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QIP 2018 | Conference schedule

Invited speakers:

Carl Caves | University of New Mexico
Title: Quantum Gerrymandering: Positivity, Bias, and Anisotropy Among Quantum States

Boaz Barak | Harvard University
Title: Entangling Algorithms and Proofs

John Martinis | Google/UCSB
Title: The Quantum Supremacy Benchmark: Improving Qubit Quantity and Quality at the Same Time

Tutorial speakers:

Michael Bremner | University of Technology, Sydney
Title: The Complexity of Quantum Sampling Problems

Ronald de Wolf | CWI, University of Amsterdam
Title: Quantum Learning Theory

Christian Schaffner | CWI/QuSoft, Amsterdam
Title: Quantum Cryptography beyond Quantum Key Distribution

Wolfgang Lechner | IQOQI, Innsbruck
Title: Quantum Simulation

For more information regarding the conference program & schedule, click here.

Scientific program QIP 2018

Location | Quantum Information Processing 2018
Aula Conference Centre
Building 20
Mekelweg 5
2628 CC  DELFT

Saturday, January 13
All tutorials will take place in Auditorium

08.30 – 09.30  Registration
Location: Ground floor

Session chair   Barbara Terhal
09.30 – 10.30  Tutorial Ronald de Wolf | Title: Quantum Learning Theory

10.30 – 11.00  Coffee break | Location: Foyer

11.00 – 12.00  Tutorial Ronald de Wolf | Title: Quantum Learning Theory

12.00 – 14.00  Lunch break | Location: Foyer

Session chair  Laura Mancinska
14.00 – 15.00  Tutorial Wolfgang Lechner | Title: Quantum Simulation

15.00 – 15.30  Coffee/tea break | Location: Foyer

15.30 – 16.30  Tutorial Wolfgang Lechner | Title: Quantum Simulation

Sunday, January 14
All tutorials will take place in Auditorium

Session chair  Earl Campbell
09.30 – 10.30  Tutorial Michael Bremner | Title: The Complexity of Quantum Sampling Problems

10.30 – 11.00  Coffee break | Location: Foyer

11.00 – 12.00  Tutorial Michael Bremner | Title: The Complexity of Quantum Sampling Problems

12.00 – 14.00  Lunch break | Location: Foyer

Session chair  Dorit Aharonov
14.00 – 15.00  Tutorial Christian Schaffner | Title: Quantum Cryptography beyond QKD

15.00 – 15.30  Coffee/tea break | Location: Foyer

15.30 – 16.30  Tutorial Christian Schaffner | Title: Quantum Cryptography beyond QKD

16.30 – 18.30  Welcome reception & registration | Location: Foyer & Ground floor

Monday, January 15

08.00 – 08.45  Registration | Location: Ground floor

08.45 – 09.00  Opening by Ronald Hanson | Location: Auditorium

Session chair  Aram Harrow
09.00 – 10.00  Plenary talk I | Location: Auditorium
Sergey Bravyi, David Gosset and Robert Koenig.
Title: Quantum advantage with shallow circuits.

10.00 – 10.40  Coffee Break | Location: Foyer

Session chair  David Gross
10:40 – 11:15   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Merge of
Ivan Bardet and Cambyse Rouzé.
Title: The logarithmic Sobolev Inequality for non-primitive quantum
Markov semigroups and estimation of decoherence rates.

With Ivan Bardet.
Title: Estimating the decoherence time using non-commutative Functional Inequalities.

Session chair  Stacey Jeffery
10:40 – 11:15   Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Andrew M. Childs, Dmitri Maslov, Yunseong Nam, Neil J. Ross and Yuan Su.
Title: Toward the first quantum simulation with quantum speedup.

Session chair  David Gross
11:15 – 11:50   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Christopher Cedzich, Tobias Geib, F. Alberto Grünbaum, Christoph Stahl,
Luis Velázquez, Albert H. Werner and Reinhard F. Werner.
Title: The topological classification of one-dimensional symmetric quantum walks.

Session chair  Stacey Jeffery
11:15 – 11:50   Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Ryan Babbush, Nathan Wiebe, Jarrod McClean, James McClain,
Hartmut Neven and Garnet Chan.
Title: Low Depth Quantum Simulation of Electronic Structure.

Session chair  David Gross
11:50 – 12:25   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Samuel Leutheusser, Jim Bryan, Zinovy Reichstein, and Mark Van Raamsdonk.
Title: Locally Maximally Entangled States of Multipart Quantum Systems.

Session chair  Stacey Jeffery
11:50 – 12:25   Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Yimin Ge, Jordi Tura Brugués and J. Ignacio Cirac.
Title: Faster ground state preparation and high-precision ground energy estimation on a quantum computer.

