Quantum Computing Conference

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2018 Adiabatic Quantum

Computing Conference

CONFERENCE AGENDA

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MON

TUE

WED

THU

Monday, June 25th, 2018

Time

Speaker

Topic

8:45 - 9:00 am

Rieffel, Eleanor

Korsmeyer, David

Welcome - AQC 2018 Chair

Opening Remarks - NASA Ames Deputy Center Director

9:00 - 9:30 am

Lanting, Trevor

(Invited) Next generation QA hardware

9:30 - 9:50 am

Quintana, Chris

Progress report on quantum annealing processor development at Google

9:50 - 10:20 am

Ferguson, David

(Invited) System concepts for advanced quantum annealing test beds

10:20 - 10:40 am

Novikov, Sergey

Design of key building blocks for high-coherence superconducting quantum annealing

10:40 - 11:00 am

Break

11:00 - 11:30 am

Rosenberg, Danna

(Invited) 3D integration for superconducting qubits

11:30 - 11:50 am

Lupascu, Adrian

Multi-spin measurements for superconducting quantum annealers

11:50 - 12:20 pm

Yoder, Jonilyn

(Invited) Fabricating high-coherence qubits for quantum annealing

12:20 - 1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 pm

Poster Session

3:00 - 3:20 pm

Deng, Chunqing

Demonstration of sign- and magnitude- tunable transverse field in a superconducting flux qubit with microwave dressing

3:20 - 3:40 pm

Melanson, Denis

Tunable ZZZ Coupler for quantum annealing with superconducting flux qubits

3:40 - 4:00 pm

McMahon, Peter

Experimental evidence of large scaling advantages from all-to-all connectivity in physical annealing systems

4:00 - 4:20 pm

Miyazaki, Ryoji

Verifying potential of the coherent Ising machines

4:20 - 4:50 pm

Tamura, Hirotaka

(Invited) Digital annealer: An accelerator for Markov-Chain Monte Carlo stochastic search with multi-replica processing

4:50 - 5:10 pm

Break

5:10 - 5:30 pm

Miyazawa, Toshiyuki

Stochastic search using digital annealer technology

5:30 - 6:00 pm

Wilhelm, Frank

(Invited) Environmental effects in quantum annealing beyond standard models

6:00 - 6:20 pm

Mozgunov, Evgeny

Master equation for adiabatic quantum computing

Tuesday, June 26th, 2018

Time

Speaker

Topic

9:00 - 9:30 am

Altshuler, Boris

(Invited) Non-ergodic extended state as a resource for quantum computation

9:30 - 9:50 am

Smelyanskiy, Vadim

Efficient population transfer via non-ergodic extended states in quantum spin glass

9:50 - 10:20 am

Neven, Hartmut

(Invited) Parallel tempering with quantum multi-variable updates

10:20 - 10:40 am

Brady, Lucas

Evolution-time dependence in near-adiabatic quantum evolutions

10:40 - 11:00 am

Break

11:00 - 11:20 am

Susa, Yuki

Acceleration of quantum annealing by individual control of the transverse field

11:20 - 11:40 am

Fujii, Keisuke

Quantum speedup in stochastic adiabatic quantum computation

11:40 - 12:00 pm

Ozguler, Baris

Steering random spin systems to speed up the quantum adiabatic algorithm

12:00 - 1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 pm

Poster Session

3:00 - 3:30 pm

Albash, Tameem

(Invited) Implementation Errors in Analog Ising Optimizers

3:30 - 3:50 pm

Novotny, Mark

A small-world search for quantum speedup

3:50 - 4:20 pm

Lidar, Daniel

(Invited) Less Chaos, and why Only the End Matters

4:20 - 4:40 pm

Roberts, David

Scaling of incoherent tunneling at frustrated bottlenecks of quantum annealing

4:40 - 5:00 pm

Break

5:00 - 5:30 pm

Crosson, Elizabeth

(Invited) Thermal Stability in universal adiabatic computation

5:30 - 5:50 pm

Pilati, Sebastiano

Quantum tunneling in projective quantum Monte Carlo simulations and the role of neural network states as guiding functions

5:50 - 6:10 pm

Hen, Itay

Quantum annealers as QMC simulators

Wednesday, June 27th, 2018

Time

Speaker

Topic

9:00 - 9:30 am

Mandra, Salvatore

(Invited) NASA's UFO: a unified framework for optimization

9:30 - 9:50 am

Ronagh, Pooya

Discrete optimization using quantum annealers

9:50 - 10:10 am

Koenz, Mario

Uncertain fate of fair sampling and in quantum annealing and embedding penalties

10:10 - 10:40 am

Katzgraber, Helmut

(Invited) Quantum-driven classical optimization

10:40 - 11:00 am

Break

11:00 - 11:20 am

Venturelli, Davide

Investigations of the D-Wave 2000Q machine as optimizer for problems represented by fully connected graphs

11:20 - 11:40 am

Lechner, Wolfgang

Programmable superpositions of Ising configurations

11:40 - 12:00 pm

Subasi, Yigit

Quantum algorithms for linear systems of equations inspired by adiabatic quantum computing

12:00 - 12:30 pm

Chancellor, Nick

(Invited) Continuous time hybrid quantum computing

12:30 - 1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 pm

Unconference

Breakout Sessions

3:00 - 3:30 pm

Brandao, Fernando

(Invited) Solving semidefinite programs on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices

3:30 - 3:50 pm

Kadowaki, Tadashi

Interpolating quantum and classical dynamics and QA application

3:50 - 4:20 pm

Atalaya-Chavez, Juan

Bacon-Shor code with continuous measurement of gauge operators

4:10 - 4:40 pm

Rieffel, Eleanor

(Invited) Quantum heuristics and applications

4:40 - 5:00 pm

Break

5:00 - 5:20 pm

Tanahashi, Kotaro

Global mutual information based feature selection by quantum annealing

5:20 - 5:40 pm

Oberoi, Jaspreet

Big data visualization using quantum annealing based clustering

5:40 - 6:00 pm

Marvian, Milad

On the computational complexity of curing the sign problem

6:30 pm

Dinner Reception

Thursday, June 28th, 2018

Time

Speaker

Topic

9:00 - 9:20 am

Verdon, Guillaume

Quantum approximate Boltzmann machines

9:20 - 9:40 am

Adachi, Steve

Quantum-assisted training of neural networks

9:40 - 10:00 am

Ohzeki, Masayuki

Quantum clustering by D-Wave machine - assessment, application, implementation

10:00 - 10:20 am

Kumar, Vaibhaw

Computing protein-ligand binding free energy using quantum annealing

10:20 - 10:40 am

Break

10:40 - 11:00 am

Vinci, Walter

Quantum Variational Autoencoder

11:00 - 11:30 am

King, Andrew

(Invited) Programmable simulation of a KT phase transition on 1800 qubits

11:30- 11:50 am

Arai, Shunta

Deep neural network detects quantum phase transition in d-wave 2000Q

11:50 - 12:15 pm

Rieffel, Eleanor

Closing Comments and Highlights

Invited Speaker