The agenda for APQC 2025 is posted below. There’s also a PDF version for download.
Sunday, September 21
Welcome Reception
| 6:00 – 8:00pm | Registration/Welcome Reception (Holiday Inn) |
Monday, September 22
Focus on: Scalable Performance Estimation
| 7:00 – 8:45am | Breakfast and Registration |
| 8:45 – 9:00am | Welcome and Workshop Overview |
| MONDAY AM SESSION (Chair: TBD) |
| 9:00 – 10:00am | Senrui Chen, “Disambiguating Pauli noise in quantum computers” (invited) |
| 10:00 – 10:30am | Alireza Seif, “On (non-)Markovianity of Paul channels” |
| 10:30 – 11:15am | Coffee & collaboration break |
| 10:45 – 11:15am | Jan Nöller, “Sound and SPAM-agnostic certification of quantum computation” |
| 11:15 – 11:45am | Simon William, “Quantum Advantage in Resource Estimation” |
| 12:15 – 1:45pm | Lunch (perspective talk by Clare Alloca, NIST Standards Coordination Office) |
| MONDAY PM SESSION (Chair: TBD) |
| 1:45 – 2:15pm | Ashe Miller, “Scalable gate set tomography with a linear error model” |
| 2:15 – 2:45pm | Aniket Rath, “Benchmarking IQM’s effective all-to-all quantum processor” |
| 2:45 – 3:45pm | Coffee & collaboration break |
| 3:45 – 4:45pm | Alejandro Montañez-Barrera, “Evaluating the performance of quantum processing units at large width and depth” (invited) |
| 4:45 – 5:00pm | Poster session setup / free time |
| 5:00 – 7:00pm | Poster session |
| 7:00pm – | Dinner (on your own) |
Tuesday, September 23
Focus on: Charactization and Control
| 7:00 – 8:30am | Breakfast |
| TUESDAY AM SESSION (Chair: TBD) |
| 8:30 – 9:30am | Nathan Lacroix, “Scaling and logic in the color code on a superconducting quantum processor” (invited) |
| 9:30 – 10:00am | Coffee break |
| 10:00 – 10:45am | Jordan Hines, “Turning Characterization Results into Quantum Error Correction Predictions via Detector Error Models” |
| 10:45 – 11:15am | Alex Kwiatkowski, “Constructing an approximate Markovian model of consecutive QEC cycles of a stabilizer code” |
| 11:15 – 11:45am | Coffee break |
| 11:45am – 12:15pm | Sohan Ghosh and Adeeb Kabir, “Logical Randomized Benchmarking a Qutrit Folded Code” |
| 12:15 – 1:30pm | Lunch (including Lunch with an Expert) |
| TUESDAY PM SESSION (Chair: TBD) |
| 1:30 – 2:30pm | David Hayes, “Benchmarking QCCD computers: from the physical to the logical layer” (invited) |
| 2:30 – 3:00pm | Coffee break |
| 3:00 – 3:30pm | Wim van Dam, “Physical and Logical Benchmarking with Random Clifford Circuits” |
| 3:30 – 4:00pm | Jeremy Stevens, “Benchmarking Quantum Computers based on Cat-Qubits” |
| 4:00 – 4:30pm | Matthew Girling, “Characterization of syndrome-dependent logical noise in detector regions” |
| 4:30 – 4:45pm | Coffee break |
| 4:45 – 5:45pm | Bence Hetenyi, “Characterization of logical Bell states on superconducting qubits” (invited) |
| 5:45pm – | Dinner (on your own) |
Wednesday, September 24
Focus on: Physical Noise Modeling
| 7:00 – 8:30am | Grab & Go Breakfast (burritos & coffee) |
| 8:30 – 2:45pm | Hiking/Collaboration Free Day |
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| 2:45 – 3:15pm | Coffee break |
| WEDNESDAY PM SESSION (Chair: TBD) |
| 3:15 – 3:45pm | Jadwiga Wilkens, “Robust characterization of average gate set noise: Filtered randomized benchmarking and cross-talk tomography” |
| 3:45 – 4:15pm | Bharath Hebbe Madhusudhana, “Error Detection in Quantum Sensing and Quantum Sensing Techniques for Error Detection” |
| 4:15 – 4:45pm | Coffee Break |
| 4:45 – 5:15pm | Alicia Magann, “Towards real-time quantum device calibration and drift mitigation” |
| 5:15 – 5:45pm | Luke Burkhart, “Efficient and flexible execution of QCVV protocols in constrained control system environments |
| 5:45 – 6:30pm | Free time |
| 6:30 – 9:00pm | Banquet Dinner |
| 7:30 – 8:45pm | Panel Debate |
Thursday, September 25
Focus on: QCVV on Gates and Measurements
| 7:00 – 8:30am | Breakfast |
| THURSDAY AM SESSION (Chair: TBD) |
| 9:00 – 10:00am | Piper Wysocki, “A hierarchical approach to understanding logical qubit performance” (invited) |
| 10:00 – 10:45am | Coffee & collaboration break |
| 10:45 – 11:15am | MengKe Feng, “Tomographic Study of Mid-Circuit Measurements in Silicon Spin Qubits” |
| 11:15– 11:45am | John Paul Marceaux, “Subspace benchmarking with applications to entangling gates in ion traps” |
| 11:45 – 1:15pm | Lunch (perspective talk by Alex Cronin, NSF) |
| THURSDAY PM SESSION (Chair: TBD) |
| 1:15 – 2:15pm | Robin Harper, “Closing the Loop: Using Noise Characterization to Guide QEC Code Design” (invited) |
| 2:15 – 2:45pm | Coffee break |
| 2:45 – 3:15pm | Alan Tran, “Gate Set Tomography for Spin Qubits Encoded in a Decoherence-Free Subsystem” |
| 3:15 – 3:45pm | Gian Giacomo Guerreschi, “QCVV Challenges for Exchange-Only Qubits in Silicon Quantum Dots” |
| 3:45 – 4:00pm | Parting words |
| 4:00pm | Adjourn |