The past two years have seen rapid advances in building increasingly large-scale quantum computers. It is now widely expected that there will be a demonstration, within the coming months, of a device that cannot be simulated by any classical computer (so called ‘quantum computational supremacy’). The prospect of a relatively near-term device capable of a quantum advantage has sparked a huge amount of excitement both in academia and in industry. The conference will cover the central questions in this emerging field, focusing on how to use quantum computers to solve some of the grand challenges of our time, such as drug discovery or the development of energy-efficient industrial processes or new catalysts.

Topics will include quantum simulation, computational quantum chemistry and quantum algorithms for solving optimization problems. We will also invite speakers to talk about practical aspects of quantum programming and running experiments on current and imminent quantum computing hardware. The final theme will look to the future, with talks on scaling up quantum computers and new quantum algorithms.

The conference will include invited and contributed talks, together with a session bringing together end-users with quantum computing experts, and a poster session.

The registration deadline has passed.

Conference participants may also be interested in the Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop, to be held in Bristol the previous week (1-3 April).

Keynote Speakers 

Iordanis Kerenidis (CNRS, IRIF, Univ Paris Diderot)
Hartmut Neven (Google)

Invited Speakers 

Ryan Babbush (Google)
Andrew Childs (University of Maryland)
Eleni Diamanti (CNRS, Sorbonne University)
Aram Harrow (MIT)
Naomi Nickerson (PsiQuantum)
David Poulin (Université de Sherbrooke)
Marcus da Silva (Rigetti)
Kristan Temme (IBM)
Ronald de Wolf (CWI)

Accepted talks

Slides

Poulin

Harrow

de Wolf

Childs

Babbush

Timetable 

The conference will start on Monday 8th April with registration at 10am, and finish on Wednesday 10th April at 4pm. The programme is here.

Venue

School of Chemistry, Lecture Theatre 2, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS.

The venue can be found using the University’s Google precinct map.

A few recommended dinner venues, pubs, and things to do are highlighted on the following map:

Accommodation

For planning purposes the venue is located within the main University precinct, postcode BS8 1TS. Information on local hotels and average prices can be found here. Alternatively you can find further information on other accommodation options by visiting the Visit Bristol website.

Contacts

Please contact Francoise Blake regarding any administrative aspects of the conference.

Organising Committee

Steve Brierley (Riverlane)
Noah Linden (University of Bristol)
Ashley Montanaro (University of Bristol)

Programme Committee

Simon Benjamin (University of Oxford)
Dominic Berry (Macquarie University)
Steve Brierley (Riverlane)
Harry Buhrman (CWI / QuSoft)
Elizabeth Crosson (University of New Mexico)
Noah Linden (University of Bristol)
Ashley Montanaro (University of Bristol, chair)
Naomi Nickerson (PsiQuantum)

Local Organising Committee

Chris Cade
João Fernando Doriguello
Noah Linden
Lana Mineh
Ashley Montanaro
Alex Moylett
Stephen Piddock
Dominic Verdon

Call for submissions (deadline 11 January 2019)

Submissions are invited for contributed talks. Talks will be selected on the basis of scientific excellence; fit to the topic of the workshop; and balance of the programme.

Submissions should correspond to recent research contributions to quantum information and computation. The workshop will not publish proceedings, and work which has been, or will be, published elsewhere is welcome. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Applications of quantum computers
• Architectures for quantum computing
• Quantum algorithms
• Quantum compilation and circuit optimisation
• Quantum error-correction and fault-tolerance
• Simulation of quantum systems
• Theory of near-term quantum computing
• Verification of quantum devices

All submissions for talks must be made electronically through the online submission system EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qctip2019

A submission should consist of a full paper corresponding to the work, including technical details. This manuscript may be from an on-line repository, such as the arXiv; however, a PDF copy of it must be uploaded. If your submission consists of multiple papers they should be merged into a single file.

We encourage all workshop attendees to present a poster. Poster details can be provided during registration.

Conflict of interest: Programme Committee members must declare a conflict of interest on submissions where this is relevant (such as ones where they, or a close associate, are a coauthor) so that they are not involved in the discussion of these papers.

Important dates

Submission deadline: 11 January 2019, 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth)
Notification: 8 February 2019
Registration deadline: extended to 15 March 2019

Sponsors

We are very grateful to our sponsors:

Gold

Silver

Title: Multiscale image-based modelling in biology

In this talk I will describe a state of the art image based modelling in several seemingly different areas of biology. I show examples from biomedical (lymphatic, vascular and lung system) and agricultural problems of plant soil interaction. I will describe the workflow from imaging (X-ray CT, XRF, SEM-EDX, histology), image reconstruction, image segmentation, computation and how to utilize this work stream to synthesise new scientific knowledge. In particular I will also outline several challenges and bottlenecks in this process to hopefully encourage more mathematicians to get involved in the full pipeline.

Further information

The event is open to University of Bristol staff and students.

Title: Varieties of signature tensors

Title: Predictive analytics: you can’t have it all

Shannon and group testing: finding needles in haystacks

Claude Shannon’s Information Theory bridges mathematics and engineering, and shows how well every communication and data storage system can perform.

