FoQaCiA kick-off meeting
2nd–4th Nov 2022
Practical information
Meeting location: Board Room @ INL (upstairs from front lobby)
except on Friday morning: Sever and Tâmega Rooms (other end of building near QLOC offices)
Join online via the following Zoom link
except on Friday morning
Schedule
All times are local, i.e. Western European Time (WET, aka GMT, UTC+0)
–7 for Vancouver
–4 for Ottawa, Waterloo
0 for London
+1 for Sevilla, Granada, Stockholm, Gdańsk
+3 for Ankara
Wednesday 2nd November
10.00
Welcome / discussions
12.00
Lunch break
14.00
Project overview, management (WP5), dissemination (WP6)
15.00
Rui S Barbosa
WP1
15.30
break
16.00
Adán Cabello
The costs of simulating quantum mechanics for sequential sharp measurements
17.00
Cihan Okay
WP2
17.30
break
18.00
Michael Zurel
Classical simulation of quantum computation based on Lambda polytopes
19.00
end of day 1
Thursday 3rd November
10.00
Discussions
11.00
Ernesto F. Galvão
Coherence and contextuality in interferometers
11.30
Rui Soares Barbosa
Causal contextuality and adaptive MBQC (preliminary ideas)
12.00
Lunch break
14.00
Ana Belén Sainz and John Selby
Certification of nonclassicality via generalised contextuality
15.00
Jon Yard
WP1
15.30
break
16.00
Jon Yard
Arithmetic of quantum circuits
17.00
Robert Raussendorf
WP4
17.30
break
18.00
Robert Raussendorf
Optimising fault-tolerance with cluster states
19.00
end of day 2
20.00
Workshop dinner @ Colher d'Pau Taberna in Largo da Praça Velha
Friday 4th November
10.00
Discussions
12.00
Lunch break
14.00
Sivert Aasnæss
Generalised construction of quantum advantage with shallow circuits
14.30
Samson Abramsky
Combining contextuality and causality (preliminary ideas)
15.00
Ingemar Bengtsson
Constructing SIC-POVMs
15.30
break
16.00
Anne Broadbent
Quantum cryptography and interactions with FoQaCiA
16.30
Cihan Okay
Topology and MBQC (preliminary ideas)
17.00
break
17.30
General Assembly meeting
18.30
end of day 3