Wednesday May 28th - Friday May 30th 2025
Organizer: Prof. Vito Scarola scarola@vt.edu
Staff: Savannah Merrix savannah97@vt.edu
Schedule
Wednesday May 28th
2:00-2:30 pm Check-in (Ballston Foyer)
2:30-2:45 pm Introduction (Ballston Room)
Tutorials (Ballston Room) Chair: Vito Scarola
2:45-3:35 pm Rose McCarty (Georgia Tech)
3:35-3:50 pm Q/A
3:50-4:40 pm Eric Chitambar (UIUC)
4:40-4:55 pm Q/A
Thursday May 29th
Check-in and Breakfast
8:00-8:45 am Check-in (Ballston Foyer) and Breakfast (Hospitality Zone)
Quantum Graph States and Computing, Chair: Simon Perdrix (Ballston Room)
8:45-9:30 am Hans Briegel (Innsbruck)
9:30-9:40 am Q/A
9:40-10:25 am Akimasa Miyake (U of New Mexico)
10:25-10:35 am Q/A
10:35-10:50 am Break
10:50-11:35 am Ken Brown (Duke)
11:35-11:45 am Q/A
11:45 am-12:15 pm Discussion Moderator: Simon Perdrix (LORIA)
Lunch
12:15-2:00 pm Lunch (Hospitality Zone and adjoining rooms)
Quantum Graph State Experiments, Chair: Shuo Sun (Ballston Room)
2:00-2:45 pm Olivier Pfister (U of Virginia)
2:45-2:55 pm Q/A
2:55-3:40 pm David Weiss (Penn State)
3:40-3:50 pm Q/A
3:50-4:05 pm Break
4:05-4:50 pm Monika Schleier-Smith (Stanford)
4:50-5:20 pm Discussion Moderator: Shuo Sun (JILA)
Dinner
6:30 pm workshop dinner at “SER Restaurant” 1110 N. Glebe Rd.
Friday May 30th
Check-in and Breakfast
8:00-8:45 am Check-in (Ballston Foyer) and Breakfast (Hospitality Zone)
Graphs and Networking, Chair: Kenneth Goodenough (Ballston Room)
8:45-9:30 am Maria Chudnovsky (Princeton)
9:30-9:40 am Q/A
9:40-10:25 am Asaf Ferber (UC Irvine)
10:25-10:35 am Q/A
10:35-10:50 am Break
10:50-11:35 am Alexey Gorshkov (U of Maryland)
11:35-11:45 am Q/A
11:45 am-12:15 pm Discussion Moderator: Kenneth Goodenough (U Mass. Amherst)
Lunch
12:15-2:00 pm Lunch (Hospitality Zone and adjoining rooms)
Utility of Entanglement in Graphs and Networks, Chair: Mark Wilde (Ballston Room)
2:00-2:50 pm Otfried Gühne (Siegen)
2:50-3:00 pm Q/A
3:00-3:50 pm Quntao Zhuang (U of Southern Calif.)
3:50-4:00 pm Q/A
4:00-4:30 pm Discussion Moderator: Mark Wilde (Cornell)
Adjourn
Workshop Hotel:
Rooms for registered participants have been reserved at the nearby Westin Arlington hotel on 801 North Glebe Rd.
Travel Reimbursement:
All registered participants can receive reimbursement for travel expenses, e.g., economy flights, meals, taxis, etc., by keeping all non-meal receipts (meals are reimbursed with a per-diem). Travel reimbursement forms will be emailed to registered participants after the workshop. If you have any questions, please contact Savannah Merrix (savannah97@vt.edu)
Travel to Arlington:
The Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Reagan (DCA) is 20 minutes by taxi. Parking onsite at the workshop can be validated. Parking information and other directions can be found here.
Support:
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research, Virginia Tech-College of Science-Physics
Participant List
| Paul | Baker | Army Research Office | paul.m.baker4.civ@army.mil |
| Thomas | Barthel | Duke | thomas.barthel@duke.edu |
| Hans | Briegel | Innsbruk | hans.briegel@uibk.ac.at |
| Kenneth | Brown | Duke | ken.brown@duke.edu |
| Jinglei | Cheng | U. of Pittsburgh | jic373@pitt.edu |
| Andrew | Childs | U. of Maryland | amchilds@umd.edu |
| Eric | Chitambar | UIUC | echitamb@illinois.edu |
| Maria | Chudnovsky | Princeton | mchudnov@math.princeton.edu |
| Nathan | Claudet | U. Lorraine | nathan.claudet@inria.fr |
| Julien | Codsi | Princeton | julien.codsi@umontreal.ca |
| Roberto | Diener | Office of Naval Research | roberto.b.diener.civ@us.navy.mil |
| Sophia | Denker | U. Siegen | sophia.denker@uni-siegen.de |
| Asaf | Ferber | UC Irvine | asaff@uci.edu |
| Sara | Gamble | Army Research Office | sara.j.gamble.civ@army.mil |
| Soumik | Ghosh | U. of Chicago | soumikghosh@uchicago.edu |
| Kenneth | Goodenough | U. Mass. Amherst | kdgoodenough@gmail.com |
| Alexey | Gorshkov | U. of Maryland | avgorshkov@gmail.com |
| Saikat | Guha | U. of Maryland | saikat@umd.edu |
| Otfried | Gühne | U. Siegen | otfried.guehne@uni-siegen.de |
| Rebekah | Herrman | U. of Tennessee | rherrma2@utk.edu |
| Delaram | Kahrobaei | Queens College, CUNY | delaram.kahrobaei@qc.cuny.edu |
| Alicia | Kollár | U. of Maryland | akollar@umd.edu |
| Jianqing | Liu | NC State | jliu96@ncsu.edu |
| Junyu | Liu | U. of Pittsburgh | junyuliu@pitt.edu |
| Yi-Kai | Liu | U. of Maryland | yikailiu@umd.edu |
| Zhenning | Liu | U. of Maryland | zhenning@umd.edu |
| Hsuan-Hao | Lu | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | luh2@ornl.gov |
| Rose | McCarty | Georgia Tech | mccarty.rose@gmail.com |
| Grace | Metcalfe | Air Force Office of Scientific Research | grace.metcalfe@us.af.mil |
| Akimasa | Miyake | U. New Mexico | amiyake@unm.edu |
| Simon | Perdrix | U. Lorraine | simon.perdrix@loria.fr |
| Olivier | Pfister | U. Virginia | opfister@virginia.edu |
| Vito | Scarola | Virginia Tech | scarola@vt.edu |
| Ryan | Scott | Virginia Tech | rscott1915@vt.edu |
| Monika | Schleier-Smith | Stanford | schleier@stanford.edu |
| Meg | Shea | Army Research Office | margaret.e.shea6.civ@army.mil |
| Neil | Sinclair | Harvard | neils@seas.harvard.edu |
| Shuo | Sun | Colorado | shuosun@colorado.edu |
| Mario | Szegedy | Rutgers | szegedy@cs.rutgers.edu |
| Anna Lina | Vandré | U. Siegen | lina.vandre@uni-siegen.de |
| Don | Wagner | Air Force Office of Scientific Research | donald.wagner.7@us.af.mil |
| Tzu-Chieh | Wei | Stony Brook U. | tzu-chieh.wei@stonybrook.edu |
| David | Weiss | Pennsylvania State U. | dsweiss@phys.psu.edu |
| Mark | Wilde | Cornell | wilde@cornell.edu |
| Moe | Win | MIT | moewin@mit.edu |
| Kerolos | Yousef | Harvard | kyousef@g.harvard.edu |
| Marat | Valiev | Department of Energy | Marat.Valiev@science.doe.gov |
| Yanbao | Zhang | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | zhangy2@ornl.gov |
| Yichi | Zhang | U. of Pennsylvania | zyc@seas.upenn.edu |
| Quntao | Zhuang | U. of Southern California | qzhuang@usc.edu |