Agenda

Note: Speaker names are in bold

Monday, August 4, 2025

ItemDescriptionDurationStart TimeEnd Time
Morning Session Chair: Abhinav Deshpande (IBM)
WelcomeQSim Registration1 hour7:30 am8:30 am
IntroductionWelcome by Jerry Chow
Discuss the conference format and goals		10 minutes8:30 am8:40 am
Invited TalkSitan Chen40 minutes8:40 am9:20 am
Contributed TalkKaoru Mizuta, Tomotaka Kuwahara;
Substantial efficiency of Trotterization for low-energy states		20 minutes9:20 am9:40 am
Contributed TalkJacob Watkins, James Watson;
Exponentially Reduced Circuit Depths Using Trotter Error Mitigation		20 minutes9:40 am10:00 am
BreakRefreshments provided by QSim30 minutes10:00 am10:30 am
Invited TalkVadim Smelyanskiy40 minutes10:30 am11:10 am
Contributed TalkAlireza Seif, Senrui Chen, Swarnadeep Majumder, Haoran Liao, Derek Wang, Moein Malekakhlagh, Ali Javadi-Abhari, Liang Jiang and Zlatko Minev;
Entanglement-enhanced learning of quantum noise at scale		20 minutes11:10 am11:30 am
Invited TalkVedika Khemani40 minutes11:30 am12:10 pm
LunchProvided by QSim2 hours12:10 pm2:10 pm
Afternoon Session Chair: Nathan Wiebe (University of Toronto)
Invited TalkKen Brown40 minutes2:10 pm2:50 pm
Contributed TalkEli Chertkov, Reza Haghshenas and Michael Foss-Feig;
Digital quantum magnetism at the frontier of classical simulations		20 minutes2:50 pm3:10 pm
BreakRefreshments provided by QSim30 minutes3:10 pm3:40 pm
Invited TalkZohreh Davoudi40 minutes3:40 pm4:20 pm
Contributed TalkNiklas Mueller, Tianyi Wang, Or Katz, Zohreh Davoudi,
Marko Cetina;
Quantum Computing Universal Thermalization Dynamics in a (2+1)D Lattice Gauge Theory		20 minutes4:20 pm4:40 pm
Contributed TalkShouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Jacob Watkins, Enrico Fontana, Brandon Augustino, Junhyung Lyle Kim, Marco Pistoia;
On Speedups for Convex Optimization via Quantum Dynamics		20 minutes4:40 pm5:00 pm

Tuesday, August 5

ItemDescriptionDurationStart TimeEnd Time
Morning Session Chair: Edwin Barnes (Virginia Tech)
Invited TalkMikhail Lukin40 minutes8:40 am9:20 am
Contributed TalkGreeshma Oruganti, Zohreh Davoudi, Christopher Jarzynski, Niklas Mueller, Connor Powers and Nicole Yunger Halpern;
Bridging quantum thermodynamics, gauge theories, and quantum simulation		20 minutes9:20 am9:40 am
Contributed TalkJeet Shah, Gautam Nambiar, Alexey Gorshkov and Victor Galitski;
Quantum Spin Ice in Three-Dimensional Rydberg Atom Arrays		20 minutes9:40 am10:00 am
BreakRefreshments provided by QSim30 minutes10:00 am10:30 am
Invited TalkLin Lin40 minutes10:30 am11:10 am
Contributed TalkSophia Simon, Gian-Luca Anselmetti, Raffaele Santagati, Matthias Degroote, Nikolaj Moll, Michael Streif, Nathan Wiebe;
Dividing and Conquering the Van Vleck Catastrophe		20 minutes11:10 am11:30 am
Invited TalkMonika Aidelsburger40 minutes11:30 am12:10 pm
LunchProvided by QSim2 hours12:10 pm2:10 pm
Afternoon Session Chair: Vedika Khemani (Stanford)
Invited TalkSoonwon Choi40 minutes2:10 pm2:50 pm
Contributed TalkJad Halimeh;
Observation of disorder-free localization using a 2+1D lattice gauge theory on a quantum processor		20 minutes2:50 pm3:10 pm
BreakRefreshments provided by QSim30 minutes3:10 pm3:40 pm
Poster SessionPoster Session I2 hours3:40 pm6:00 pm

