The
Program

Program at a glance

Sunday, January 26

18:00 - 20:00 Welcoming reception

Monday, January 27

08:00 - 09:30 Registration & Morning refresh
09:30 - 9:50 Opening ceremony & Welcome note - Dr. Najwa Aaraj - CEO TII
9:50 - 10:30 José Ignacio Latorre - TII - "The Ages of Science"
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40 John M. Martinis - "How to build a quantum supercomputer"
11:40 - 12:10 Leandro Aolita - TII - “Recent advances towards large-scale quantum optimization solvers”
12:10 - 13:30 Science to Business Lunch / Poster Hub
13:30 - 14:00 Frederico Brito - TII - "Superconducting QPUs in the UAE"
14:00 - 14:30 Harry Buhrman - "Quantum Heuristics: From Worst Case to Practice"
14:30 - 15:00 Fabio Sciarrino - "Photonics technologies for quantum information processing"
15:00 - 15:30 Elham Kashefi - "Networked Quantum Computing as a Service: How to address collectively the challenges of Scalability, Privacy and Integrity"
15:30 - 17:00 Tech exhibition / Poster hub / Networking refresh
From 17:00 Free evening

Tuesday, January 28

08:00 - 09:00 Registration & Morning refresh
09:00 - 9:10 Opening remarks
9:10 - 9:50 Immanuel Bloch - "Quantum Simulations and Quantum Computing with Ultracold Atoms"
9:50 - 10:20 David C. Moore - "Detecting the force from a single nuclear decay with mechanical quantum sensors"
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 - 11:30 Piet O. Schmidt - "From optical clocks to quantum computers and back"
11:30 - 12:00 Rene Reinmann - QRC - “Applied Quantum Sensors for Acceleration, Vacuum Gas Pressure, Magnetic Fields, and Super-Resolution Microscopy”
12:10 - 13:30 Science to Business Lunch / Poster Hub
13:30 - 14:00 Luigi Amico - TII - "Josephson junctions, vortices and solitons in mesoscopic networks: atomtronics meet superconducting circuits"
14:00 - 14:30 Malcolm Geoffrey Boshier - "Atomtronic Inertial Sensors"
14:30 - 15:00 Rosario Fazio - "Heat-to-motion conversion for quantum active matter"
15:00 - 15:30 Stefano Carrazza - TII - "Qibo: an open-source hybrid quantum operating system"
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:45 Roundtable - Quantum in the UAE
16:45-18:00 Tech exhibition / Poster hub / Networking refresh
19:30 - 21:00 Gala Dinner - TII music band

Wednesday, January 29

08:00 - 09:00 Registration & Morning refresh
09:00 - 9:10 Opening remarks
9:10 - 9:50 Christopher Monroe - "Quantum Computers in Academia and Industry"
9:50 - 10:20 Michelle Simmons - "Atomic precision manufacturing of high quality quantum processors in silicon"
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 - 11:30 Harald M. Hauschildt - "Ingredients of Quantum Communication Networks"
11:30 - 12:00 James Grieve - TII - "Building a Quantum Communications portfolio for the UAE"
12:10 - 13:30 Science to Business Lunch / Tech exhibition / Poster hub
13:30 - 14:00 Artur Ekert - "The ultimate limits of secrecy"
14:00 - 14:30 Eleni Diamanti - "Resources and applications of quantum networks"
14:30 - 15:00 Christof Wunderlich - "The MAGIC of Trapped Ion Quantum Computing"
15:00 - 15:15 Closing remarks - Outlooks
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 20:00 Visit to ADQOGS / Lab tour (Subject to approval)