PAF INQNET Symposium 2018

Saturday Aug 25, 2018, 8:00 AM → 6:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

1 Registration and Coffee

2 Keynote

Speaker: Prof. Chris Monroe

3 Introduction to Quantum Opus

Speaker: Dr Aaron Miller (Founder Quantum Opus)

4 Practical Applications For Near-Future Quantum Computers

Speaker: Matt Johnson (CEO QCWare)

5 Quantum Nanophotonics: engineering atom-photon interactions on a chip

Speaker: Dr Shuo Sun (Stanford University)

6 Introduction to AQT

Speaker: Prof. Maria Spiropulu (Caltech, PMA)

12:00 PM LUNCH

7 Neutral Atoms: From Clocks to Computers

Speaker: Dr Benjamin Bloom (CEO & Founder Atom Computing Inc.)

8 Quantum networks: key building blocks

Speaker: Dr Daniel Oblak

9 Hybrid Quantum Information Processing

Speaker: Dr Marek Pechal (Stanford University)

10 NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems using Coherent Ising Machine

Speaker: Linda Zhang (AT&T Foundry, Stanford University)

3:00 PM COFFEE BREAK

11 Early Career Panel

Speakers: Dr Amir Safavi-Naeini (Stanford University), Dr Daniel Oblak (Quantum Optics Principal Investigator at University of Calgary), Dr Marina Radulaski (Assistant Professor at University of California, Davis), Dr Peter McMahon (Visiting Assistant Professor Cornell University), Dr Yewon Gim (Moderator, AT&T Foundry, INQNET)

12 Superconducting circuit design for multiqubit entanglement

Speaker: Dr Sydney Schreppler (UC Berkeley Physics)

13 Simulating a Blind Quantum Computing Protocol

Speaker: Sean Decker (AT&T Foundry, Stanford University)

Closing Remarks and NETWORKING HOUR

Convener: Dr Rishiraj Pravahan (AT&T Foundry, INQNET)