Quantum Innovators is a five-day workshop offered by the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) since 2012 bringing the most promising postdoctoral fellows in quantum information science and technology together.
These workshops held at IQC, University of Waterloo, are partly funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) as part of the Transformative Quantum Technologies research initiative.
Schedule
Quantum Innovators 2024 will take place from Monday November 11 to Friday November 15. Monday to Wednesday will focus on computer science, mathematics, and theory, while Wednesday-Friday will focus on science and engineering. Invited participants may elect to attend either stream or both.
Invited speakers
Confirmed invited speakers for Quantum Innovators 2024 include:
- Thiago Bergamaschi, UC Berkeley
- Madelyn Cain, Harvard
- Uma Girish, Princeton
- Sophie Hermans, Caltech
- Allen Liu, MIT
- Alexander McDonald, Université de Sherbrooke
- Quynh The Nguyen, Harvard
- Harold Nieuwboer, University of Copenhagen
- Michał Parniak, University of Warsaw
- Alexander Poremba, MIT
- Shankari Rajagopal, Stanford
- Esther Cruz Rico, Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics
- Eric I. Rosenthal, Stanford
- Thomas Schuster, California Institute of Technology
- Nana Shumiya, Princeton
- Shraddha Singh, Yale
- Ariadna Soro, Chalmers University of Technology
- Kewen Wu, Berkeley
- Xueyue (Sherry) Zhang, Harvard
- Sebastian Zur, CWI Amsterdam
- Jiaqing Jiang, California Institute of Technology
- Yuxin Wang, University of Maryland
- Yunchao Liu, UC Berkeley
Location
Quantum Innovators will take place on-campus at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, at both the Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC) and the Research Advancement Centre (RAC).
How to attend
Talks at Quantum Innovators are invitation only.