The agenda for APQC 2024 is posted below. There’s also a PDF version for download.

Sunday, October 6th

Welcome Reception

6:00 – 8:00pm

Registration/Welcome Reception (Holiday Inn)

Monday, October 7th

Focus on: QEC and Logical Qubit Performance

7:00 – 8:45am	Breakfast and Registration
8:45 – 9:00am	Welcome and Workshop Overview
	MONDAY AM SESSION (Chair: Thaddeus Ladd)
9:00 – 10:00am	Gabrielle Roberts (invited), “Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold”
10:00 – 10:15am	Coffee break
10:15 – 10:45am	Karl Mayer, “Quantum process tomography of a logical fault-tolerant T gate using the Steane code”
10:45 – 11:15am	Jalan Ziyad, “Emergent non-Markovian dynamics in logical qubit systems”
11:15 – 11:45am	Evan Hockings, “Scalable noise characterisation of syndrome extraction circuits with averaged circuit eigenvalue sampling”
11:45am – 1:00pm	Lunch
	MONDAY PM SESSION (Chair: Aditya Dhumantarao)
1:00 – 2:00pm	Keisuke Fujii (invited), “Early fault-tolerant quantum computing: closing a gap between NISQ and FTQC”
2:00 – 2:30pm	Coffee break
2:30 – 3:00pm	Piper Wysocki, “Full characterization of multi-qubit parity checks”
3:00 – 3:30pm	Jordan Hines, “Scalable benchmarking of mid-circuit measurements using Pauli noise learning”
3:30 – 4:00pm	Senrui Chen, “Self-consistent and efficient learning of gateset Pauli noise”
4:00 – 4:15pm	Coffee break
4:15 – 5:15pm	Alireza Seif (invited), “Entanglement-enhanced learning of quantum processes at scale”
5:15 – 5:30pm	Poster session setup (if you haven’t already)
5:30 – 7:30pm	Poster session (cash bar)
7:30pm –	Dinner (on your own)

Tuesday, October 8th

Focus on: Learning and Benchmarking

7:00 – 8:30am	Breakfast
	TUESDAY AM SESSION (Chair: Aliza Siddiqui)
8:30 – 9:30am	Robert Huang (invited), “Certifying almost all quantum states with few single-qubit measurements”
9:30 – 10:00am	Seth Merkel, “When Clifford benchmarks are sufficient”
10:00 – 10:45am	Coffee break
10:45 – 11:15am	David McKay, “Benchmarking quantum processor and software performance at scale”
11:15 – 11:45am	Coffee break
11:45am – 12:15pm	Marcus Silva and Ben Reichardt, “Demonstration of logical qubits and repeated error correction with better-than-physical error rates”
12:15 – 1:30pm	Lunch (including Lunch with an Expert)
	TUESDAY PM SESSION (Chair: Gabriel Samach)
1:30 – 2:30pm	Greg White (invited), “Unifying non-Markovian characterisation with an efficient and self-consistent framework”
2:30 – 3:00pm	Coffee break
3:00 – 3:30pm	Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, “Estimating coherent contributions to the error profile using cycle error reconstruction”
3:30 – 4:00pm	Katie Klymko, “HamLib: A library of Hamiltonians for benchmarking quantum algorithms and hardware”
4:00 – 4:30pm	Kristan Temme, “Evidence for the utility of quantum computing before fault tolerance”
4:30 – 4:45pm	Coffee break
4:45 – 5:45pm	Harold Ollivier (invited), “Bridging verification and benchmarking”
5:45pm –	Dinner (on your own)

Wednesday, October 9th

Focus on:  Physical Noise Modeling

7:00 – 8:30am	Grab & Go Breakfast (burritos & coffee)
8:30 – 2:45pm	Hiking/Collaboration Free Day
	Free
	Free
	Free
	Free
	Free
	Free
	Free
2:45 – 3:15pm	Coffee break
	WEDNESDAY PM SESSION (Chair: Margriet van Riggelen)
3:15 – 3:45pm	Anton Frisk Kockum, “Evaluating architectures for superconducting quantum processors using crosstalk and frequency-variation data”
3:45 – 4:15pm	Bingcheng Qing, “Demonstration of characterizing high-fidelity quantum operations on noise-biased qubits”
4:15 – 4:45pm	Coffee Break
4:45 – 5:15pm	Bharath Hebbe Madhusudhana, “Error characterization in multi-qubit quantum control using noise models”
5:15 – 5:45pm	Brandon Ruzic, “Physical gate-set tomography”
5:45 – 6:30pm	Free time
6:30 – 9:00pm	Banquet Dinner
7:30 – 8:45pm	Panel Debate

Thursday, October 10th

Focus on: Hardware, Testbeds, & Emulation

7:00 – 9:00am	Breakfast
	THURSDAY AM SESSION (Chair: John Paul Marceaux)
9:00 – 10:00am	Holly Stemp (invited), “Tomography of entangling two-qubit logic operations in exchange-coupled donor spin qubits”
10:00 – 10:30am	Ashish Kakkar, “Characterization and compilation of hardware efficient gates”
10:30 – 11:00am	Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30am	Kasra Nowrouszi, “Control system co-design for optimal quantum computing”
11:30am – noon	Akel Hashim, “Hardware-efficient QCVV”
12:00 – 1:15pm	Lunch  (perspective talk by Marty McHugh, LPS)
	THURSDAY PM SESSION (Chair: Scott Glancy)
1:15 – 2:15pm	Christian Marciniak (invited), “Cycle error reconstruction on a logical-size CNOT”
2:15 – 2:45pm	Coffee break
2:45 – 3:15pm	Wim van Dam, “Benchmarking encoded qubits by graph state preparation and verification”
3:15 – 3:45pm	Margriet van Riggelen, “Characterizing and benchmarking high-fidelity gates in a multi-qubit diamond quantum processor”
3:45 – 4:15pm	David Allcock, “Scalable, high-fidelity all-electronic control of trapped-ion qubits”
4:15 – 4:30pm	Parting words
4:30pm	Adjourn