Wednesday, August 6

ItemDescriptionDurationStart TimeEnd Time
Morning Session Chair: Sophia Economou (Virginia Tech)
Invited TalkBirgitta Whaley40 minutes8:40 am9:20 am
Contributed TalkRobbie King, Guang Hao Low, Ryan Babbush, Rolando Somma, Nicholas Rubin, Dominic Berry, Qiushi Han, Eugene DePrince, Alec White;
Quantum simulation with sum-of-squares spectral
amplification and Fast quantum simulation of electronic structure by spectral amplification		20 minutes9:20 am9:40 am
Contributed TalkTimothy N. Georges, Marius Bothe, Christoph Sunderhauf, Bjorn K. Berntson, Róbert Izsák, Aleksei Ivanov;
Quantum Simulations of Chemistry in First Quantization with any Basis Set		20 minutes9:40 am10:00 am
BreakRefreshments provided by QSim30 minutes10:00 am10:30 am
Invited TalkAntoine Browayes40 minutes10:30 am11:10 am
Contributed TalkSimon Evered, Marcin Kalinowski, Alexandra Geim, Tom Manovitz, Dolev Bluvstein, Sophie Li, Nishad Maskara, Hengyun Zhou, Sepehr Ebadi, Muqing Xu, Joseph Campo, Madelyn Cain, Stefan Ostermann, Susanne Yelin, Subir Sachdev, Markus Greiner, Vladan Vuletic, Mikhail Lukin;
Probing topological matter and fermion dynamics on a neutral-atom quantum computer		20 minutes11:10 am11:30 am
Contributed TalkAlexandra Geim, Simon Evered, Nazli Ugur Koyluoglu, Johannes Feldmeier, Sophie Li, Dolev Bluvstein, Tom Manovitz, Muqing Xu, Sepehr Ebadi, Nishad Maskara, Hengyun Zhou, Vladan Vuletic, Markus Greiner, Mikhail Lukin;
Probing dynamics and multi-body interactions in a driven quantum simulator		20 minutes11:30 am11:50 am
LunchProvided by QSim1 hour11:50 am12:50 pm
PanelPanel: Monika Aidelsburger, Andrew Childs, Oliver Dial, Mikhail Lukin, Vadim Smelyanskiy, Birgitta Whaley
Moderators: Ryan Babbush, Hannes Pichler		1 hour12:50 pm1:50 pm
TravelTravel to IBM Facility at Yorktown Heights, NY1 hour 30 minutes1:50 pm3:20 pm
OpenLab Tours, Networking, and Open Time2 hours3:20 pm5:20 pm
DinnerProvided by QSim2 hours5:20 pm7:20 pm
TravelTravel to downtown NYC1 hour 30 minutes7:20 pm8:50 pm

Thursday, August 7

ItemDescriptionDurationStart TimeEnd Time
Morning Session Chair: Kevin Smith (IBM)
Invited TalkRolando Somma40 minutes8:40 am9:20 am
Contributed TalkThomas Steckmann, De Luo, Yuxin Wang, Sean Muleady, Christopher Monroe, Alireza Seif, Michael Gullans, Alexey Gorshkov, Or Katz, Alexander Schuckert;
Error mitigation for analog quantum simulators		20 minutes9:20 am9:40 am
Contributed TalkRobert Ott, Daniel González-Cuadra, Torsten V. Zache, Peter Zoller, Adam Kaufman and Hannes Pichler;
Error-corrected fermionic quantum processors with neutral atoms		20 minutes9:40 am10:00 am
BreakRefreshments provided by QSim30 minutes10:00 am10:30 am
Invited TalkJohn Goold40 minutes10:30 am11:10 am
Contributed TalkYizhi Shen, Alex Buzali, Hong-Ye Hu, Katherine Klymko, Daan Camps, Susanne Yelin and Roel Van Beeumen;
Efficient Measurement-Driven Eigenenergy Estimation with Low-Rank Classical Shadows		20 minutes11:10 am11:30 am
Invited TalkMichael Mills40 minutes11:30 am12:10 pm
LunchLunch provided by QSim2 hours12:10 pm2:10 pm
Afternoon Session Chair: Philipp Hauke (University of Trento)
Invited TalkMarkus Greiner40 minutes2:10 pm2:50 pm
Contributed TalkHenning Schloemer, Hannah Lange, Titus Franz, Thomas Chalopin, Petar Bojovic, Si Wang, Immanuel Bloch, Timon A. Hilker, Fabian Grusdt, Annabelle Bohrdt;
Exploring high-temperature superconductivity in optical lattices		20 minutes2:50 pm3:10 pm
BreakRefreshments provided by QSim30 minutes3:10 pm3:40 pm
Poster SessionPoster Session II2 hours3:40 pm5:40 pm

