Monday Sep 14, 2026 (EDT time):
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Alan Aspuru-Guzik, University of Toronto, Canada: Opening Plenary Talk (TBA)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Taylor Patti, NVIDIA Research, USA: “Distilled Quantum Structure: Simulations and AI for Quantum Design”
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Muyuan Li, NVIDIA, USA: “Scalable AI Pre-Decoding for Real-Time Quantum Error Correction”
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM: Glen Evenbly, AWS, USA: “Simulations of Quantum Many-body Systems using Belief Propagation with Loop Corrections”
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM: Joseph Tindall, Flatiron Institute, USA: “Quantum Simulation with Belief Propagation and Tensor Networks: A New Frontier”
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM: Salvatore Mandra, Google Quantum AI, USA: “A Heuristic for Matrix Product State Simulation of Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics of Two-Dimensional Quantum Spin Systems”
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Nikita Astrakhantsev, Google Quantum AI, USA: “GPU-Accelerated Simulation of Pauli Interference in Out-of-Time-Ordered Quantum Circuits”
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Roger Luo, QuEra, USA: “Beyond scale: Realistic simulation of noisy, lossy quantum hardware”
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Matteo D’Anna, ETHZ Zurich, Switzerland: “Simulating Out-of-Equilibrium Fermionic Systems using Majorana Propagation”
Tuesday, Sep 15, 2026 (EDT time):
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Zhi (Jackie) Yao, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA: “Massively-Parallel, GPU-Enabled Time-Domain Physical Models of Quantum Circuitry”
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Zlatko Minev, Google Quantum AI, USA (virtual): “TBA”
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Amit Devra, Technical University Munich, Germany: “Dynamical decoupling and robust gates for quantum computation”
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM: Stefanos Kourtis, University of Sherbrooke, Canada: “Logical obstructions to tensor network contraction”
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM: Brad Chase, Unitary Fund, USA: “Clifft: Fast simulation of near-Clifford Circuits”
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM: Gian Giacomo Guerreschi, Intel Labs, USA: “Introducing the Clifford-Fullstate Hybrid Simulator for Hamiltonian Evolution and other Quantum Computing Applications”
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Dmitry Lyakh, NVIDIA, USA: “Recent Advances in cuQuantum SDK: Accelerating All Flavors of Quantum Simulators”
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM: Discussion: “Open Challenges in Classical Simulations of Quantum Computations and the Quantum Advantage Boundary”