Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC-XI)

August 17 - 21, 2026, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Description

The three core objectives of the event are: (i) Accelerating research by crossing disciplinary boundaries between chemistry, physics, math, computer science and engineering, theory and experiment, quantum information processing and its "hardware" materials. (ii) Training junior researches in QIS with tutorials, research talks, and by providing them with opportunities to interact directly with leaders in the field. (iii) Strengthening QIS research in Canada by promoting collaborations and increasing the visibility of Canadian contributions to the field. QIS has evolved into a broad field encompassing numerous subfields.

The primary goal of this conference is to foster interactions and collaborations among researchers working across diverse areas of QIS. Unlike many conferences that focus on one specific subfield of QIS, this event aims to bring to the same room researchers from a wide spectrum of QIS topics, and including theory and experimental work. The event will cover the study of foundations and applications in QIS and various prominent physical platforms: photons, atoms, molecules, and solid-state systems.

The second objective of the conference is to train the next generation of QIS researchers including senior undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career researchers. The event will provide Canadian and international trainees with knowledge on the current state of the field and an understanding of key challenges in QIS.

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Bell Prize Award Session

Session that will celebrate the accomplishments of our three Bell Prize winners:

Antoine Browaeys (CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay)
Mikhail Lukin (Harvard University)
Mark Saffman (UW-Madison)

More information can be found here.

List of Invited Speakers

Welcoming international speakers on a wide spectrum of topics related to quantum information science including theory and experimental work. The following speakers have been confirmed, and more will be added in the coming weeks.

Edoardo Baldini – University of Texas at Austin
Michael Beverland – IBM Quantum
Antoine Browaeys – CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay
Kenneth Brown - Duke University
Ivo Pietro Degiovanni – Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica
Cyril Elouard – Université de Lorraine
Géraldine Haack - Université de Genève
Archana Kamal – Northwestern University
Shi-Zeng Lin – Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mikhail Lukin – Harvard University
Dylan Mahler – Xanadu
Michael Manfra – Purdue University
Ryan O'Donnell – Carnegie Mellon University
Steven Rayan – University of Saskatchewan
Gil Refael – California Institute of Technology
Mark Saffman – University of Wisconsin–Madison
Nicolas Treps – Sorbonne Université
Chen Wang – University of Massachusetts Amherst / University of Toronto

Howard Wiseman – Griffith University

List of Contributed Talk Speakers

Mohammad Ansari — Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Clive Cenxin Aw — National University of Singapore
Denys Bondar — Tulane University
Aharon Brodutch — IonQ
Kaveh Delfanazari — University of Glasgow
Plato Deliyannis - Duke University
Frank Deppe — IQM Quantum Computers
Aaron Goldberg — National Research Council of Canada
Yashovardhan Jha — Université de Lorraine
Meenu Kumari — National Research Council of Canada
Thi Ha Kyaw — LG Electronics
Mingxuan Liu — National University of Singapore
Shayan Majidy — Harvard University
Anastasiia Mashko — University of Waterloo
Felix Motzoi — Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Everett Patterson — University of Waterloo
Matthew Pocrnic — Xanadu
Raam Uzdin — The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lily Wang — University of Michigan

Local Accommodation:

