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Place: ICFO Auditorium

ICFO Spring School on Open-Source Tools for Quantum Science & Technology

PROGRAM
Day 1Monday 18 March: Photonic Platforms for QST
09:00 - 09:30Registration
09:30 - 11:00Alexia Salavrakos, Quandela: "Discovering discrete variable photonic quantum computing with Perceval"
11:00 - 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00Luis Trigo & Paula Alonso, ICFO: "Quantum Safe Cryptography"
13:00 - 14:00Lunch
14:00 - 15:30Michał van Hooft, Qutech, TU Delft: "Introduction to SquidASM"
15:30 - 16:00Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30Career Workshop, ICFO KTT: "Business Models – How to bring quantum tech to market"
Day 2Tuesday 19 March: Cold Atom Platforms for QST
09:00 - 09:30Registration
09:30 - 11:00Shannon Whitlock, Strasbourg: "Pushing the limits of quantum computer emulation"
11:00 - 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00Sarah Hirthe & Remy Vatre, ICFO: "Quantum simulation with neutral atoms"
13:00 - 14:00Lunch
14:00 - 15:30Davide Dreon & Julius de Hond, Pasqal: "Quantum computing with neutral atoms: An introduction through PASQAL’s hard- and software stack"
15:30 - 16:00Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30Career Workshop, ICFO KTT: "Business Models – How to bring quantum tech to market"
Day 3Wednesday 20 March: Quantum Computing, Simulation & Machine Learning
08:30 - 09:00Registration
09:00 - 11:00Fabio Scafirimuto, IBM Quantum: "From hardware to software: Quantum Computing with Superconducting Qubits"& Elisa Baumer, IBM Quantum: "First algorithms and research tools with Qiskit"
11:00 - 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30Joana Fraxanet, IBM Quantum: "Variational Quantum Algorithms and their applications"
12:30 - 13:30Paolo Stornati, ICFO: "An introduction to Quantum Machine Learning"
13:30 - 14:30Lunch
14:30 - 16:00Daniel Nino, Xanadu: "Differentiable quantum programming with PennyLane and introduction to PennyLane datasets"
16:00 - 16:30Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30Guillem Muller, ICFO: "Semidefinite programming in quantum information sciences"
Day 4Thursday 21 March: Research Workshop
09:00 - 09:30Registration
09:30 - 10:00Alexia Salavrakos, Quandela: "A versatile single-photon-based quantum computing platform"
10:00 - 10:30Soubhadra Maiti, QIA / Qutech, TU Delft: ""Requirements for Teleportation in an Intercity Network"
10:30 - 11:00Soeren Wengerowsky, ICFO: "Distributing Photon-Matter Entanglement outside the Lab"
11:00 - 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00Elisa Baumer, IBM Quantum: "Efficient Long-Range Entanglement using Dynamic Circuits"
12:00 - 12:30Joseph Bowles, Xanadu: "Better than classical? The subtle art of benchmarking quantum machine learning models"
12:30 - 13:00Teodor Parella Dilme, ICFO:  "Reducing Entanglement with Physically-Inspired Fermion-To-Qubit Mappings"
13:00 - 14:00Lunch
14:00 - 14:30Shannon Whitlock, University of Strasbourg: "Quantum Computing with Atoms and Light"
14:30 - 15:00Sergi Julia Farre, Pasqal: "Analog quantum simulation of real materials"
15:00 - 15:30Adam Valles, ICFO: “Teleportation of high-dimensional spatial information with a nonlinear detector”
15:30 - 16:00Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45Keynote: Matthias Steffen, IBM Fellow and Head of Quantum Process Technology at IBM Quantum: "From quantum utility-scale to fault-tolerance"
16:45 - 17:15Sandra Buob, ICFO: "Quantum-gas microscopy of strontium atoms in an optical lattice"
17:15 - 18:00Keynote: Kevin Satzinger, Google Quantum AI: "Quantum error correction with superconducting qubits"
18:00Close

Sponsorship & Acknowledgements:

The school is sponsored by IBM Quantum, an industry leader in quantum computing, working everyday towards achieving quantum advantage.  

