Agenda

7:35 AM | Shuttles depart Goodland Hotel / Google Santa Barbara

8:00 - 9:00 AM | Breakfast/Registration

9:00 - 9:45 AM | Welcome | Hartmut Neven

9:45 - 10:30 AM | Hardware Update | John Martinis

10:30 - 10:45 AM | Break

10:45 - 11:05 AM | NISQ algorithms and quantum control | Sergio Boixo

11:05 - 11:30 AM | Physics based methods in design and benchmarking of multi qubit quantum gates | Vadim Smelyanskiy

11:30 - 12:00 PM | Optimization and sampling on NISQ processors | Eleanor Rieffel

12:00 - 1:30 PM | Lunch

1:30 - 2:00 PM | Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution (and perhaps Quantum Importance Sampling) | Garnet Chan

2:00 - 2:30 PM | Simulating an expanding universe on Bristlecone | Guifre Vidal

2:30 - 3:00 PM | Small codes adapted for quantum simulations | Ben Reichardt

3:00 - 3:30 PM | Break

3:30 - 4:00 PM | Quantum generative models: Progress in the variational quantum eigensolver and the new variational quantum generator | Alán Aspuru-Guzik

4:00 - 4:30 PM | Increasing the representation accuracy of quantum simulations of chemistry without extra quantum resources | Tyler Takeshita

4:30 - 5:00 PM | Quantum simulation of strongly correlated systems | Zhang Jiang

5:00 - 6:30 PM | Break - Beach walk, explore the property

6:30 - 10:00 PM | Dinner + Social (featuring a DJ, laser show, forcefield performance, and performance by Yozmit)

9:50 - 10:00 PM | Shuttles depart Orchid Farm