When: 6 days over 2 weeks, 11th-20th August 2020

We are pleased to announce the speakers and talk schedule for the FTQT workshop on Fault-tolerant quantum technologies. Topics of discussion include:
– Understanding noise model details such as noise bias & qubit leakage;
– Advances in decoder development & efficiency;
– LDPC codes;
– Bosonic/GKP codes.

This is workshop is now to be held online with no registration fee. The full conference schedule can be download here.

Please register on the Benasque website (http://benasque.org/2020ftqt/cgi-bin/appl.pl) to receive updates on access to zoom links and the conference slack channel.

• Quantum error correcting codes; error correction and decoders
• Architecture and design of fault tolerant quantum computers
• Error mitigation in NISQ computations
• Error mitigation in quantum annealing
• Reliable quantum control
• Dynamical decoupling
• Error quantification
• tomography and benchmarking
• Quantum repeaters
• Active or self-correcting quantum memory
• Applications of quantum error correction in Physics, CS and other disciplines
• Classical error correction relevant to the QEC community
• Compilers for fault tolerant gate sets
• Error correction and mitigation in other Quantum Technologies (sensing / cryptography / etc.)
• QEC-inspired quantum computing theory

The 5th International Conference on Quantum  Error Correction (QEC’19) will be taking place at Senate House, London from  29th July to 2nd August 2019.

QEC highlights recent advances in quantum error correction, quantum control  and related topics and important theme of the conference is the way quantum  error correction influences other fields of research in quantum information,  quantum technologies, physics and computer science. Information about  previous conferences in the series can be found at QEC7
(http://qserver.usc.edu/qec07/), QEC11 (http://qserver.usc.edu/qec11/), QEC14 (http://www.qec14.ethz.ch/) and QEC17 (https://qec2017.gatech.edu).

Senate House is a striking art-deco building which is the headquarters of the  University of London. It is situated next to the British Museum in the heart  of London. Please see our web-page for further information about the:
http://qec19.iopconfs.org/

Details of conference registration and a call for papers will be announced in  early 2019.

This conference is organised by the Quantum Optics, Quantum Information and Quantum Control group of the Institute of Physics, and the conference chair  is Prof. Dan Browne.

Congratulations to QCDA project members Earl Campbell, Omar Fawzi, Antoine Grospellier and Anthony Leverrier for accepted talks at QIP 2019.

Earl Campbell will present his work on “A theory of single-shot error correction for adversarial noise”. Omar Fawzi, Antoine Grospellier and Anthony Leverrier will present their paper ”
Constant overhead quantum fault-tolerance with quantum expander codes”.

The arXiv links for both papers are below:

The QCDA kickoff meeting took place earlier last week at INRIA in Paris. The event involved talks from members from each of the five QCDA nodes, as well as group discussions about future project directions. As part of this, a list of open problems was compiled.

The QCDA group photo outside INRIA, Paris.

The new QCDA logo. Designed by Simon Burton.

The QCDA project now has a Twitter account! Follow us @QCDA_EU for the latest project news.

The QCDA kick-off meeting will take place at INRIA in Paris on 5th and 6th November 2018. The emphasis is on a workshop style meeting so collaborators within QCDA can make progress on joint projects. There is space for a limited number of external participants who want to collaborate with the consortium.

In following years of the QCDA project, we will run conference-style events that are more outward facing and open to the general community.