12.25 – 14.00  Lunch break

Session chair  Norbert Schuch
14:00 – 14:35   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Ciarán Lee and John Selby.
Title: A no-go theorem for theories that decohere to quantum mechanics.

Session chair  Scott Aaronson
14:00 – 14:35   Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Gorjan Alagic, Yfke Dulek, Florian Speelman and Christian Schaffner.
Title: Quantum Fully Homomorphic Encryption With Verification.

Session chair  Norbert Schuch
14:35 – 15:10   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Sisi Zhou, Mengzhen Zhang, John Preskill and Liang Jiang.
Title: Achieving the Heisenberg limit in quantum metrology using quantum error correction.

Session chair  Scott Aaronson
14:35 – 15:10   Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Andrea Coladangelo, Alex Bredariol Grilo, Stacey Jeffery and Thomas Vidick.
Title: Verifier-on-a-Leash: new schemes for verifiable  delegated quantum computation, with quasilinear resources.

15.10 – 15.50  Coffee/Tea break | Location: Foyer

Session chair  Raul Garcia-Patron
15:50 – 16:50   Plenary talk II | Location: Auditorium
Alex Neville, Chris Sparrow, Raphael Clifford, Eric Johnston, Patrick Birchall, Ashley Montanaro and
Anthony Laing; and Peter Clifford and Raphael Clifford.
Title: Classical boson sampling algorithms and the outlook for experimental boson sampling.

16.50 – 18.30  Riggetti Poster session I
Location: Senaatszaal, Commissiekamer 3 and vide 2 (second floor)

18.30   Free Time

Tuesday, January 16

Session Chair Steve Flammia
09.00 – 10.00  Invited talk I | Location: Auditorium
Carl Caves
Title: Quantum Gerrymandering: Positivity, Bias, and Anisotropy Among Quantum States.

10.00 – 10.40  Coffee break | Location: Foyer

10.10 – 10.40  Mentoring Sessions (optional: students only) | Location: Commissiekamer 2

Session Chair Steve Flammia
10:40 – 11:15 Session A | Location: Auditorium
Earl Campbell
Title: Shorter gate sequences for quantum computing by mixing unitaries.

Session Chair Matthias Christandl
10:40 – 11:15  Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Andrea Coladangelo, Koon Tong Goh and Valerio Scarani.
Title: All pure bipartite entangled states can be self-tested.

Session Chair Steve Flammia
11:15 – 11:50  Session A | Location: Auditorium
Rui Chao and Ben Reichardt.
Title: Fault-tolerant quantum computation with few qubits.

Session Chair Matthias Christandl
11:15 – 11:50  Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Anand Natarajan and Thomas Vidick.
Title: Low-degree testing for quantum states.

Session Chair Steve Flammia
11:50 – 12:25  Session A | Location: Auditorium
Tomas Jochym-O’Connor, Aleksander Kubica and Theodore Yoder.
Title: The disjointness of stabilizer codes and limitations on fault-tolerant logical gates.

Session Chair Matthias Christandl
11:50 – 12:25  Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Jalex Stark and Andrea Coladangelo.
Title: Robust self-testing for linear constraint system games.

12.25 – 14.00  Lunch break | Location: Foyer

Session chair  Norbert Schuch
14:00 – 14:35  Session A | Location: Auditorium
Daniel Grier and Luke Schaeffer.
Title: The Classification of Clifford Gates over Qubits.

Session chair  Harry Buhrman
14:00 – 14:35   Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Debbie Leung, Ashwin Nayak, Ala Shayeghi, Dave Touchette, Penghui Yao and Nengkun Yu.
Title: Capacity Approaching Codes for Low Noise Interactive Quantum Communication.

Session chair  Norbert Schuch
14:35 – 15:10   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Sepehr Nezami, David Gross and Michael Walter.
Title: Schur-Weyl Duality for the Clifford Group, Quantum Property Testing, and a Robust Hudson Theorem.

Session chair  Harry Buhrman
14:35 – 15:10   Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Ken Dykema, Vern I. Paulsen and Jitendra Prakash.
Title: Non-closure of the set of quantum correlations via graphs.

15.10 – 15.50  Coffee/Tea break | Location: Foyer

Session chair  Omar Fawzi
15:50 – 16:50   Plenary talk III and best student paper prize | Location: Auditorium
Geoffrey Penington and Patrick Hayden.
Title: Approximate Quantum Error Correction Revisited: Introducing the Alphabit.

16.50 – 18.30   Poster session II | Location: Senaatszaal, Commissiekamer 3 and vide 2 (second floor)

18.30   Free time

Wednesday, January 17

Session chair  Ashley Montanaro
09.00 – 10.00   Invited talk II | Location: Auditorium
John Martinis
Title: The Quantum Supremacy Benchmark: Improving Qubit Quantity and Quality at the Same Time.

