USRA scientists will present at the annual IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering, also known as IEEE “Quantum Week.”
Talks
Tuesday, September 15
Quantum Engineering Cycle: Opportunities & Challenges
- 1:30 p.m. - Davide Venturelli: “Offline-Online performance evaluation for early Megaquops machines”
View the Quantum Engineering Cycle workshop program
Wednesday, September 16
Quantum Optimization II
- 10:30 a.m. - Stuart Hadfield: “Noise-Directed Adaptive Remapping for Integer Optimization: from qubits to (encoded) qudits”
View the Quantum Optimization II paper schedule
Quantum Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization (QuACO)
- 11:00 a.m. - Davide Venturelli: “Quantum optimization heuristics for 100-1000 semi-protected qubits”
- 3:00 p.m. - Stuart Hadfield: “Evaluating QAOA expectation values can be as hard as counting optimal solutions”
View the QuACO workshop program
Best Paper Award
The paper “Iterative warm-start optimization with quantum imaginary time evolution” has been selected as Second Runner-Up for the QALG track Best Paper Award at QCE26.