AQIS 2020 [virtual] Conference
The 20th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS ’20) will focus on quantum information processing, communication and cryptography, an interdisciplinary field bridging quantum physics, computer science, mathematics, and information technologies.
PROGRAM
INVITED SPEAKERS
Monday 7 December
(11:00 – 12:00)
Speaker 1: Nicole Yunger Halpern
Affiliation: Harvard-Smithsonian ITAMP (Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics) | Harvard University Department of Physics | MIT Research Lab of Electronics and Center for Theoretical Physics
Title: Noncommuting conserved quantities in thermalization
(13:30 – 14:30)
Speaker 2: Patrick Coles
Affiliation: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), USA
Title: Promises and Challenges of Variational Quantum Algorithms
(15:30 – 16:30)
Speaker 3: Francesco Buscemi
Affiliation: Nagoya University, Japan
Title: Statistical tests of “quantumness”: from mathematics to technology
(18:00 – 19:00)
Speaker 4: Nalanjana Datta
Affiliation: University of Cambridge, UK
Title: Perfect discrimination of unitary channels and novel quantum speed limits
Tuesday 8 December
(11:00 – 12:00)
Speaker 5: Aleksander Kubica
Affiliation: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
Title: Using Quantum Metrological Bounds in Quantum Error Correction: A Simple Proof of the Approximate Eastin-Knill Theorem
(13:30 – 14:30)
Speaker 6: François Le Gall
Affiliation: Nagoya University, Japan
Title: Average-Case Quantum Advantage with Shallow Circuits
(15:30 – 16:30)
Speaker 7: Qiang Zhang
Affiliation: University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China
Title: Recent experimental progress in quantum key distribution
Speaker 8: Takashi Yamamoto (18:00 – 19:00)
Affiliation: Osaka University, Japan
Title: Quantum network with atoms and photons
Wednesday 9 December
(11:00 – 12:00)
Speaker 9: Michael Newman
Affiliation: Google, USA
Title: Fault-tolerant Operation of a Bacon-Shor Encoded Qubit
(13:30 – 14:30)
Speaker 10: Andrew Dzurak
Affiliation: UNSW Sydney, Australia
Title: Silicon-based quantum computing: The path from the laboratory to industrial manufacture
(15:30 – 16:30)
Speaker 11: Zhengfeng Ji
Affiliation: Centre for Quantum Software and Information, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Title: Spooky complexity at a distance
(18:00 – 19:00)
Speaker 12: Da-Wei Wang
Affiliation: Zhejiang University, China
Title: Topological phases of quantized light
VISIT AQIS 2020 conference website for further details on accepted papers and research topic discussions