10.00 – 10.40  Coffee break | Location: Foyer
10.10 – 10.40  Mentoring Sessions (optional/students only) | Location: Commissiekamer 2

Session chair  Robert Koenig
10:40 – 11:15   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Aleksander Kubica, Nicolas Delfosse, Michael Beverland, Fernando Brandao, John Preskill and Krysta Svore.
Title: Local efficient decoders and optimal thresholds of topological toric and color codes beyond two dimensions.

Session chair  Jens Eisert
10:40 – 11:15  Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Henrik Wilming and Rodrigo Gallego.
Title: The third law of thermodynamics as a single inequality.

Session chair  Robert Koenig
11:15 – 11:50   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Antoine Grospellier, Anthony Leverrier and Omar Fawzi.
Title: Efficient decoding algorithm for constant rate quantum LDPC codes.

Session chair  Jens Eisert
11:15 – 11:50   Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Philippe Faist and Renato Renner.
Title: Fundamental work cost of quantum processes.

Session chair  Robert Koenig
11:50 – 12:25   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Nicolas Delfosse and Naomi Nickerson.
Title: Almost-linear time decoding algorithm for topological codes.

Session chair  Jens Eisert
11:50 – 12:25   Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Markus P. Mueller, Matteo Lostaglio, Michele Pastena and Jakob Scharlau.
Title: Majorization, correlating catalysts, and the single-shot interpretation of entropic quantities.

Session chair  Robert Koenig
12:25 – 13:00   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Sergey Bravyi, Matthias Englbrecht, Robert Koenig and Nolan Peard.
Title: Correcting coherent errors with surface codes.

Session chair  Jens Eisert
12:25 – 13:00   Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Paul Boes, Henrik Wilming, Jens Eisert and Rodrigo Gallego.
Title: Statistical ensembles without typicality.

13.00 – 13.45   Lunch break | Location: foyer

13.45 – 15.00   Lab tours QuTech
Location starting point: Ground floor

Session chair  Robert Broberg
15.00 – 17.45   Industry Expo | Location: Auditorium

15:00 – 15:30   Qutech | “The QuTech Roadmaps”
Stephanie Wehner, Ronald Hanson, Leo DiCarlo, Lieven Vandersypen

15:30 – 15:45   Quantum Campus | “Quantum Campus: the QuTech ecosystem for innovation”
Freeke Heijman, Director Strategic Development at QuTech and Special Advisor to the Minister of Economic Affairs.

15:45 – 16:15   Rigetti | “Easy, Hybrid Quantum Programming with Forest”
Will Zeng, Product Lead for Forest, and Chris Osborn, Quantum Software Engineer

16:15 – 16:45   Microsoft | “Q# and the Quantum Development Kit”
John Azariah, Principal Software Engineer

16:45 – 17:15   Google | “Challenges For Near Term Quantum Computers”
Dave Bacon, Staff Software Engine

17:15 – 17:45   IBM | “QISKit: A Quantum Computing Platform”
Erick Winston, Research Staff Member

17.45 – 18.30  Free time

18.30 – 22.00  Conference dinner
                        Location: 
                        Lijm & Cultuur
                        Rotterdamseweg 272
                        2628 AT  DELFT

Thursday, January 18

Session chair  Andris Ambainis
9.00 – 10.00  Invited talk III | Location: Auditorium
Boaz Barak
Title: Entangling Algorithms and Proofs.

10.00 – 10.40  Coffee break | Location: Foyer

Session chair  Rahul Jain
10:40 – 11:15  Session A | Location: Auditorium
Merge of Anurag Anshu, Min-Hsiu Hsieh and Rahul Jain.
with
Mario Berta and Christian Majenz. Disentanglement Cost of Quantum States.
Title: Quantifying resources in general resource theory with catalysts.

Session chair  Isaac Kim
10:40 – 11:15  Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Ramis Movassagh 
Title: Generic Local Hamiltonians are Gapless.

Session chair  Rahul Jain
11:15 – 11:50   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Joseph M. Renes
Title: Duality of channels and codes.

Session chair  Isaac Kim
11:15 – 11:50   Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Daniel Ranard and Xiao-Liang Qi
Title: Determining a local Hamiltonian from a ground state or excited state.

Session chair  Rahul Jain
11:50 – 12:25   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Christoph Hirche and David Reeb
Title: Bounds on Information Combining With Quantum Side Information.

Session chair  Isaac Kim

11:50 – 12:25   Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Sergey Bravyi and David Gosset
Title: Polynomial-time classical simulation of quantum ferromagnets.

12.25 – 14.00   Lunch break | Location: Foyer

Session chair  Elizabeth Crosson
14:00 – 14:35   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Miriam Backens
Title: Quantum computing and Holant problems.

Session chair  Min_Hsiu Hsieh
14:00 – 14:35   Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Mario Berta, Runyao Duan, Kun Fang, Xin Wang and Mark M. Wilde.
Title: Efficiently computable upper bounds for quantum communication.

