Name: RIKEN Berkeley Workshop: Quantum Information Science
Start: 2019-01-25T08:00:00-08:00
End: 2019-01-29T18:00:00-08:00
Location: LBL-Hill

RIKEN Berkeley Workshop: Quantum Information Science

from Friday, 25 January 2019 (08:00) to Tuesday, 29 January 2019 (18:00)

Monday, 21 January 2019
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Thursday, 24 January 2019
Friday, 25 January 2019

17:00

17:00 - 22:00
Room: Minor Ln, Berkeley, CA 94720
Saturday, 26 January 2019

08:30

08:30 - 09:30
Room: Building 66- Auditorium
09:30
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Building 66- Auditorium
Contributions

09:30 Lab Overview - Horst Simon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:53 RIKEN National Science Institute: a brief introduction - Motoko Kotani (RIKEN)

10:16 RIKEN-Berkeley Workshop: Quantum Information Science - Tetsuo Hatsuda (RIKEN)

10:40 QIS Landscape at Berkeley & Advanced Quantum Testbed - Jonathan Carter (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
11:00

11:00 - 11:30
Room: Building 66- Auditorium
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Building 66- Auditorium
Contributions

11:30 Faster classical sampling from distributions defined by quantum circuits - Igor Markov (University of Michigan)

12:15 Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Computers - Riccardo Manenti (Rigetti)
13:00

13:00 - 14:30
Room: Building 66- Auditorium
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Building 66- Auditorium
Contributions

14:30 Open-source scientific computing for quantum technology: QuTiP - Nathan Shammah (RIKEN)

15:15 Advancing quantum computing as a platform for scientific discovery in chemical sciences - Wibe de Jong
16:00

16:00 - 16:30
Room: Building 66- Auditorium
16:30
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Building 66- Auditorium
Contributions

16:30 Quantum circuit learning: a variational quantum algorithm for machine learning - Kosuke Mitarai (Osaka University)

17:00 Device Design and Technology Developments for Quantum Sensing Charge-Coupled Devices - Stephen Holland (LBNL)

17:30 Progress Towards sub-eV Phonon and Photon Sensitivity with Athermal Phonon Detector for Light Mass Dark Matter Searches and Other Applications - Matt Pyle (University of California Berkeley)
Sunday, 27 January 2019

08:30

08:30 - 09:30
Room: Building 66- Auditorium
09:30
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Building 66- Auditorium
Contributions

09:30 Performance enhancement of quantum annealing by non-traditional quantum driving - Hidetoshi Nishimori (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

10:15 VanQver: Variationally and Adiabatically Navigated Quantum Eigensolver - Shunji Matsuura (1QBit)

10:45 Quantum annealing for polynomial systems of equations - Arjun Gambhir (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
11:00

11:00 - 11:30
Room: Building 66- Auditorium
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Building 66- Auditorium
Contributions

11:30 Continuous Quantum Error Correction for Quantum Annealing enabled by measurement-based feedback - K. Birgitta Whaley (UC Berkeley)

12:00 Quantum Algorithmic Breakeven: on scaling up with noisy qubits - Daniel Lidar (USC)

12:30 Real-space renormalization group analysis of the frustrated Ising ladder in a transverse field - Kabuki Takada (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
13:00

13:00 - 14:30
Room: Building 66- Auditorium
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Building 66- Auditorium
Contributions

14:30 Characterization of magnetic structures using (coherent) x-rays - Andreas Scholl (Lawrence Berkeley Lab)

15:00 Spontaneous spin-chain fluctuation observed with coherent x-ray scattering - Xiaoqian Chen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:30 Valley-Mechanical Coupling in a Monolayer Semiconductor - Haokun Li (University of California, Berkeley)
16:00

16:00 - 16:30
Room: Building 66- Auditorium
16:30
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Building 66- Auditorium
Contributions

16:30 Engineering topological states of exciton-polaritons with Non-Hermitian potentials - Michael Fraser (RIKEN CEMS / JST PRESTO)

17:00 Opportunities for Quantum Information Research Using Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy - Eli Rotenberg (LBNL)

17:30 Emergence of excitonic superfluid at topological-insulator surfaces - Dong Yu (U.C. Davis)
18:00

18:00 - 22:00
Room: 2315 Durant Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704