SEEQA 2024

Seeking Quantum Advantage: Workshop and Conference

Merton College Oxford. September 2nd – 5th 2024

A one week residential event in Oxford’s historic Merton College, where experts will gather to debate the challenges and opportunities in the worldwide effort to achieve general Quantum Advantage.

Confirmed speakers and panelists

Divinity Schools, Venue for the public-facing panel debate.

Invited long talks

  • Ryan Babbush 
  • Earl Campbell
  • Sophia Economou 
  • Keisuke Fujii
  • Daniel Lidar
  • Zoë Holmes
  • Tom Manovitz
  • Chris Monroe 
  • John Morton 
  • Kristan Temme

Evening debates

  • Dorit Aharonov
  • Robin Blume-Kohout
  • Harry Buhrman
  • Toby Cubitt
  • Nathan Wiebe 

Invited shorter talks

  • Eric Anschuetz
  • Joseph Bowles
  • Constantin Dalyac
  • Suguru Endo
  • Elica Kyoseva
  • Josh Nunn
  • Yihui Quek
  • Kianna Wan

Listen, Present and Discuss

Lectures and presentations from world-leading experts. 150 participants, 10 invited long talks and 12 shorter talks.

Tackle challenges together

Merton College offers plenty of space in its scenic gardens and traditional seminar rooms for chats and meetings at all scales.

The latest theory and experiments

The event has an emphasis on practical theory, while covering the most exciting experimental progress in various systems.

Evening debates

The event features two evening debates, each tackling a key controversy with speakers for and against.

Residential in Merton College

Stay in Merton, one of Oxford’s most beautiful colleges, with breakfast and dinner in the College’s beautiful Hall.

Explore the Dreaming Spires

Beautiful walks, punting on the river, and countless historic colleges, museums and libraries.

Talks and Perspectives

As increasingly large investments are made into commercial quantum computing efforts, how should we view the prospects for the field: Can over-hype be avoided to keep goals attainable?

Key Themes and Topics

  • Early fault tolerance and Error mitigation
  • Hybrid algorithms
  • Benchmarking and quantifying progress
  • Is there QA in Chemistry?
  • QC to augment emerging classical methods
  • Randomized protocols and classical shadows
  • Emulation, and Dequantizing Algorithms

Schedule

The programme will be available soon but we already note that we will have a welcome reception on Sunday evening (1st Sept) and the banquet dinner will take place on Thursday evening (5th Sept); we expect participants to arrive on Sunday and leave on Friday.

Registration

Our tickets have fully sold out.

If you would like to sign up to our waiting list then please email us at conference@seeqa.org. If you are already registered but need financial help with accommodation or travel then please do get in touch with us at conference@seeqa.org and explain your conditions.

We strongly recommend that all participants who are not local to Oxford book their accommodation at Merton. After you secured your SEEQA ticket, please book accommodation HERE.

Organisers

Oxford

  • Prof Simon Benjamin
  • Dr Bálint Koczor,
  • Dr Zhenyu Cai

Bristol

  • Prof Noah Linden
  • Dr Paul Skrzypczyk

UCL

  • Prof Dan Browne
  • Dr Armands Strikis

Contact: conference@seeqa.org