Friday, August 8

ItemDescriptionDurationStart TimeEnd Time
Morning Session Chair: Alireza Seif (IBM)
Invited TalkAntonio Mezzacapo40 minutes8:40 am9:20 am
Contributed TalkYongtao Zhan, Zhiyan Ding, Jakob Huhn, Johnnie Gray, John Preskill, Garnet Chan, Lin Lin;
Rapid quantum ground state preparation via dissipative dynamics		20 minutes9:20 am9:40 am
Contributed TalkChusei Kiumi, Balint Koczor;
TE-PAI: Exact Time Evolution by Sampling Random Circuits		20 minutes9:40 am10:00 am
BreakRefreshments provided by QSim30 minutes10:00 am10:30 am
Invited TalkPhilipp Hauke40 minutes10:30 am11:10 am
Contributed TalkFrancisca Vasconcelos, András Gilyén;
Methods for Reducing Ancilla-Overhead in Block Encodings		20 minutes11:10 am11:30 am
Contributed TalkDiyi Liu, Shuchen Zhu, Lin Lin, Guang Hao Low, Chao Yang;
Early Fault-tolerant Block Encoding with Low Clifford+T count for Second Quantized Hamiltonian		20 minutes11:30 am11:50 am
Contributed TalkSisi Zhou, Senrui Chen;
Randomized measurements for multi-parameter quantum metrology		20 minutes11:50 am12:10 pm
LunchProvided by QSim1 hour12:10 pm1:10 pm
Afternoon Session Chair: Andrew Childs (UMD)
Invited TalkMichael Gullans40 minutes1:10 pm1:50 pm
Contributed TalkVictor M. Bastidas, Nathan Fitzpatrick, K. J. Joven, Zane M. Rossi, Shariful Islam, Troy Van Voorhis, Isaac L. Chuang, Yuan Liu;
Unification of Finite Symmetries in Simulation of Many-body Systems on Quantum Computers		20 minutes1:50 pm2:10 pm
Contributed TalkYuanjie Ren, Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, Dominic Williamson, Kevin Smith, Abid Khan, Bryan Clark, Steve Girvin, Tzu-Chieh Wei;
Efficient Preparation of Solvable Anyons with Adaptive
Quantum Circuits and Constant-depth preparation of matrix product states with adaptive quantum circuits		20 minutes2:10 pm2:30 pm
BreakRefreshments provided by QSim30 minutes2:30 pm3:00 pm
Contributed TalkStefano Reale, Daniel Jirovec, Pablo C. Fariña, Xin Zhang, Elizaveta Morozova, Sander L. de Snoo, Stefan D. Oosterhout, Menno Veldhorst, Lieven M. K. Vandersypen;

Xin Zhang, Utso Bhattacharya, Daniel Jirovec, Amir Sammak, Giordano Scappucci, Menno Veldhorst, Eugene Demler;
Beam-splitter interferometry for many-body spectroscopy in a quantum dot ladder and Experimental exploration of magnetic quantum phase transitions in germanium quantum dots		20 minutes3:00 pm3:20 pm
Contributed TalkVisal So, Midhuna Duraisamy Suganthi, Mingjian Zhu, Abhishek Menon, George Tomaras, Roman Zhuravel, Han Pu, Peter G. Wolynes, José N. Onuchic, Guido Pagano;
Quantum Simulation of Charge and Exciton Transfer in Multi-mode Models using Engineered Reservoirs		20 minutes3:20 pm3:40 pm
Contributed TalkAnka Van de Walle, Markus Schmitt, Annabelle Bohrdt, Annika Böhler, Hannah Lange, Christopher Roth;
Learning Quantum Dynamics from Data with Time-Dependent Neural Quantum States (t-NQS) and Simulating Doped SU(N) t-J Models with Neural Quantum States		20 minutes3:40 pm4:00 pm
Contributed TalkLeeseok Kim, Changhao Yi, Milad Marvian;
Faster Randomized Dynamical Decoupling		20 minutes4:00 pm4:20 pm
Close-outThank you message: Kunal Sharma10 minutes4:20 pm4:30 pm
EndEnd of Conference4:30 pm