Byron Bay Quantum Workshop
18–21 November 2020
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Virtual 2020 BBQ Workshop
Virtual 2020 BBQ Workshop
As this is an exceptional year, the Byron Bay Quantum (BBQ) Workshop will take place online over three days. Although this breaks with the tradition and philosophy (discussed below) of a more intimate, personalized workshop, we hope to take advantage of the online format this year to gather world experts that couldn't normally make the journey to Australia.
2020's online workshop is divided into 7 Sessions distributed across different time zones to give adequate opportunity to almost anyone on the globe to attend several sessions without being extremely inconvenienced. Below is the schedule with the start times of talks given for several locations across the globe. The registration process will let you add calendar events to your personal calendar.
BBQ Workshop YouTube Channel
BBQ Workshop YouTube Channel
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BBQ Workshop Philosophy
BBQ Workshop Philosophy
The Byron Bay Quantum (BBQ) Workshop is a focused workshop that brings together early career experts to discuss progress and solve problems in a specific area. Typically, the workshop is intentionally informal to encourage collaboration between participants. We can learn from each other and use our collective expertise to identify and solve interesting problems.
The three primary goals of BBQ:
bring together experts in the field in a setting that promotes interaction
put this expertise to use to solve problems
advance early career researchers
2020 Focus: Bosonic error-correcting codes — GKP anniversary edition
2020 Focus: Bosonic error-correcting codes — GKP anniversary edition
Encoding an error-correctable qubit (or qudit) into an infinite-dimensional system, such as a bosonic mode, is an exciting alternative to qubit-based error correcting codes. The first ideas arose more than 20 years ago, and recently these ideas are seeing a resurgence due in part to experimental progress that's been demonstrated in laboratories across the world.
The last few years have seen huge advances in the field of continuous-variable quantum computation, both theoretically and experimentally. Yet many obstacles still lie between where we are now and where we'd like to be: fault-tolerant universal quantum computation. We're excited to bring together the world's experts in bosonic error-correcting codes at BBQ 2020 to push towards overcoming these challenges and also to explore other uses for bosonic codes beyond computing, such as quantum communication and metrology.
This year is a very special year for bosonic codes. 20 years ago the famous GKP paper appeared on the arXiv. We will celebrate this event with several invited talks focusing on recent experimental and theoretical development of GKP codes.
2020 Invited Speakers:
2020 Invited Speakers:
Kyungjoo Noh - AWS Center for Quantum Computing
Shruti Puri - Yale University
Barbara Terhal - Technische Universiteit Delft (TU Delft)
Giulia Ferrini - Chalmers Tekniska Högskola (Chalmers University of Technology)
Nicholas Frattini - Yale University
Jonathan Home - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zürich)
Chen Wang - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Pérola Milman - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Paris (CNRS)
Akira Furusawa - 東京大学 (University of Tokyo)
Luyan Sun - 清华大学 (Tsinghua University)
Alessandro Ciani - Technische Universiteit Delft (TU Delft)
Earl Campbell - AWS Center for Quantum Computing
Zaki Leghtas - MINES ParisTech / Inria de Paris (Inria Paris) / École normale supérieure Paris (ENS-Paris)
Ulrik Lund Andersen - Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (Technical University of Denmark)
Daniel Gottesman - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Eliot Kapit - Colorado School of Mines
Ish Dhand - Xanadu Quantum Technologies
András Gyenis - Københavns Universitet (Copenhagen University)
Steve Girvin - Yale University
Baptiste Royer - Yale University
Raditya Bomantara - The University of Sydney
Liang Jiang - The University of Chicago
Alec Eickbusch - Yale University
Dzmitry Matsukevich - National University of Singapore
Serge Rosenblum - מכון ויצמן למדע (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Rafael Alexander - RMIT University
Lisa Hänggli - Technische Universität München (TUM)
Olivier Pfister - University of Virginia
Jonathan Conrad - Freie Universität Berlin
Scientific organizing committee:
Scientific organizing committee:
Ben Baragiola, RMIT University
Josh Combes, The University of Colorado Boulder
Yvonne Gao, National University of Singapore
Arne Løhre Grimsmo, The University of Sydney
Shruti Puri, Yale University
Contact: byron.bay.quantum@gmail.com
BBQ 2020 was supported by: Australian Research Council through a Discovery Early Career Research Award and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems, and the University of Colorado Boulder.
BBQ 2020 was supported by: Australian Research Council through a Discovery Early Career Research Award and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems, and the University of Colorado Boulder.
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