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Schedule

Monday, August 17th, 2026
09:00 to 09:05	Welcome remarks
09:10 to 09:45	Non-Markovian probes of many-body correlations Archana Kamal, Northwestern University
09:50 to 10:15	The Jaynes Cummings model as an autonomous Maxwell demon Yashovardhan Ja
10:15 to 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 to 11:20	Scaling Photonic Quantum Computing with Integrated GKP Qubit Sources Dylan Mahler, Xanadu
11:25 to 11:50	Orders of magnitude sampling overhead reduction in quantum error mitigation Raam Uzdin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
11:55 to 12:15	Poster Talks
12:15 to 14:15	Lunch
14:15 to 14:50	Turing, Wigner, Bell: the high frontier of experimental metaphysics Howard Wiseman, Griffith University
14:55 to 15:20	Terahertz quantum communication with superconducting circuits Kaveh Delfanazari, University of Glasgow
15:20 to 15:50	Coffee Break
15:50 to 16:25	Generating, witnessing and certifying non-Gaussian states of time-frequency modes Nicolas Treps, Sorbonne Universite
16:30 to 16:45	Ultrafast gates through multi-photon transition removal Felix Motzoi, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
09:00 to 09:35	Coherent Control and Nonlinear Coupling of Terahertz Collective Modes in Quantum Materials Edoardo Baldini, UT Austin
09:40 to 10:05	Proper and Improper Mixed States Serve as Different Prior Beliefs for Quantum State Prediction Mingxuan Liu, National University of Singapore
10:05 to 10:35	Coffee Break
10:35 to 11:10	TBA TBA
11:15 to 11:40	Rate-independent Defect Plateau in Quantum Many-Body Systems Thi Ha Kyaw, University of Toronto
11:45 to 12:00	Poster Session
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch
14:05 to 14:40	Weak interactions for estimating the complete CHSH parameter from each entangled photon pair Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, INRIM
14:40 to 15:05	Progress on superconducting quantum processors at IQM Sponsor Talk (IQM) – Frank Deppe
15:05 to 15:35	Coffee Break
15:35 to 16:00	Advantage in distributed quantum computing with slow interconnects, and experiments on a monolithic QPU Aharon Brodutch, Entangled Networks
16:05 to 16:30	Advantage in distributed quantum computing with slow interconnects, and experiments on a monolithic QPU Meenu Kumari, Perimeter Institute
16:35 to 16:45	Sponsor remarks Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
17:00 to 19:00	Poster Session

Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
09:00 to 09:35	Quantum stochastic thermodynamics from coarse measurements Cyril Elouard, University of Nancy
09:40 to 10:05	Tavis-Cummings Model: Controllability, Multi-qubit Gates, and an Accidental Symmetry Plato Deliyannis, Duke University
10:05 to 10:35	Coffee Break
10:35 to 11:10	TBD Geraldine Haack, University of Geneva
11:15 to 11:40	Quantum Prior Hacking & Schrödinger Bridges Clive Aw, National University of Singapore
11:45 to 12:00	Poster Talks
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 15:30	BELL PRIZE SESSION Antoine Browaeys, CNRS / Université Paris-Saclay, Mark Saffman, University of Wisconsin–Madison
15:30 to 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 to 17:00	BELL PRIZE SESSION (Continued)
18:00 to 21:00	Conference Reception & Dinner

Thursday, August 20th, 2026
09:00 to 09:35	Quantum speedups for SIS? Ryan O'Donnell, Carnegie Mellon University
09:40 to 10:05	The color code, the surface code, and the transversal CNOT: NP-hardness of minimum-weight decoding Lily Wang, University of Waterloo
10:05 to 10:35	Coffee Break
10:35 to 11:10	Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers: From Surface Codes to quantum LDPC Architectures Michael Beverland
11:15 to 11:40	Efficient Simulation of Pre-Born-Oppenheimer Dynamics on a Quantum Computer Matthew Pocrnic, Xanadu
11:45 to 12:00	Poster Talks
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 14:35	Experimental Discovery of Anyonic Braiding Statistics Michael Manfra, Purdue University
14:45 to 15:10	Single-Shot Magnetic-Field Sensing and Gradiometry with Spin Arrays Anastasiia Mashko, University of Waterloo
15:10 to 15:40	Coffee Break
15:40 to 16:05	Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions: The Walking Cat Architecture Sponsor Talk (IonQ) – Aharon Brodutch
16:10 to 16:40	Entangling logical qubits without physical operations Shayan Majidy, Institute for Quantum Computing
16:45 to 17:10	Preasymptotic quantum metrology Aaron Goldberg, McMaster University

Friday, August 21st, 2026
09:00 to 09:35	Autonomous quantum error correction for bosonic superconducting qubits Chen Wang, University of Toronto
09:40 to 10:05	Surface code hardware Hamiltonian Mohammad Ansari, Azad University Gachsaran
10:05 to 10:35	Title TBA
10:35 to 11:15	Spin-boson models with trapped ions Kenneth Brown, Duke University
11:25 to 11:50	Orders of magnitude sampling overhead reduction in quantum error mitigation Raam Uzdin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
12:10 to 14:10	Lunch
14:10 to 14:45	Title TBA Gil Refael, California Institute of Technology
14:50 to 15:20	Terahertz quantum communication with superconducting circuits Denys Bondar, Tulane University
15:20 to 15:50	Coffee Break
15:50 to 16:25	Quantum Computing in Negative Curvature Steven Rayan, University of Saskatchewan
16:30 to 17:10	Open Discussion and Closing Remarks