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

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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 Jha, University of Lorraine
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	Terahertz quantum communication with superconducting circuits Kaveh Delfanazari, University of Glasgow
11:55 to 12:15	Poster Introductions
12:15 to 14:15	Lunch (provided on site)
14:15 to 14:50	Turing, Wigner, Bell: the high frontier of experimental metaphysics Howard Wiseman, Griffith University
14:55 to 15:20	Beyond Trotterization: Variational Product Formulas for Quantum Simulation. Meenu Kumari, National Research Council of Canada
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 16:55	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, University of Texas - Austin
09:40 to 10:05	Proper and Improper Mixed States Serve as Different Prior Beliefs for Quantum State Retrodiction Mingxuan Liu, National University of Singapore
10:05 to 10:10	Group Picture
10:10 to 10:35	Coffee Break
10:35 to 11:10	Quantum Computing in Negative Curvature Steven Rayan, University of Saskatchewan
11:15 to 11:40	Rate-independent Defect Plateau in Quantum Many-Body Systems Thi Ha Kyaw, LG Electronics
11:45 to 12:00	Poster Introductions
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch (provided on site) and Poster Session Sponsor Workshop, 13:30 - 13:50: Ben Lau, Xanadu: A beginner’s guide to PennyLane for fault-tolerant quantum computing
14:00 to 14:35	Weak interactions for estimating the complete CHSH parameter from each entangled photon pair Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (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	Quantum Prior Hacking & Schrodinger Bridges Clive Cenxin Aw, National University of Singapore
16:05 to 16:30	Advantage in distributed quantum computing with slow interconnects, and experiments on a monolithic QPU Aharon Brodutch, IonQ
16:35 to 16:45	Sponsor remarks Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
17:00 to 19:00	Poster Session (Bahen Centre)

Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
09:00 to 09:35	Quantum stochastic thermodynamics from coarse measurements Cyril Elouard, Université de Lorraine
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	Quantum information processing in quantum thermal machines Geraldine Haack, University of Geneva
11:15 to 11:40	Orders of magnitude sampling overhead reduction in quantum error mitigation Raam Uzdin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
11:45 to 12:00	Poster Introductions
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch (provided on site)
14:00 to 15:45	BELL PRIZE SESSION Antoine Browaeys, CNRS / Université Paris-Saclay, Mark Saffman, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Misha Lukin, Harvard University Location:Earth Sciences Centre, Room 1050 (Reichman Family Lecture Hall)
15:45 to 16:15	Coffee Break
16:15 to 17:00	BELL PRIZE SESSION (Continued) Antoine Browaeys, CNRS / Université Paris-Saclay, Mark Saffman, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Misha Lukin, Harvard University Location:Earth Sciences Centre, Room 1050 (Reichman Family Lecture Hall)
18:00 to 21:00	Conference Reception & Dinner (Trinity College)

Thursday, August 20th, 2026
09:00 to 09:35	Quantum advantage for Subset-Sum 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 Michigan
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 Introductions
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch (provided on site) and Poster Session Sponsor workshop, 1:30 - 1:50: Jeremiah Coleman, IQM Quantum Computers: Building Ecosystems with IQM Quantum Computers
14:00 to 14:35	Experimental Discovery of Anyonic Braiding Statistics Michael Manfra, Purdue University
14:45 to 15:05	Microwave-to-optical conversion via Rydberg excitons in cuprous oxide Madeleine Fisher, Durham University
15:05 to 15:35	Coffee Break
15:35 to 16:00	Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions: The Walking Cat Architecture Sponsor Talk (IonQ) - Aharon Brodutch
16:05 to 16:35	Entangling logical qubits without physical operations Shayan Majidy, Harvard University
16:40 to 17:05	Preasymptotic quantum metrology Aaron Goldberg, National Research Council of Canada

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, Forschungszentrum Jülich
10:05 to 10:35	Coffee Break
10:35 to 11:15	Spin-boson models with trapped ions Kenneth Brown, Duke University
11:20 to 11:45	Alchemy as a quantum control problem: Theory and Experiments Denys Bondar, Tulane University
11:45 to 13:30	Lunch (provided on site)
13:30 to 14:05	Realizing GKP qubits in a driven-dissipative superconducting circuit. Gil Refael, California Institute of Technology
14:10 to 14:35	Alice and Rob Revisited: How quantum reference frames can provide new insights into entanglement degradation Everett Patterson, Perimeter Institute and University of Waterloo
14:35 to 15:05	Coffee Break
15:05 to 15:40	Controlling Quantum Materials with Light-Driven Phonons Shi-Zeng Lin, Los Alamos National Laboratory
15:45 to 16:10	Single-Shot Magnetic-Field Sensing and Gradiometry with Spin Arrays Anastasiia Mashko, University of Waterloo
16:15 to 16:45	Discussions and Closing Remarks and End