is that the quantum people in RIKEN (iTHEMS and RQC) and Vancouver (Quantum BC) get together online to discuss scientific activities and explore future collaborations.

Scientific Program:

DAY 1
Tokyo (8/24)	Vancouver (8/23)	speaker	affiliation	title of the talk

Session I	(chair)	Tetsuo Hatsuda	iTHEMS
08:30am - 08:40am	4:30pm - 4:40pm	Tetsuo Hatsuda	iTHEMS	Welcome + iTHEMS overview
08:40am - 08:50am	4:40pm - 4:50pm	Yasunobu Nakamura	RQC	RQC overview
08:50am - 09:00am	4:50pm - 5:00pm	Joe Salfi	UBC	Quantum BC overview

Session II	(chair)	Neill Lambert	CPR
09:00am - 09:30am	5:00pm - 5:30pm	Shunji Matsuura	1QBit	Accurate state preparation on noisy quantum devices
09:30am - 10:00am	5:30pm - 6:00pm	Olivia Di Matteo	UBC	Operational, gauge-free quantum tomography
10:00am - 10:30am	6:00pm - 6:30pm	Yasunobu Nakamura	RQC	Towards superconducting quantum computing
10:30am - 11:30am	6:30pm - 7:30pm	Breakout rooms

Session III	(chair)	Erika Kawakami	RQC
11:30am - 12:00am	7:30pm - 8:00pm	Jason Chang	iTHEMS	Improving Schroedinger equation implementations with gray code for adiabatic quantum computers
12:00pm - 12:30pm	8:00pm - 8:30pm	Robert Raussendorf	UBC	Computationally universal phase of quantum matter
12:30pm - 1:00pm	8:30pm - 9:00pm	Akira Furusawa	RQC	Large-scale quantum computing with quantum teleportation
1:00pm -	9:00pm -	Breakout rooms

DAY 2
Tokyo (8/25)	Vancouver (8/24)	speaker	affiliation	title

Session IV	(chair)	Shunji Matsuura	1QBit
08:30am - 09:00am	4:30pm - 5:00pm	Etsuko Itou	iTHEMS	Digital quantum simulation for screening and confinement in gauge theory with a topological term
09:00am - 09:30am	5:00pm - 5:30pm	Joe Salfi	UBC	Engineering long coherence times of spin-orbit qubits in silicon
09:30am - 10:00am	5:30pm - 6:00pm	Seiji Yunoki	RQC	Quantum simulations for quantum many-body systems: Variational quantum algorithms and beyond
10:00am - 11:00am	6:00pm - 7:00pm	Breakout rooms

Session V	(chair)	Joe Salfi	UBC
11:00am - 11:30am	7:00pm - 7:30pm	Takumi Doi	iTHEMS	Hybrid quantum annealing via molecular dynamics
11:30am - 12:00pm	7:30pm - 8:00pm	Drew Potter	UBC	Simulating highly-entangled matter with quantum tensor networks
12:00pm - 12:30pm	8:00pm - 8:30pm	Seigo Tarucha	RQC	High-fidelity quantum gates in silicon quantum computing
12:30pm - 12:35pm	8:30pm - 8:35pm	Yasunobu Nakamura	RQC	Closing
12:35pm -	8:35pm -	Breakout rooms