Session chair  Elizabeth Crosson
14:35 – 15:10   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Matthias Christandl, Péter Vrana and Jeroen Zuiddam.
Title: Universal points in the asymptotic spectrum of tensors.

Session chair  Min_Hsiu Hsieh
14:35 – 15:10   Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Merge of Christopher Chubb, Vincent Tan and Marco Tomamichel.
Title: Moderate deviation analysis for classical communication over quantum channels.
with
Hao-Chung Cheng, Min-Hsiu Hsieh and Marco Tomamichel.
Title: Moderate Deviation Analysis and Sphere-Packing Bounds for Classical-Quantum Channels.

Session chair  Elizabeth Crosson
15:10 – 15:45   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Jutho Haegeman, Brian Swingle, Michael Walter, Jordan Cotler, Glen Evenbly and Volkher Scholz.
Title: Rigorous free fermion entanglement renormalization from wavelet theory.

Session chair   Min_Hsiu Hsieh
15:10 – 15:45    Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Xin Wang, Kun Fang and Marco Tomamichel.
Title: On converse bounds for classical communication over quantum channels.

15.45 – 16.00   Group photo | Location: Auditorium

16.00                Free time

Friday, January 19

Session chair  Ronald de Wolf
09.00 – 10.00   Plenary talk IV | Location: Auditorium
Mark Bun, Robin Kothari and Justin Thaler.
Title: The Polynomial Method Strikes Back: Tight Quantum Query Bounds via Dual Polynomials.

10.00 – 10.40   Coffee break | Location: Foyer

10.00 – 10.40   Mentoring Sessions (optional: students only) | Location: Commissiekamer 2

Session chair  Ronald de Wolf
10:40 – 11:15   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Anurag Anshu, Shalev Ben-David, Ankit Garg, Rahul Jain, Robin Kothari and Troy Lee.
Title: Separating quantum communication and approximate rank.

Session chair  Mario Berta
10:40 – 11:15    Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Michal Studzinski, Sergii Strelchuk, Marek Mozrzymas and Michal Horodecki.
Title: Optimal Port-based Teleportation in Arbitrary Dimension.

Session chair  Ronald de Wolf
11:15 – 11:50   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Shalev Ben-David, Adam Bouland, Ankit Garg and Robin Kothari.
Title: Classical lower bounds from quantum upper bounds.

Session chair  Mario Berta
11:15 – 11:50   Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Ludovico Lami, Christoph Hirche, Gerardo Adesso and Andreas Winter.
Title: From log-determinant inequalities to Gaussian entanglement via recoverability theory.

Session chair  Ronald de Wolf
11:50 – 12:25   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Andris Ambainis
and Martins Kokainis.
Title: Quantum algorithm for tree size estimation, with applications to backtracking and 2-player games.

Session chair  Mario Berta
11:50 – 12:25   Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Merge of Anurag Anshu, Rahul Jain and Naqueeb Warsi.
Title: Building blocks for communication over noisy quantum networks.
with
Anurag Anshu, Rahul Jain and Naqueeb Warsi.
Title: Quantum compression protocols over quantum networks.

12.25 – 13.15  Lunch break | Location: Foyer

Session chair   Barbara Terhal
13.15 – 14.00   Business meeting | Location: Auditorium

Session chair  Patrick Hayden
14:00 – 14:35   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Tobias Osborne and Deniz Stiegemann.
Title: Dynamics for holographic codes.

Session chair  Robin Kothari
14:00 – 14:35   Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Jayadev Acharya, Ibrahim Issa, Nirmal Shende and Aaron Wagner.
Title: Measuring Quantum Entropy.

Session chair  Patrick Hayden
14:35 – 15:10  Session A | Location: Auditorium
Jordan Cotler, Patrick Hayden, Grant Salton, Brian Swingle and Michael Walter.
Title: Approximate Operator Algebra Quantum Error Correction (Decoding the Hologram in AdS/CFT).

Session chair  Robin Kothari
14:35 – 15:10   Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Costin Badescu, Ryan O’Donnell and John Wright.
Title: Quantum state certification.

Session chair  Patrick Hayden
15:10 – 15:45   Session A | Location: Auditorium
Michael Kastoryano and Isaac Kim.
Title: Entanglement renormalization, quantum error correction, and bulk causality.

Session chair  Robin Kothari
15:10 – 15:45  Session B | Location: Collegezaal A
Yuxiang Yang, Ge Bai, Giulio Chiribella and Masahito Hayashi.
Title: Compression for identically prepared qudit states.

Session chair  Stephanie Wehner
16:30 – 17:30    Plenary talk V | Location: Auditorium
William Slofstra and Thomas Vidick.
Title: Entanglement requirements for non-local games.

17.30                Closing by Stephanie Wehner