Bridging the Gap Between NISQ and FTQC - IPAM

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

08:00-08:55
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:55-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
SESSION CHAIR: Tuesday AM Andrew Baczewski
09:00-09:40
Katerina Gratsea (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Achieving Utility-Scale Applications through Full Stack Co-Design of Fault Tolerant Quantum Computers
09:50-10:05
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
SESSION CHAIR: Tuesday PM Katerina Gratsea
14:00-14:40
Matthew Otten (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Classical-First Pathways to Early Fault-Tolerant Quantum Chemistry
14:50-15:05
Break
15:05-15:45
Alexander Kemper (North Carolina State University)
A quantum computing approach to efficiently simulating correlated materials using impurity models and dynamical mean field theory
15:55-16:10
Break
16:10-16:50
Pooya Ronagh (University of Waterloo)
Leveraging Periodicity as a Quantum PDE Solver
17:00-17:20
Lightning Poster Round
17:20-19:00
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
SESSION CHAIR: Wednesday AM Peter Johnson
09:00-09:40
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
09:50-10:05
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
SESSION CHAIR: Wednesday PM Matthew Otten
14:00-14:40
Itay Hen (University of Southern California (USC))
A ~NISQ-Era Quantum Simulation Algorithm with Near-Optimal Precision Scaling
14:50-15:05
Break
15:05-15:45
Zhiyan Ding (University of Michigan)
Ground State Preparation for Near-Term Devices using System-Bath Coupling Dynamics
15:55-16:10
Break
16:10-16:50
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

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
SESSION CHAIR: Thursday AM Pooya Ronagh
09:00-09:40
Jakob Kottman (Universität Augsburg)
Holistic Approaches to Quantum Computation: Software and Algorithmics
09:50-10:05
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-12:15
Group Photo
12:15-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
SESSION CHAIR: Thursday PM Athena Caesura
14:00-14:40
Austin Fowler (Stairway Invest)
Compiling quantum algorithms to 2D nearest neighbor architectures
14:50-15:05
Break
15:05-15:45
Eddie Schoute (IBM Research)
Tour de gross: A modular quantum computer based on bivariate bicycle codes
15:55-16:10
Break
16:10-16:50
Michael Beverland (IBM)
Real-time decoding for fault-tolerant quantum computers

Friday, February 20, 2026

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
SESSION CHAIR: Friday AM Eddie Schoute
09:00-09:40
Ciaran Ryan-Anderson (Quantinuum)
Experimental Quantum Error Correction at Quantinuum
09:50-10:05
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
SESSION CHAIR: Friday PM Ciaran Ryan-Anderson
14:00-14:40
Madelyn Cain (California Institute of Technology)
Fault-tolerant, universal quantum processing with neutral atoms
14:50-15:05
Break
15:05-15:45
Ophelia Crawford (Riverlane)
Some aspects of hardware-aware quantum error correction
15:55-16:10
Break
16:10-16:50
Adam Holmes (NVIDIA)
From NISQ to Fault Tolerance: Architecting the Accelerated Quantum Supercomputer
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