Agenda

Workshop Sessions: Wilkinson Engineering Building, Auditorium 021, 534 Research Drive, Durham, NC. 

Lunches: Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (FCIEMAS), Ground floor atrium, 101 Science Dr, Durham, NC.

Poster session and lab tour: Duke Quantum Center, Chesterfield Building, 2nd floor, 701 W Main St, Durham, NC. Visitor access via Main Street entrance ONLY.

Dinner: It’s A Southern Thing, 605 W Main St, Durham, NC.

See travel page for parking, Wi-Fi and other logistics details.

Workshop Day 1: June 4
8:30 AM8:45 AMBeginning of morning
8:45 AM9:00 AM
9:00 AM9:15 AMWelcome and Introduction
9:15 AM9:30 AMInstitute Program Update
Student Postdoc Council Update
9:30 AM9:45 AM
9:45 AM10:00 AMResearch Challenge (RC) Overview
10:00 AM10:15 AM
10:15 AM10:30 AMRC1 Presentation 1
Presenter: Iman Marvian (Senior Investigator, Duke)
Title: Learning and Synthesizing Multi-Qubit Interactions in the Presence of Symmetries
10:30 AM10:45 AM
10:45 AM11:00 AMBreak
11:00 AM11:15 AM
11:15 AM11:30 AMRC2 Presentation 1 (Faculty, Harvard)
Presenter: Giulia Semeghini (Harvard)
Title: A mixed-species atom array for quantum simulation
11:30 AM11:45 AM
11:45 AM12:00 PMRC3 Presentation 1
Presenters: Qiang Miao (Postdoc, Duke), Tianyi Wang (Student, Duke)
Title: Scalable Quantum Simulations with Ion Chains
12:00 PM12:15 PM
12:15 PM12:30 PMLunch
Ground floor atrium, Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (FCIEMAS)
12:30 PM12:45 PM
12:45 PM1:00 PM
1:00 PM1:15 PM
1:15 PM1:30 PM
1:30 PM1:45 PMEducation and Outreach and Community Support
Facilitator: Erin Sohr (Assistant Director of Education and Outreach, UMD)
1:45 PM2:00 PM
2:00 PM2:15 PM
2:15 PM2:30 PM
2:30 PM2:45 PMBreak
2:45 PM3:00 PM
3:00 PM3:15 PMRC1 Presentation 2
Presenter: Greeshma Oruganti (Student, UMD)
Title: Bridging quantum thermodynamics, gauge theories, and quantum simulation
3:15 PM3:30 PM
3:30 PM3:45 PMRC2 Presentation 2
Presenter: Kaavya Sahay (Student, Yale)
Title: Improved non-local magic state cultivation on the folded surface code
3:45 PM4:00 PM
4:00 PM4:15 PMRC3 Presentation 2
Presenter: Jose Antonio Marin Guzman (Student, UMD)
Title: Autonomous quantum refrigerator resets superconducting qubit
4:15 PM4:30 PM
4:30 PM4:45 PMTransit to Duke Quantum Center
(Transportation Provided)
4:45 PM5:00 PM
5:00 PM5:15 PM

Poster Session + DQC Lab Tours
Chesterfield Building, 701 W Main St, Durham, NC

Poster presentation list here (google doc).

5:15 PM5:30 PM
5:30 PM5:45 PM
5:45 PM6:00 PM
6:00 PM6:15 PM
6:15 PM6:30 PM
6:30 PM6:45 PMDinner
It’s A Southern Thing, 605 W Main St, Durham, NC
6:45 PM7:00 PM
7:00 PM7:15 PM
7:15 PM7:30 PM
7:30 PM7:45 PM
7:45 PM8:00 PM
8:00 PM8:15 PMTransit to AC Marriott Hotel
(Transportation Provided)
8:15 PM8:30 PM
8:30 AM8:45 AMBeginning of morning
8:45 AM9:00 AM
9:00 AM9:15 AM

Seed grant presentations

  1. Rhine Samajdar (Postdoc, Princeton), Hyunsoo Ha (Student, Princeton): Quantum simulation of nonequilibrium coarsening dynamics with applications to adiabatic algorithms
  2. Yuan Liu (Faculty, NCSU), Victor V. Albert (Senior Investigator, UMD/NIST): Phase Space Formulation and Simulation of Molecular Conical Intersections
  3. Demitry Farfurnik (Faculty, NCSU), Kaixin Huang (Student, UMD): Realization of random pulse sequences for the resource-efficient characterization and manipulation of noise baths for quantum simulators
9:15 AM9:30 AM
9:30 AM9:45 AM
9:45 AM10:00 AM
10:00 AM10:15 AM

RC2 Presentation 3
Presenter: Grace Sommers (Student, Princeton)
Title: Observation of a fault-tolerant threshold in concatenated codes

10:15 AM10:30 AM
10:30 AM10:45 AMBreak
10:45 AM11:00 AM
11:00 AM11:15 AMRC3 Presentation 3
Presenter: Zhiyin Tu (Student, UMD)
Title: Non-reciprocal Couplings through Spatio-temporal Modulation
11:15 AM11:30 AM
11:30 AM11:45 AMRC3 Presentation 4
Presenter: Guillaume Bornet (Postdoc, Princeton)
Title: Error-Corrected Qubits via Erasure Conversion
11:45 AM12:00 PM
12:00 PM12:15 PMLunch
Ground floor atrium, Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (FCIEMAS)
12:15 PM12:30 PM
12:30 PM12:45 PM
12:45 PM1:00 PM
1:00 PM1:15 PM
1:15 PM1:30 PM

RC Breakouts **

RC1: Room 130; Facilitators: Ken Brown, Iman Marvian
RC2: Room: 126; Facilitator: Michael Gullans
RC3 Room: Wilkinson Auditorium; Facilitator: Norbert Linke

1:30 PM1:45 PM
1:45 PM2:00 PM
2:00 PM2:15 PM
2:15 PM2:30 PM
2:30 PM2:45 PM
2:45 PM3:00 PMBreak
3:00 PM3:15 PM
3:15 PM3:30 PM

Seed Grant Breakout Session
(Optional: you may attend if you would like to learn about grant writing or applying to the RQS seed grant. Leadership will be present to answer questions)
Facilitators: Andrew Childs, Ken Brown

3:30 PM3:45 PM
3:45 PM4:00 PM
4:00 PM4:15 PM