23-25 March 2022 - University of Edinburgh
Workshop Program
List of Speakers
Damian Markham - CNRS, LIP6 Sorbonne University
Michał Oszmaniec, CTP PAS
Yoshifumi Nakata, University of Tokyo
Rawad Mezher, Quandela
Saeed Mehraban, IQIM Caltech
Theodoros Kapourniotis, University of Warwick
Jonas Haferkamp, Freie Universität Berlin
Marco Cerezo, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Yi-Kai Liu, QuICS, University of Maryland
Ellen Derbyshire, Freie Universität Berlin
Slimane Thabet, PASQAL, LIP6 Sorbonne University
Constantin Dalyac, PASQAL, LIP6 Sorbonne University
Workshop on Quantum t-Designs and Applications in Quantum Computing Schedule
GMT time zone
Day 1
March 23
9:30-10:00 AM Welcome session
10:00-11:00 AM Damian Markham
Tutorial
11:30 AM-12:30 PM Yoshifumi Nakata
Exact and approximate constructions of t-designs, and their applications
​2:00-3:00 PM Jonas Haferkamp
Approximate unitary t-designs from random interleaved Clifford circuits3:00-3:40 PM Q&A Session on quantum t-design
​3:45-4:30 PM Ellen Derbyshire
Unitary 2-designs and their application to characterisation methods: randomized benchmarking and beyond
Day 2
March 24
10:00-11:00 AM Michal Oszmaniec
Operational Quantum Average-Case Distances
11:30 AM-12:15 PM Rawad Mezher
Unitary t-designs in the measurement-based picture, and applications
​2:30-3:30 PM Theodoros Kapourniotis
The power of randomisation in Quantum Accreditation3:30-4:30 PM​ Free discussion and brainstorming (No online broadcast for this session)
4:30-5:30 PM Saeed Mehraban
Approximate unitary t-designs using nearest neighbor random quantum circuits
Day 3
March 25
10:00-10:45 AM Slimane Thabet, and Constantin Dalyac
A Short introduction to applications of t-design in quantum machine learning11:30 AM - 2:00 PM Lightening Talks​ (No online broadcast for this session)
2:00-2:40 PM Yi-Kai Liu
Pseudorandom Quantum States based on Computational Hardness
​3:00-4:00 PM Marco Cerezo
From expressibility to overparametrization and barren plateaus in quantum neural networks4:30-5:00 PM Wrap-up session
Workshop Organizing Committee
Mina Doosti - University of Edinburgh (chair)
Jonas Landman - University of Edinburgh
Elham Kashefi - LIP6 Sorbonne University, University of Edinburgh
Theodoros Kapourniotis - University of Warwick