WE-Heraeus-Symposium: Recent Progress in Quantum Computing

What's the status of quantum computing?

Recent years have seen significant scientific and technological advance concerning efficiency and scalability in very different physical quantum computing platforms. Considering existing activities, projects, and commercial actors, the goal of this one-day symposium to discuss recent advances and novel ideas that could solve important concrete real-world problems.

The symposium is planned as in-person format to enable an intensive and fruitful interaction with internationally renowned speakers from academic and industrial research.

There will be an exhibition by the artist Roman Lipski accompanying the symposium, followed by an open studio the next day, Nov 4th, 5pm-8pm (registration for the studio here).

SPEAKERS

Immanuel Bloch, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany
Christopher Eichler, Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Jens Eisert, Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany
Markus Müller, RWTH Aachen and Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Christian Ospelkaus, Univ. Hannover, Germany
Heike Riel, IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland
Martin Ringbauer, Univ. Innsbruck, Austria
Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, Univ. Mainz, Germany
Christine Silberhorn, Univ. Paderborn, Germany
Frank Wilhelm-Mauch, Univ. des Saarlandes, Germany
Jörg Wrachtrup, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany