Workshop IV: Topology, Quantum Error Correction and Quantum Gravity - IPAM

Workshop IV: Topology, Quantum Error Correction and Quantum Gravity

Part of the Long Program Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Quantum Computing
November 27 - December 1, 2023

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, November 27, 2023

Morning Session

08:00-08:55
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:55-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
SESSION CHAIR: Zhenghan Wang (Microsoft Research)
09:00-09:50
Matthew Hastings (Microsoft Research)
Pumping Chirality in Three Dimensions
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Marius Junge (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Let’s talk about noise
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Dave Aasen (Microsoft Station Q)
Quantum computation from dynamic automorphism codes

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
SESSION CHAIR: Dave Aasen (Microsoft Station Q)
14:00-14:50
Colleen Delaney (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Rooting out the classical in the topological quantum
15:00-15:20
Lightning Poster Session
15:30-16:30
Poster Session
17:00-18:00
Peter Shor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Green Family Lecture: Quantum Computing”
18:00-19:00
Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
SESSION CHAIR: Anurag Anshu (Harvard University)
09:00-09:50
Roman Lutchyn (Microsoft Research)
Topological Quantum Computation with Majorana zero-energy modes
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
John Wright (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Virtual -TBD
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Thomas Faulkner (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Quantum Error Correcting for Gravity in the large-N limit

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
SESSION CHAIR: Roman Lutchyn (Microsoft Research)
14:00-14:50
Zhenghan Wang (Microsoft Research)
Topology of moduli spaces of topological theories and applications to codes
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:05
Anurag Anshu (Harvard University)
Circuit-to-Hamiltonian from tensor networks and fault tolerance
17:00-18:00
Peter Shor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Green Family Lecture: The Development of Quantum Error Correction”

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
SESSION CHAIR: Colleen Delaney (University of California, Berkeley)
09:00-09:50
Michael Freedman (Microsoft Research)
Entanglement of Sections
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Jeongwan Haah (Microsoft Station Q)
Global unitaries and local measurements
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Sakura Schafer-Nameki (University of Oxford)
Virtual Talk: Categorical Landau Paradigm and the SymTFT

Afternoon Session

12:30-12:45
Group Photo
12:45-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
SESSION CHAIR: Wednesday PM TBD
14:30-15:20
Xie Chen (California Institute of Technology)
Topological defects in toric code and Sequential quantum circuit
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Bela Bauer (Microsoft Research)
Fault Tolerant Quantum Computation using Majorana-Based Topological Qubits

Thursday, November 30, 2023

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
SESSION CHAIR: Marius Junge (University of Illinois)
09:00-09:50
Pavel Panteleev (Moscow State University)
High-dimensional Sipser-Spielman codes
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Hengyun Zhou (Harvard University)
Quantum Computation with Quantum LDPC Codes in Reconfigurable Atom Arrays
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Dominic Williamson (University of Sydney)
Layer Codes

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
SESSION CHAIR: Toby Cubitt (University College London)
14:30-15:20
Nicolas Delfosse (Microsoft - Redmond, WA)
Fast erasure decoder for a class of quantum LDPC codes
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Chinmay Nirkhe (IBM Watson Research Center)
Making the leap to Quantum PCPs

Friday, December 1, 2023

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
SESSION CHAIR: Chinmay Nirkhe (IBM Watson Research Center)
09:00-09:50
Madelyn Cain (California Institute of Technology)
Logical processors and decoders for early fault-tolerant quantum computation
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Toby Cubitt (University College London)
Hamiltonian simulation meets holographic duality
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Tamara Kohler (Stanford University)
Supersymmetry in quantum complexity: clique homology is QMA_1-hard

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-14:30
SESSION CHAIR: Tamara Kohler (Stanford University)
14:30-15:20
Lukasz Fidkowski (University of Washington)
A no-go result for implementing chiral symmetries by locality-preserving unitaries in a 3-dimensional Hamiltonian lattice model of fermions
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Peter Shor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Green Family Lecture: tbd”
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