[quantum-info] Fwd: IBM ThinkQ Conference on Approximate Quantum Computing (Dec 6-8, 2017)

[Daniel Gottesman]

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From: David N Gosset <dngosset at us.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 6:41 AM
Subject: IBM ThinkQ Conference on Approximate Quantum Computing (Dec 6-8, 2017)
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Dear Colleagues,

Please help us distribute this conference announcement within your
institution (and to others who may be interested).

The IBM Research THINKQ Conference on “Approximate quantum computing:
from advantage to applications”, is scheduled to be held on December
6-8, 2017, at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights,
New York.

Conference description: Modest-sized quantum computers now exist in
the real world and the next generation of these devices may be too big
to simulate on a classical computer. A quantum computer which is too
big to classically simulate has an inherent computational advantage of
sorts. How can we harness this advantage, sufficiently protect it from
noise, and use it to solve computational problems of interest? Can we
achieve these goals without incurring large overheads such as those
required for fault-tolerant quantum computation? These are the central
questions in an emerging field of approximate quantum computing which
touches upon areas including quantum advantage, quantum simulation,
hardware-efficient algorithms, heuristic quantum algorithms, error
mitigation, and more.

Below is the current list of invited speakers:

Alán Aspuru-Guzik (Harvard)
Ryan Babbush (Google)
Bela Bauer (Microsoft)
Simon Benjamin (Oxford)
Robin Blume-Kohout (Sandia National Labs)
Fernando Brandão (Caltech)
Michael Bremner (University of Technology Sydney)
Earl Campbell (University of Sheffield)
Garnet Chan (Caltech)
Andrew Childs (University of Maryland)
Jens Eisert (Freie Universität Berlin)
Joseph Emerson (University of Waterloo)
Eddie Farhi* (MIT/Google)
Aram Harrow (MIT)
Ashley Montanaro (University of Bristol)
Matthias Troyer (Microsoft)
Nathan Wiebe (Microsoft)

*To be confirmed


Poster Session: There will be an opportunity for attendees to present
a research poster at the conference.

Request an invitation: If you are interesting in attending, request an
invitation by emailing emorine at us.ibm.com with the below.

Name
Organization / Institution
Title / Position
E-mail address

Please wait for your attendance to be confirmed before making any
travel arrangements

Event Website: For more information about the event, please go to
http://ibm.biz/thinkq2017

If you have any questions about logistics or the event, please contact
IBM Research / Josiane Emorine at emorine at us.ibm.com.

Thank you for your interest.

_________________________________________________
The IBM Research THINKQ Event Team.