[POTUS2018] Quantum: artificial intelligence, fundamentals & technologies

Jan 12, 2018, 12:45 PM → Jan 14, 2018, 8:30 PM America/Los_Angeles

<font color=white>Andaz WH/SpaceX/Caltech</font>

Maria Spiropulu (Caltech)

 

To accomplish the extraordinary, you must seek extraordinary people. — James Lee Byars

 

This two day retreat brings together the top minds, thinkers and doers, in the physics of the universe both theoretical and experimental and in cross-cutting science and technology areas that impact our views and our research. The meeting fosters exchange and celebrates differences in thinking that provoke insightful discussions. We avoid standard prepared talks, and focus on exciting forefront issues spawned by new results and ideas.  The summit this year follows up on POTUS2017 that was inspired by quantum information as a technology and theory framework at many scales, by results in gravitation physics, cosmology & astronomy, the evolution of the DM searches, and  by paradigm breaking ideas in string theory, gravity and cosmology.  POTUS2018 will press on  discussion on quantum methods for learning (quantum AI), quantum fundamental breakthroughs and quantum technologies.   POTUS is held under the Chatham House Rule.

 

Venues

Andaz West Hollywood: 8401 Sundst Sunset Boulevard West Hollywood

Caltech Cahill: 1200 East California Blvd, Pasadena

SpaceX: 1 Rocket Road, Hawthorne

 

•  The summit kicks-off with the POTUS reception and family-style dinner at the Andaz West Hollywood  on Friday, January 12. 
• Saturday, Janaury 13, the first day of the summit, sessions  will be held at SpaceX. The POTUS Pritzker  Gala  will take place at the Andaz WH Rooftop Panorama the evening of January 13. 
• Sunday,  January 14, Tte second day of the summit, sessions  will be held at Caltech's Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics.  

 

 

Participants  are hosted at the The Andaz West Hollywood.The summit is by invitation only; There is no registration or other fees for the scientific participants. Just make your way to the Andaz. 

Janaury 7 2018: SpaceX day is now closed.
January 8 2018: Sign-up is now closed. 

 

 

Friday, January 12

6:30 PM → 9:30 PM POTUS Welcome Reception & Family Style Dinner

Saturday, January 13

6:30 AM → 7:45 AM Breakfast

7:50 AM → 8:00 AM Buses to SpaceX

8:20 AM → 8:45 AM SpaceX Check-in and Welcome

8:50 AM → 10:15 AM Session I

Convener: Rocky Kolb

8:50 AM Quantum Cognition

Speaker: Matthew Fisher

9:20 AM Quantum Information in Quantum Cognition

Speaker: Nicole Yunger Halpern

9:50 AM Quantum Brain: Panel Discussion

Speaker: Amir Raz + session speakers

10:15 AM → 10:30 AM In room Coffee Break

10:30 AM → 1:45 PM Session II

Convener: Joe Lykken

10:30 AM Quantum Computation Insights

Speaker: Matthias Troyer

11:00 AM Quantum Computing and Quantum AI

Speaker: Hartmut Neven

11:30 AM Quantum Machine Learning

Speaker: Nathan Wiebe

12:00 PM Classification with Quantum Neural Networks

Speaker: Eddie Farhi

12:30 PM In room Lunch Break & SpaceX Briefing

1:15 PM Quantum Speed-up

Speaker: Fernando Brandao

1:45 PM → 4:35 PM Session III

Convener: David Gross

1:45 PM Entanglement, Complexity & Cryptography

Speaker: Thomas Vidick

2:15 PM In room Coffee Break

2:30 PM Black Holes and The SYK model

Speaker: Alexei Kitaev

3:00 PM Traversable Wormholes

Speaker: Daniel Louis Jafferis

3:30 PM Entanglement, Wormholes, Teleportation & Quantum Error Correction

Speaker: Erik Verlinde

4:00 PM Remarks on Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model and Traversable Wormholes

Speaker: Herman Verlinde

4:10 PM Buses to Andaz WH

5:30 PM → 9:30 PM POTUS 2018 Pritzker Reception & Gala

Sunday, January 14

6:30 AM → 7:30 AM Breakfast

7:40 AM → 7:45 AM Busses to Cahill

8:30 AM → 9:15 AM Session III Discussion

Convener: Daniel Harlow

9:15 AM → 9:30 AM Coffee Break

9:30 AM → 12:00 PM Session IV

Conveners: Konrad Lehnert, Neil Sinclair

9:30 AM Quantum Systems & Matter

Speaker: Jonathan Simon

9:55 AM Quantum Simulation with Assembled Atomic Arrays

Speaker: Manuel Enders

10:20 AM Optical Ising Machines

Speaker: Alireza Marandi

10:45 AM Trapped Ion Quantum Information

Speaker: Norbert Matthias Linke

11:10 AM Sources of Entanglement

Speaker: Jelena Vuckovic

11:35 AM Global Quantum Networks

Speaker: Christoph Simon

12:45 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch at Dabney Gardens

2:00 PM → 3:45 PM LIGO Feature

Convener: Roger Bandford

2:00 PM LIGO & Multimessanger Astronomy

Speaker: Alan Weinstein

2:45 PM LIGO Pannel

Speakers: Mansi Kasliwal, Rana Adhikari, Sterl Phinney, Yanbei Chen

3:45 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 6:30 PM Session V

Convener: Michael Turner

4:00 PM Cold Atom Interferometry Spacetime Probes & MAGIS

Speaker: Jason Hogan

4:25 PM Quantum Sensing: from fundamental physics tests to biomedical applications

Speaker: Ron Walsworth

4:50 PM Dark Matter and Quantum States of Matter

Speaker: Tongyan Lin

5:15 PM Axion Dark Matter & Superconducting Qubits

Speaker: Aaron Chou

5:40 PM Quantum physics of the universe, simulated with superconducting circuits

Speaker: Machiel Blok

6:00 PM → 8:00 PM POTUS2018 Closing Reception

7:15 PM Bus to Andaz WH