Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Quantum Computing

September 11 - December 15, 2023

Seminar Series

No schedule is available

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Afternoon Session

14:30-15:00

Zhiyan Ding (University of Michigan)

Short circuit depth Quantum phase estimation

15:00-15:30

Tea Time

15:30-16:00

Ruizhe Zhang (Purdue University)

Quantum Speedups of Optimizing Approximately Convex Functions

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Afternoon Session

14:00-15:00

Rahul Sarkar (University of California, Berkeley)

The qudit Pauli group: non-commuting pairs, non-commuting sets, and structure theorems.

15:00-15:30

Tea Time

15:30-16:30

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Title not available

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Afternoon Session

14:30-15:00

Adam Marks (University of California, Irvine (UCI))

Quantum Error-Correcting Codes from Affine Buildings

15:00-15:30

Tea Time

15:30-16:00

Rahul Sarkar (University of California, Berkeley)

Maximally commuting & anticommuting sets of qubit Pauli operators

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Afternoon Session

14:30-15:00

Katerina Gratsea (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

When to Reject a Ground State Preparation Algorithm

15:00-15:30

Tea Time

15:30-16:30

Jiasu Wang (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))

Iterative algorithms for finding phase factors in quantum signal processing

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Afternoon Session

14:30-15:00

Spencer Lee (Michigan State University)

Classically-Simulated Quantum Optimal Control Methods for Designing Gates using Continuous Control Functions

15:00-15:30

Tea Time

15:30-16:00

Jiaqi Leng (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing)

Hamiltonian embedding and a paradigm shift in quantum algorithm design

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Afternoon Session

14:30-15:00

Ke Wang (University of Michigan)

Simulation-assisted learning of open quantum systems

15:00-15:30

Tea Time

15:30-16:00

Lucas Tecot (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

TBA

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Afternoon Session

14:00-15:00

Sophia Simon (University of Toronto)

Improved precision scaling for simulating coupled quantum-classical dynamics

15:00-15:30

Tea Time

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Afternoon Session

14:00-15:00

Yasuyuki Kawahigashi (University of Tokyo)

Two-dimensional topological order, tensor networks, and operator algebras

15:00-15:30

Tea Time

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Afternoon Session

14:00-15:00

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Title not available

15:00-15:30

Tea Time

15:30-16:30

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Title not available

Thursday, November 2, 2023

Afternoon Session

14:00-15:00

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Title not available

15:00-15:30

Tea Time

15:30-16:30

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Title not available

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Afternoon Session

14:00-15:00

Anirban Chowdhury (University of Waterloo)

Quantum counting and the symmetric group

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Afternoon Session

14:00-15:00

Brandon Barton (ETH Zürich)

Symphonic tunneling: A story of high frequency drives with applications to quantum optimization algorithms

15:00-15:30

Tea Time

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Afternoon Session

14:00-15:00

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Title not available

15:00-15:30

Tea Time

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