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Recent Advances in Open Quantum Systems
Recent Advances in Open Quantum Systems
Dates: Thu Jan 15 - Sat Jan 17, 2026
Venue: Alder Auditorium and Commons, University of Washington campus, Seattle
Registration: There is no registration fee and the workshop is open to all. Please register by completing this form.
Housing: The University Inn is recommended. All invited participants will be staying there. A discount rate is available until December 31 by following this link.
Travel: From Seatac airport, Link Light Rail takes you (in 47 minutes for $3.00) to the U District Station which is 0.4 miles from the hotel and 0.4 miles from Alder Hall. A taxi from Seatac costs about $70. The closest parking is in the Central Plaza garage.
Description: Open quantum systems range from condensed matter to trapped atom systems, from theory to experiment, and from fundamental science to applications. To create a uniquely stimulating environment in this workshop, some invited participants will be asked to speak while others will be tasked with keeping the audience discussions lively.
Sponsorship: TIQM activities are sponsored by the University of Washington Department of Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Arts and Sciences, and College of Engineering. Thursday's dinner is sponsored by Quantum Design.
Program
Program
Day 1, Thursday, January 15
Day 1, Thursday, January 15
09:00 - 09:30 Coffee and breakfast
09:30 - 09:45 Charlie Marcus - Introduction
SESSION 1 (Chair: Dietrich Leibfried)
09:45 - 10:10 Sara Mouradian - Weak measurements for sensing
10:10 - 10:30 Mo Chen - Detection and control of individual defects
10:30 - 11:00 Break + Discussion
11:00 - 12:00 Alex Ruichao Ma - Controlling and probing quantum correlations with engineered dissipation
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch + Discussion
SESSION 2 (Chair: Ehud Altman)
14:00 - 15:00 Eli Levenson-Falk - Understanding and harnessing decoherence for sensing and gate calibration
15:00 - 15:30 Break + Discussion
15:30 - 16:30 Archana Kamal - Decoherence in the NISQ era: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
18:30 Dinner with Invited Guests - Big Time Brewery (Thanks to Quantum Design)
Day 2, Friday, January 16
Day 2, Friday, January 16
09:00 - 09:30 Coffee and breakfast
SESSION 3 (Chair: Michael Gullans)
09:30 - 10:30 Yaodong Li - Slow mixing from emergent one-form symmetries in three-dimensional Ising gauge theory
10:30 - 11:00 Break + Discussion
11:00 - 12:00 Yuri Lensky - Realizations of robust aspects of 2D gauge theories on superconducting processors
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch + Discussion
SESSION 4 (Chair: Yaodong Li)
14:00 - 15:00 Rahul Trivedi - Open quantum systems beyond the Born Markov approximation
15:00 - 15:30 Break + Discussion
15:30 - 16:30 Aleksander Kubica - Layer codes as partially self-correcting quantum memories
17:30 Self-organized dinners
Day 3, Saturday, January 17
Day 3, Saturday, January 17
09:00 - 09:30 Coffee and breakfast
SESSION 5 (Chair: Josh Folk)
09:30 - 10:30 Andrew Higgenbotham - Non-equilibrium Josephson Systems in One and Two Dimensions
10:30 - 11:00 Break + Discussion
11:00 - 12:00 Kanu Sinha - Non-Markovian collective dynamics of waveguide-coupled atoms
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch + Discussion
CONFERENCE END
Invited
Invited
Ehud Altman
Joshua Folk
Michael Gullans
Matthew Hastings
Andrew Higginbotham
Archana Kamal
Aleksander Kubica
Yuri Lensky
Dietrich Leibfried
Eli Levinson-Falk
Yaodong Li
Sylvia Lüscher
Alex Ma
Christopher Monroe
Kanu Sinha
Rahul Trivedi
Organizers
Organizers
Mo Chen
Yaodong Li
Charles Marcus
Sara Mouradian
Helpers
Helpers
Aurelia Brook
Claire Kvande
Koray Mentesoglu
Pan Shi
Emerson Turner
Matt Turner
Drew Vincent
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