The Schedule

Day 1

Friday, November 3rd, 2023

Check-in 15:00 - 16:00

16:00 - 16:10

Opening Ceremony

16:10 - 17:20

Keynote Speakers

Jody Burks - TBA

Account Technical Leader for ExxonMobil & Central US regional lead Quantum Ambassadors

Oles Shtanko - Uncovering Local Integrability in Quantum Many-Body Dynamics

Research Scientist, IBM Quantum

17:20 - 17:45

Q&A Session with Keynote Speakers

17:45 - 18:00

Challenge Intro 

Social Activity 18:00 - 18:30

Day 2

Saturday, November 4th, 2023

8:30 - 9:45

Registration Booth - Check in

9:00 - 10:00

Intro to Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computing

Abhijit Chakraborty

Institute for Quantum Computing

10:00 - 11:15

Speaker Series:

Clarice Aiello - “Quantum Biology”: how nature harnesses quantum processes to function optimally, and how might we control such quantum processes to therapeutic and tech advantage.

CEO at Quantum Biology Tech (QuBiT) Lab

11:15 - 12:15

Circuit Quantum Computing and Qiskit 101

Pablo Lopez Duque - 

University of Houston

12:30 - 14:00

Work on the Challenge!

14:00 - 15:00

Lunch (Provided)

15:00 - 17:30

Work on the Challenge!

Social Activity - Quantum Game 17:30 - 18:00

Day 3

Sunday, November 5th, 2023

9:30 - 9:50

Registration Booth - Check in

10:00 - 11:15

Speaker Series:

Avadh Saxena - Non-Hermitian Quantum Systems: Qubits, Decoherence, Information, Entropy and Beyond

Group Leader of Physics of Condensed Matter and Complex Systems Group (T-4), Los Alamos National Laboratory

11:30 - 14:00

Challenge Time!

Submission Deadline - 14:00

14:00 - 14:30

Closing Ceremony