| Time | Tuesday, Sept 13 | Wednesday, Sept 14 | Thursday, Sept 15 |
| 08:00 AM | Continental Breakfast & Registration | Continental Breakfast & Registration | Continental Breakfast & Registration |
| 8:30 AM | Welcoming Remarks
Adam Leibovich | Welcoming Remarks/Introduction to Public Lecture
Rob Cunningham | Welcoming Remarks
Adam Leibovich |
| 8:45 AM | Session 1 Chair: Sunil Saxena | Public lecture: Mind the Gap: Challenges and Opportunities in Closing the Algorithms-to-Devices Gap in Quantum Computing
Margaret Martonosi | Session 7 Chair: John Keith |
| 9:00 AM- 9:40 AM | Keynote: Avian Magnetoreception - A Radical Sense of Direction
Peter Hore | Keynote: Modeling, Machine Learning, and Microscopy for QIS at the Center for Nanoscale Materials
Maria K. Chan |
| 9:40 AM- 9:45 AM | Insight into Molecular Geometry and Electronic Structure from Magnetic Circular Dichroism
Wesley Transue | Towards 2D Quantum Simulation with Van der Waals Heterostructures
Jeremy Levy |
| 9:45 AM -10:00 AM | PQI: Next 5 Years
Adam Leibovich |
| 10:00 AM-10:20 AM | Magnetoresistive Detection of Skyrmions: Core Direction and Chirality
Sara Majetich | Search and Design of Materials for Quantum Related Applications
Aldo Humberto Romero |
| 10:20 AM-10:45 AM | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break |
| 10:45 AM | Session 2 Chair: W. Vincent Liu | Session 4 Chair: Ken Jordan | Session 8 Chair: Tom Purdy |
| 11:00 AM-11:20 AM | Keynote: Toward Discovering Novel Physics with a NISQ Processor
Pedram Roushan | From Chemistry to Novel Quantum Materials
Xin Gui | Keynote: Extending the performance of quantum computers Blake Johnson |
| 11:20 AM-11:40 AM | BEBOP: A Bond Energy and Bond Order with Populations intramolecular bond energy decomposition tool
John Keith |
| 11:40 AM-12:00 PM | Modular Quantum Computing in Superconducting Circuits
Michael Hatridge | Two Quantum Mechanical Models of Majorana Fermions
Grisha Tarnopolsky | Overview of Quantum Information Science Research at NETL
Hari Paudel, Scott Crawford, and Yueh-Lin Lee |
| 12:00 PM-12:20 PM | Quantum Gate and Topology Co-Design for NISQ Machines
Alex K. Jones | Lunch (Boxed) | Integrated Photonic Circuits for Fast and Efficient Computing
Nathan Youngblood |
| 12:20 PM-1:20 PM | Lunch (Boxed) | Lunch (Boxed)
Best Poster Award
Committee Chair: Susan Fullerton |
| 1:30 PM- 1:40 PM | Session 3 Chair: Ted Corcovilos | Session 5 Chair: Sara Majetich |
| 1:40 PM-2:00 PM | Keynote: Chemistry for the Second Quantum Revolution Danna Freedman | Keynote: Synthetic Dimensions: From Topological Physics to Classical and Quantum Computation
Shanhui Fan |
| 2:00 PM-2:20 PM | PQI Industry Collaboration |
| 2:20 PM-2:40 PM | Spatiotemporal quantum order: time crystal
W. Vincent Liu | Topological and Low-Density Superconductors
Vladyslav Kozii |
| 2:40 PM-3:00 PM | All-Photonic Two-Way Quantum Repeaters Based on the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Bosonic Qubit Encoding
Kaushik P. Seshadreesan | Quantum Devices Based on Superconductor-semiconductor Nanowires
Sergey Frolov |
| 3:00 PM-3:20 PM | Nanoscale EPR and Quantum Optomechanics with Diamond Spin Qubits
Gurudev Dutt | WTe2: A Two-Dimensional Material Platform Like No Other
Ben Hunt |
| 3:20 PM-3:45PM | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break |
| 3:45 PM | Introduction to Public Lecture Rob Cunningham | Session 6 Chair: David Snoke | Introduction to Public Lecture Adam Leibovich |
| 4:00 PM-4:40 PM | Public lecture: Quantum 2028
Charles Tahan | Keynote: NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization
Lily Chen | Public lecture: Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow
Nicole Yunger Halpern |
| 4:40 PM-5:00PM | Break |
| 5:00 PM-5:20 PM | Poster Session Ballroom A & Gold Room, 2nd Floor Best Poster Committee: Chair: Susan Fullerton
Pitt: Xin Gui, Wesley Transue,
CMU: Beth Dickey, Grisha Tarnopolsky, Vlad Kozii | Round Table With Students Conference Room A, 3rd Floor Participating Speakers:
Lily Chen, Shanhui Fan, Nicole Yunger Halpern, Maria K. Chan | Book Signing Pittsburgh Area Lab Tours |
| 5:20 PM-6:10 PM |
| 6:10 PM-7:30 PM | | Banquet, Ballroom A
Committing to the Future of PQI
Rob Rutenbar, Senior Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Pittsburgh | |
