Bridging the Gap Between NISQ and FTQC

February 17 - 20, 2026

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Morning Session
8:00 - 8:55	Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:55 - 9:00	Welcome and Opening Remarks
SESSION CHAIR: Tuesday AM Andrew Baczewski
9:00 - 9:40	Katerina Gratsea (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Achieving Utility-Scale Applications through Full Stack Co-Design of Fault Tolerant Quantum Computers
9:50 - 10:05	Break
10:05 - 10:45	Nicole Bellonzi (Apollo Quantum) What Does “Chemically Useful” Actually Mean?
10:55 - 11:10	Break
11:10 - 11:50	Peter Johnson (Apollo Quantum) Evaluating Progress Toward Quantum Utility
12:00 - 2:00	Lunch (on your own)
Afternoon Session
SESSION CHAIR: Tuesday PM Katerina Gratsea
2:00 - 2:40	Matthew Otten (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Classical-First Pathways to Early Fault-Tolerant Quantum Chemistry
2:50 - 3:05	Break
3:05 - 3:45	Alexander Kemper (North Carolina State University) A quantum computing approach to efficiently simulating correlated materials using impurity models and dynamical mean field theory
3:55 - 4:10	Break
4:10 - 4:50	Pooya Ronagh (University of Waterloo) Leveraging Periodicity as a Quantum PDE Solver
5:00 - 5:20	Lightning Poster Round
5:20 - 7:00	Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00	Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
SESSION CHAIR: Wednesday AM Peter Johnson
9:00 - 9:40	Artur Izmaylov (University of Toronto) Quantum SENiority-based Subspace Expansion (Q-SENSE) and Its Extensions: Linear Combinations of Short-Circuit Unitary Transformations for the Electronic Structure Problem
9:50 - 10:05	Break
10:05 - 10:45	Daan Camps (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Measurement-Driven Quantum Algorithms: Efficient Eigensolvers and Evaluation of Matrix Functions
10:55 - 11:10	Break
11:10 - 11:50	Sukin Sim (Dylan) (PsiQuantum) Quantum phase estimation in the language of digital signal processing
12:00 - 2:00	Lunch (on your own)
Afternoon Session
SESSION CHAIR: Wednesday PM Matthew Otten
2:00 - 2:40	Itay Hen (University of Southern California (USC)) A ~NISQ-Era Quantum Simulation Algorithm with Near-Optimal Precision Scaling
2:50 - 3:05	Break
3:05 - 3:45	Zhiyan Ding (University of Michigan) Ground State Preparation for Near-Term Devices using System-Bath Coupling Dynamics
3:55 - 4:10	Break
4:10 - 4:50	William Huggins (Google Inc.) The FLuid Allocation of Surface code Qubits (FLASQ) cost model for early fault-tolerant quantum algorithms
Thursday, February 19, 2026
Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00	Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
SESSION CHAIR: Thursday AM Pooya Ronagh
9:00 - 9:40	Jakob Kottman (Universität Augsburg) Holistic Approaches to Quantum Computation: Software and Algorithmics
9:50 - 10:05	Break
10:05 - 10:45	Kevin Obenland (Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Application Driven Evaluation of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing Architectures
10:55 - 11:10	Break
11:10 - 11:50	Athena Caesura (PsiQuantum) Deeper Compilation in the Active Volume Architecture
12:00 - 12:15	Group Photo
12:15 - 2:00	Lunch (on your own)
Afternoon Session
SESSION CHAIR: Thursday PM Athena Caesura
2:00 - 2:40	Austin Fowler (Stairway Invest) Compiling quantum algorithms to 2D nearest neighbor architectures
2:50 - 3:05	Break
3:05 - 3:45	Eddie Schoute (IBM Research) Tour de gross: A modular quantum computer based on bivariate bicycle codes
3:55 - 4:10	Break
4:10 - 4:50	Michael Beverland (IBM) Real-time decoding for fault-tolerant quantum computers
Friday, February 20, 2026
Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00	Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
SESSION CHAIR: Friday AM Eddie Schoute
9:00 - 9:40	Ciaran Ryan-Anderson (Quantinuum) Experimental Quantum Error Correction at Quantinuum
9:50 - 10:05	Break
10:05 - 10:45	Andrew Baczewski (Sandia National Laboratories) An approach for calculating astrophysical opacities on quantum computers
10:55 - 11:10	Break
11:10 - 11:50	Dripto Debroy (Google) Adapting QEC circuits to dropout using LUCI
12:00 - 2:00	Lunch (on your own)
Afternoon Session
SESSION CHAIR: Friday PM Ciaran Ryan-Anderson
2:00 - 2:40	Madelyn Cain (California Institute of Technology) Fault-tolerant, universal quantum processing with neutral atoms
2:50 - 3:05	Break
3:05 - 3:45	Ophelia Crawford (Riverlane) Some aspects of hardware-aware quantum error correction
3:55 - 4:10	Break
4:10 - 4:50	Adam Holmes (NVIDIA) From NISQ to Fault Tolerance: Architecting the Accelerated Quantum Supercomputer

Bridging the Gap Between NISQ and FTQC

Schedule

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Tuesday AM Andrew Baczewski

Afternoon Session

SESSION CHAIR: Tuesday PM Katerina Gratsea

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Wednesday AM Peter Johnson

Afternoon Session

SESSION CHAIR: Wednesday PM Matthew Otten

Thursday, February 19, 2026

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Thursday AM Pooya Ronagh

Afternoon Session

SESSION CHAIR: Thursday PM Athena Caesura

Friday, February 20, 2026

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Friday AM Eddie Schoute

Afternoon Session

SESSION CHAIR: Friday PM Ciaran Ryan-Anderson