[quantum-info] Aspen Winter Conference on Advances in Quantum Algorithms and Computation March 2018 (fwd)

[Ashwin Nayak]

This event may be of interest to some of you.

Best,
Ashwin


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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 14:52:47 +0100
From: Aram Harrow <aram at mit.edu>
To: quantum-announce at mit.edu
Subject: Aspen Winter Conference on Advances in Quantum Algorithms and
     	Computation March 2018

Dear Quantum Algorithm Enthusiasts,

We would like to invite you to apply for the upcoming Aspen Center for
Physics 2018 Winter Conference on Advances in Quantum Algorithms and
Computation, to be held March 11-17, 2018.  The Conference will commence
with a Sunday evening reception, with meetings Monday morning through
Saturday morning.

The application deadline is December 31, 2017. Please complete your
application at http://www.aspenphys.org.  The conference website is at

http://www.aspenphys.org/physicists/winter/2018/quantum/ .

This conference follows two previous successful conferences in 2014 and
2016 which asked: if we had a quantum computer, what would we do with it?
Then, quantum computers were still hypothetical devices that would use the
quantum mechanical properties of superposition and entanglement to solve
problems that are likely to be forever out of reach of classical computers.
Now, there is a major worldwide effort to build scalable quantum computers
to realize crucial, world-changing speedups over classical computers. Even
larger quantum computers are being placed online and by 2018, we expect to
see the first quantum computers actually outperforming the runtime of
classical computers for certain problems. We bring together experts from
diverse research avenues to discuss progress in quantum algorithms,
identify killer applications of quantum computers, and discuss key
challenges in the development of quantum algorithms for existing small- and
near-term medium-scale quantum devices. The conference will highlight
topics at the forefront of quantum computing, including:


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    Adiabatic Quantum Optimization and Quantum Annealing
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    Quantum Algorithms in the Quantum Circuit Model
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    Quantum Query Models
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    Quantum Simulation of Physical Systems
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    Classical Methods for Simulation of Quantum Algorithms
    -

    Quantum Fault Tolerance and Error Correction
    -

    Quantum Hardware Advances
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    Quantum Circuit Optimization
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    Quantum Network Protocols



The conference will consist of invited talks and poster submissions. There
will also be a poster award. Some poster submissions may be considered for
contributed talks.  Limited travel support is available; please apply in
the online application.

Please send this email and information to others who may be interested.

We hope to see you in Aspen!

Best,

Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research

Aram Harrow, MIT

Matthias Troyer, Microsoft Research

Stephanie Wehner, TU Delft

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