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CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Location: EMPAC, Evelyn's Cafe
FROM QUANTUM PHYSICS TO QUANTUM COMPUTING (watch video recording)
Plenary Speaker: Jay M. Gambetta, Vice President of Quantum Computing, IBM
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM
Location: EMPAC Theater
Plenary Panel Discussion
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Location: EMPAC Theater
Moderator: Robert Hull, Vice President of Research, RPI
- Jay M. Gambetta, Vice President of Quantum Computing, IBM
- James Misewich, Associate Laboratory Director, Energy and Photon Sciences Directorate, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Ravishankar Sundararaman, RPI Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Priti and Mukesh Chatter ’82 Career Development Chair
- Jian Shi, RPI Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
BREAK
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Location: EMPAC, Evelyn's Cafe
ROAD TO QUANTUM ADVANTAGE (PRACTICAL) - (watch video recording)
Plenary Speaker: Austin Minnich, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics, Caltech
10:50 AM - 11:20 AM
Location: EMPAC Theater
Plenary Panel Discussion
11:20 AM - 11:50 AM
Location: EMPAC Theater
Moderator: Shekhar Garde, Dean of the School of Engineering, RPI
- Austin Minnich, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics, Caltech
- Aparna Gupta, Professor and Associate Dean of the Lally School of Management for Academic Affairs, Co-Director of the Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technologies
- Kerstin Kleese van Dam, Director of the Computational Science Initiative at Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Antonio Corcoles, Principal Research Scientist, IBM Quantum
LUNCH: Working Groups with Provost, Department Heads, and "Rising Stars"
Provost: Rebecca W. Doerge, Provost, RPI
12:00 PM - 1:20 PM
Location: Russell Sage Dining Hall
Rising Stars
- Dong An, University of Maryland
- Roel Van Beeumen, Berkeley Lab
- Yu Tong, Caltech
- Katherine Klymko, NERSC
- Karunya Shirali, Virgina Tech
- Alex Zlokapa, MIT
- Judah Unmuth Yockey, Fermilab
- Charles Yuan, MIT
- Zane Rossi, MIT
- Walid Redjem, SUNY Albany
ROAD TO QUANTUM ADVANTAGE (THEORY) - (watch video recording)
Plenary Speaker: Lin Lin, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: EMPAC Theater
Plenary Panel Discussion
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Location: EMPAC Theater
Moderator: Fabian Faulstich, Eliza Ricketts Foundation Career Development Chair, RPI
- Lin Lin, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
- Di Fang, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Duke University
- Ryan Sweke, IBM Research
- Brian McDermott, Principal R&D Engineer, Naval Nuclear Laboratory
BREAK
2:30 PM - 2:55 PM
Location: EMPAC, Evelyn's Cafe
PATH TO QUANTUM UTILITY (ERROR CORRECTION AND COHERENCE) - (watch video recording)
Plenary Speaker: Steve M. Girvin, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Yale University
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: EMPAC Theater
Plenary Panel Discussion
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: EMPAC Theater
Moderator: Joel Giedt, Associate Department Head and Professor of Physics, RPI
- Steve M. Girvin, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Yale University
- Andrew Cross, Research Staff Member and Manager, Theory of Quantum Computing, IBM
- Satyavolu “Pops” Papa Rao, Vice President for Research, NY CREATES
- Stuart Hadfield, NASA Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT - (watch video recording)
Plenary Speaker: Olivia Lanes, Global Lead and Manager, IBM Quantum Learning and Education
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: EMPAC Theater
Plenary Panel Discussion
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: EMPAC Theater
Moderator: Curt Breneman, Dean of the School of Science, RPI
- Olivia Lanes, Global Lead and Manager, IBM Quantum Learning and Education
- Anastasia Marchenkova, Quantum Researcher, Bleximo Corporation
- Stacy Patterson, Associate Professor of Computer Science, RPI
- Richard Plotka, Director of Information Technology and Web Science, RPI
