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Institute Workshop Agenda

Agenda: Wednesday, June 10 to Thursday, June 11, 2026

 

All details can also be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EzdgEniTQB72wp2-PZnbyef0F3zhcgNR?usp=drive_link

 

Workshop Day 1: Wednesday, June 10

Start TimeEnd TimeAgenda
9:00 AM9:15 AMWelcome and Introduction
9:15 AM9:30 AMInstitute Program 5-Year Update
9:30 AM9:45 AMStudent Postdoc Council Update
9:45 AM10:15 AMResearch Overview
10:15 AM10:45 AMResearch Presentation: Learning Hamiltonians in the Heisenberg limit with static single-qubit fields, Yu Tong (Faculty, Duke)
10:45 AM11:15 AMBreak (Beverages / snacks provided by RQS)
11:15 AM11:45 AMResearch Presentation: A robust phase of continuous transversal gates in quantum stabilizer codes, Michael J. Gullans (Senior Investigator, UMD)
11:45 AM12:15 PMResearch Presentation: Giant enhancement of exciton diffusion near an electronic Mott insulator, You Zhou (Senior Investigator, UMD)
12:15 PM1:30 PMLunch (provided by RQS)
1:30 PM2:45 PM

Education and Outreach and Community Support

  • Overview of Education and Outreach efforts at UMD (Zohreh Davoudi)
  • Student Postdoc Council (Zhiyuan Wei)
  • Quantum Kits for K–12 (Millie Ayako, Yan Li, Greeshma Oruganti)
  • Duke Masters Program (Ken Brown)
  • Quantum Software Lab Course (Ethan Hickman)
  • RQS Undergraduate Research Program (Twesh Upadhyaya)
2:45 PM3:15 PMBreak (Beverages by RQS)
3:15 PM3:45 PMResearch Presentation: Peaked quantum advantage using error correction, Soumik Ghosh (Student, U Chicago)
3:45 PM4:15 PMResearch Presentation: Scalable Optimization of High-Fidelity Gates in Yb-171 Atom Arrays, Deniz Kurdak (Postdoc, Princeton)
4:15 PM4:45 PMResearch Presentation: Engineering quantum criticality and dynamics on an analog-digital simulator, Nazli Koyluoglu (Student, Harvard)
4:45 PM6:30 PMPoster Session: Poster titles and abstracts can be found here
6:30 PM8:30 PMDinner at the Hall; Walk with our guide to 4656 Hotel Dr, College Park; please make sure your badge is on (provided by RQS)

Workshop Day 2: Thursday, June 11

Start TimeEnd TimeAgenda
9:00 AM9:45 AM

Seed Grant Presentations

  • Dror Baron (Faculty, NCSU): Hybrid quantum error correction and mitigation for scalable quantum simulation
  • Tianyi Wang (Student, Duke): Engineered Open Quantum System and Dissipative State Preparation Using Trapped Ions
9:45 AM10:15 AMResearch Presentation: Fault-Tolerant Heisenberg-Limited Quantum Sensing, Yuxin Wang (Postdoc, UMD)
10:15 AM10:45 AMBreak (Beverages / snacks provided by RQS)
10:45 AM11:15 AMResearch Presentation: Observation of quantum-field-theory dynamics on a spin-phonon quantum computer, Anton T. Than (Student, UMD)
11:15 AM11:45 AMResearch Presentation: Hybrid digital-analog protocols for simulating quantum multi-body interactions, Marko Cetina (Senior Investigator, Duke)
11:45 AM1:00 PMLunch (provided by RQS)
1:00 PM2:00 PM

NQVL Lightning Talks

  • Adrian Menssen: ORAQL (Open-Stack Rydberg Atom Quantum computing Laboratory)
  • Eric Hudson: Accelerating Fault-Tolerant Quantum Logic (FTL)
  • Steven Girvin: Erasure Qubits and Dynamic Circuits for Quantum Advantage (ERASE)
  • Ken Brown: Quantum Advantage Class Trapped-Ion System (QACTI)
2:00 PM2:15 PMRQS: Close-out

Write to rqs@umd.edu for any questions.