January 8-9, 2025 / Collaborative Learning and Innovation Center / Tufts University
Convened by Larry Carin (Duke University) & Peter Love (Tufts University)
AGENDA
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
9:00am - NQVL Program / QACTI Overview - Ken Brown
9:30am - Exploring the Application Space for Quantum Advantage: Goals for the workshop - Peter Love
10:30am - Break
10:45am - Discussion session: Quantum advantage in the long term / Breakout groups: Quantum Simulation for Chemistry, Quantum Simulation for HEP/NP, Quantum Machine Learning
12:30pm - Lunch
1:30pm - Reports from breakout groups
2pm - Discussion session two: Towards Quantum advantage in the near term / Breakout groups: Quantum Simulation for Chemistry, Quantum Simulation for HEP/NP, Quantum Machine Learning
3:15pm - Break
3:30pm - Reports from breakout groups
4pm - Prioritization of topics and identification of risks
5pm - Adjourn
Thursday, January 9, 2025
9am - Open Discussion: Mechanisms for establishing claims of advantage and discovery space for new quantum algorithms/applications
10:30am - Break
10:45am - Summarize and next steps for QACTI
12pm - Finalize town hall report writing team & identify community missing at town hall
12:30pm - Adjourn
PARTICIPANT LIST
| Sam Alterman | Tufts University |
| Andrew Baczewski | Sandia National Labs |
| Baha Balantekin | UW-Madison |
| Gefen Baranes | MIT |
| Maddie Cain | Harvard University |
| TJ Colvin | Tufts University |
| Eleanor (Ella) Crane | MIT |
| Carter Gustin | Tufts University |
| Aram Harrow | MIT |
| Vojtěch Havlíček | IBM |
| Artur Izmaylov | University of Toronto |
| Peter Johnson | |
| Sonika Johri | Coherent Computing |
| Sabre Kais | Purdue / NC State |
| Boris Kiefer | New Mexico State University |
| Will Kirby | IBM |
| Lucas Kocia | Sandia National Labs |
| Hari Krovi | Riverlane |
| Oskar Leimkuhler | UC Berkeley |
| Antonio Mezzacappo | IBM |
| Kevin Obenland | Lincoln Labs |
| Shivesh Pathak | Sandia National Labs |
| Feng Qian | Tufts University |
| Alexis Ralli | Tufts University |
| Alexander Schuckert | University of Maryland |
| Kamil Serafin | Tufts University |
| William Simon | Tufts University |
| Andrew Tranter | Quantiuum |
| Norm Tubman | Nasa Ames |
| James Vary | Iowa State University |
| Qingfeng (Kee) Wang | Tufts University |
| Xiaodi Wu | University of Maryland |
| Vivian Zhang | Duke University |
| Daiwei Zhu | IonQ |
From the QACTI team
| Peter Love | Tufts University |
| Larry Carin | Duke University |
| Ken Brown | Duke University |
| Stephanie Barnwell | Duke University |
| Jungsang Kim | Duke University |
| Alexander Kozhanov | Duke University |