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme under grant agreement no. 101084035

All day

Place: ICFO Auditorium

ICFO Spring School on Open-Source Tools for Quantum Science & Technology

PROGRAM
Day 1Monday 18 March: Photonic Platforms for QST
09:00 - 09:30Registration
09:30 - 11:00Alexia Salavrakos, Quandela: "Discovering discrete variable photonic quantum computing with Perceval"
11:00 - 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00Luis Trigo & Paula Alonso, ICFO: "Quantum Safe Cryptography"
13:00 - 14:00Lunch
14:00 - 15:30Michał van Hooft, Qutech, TU Delft: "Introduction to SquidASM"
15:30 - 16:00Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30Career Workshop, ICFO KTT: "Business Models – How to bring quantum tech to market"
Day 2Tuesday 19 March: Cold Atom Platforms for QST
09:00 - 09:30Registration
09:30 - 11:00Shannon Whitlock, Strasbourg: "Pushing the limits of quantum computer emulation"
11:00 - 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00Sarah Hirthe & Remy Vatre, ICFO: "Quantum simulation with neutral atoms"
13:00 - 14:00Lunch
14:00 - 15:30Davide Dreon & Julius de Hond, Pasqal: "Quantum computing with neutral atoms: An introduction through PASQAL’s hard- and software stack"
15:30 - 16:00Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30Career Workshop, ICFO KTT: "Business Models – How to bring quantum tech to market"
Day 3Wednesday 20 March: Quantum Computing, Simulation & Machine Learning
08:30 - 09:00Registration
09:00 - 11:00Fabio Scafirimuto, IBM Quantum: "From hardware to software: Quantum Computing with Superconducting Qubits"& Elisa Baumer, IBM Quantum: "First algorithms and research tools with Qiskit"
11:00 - 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30Joana Fraxanet, IBM Quantum: "Variational Quantum Algorithms and their applications"
12:30 - 13:30Paolo Stornati, ICFO: "An introduction to Quantum Machine Learning"
13:30 - 14:30Lunch
14:30 - 16:00Daniel Nino, Xanadu: "Differentiable quantum programming with PennyLane and introduction to PennyLane datasets"
16:00 - 16:30Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30Guillem Muller, ICFO: "Semidefinite programming in quantum information sciences"
Day 4Thursday 21 March: Research Workshop
09:00 - 09:30Registration
09:30 - 10:00Alexia Salavrakos, Quandela: "A versatile single-photon-based quantum computing platform"
10:00 - 10:30Soubhadra Maiti, QIA / Qutech, TU Delft: ""Requirements for Teleportation in an Intercity Network"
10:30 - 11:00Soeren Wengerowsky, ICFO: "Distributing Photon-Matter Entanglement outside the Lab"
11:00 - 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00Elisa Baumer, IBM Quantum: "Efficient Long-Range Entanglement using Dynamic Circuits"
12:00 - 12:30Joseph Bowles, Xanadu: "Better than classical? The subtle art of benchmarking quantum machine learning models"
12:30 - 13:00Teodor Parella Dilme, ICFO:  "Reducing Entanglement with Physically-Inspired Fermion-To-Qubit Mappings"
13:00 - 14:00Lunch
14:00 - 14:30Shannon Whitlock, University of Strasbourg: "Quantum Computing with Atoms and Light"
14:30 - 15:00Sergi Julia Farre, Pasqal: "Analog quantum simulation of real materials"
15:00 - 15:30Adam Valles, ICFO: “Teleportation of high-dimensional spatial information with a nonlinear detector”
15:30 - 16:00Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45Keynote: Matthias Steffen, IBM Fellow and Head of Quantum Process Technology at IBM Quantum: "From quantum utility-scale to fault-tolerance"
16:45 - 17:15Sandra Buob, ICFO: "Quantum-gas microscopy of strontium atoms in an optical lattice"
17:15 - 18:00Keynote: Kevin Satzinger, Google Quantum AI: "Quantum error correction with superconducting qubits"
18:00Close

Sponsorship & Acknowledgements:

The school is sponsored by IBM Quantum, an industry leader in quantum computing, working everyday towards achieving quantum advantage.  

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme under grant agreement no. 101084035