SEEQA 2024
Seeking Quantum Advantage: Workshop and Conference
Held at Merton College Oxford. September 2nd – 5th 2024
This was the inaugural SEEQA event: a one week residential conference in Oxford’s historic Merton College, where experts gathered to debate the challenges and opportunities in the worldwide effort to achieve general Quantum Advantage.
The website for the 2025 event is under construction here.
Schedule and Talk Titles
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- Zoë Holmes: Does provable absence of barren plateaus imply classical simulability?
- Eric Anschuetz: Arbitrary Polynomial Separations in Trainable Quantum Machine Learning
- John Morton: The role of silicon in quantum computing
- Keisuke Fujii: Early FTQC: closing the gap between NISQ and FTQC
- Ying Li: Classical codes in constructing fault-tolerant quantum circuits
- Ash Vadgama: Update on the National Quantum Computing Centre’s (NQCC) Programme
- Chris Monroe: Co-Design of Quantum Apps to Hardware
- Roland Matt: All-electronic trapped-ion quantum computing architecture
- Suguru Endo: Quantum error mitigation towards fault-tolerance
- Christian Gogolin: Building blocks for quantum computing for chemistry
- Kristan Temme: With fault tolerance the ultimate goal, error mitigation is the path that gets quantum computing to usefulness
- Yihui Quek: The Signal and the (Quantum) noise
- Earl Campbell: Real-time decoding in hardware
- Nicholas Harrigan: Accelerated Quantum Supercomputing at NVIDIA
- Alexander Schmidhuber: Quartic quantum speedups for planted inference
- Daniel Lidar: Demonstration of algorithmic quantum speedup
- Sophia Economou: Adaptive and pulse-based quantum algorithms
- Xiao Yuan: Quantum Advantage for Near-Term and Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers
- Tom Manovitz: New quantum opportunities with neutral atom arrays: analog, digital, and error-corrected
- Constantin Dalyac: Probing for quantum advantage with neutral atoms
- Joseph Bowles: Scalable training of large quantum machine learning models
- Josh Nunn: ORCA Computing: early applications on the path to fault tolerance
- Robbie King: Learning with exponentially fewer samples using quantum memory
- Ryan Babbush: Optimization by decoded quantum interferometry (arXiv:2408.08292)
Confirmed speakers and panelists
Invited long talks
- Ryan Babbush
- Earl Campbell
- Sophia Economou
- Keisuke Fujii
- Daniel Lidar
- Zoë Holmes
- Tom Manovitz
- Chris Monroe
- John Morton
- Kristan Temme
Evening debates
- Robin Blume-Kohout
- Harry Buhrman
- Toby Cubitt
- Christian Gogolin
- Zoë Holmes
- Nathan Wiebe
Invited shorter talks
- Eric Anschuetz
- Joseph Bowles
- Constantin Dalyac
- Suguru Endo
- Christian Gogolin
- Nicholas Harrigan
- Robbie King
- Ying Li
- Josh Nunn
- Roland Matt
- Yihui Quek
- Alexander Schmidhuber
- Ash Vadgama
- Xiao Yuan
Poster Session and OQC Poster Prize
The poster session was held on Tuesday 3rd Sept between 17:00 – 19:30.
Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) generously offered to create a Poster Prize of £500 to award the most outstanding young researcher’s poster. All students (undergraduate and postgraduate) and early career researchers who are within 4 years since completion of their doctorate were eligible to nominate themselves for this prize.
Congratulations to our poster prize winners Martina Nibbi (Technical University of Munich) and Sofiene Jerbi (Freie Universität Berlin).
Listen, Present and Discuss
Lectures and presentations from world-leading experts. 150 participants, 10 invited long talks and 14 shorter talks.
Tackle challenges together
Merton College offers plenty of space in its scenic gardens and traditional seminar rooms for chats and meetings at all scales.
The latest theory and experiments
The event had an emphasis on practical theory, while covering the most exciting experimental progress in various systems.
Evening debates
The event featured an evening debate that tackles key controversy with speakers for and against.
Residential in Merton College
Attendees stayed in Merton, one of Oxford’s most beautiful colleges, with breakfast and dinner in the College’s beautiful Hall.
Explore the Dreaming Spires
Beautiful walks, punting on the river, and countless historic colleges, museums and libraries.
Key Themes and Topics
- Early fault tolerance and Error mitigation
- Hybrid algorithms
- Benchmarking and quantifying progress
- Is there QA in Chemistry?
- QC to augment emerging classical methods
- Randomized protocols and classical shadows
- Emulation, and Dequantizing Algorithms
Talks and Perspectives
As increasingly large investments are made into commercial quantum computing efforts, how should we view the prospects for the field: Can over-hype be avoided to keep goals attainable?
Registration
Our tickets fully sold out.
The event sold out and a waiting list was introduced.
Accommodation in Merton College was fully booked out.
Organisers
Oxford
- Prof Simon Benjamin
- Dr Bálint Koczor,
- Dr Zhenyu Cai
Bristol
- Prof Noah Linden
- Dr Paul Skrzypczyk
UCL
- Prof Dan Browne
- Dr Armands Strikis
Contact: conference@seeqa.org
