Bolder Boulder Quantum Workshop

2023 BBQ Workshop

The Byron Bay Quantum (BBQ) Workshop took place in Boulder, Colorado, USA — hence, this year it was the Bolder Boulder Quantum Workshop.

BBQ Workshop YouTube Channel

Missed a BBQ 2023 talk? No worries! The talks are available on the Byron Bay Workshop YouTube Channel 

BBQ Workshop Philosophy

The BBQ Workshop is a focused workshop that brings together leading researchers and 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

2023 Invited Speakers:

• Warit Asavanant - 東京大学 (University of Tokyo)

• Liang Jiang - University of Chicago

• Miller Eaton - University of Virginia

• Jens Koch - Northwestern University

• Catherine Leroux - AWS Centre for Quantum Computing

• Jahan Claes - Yale University

• Brennan de Neeve - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zürich)

• Volodymyr Sivak - Google Quantum AI

• Jonathan Schwinger - National University of Singapore 

• Aurélie Denys - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (INRIA Paris)

• Angela Kou - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Ryotatsu Yanagimoto - Stanford University

• Jonathan Conrad - Freie Universität Berlin

• Mahnaz Jafarzadeh - Xanadu Quantum Technologies

• Victor Albert - University of Maryland & National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

• Xanthe Croot - University of Sydney

• Nicolas Menicucci - RMIT University

• Rob Schoelkopf - Yale University

• Serge Rosenblum - מכון ויצמן למדע (Weizmann Institute of Science)

• Ulysse Réglade - Alice & Bob

• Phillipe Campagne Ibarq - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (INRIA Paris)

• Hyunseok Jeong - 서울대학교 (Seoul National University)

• Ziqian Li - University of Chicago

• Dany Lachance-Quirion - NordQuantique

• Mazyar Mirrahimi - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (INRIA Paris)

• Alessandro Ciani - Forschungszentrum Jülich

• Kyle Serniak - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Labs

• Ilan Rosen - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Harry Levine - AWS Centre for Quantum Computing

• Jonathan Gross - Google Quantum AI

• Dave Hayes - Quantinuum

• Rajveer Nehra - California Institute of Technology

2023 Talk titles and Abstracts (PDF download)

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 the University of Colorado Boulder.

COVID guidelines:

We strongly recommend for all attendees: 

• Being vaccinated and having had all available boosters 

• Regularly taking an at-home antigen test 

•  Avoiding in-person participation if you experience symptoms and/or test positive for COVID-19 

• While masking is not mandatory we do recommend wearing a well-fitting mask during meeting activities 

• We reserve the right to mandate masking during the conference when the CDC transmission rate is “high” in Boulder county