Quantum computers promise substantial speedups over conventional computers for many practical relevant applications such as quantum chemistry, optimization, machine learning, cryptography, quantum simulation, systems of linear equations, and many more. While considered "dreams of the future" for a long time, recent years have shown impressive accomplishments -- as witnessed by the recent discussions on whether quantum advantage compared to classical devices has been achieved. At the same time, research in this area requires to bring together experts from different fields such as physics, math, theory, computer science, and, of course, design automation. 

This workshop aims to provide a forum for that. It features invited talks by leading experts covering the broad range of the area including the physical realization of quantum computers, the software needed to run quantum algorithms on it, applications showing the benefits of the technology, as well as further challenges such as noise and fault tolerance to deal with. Besides that, participants are encouraged to present own contributions in a dedicated poster session (see call for contributions below). By this, the workshop shall provide an informal venue for both, researchers already working in the area but also researchers interested in the topic.

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Call for Poster Contributions

We kindly encourage participants of the workshop to present their own work in the domain of quantum computing at the workshop. To this end, we are planning a poster session for which we reserve a dedicate slot in the program. Interested participants are requested to submit their contributions (including a title as well as a brief abstract) via mail to robert [dot] willejku [dot] at.

Program (Tentative)

07h30: Registration Desk opens

08h20: Welcome and Opening

08h30-10h00: Silicon Technologies for Scaling Up Quantum Computing

• Silvano De Franceschi (INAC, CEA, F) :  Introduction to silicon spin qubits 
• Maud Vinet (CEA-Leti, F) :  VLSI technology for spin qubits
• Tristan Meunier (Institut Néel, CNRS, F) : Multi-qubit control and scaling challenge
  

10h00-10h30: Coffee break

10h30-12h00: Quantum Software

• Robert Wille (Johannes Kepler University Linz, A): Design Automation for Quantum Computing
• Ross Duncan (Cambridge Quantum, UK): Recent Progress in Compiling Quantum Software
• Simon Martiel (Atos, F): Optimization of quantum circuits

12h00-13h00: Lunch break

13h00-14h00: Applications for Quantum Computing

• Lee J. O’Riordan (ICHEC): Quantum Computing Software Applications for Chemistry, Natural Language Processing, and Beyond
• Nathan Fitzpatrick (Cambridge Quantum, UK): Dynamical Mean Field Theory On Quantum Computers: Theory And Experiment

14h00-15h00: Poster Session

• 1min brief introduction of each poster
• Poster session and discussion
• Coffee will be served from 14h30-15h00

15h00-16h30: Noise, Fault Tolerance, etc.

• Richard Kueng (California Institute of Technology, US): Predicting quantum features with classical shadows
• Yehuda Naveh (IBM Research, IS): Noise in quantum computers: Characterization, verification, mitigation
• Carmina García Almudever (TU Delft, NL): Quantum computation and fault tolerance on NISQ devices

16h30: Closing

Registration

To register for the workshop, please use the registration system of the DATE conference. The registration fee is EUR 240.00 if you register before 5 February 2020. 

Link to the registration page: https://www.date-conference.com/registration