In this lecture, Professor Johnson will describe his recent work applying these ideas to prove rigorous results about a search problem called group testing, which has applications to DNA and disease testing.

How to register

The talk is open to all University of Bristol staff and students as well as the general public. We ask that all attendees please register in advance of the event via Eventbrite.

University of Bristol

Jennifer Balakrishnan, Boston University and Tim Dokchitser, University of Bristol

A postgraduate mathematics summer school jointly funded by the Clay Mathematics Institute and the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research. Student places are offered with accommodation, refreshments and subsistence allowance.

Please register your interest by completing the application form. N.B, A short supporting letter from your PhD supervisor will be required with your application. Closing date for registration is 1st March 2019. Successful applicants will be notified by 15th March 2019.

8 speakers have been invited to deliver 4 hours of lectures each with discussion workshops scheduled for each topic:

John Cremona

Celine Maistret

Adam Morgan

Steffen Mueller

Rachel Newton

Samir Siksek

Andrew Sutherland

John Voight

Week 1:
Celine Maistret: Computational aspects of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
Adam Morgan: Local arithmetic of curves and Jacobians
Rachel Newton: The Hasse norm principle
Samir Siksek: Explicit arithmetic of modular curves

Week 2:
John Cremona: Arithmetic statistics
Steffen Mueller: Rational points on curves
Andrew Sutherland: Zeta functions and L-functions of curves and abelian varieties
John Voight: Computing endomorphism rings of Jacobians

Please see here for the full programme.

For queries relating to practical information (application form, accommodation, subsistence, travel etc ), please contact heilbronn-coordinator@bristol.ac.uk

Title: Can Mathematics Solve Mysteries in Literature?

There have been no shortages of controversies in literature, from old questions such as whether Cao Xueqin wrote all 120 chapters of “Dreams of Red Chamber”, widely known as the greatest work of Chinese literature, to new questions such as whether Obama actually wrote his autobiography “Dreams From My Father”.

For mathematicians, it is interesting to ask whether mathematics can be used to settle these controversies. In this talk, I will give an overview on how mathematics can be applied to analyze the “style” of an author and the related field of study called “stylometry”. I will show that mathematics can be used to almost definitively settle many such controversies.

Further information

The talk will be held in Mott Lecture Theatre (G12), Physics, from 3.30pm – 4.30pm and will be followed by a drinks reception in the Maths common room.

The talk is open to all University of Bristol staff and students as well as the general public. We ask that all attendees please register in advance of the event.

Enjoying your degree in mathematics? Interested in discovering where further study in maths can take you?

Join us for our annual Women in Mathematics event, 6th – 7th November 2018 – open to female and non-binary students in the UK and Ireland.

A PhD in mathematics can offer you independence, challenging problems and an inspiring job, as well as the chance to travel and the opportunity to make a difference.

This two-day event is aimed at encouraging female mathematics students, including those who self-define as women or whose gender identity includes “woman” or is non-binary, to consider continuing their studies to PhD level.

The event features talks from mathematicians working both in universities and industry, giving insight into their current roles and their careers to date. Even more importantly, there is ample time to talk in small groups to the other participants who are facing the same decisions, and to current PhD students who have recently faced the same questions.

Please note that the Wednesday afternoon session is open to all students.

The full programme and details on how to apply can be found below.

How to apply

Please note that registration for this year’s event has now closed.

Programme*

From 4pm on Tuesday 6th November – 12pm on Wednesday 7th November: To support female (including those who self-define as women or whose gender identity includes “woman”) undergraduates and masters students across the UK into further study in mathematics.

From 12pm – 5pm on Wednesday 7th November: To support all undergraduate and masters students.

Tuesday 6 November – supporting women in maths:

4:00pm Welcome and registration

from 4pm Networking in groups/meeting graduate students

5:00pm Small groups: what is PhD-level maths like?

7:00pm Dinner at Zero Degrees

Wednesday 7 November – supporting women in maths:

10:00am Question and answer session

10.30am Short talk by current graduate student

10:45am Tea and Coffee

11:00am Keynote speaker: Professor Tiina Roose, University of Southampton

Wednesday 7 November – open to all undergraduate and masters students:

12:00pm Lunch

12.45pm Panel with graduate students talking about their experiences and

how they came to do a PhD.

1:45pm Short talk by current graduate student

2:00pm Information from the Post Graduate team

2:45pm Tea and Coffee

Three practitioners of mathematics to speak about what they do and how they got there:

3:00pm Industry speaker:  Dr Lynsey McColl, Managing Director of Select Statistical Services

3:30pm Academic Speaker: Dr Viveka Erlandsson, University of Bristol

4:00pm Industry speaker: Amy

4.30pm Informal discussions

5:00pm Finish

*Programme may be subject to change

Contact information

Organising commitee: Olly Johnson, Emma Bailey, Louisa Bartoszewicz, Jasmine Trueman, Charley Cummings, Haeran Cho, Jonathan Rougier, Viveka Erlandsson and Fatemeh Mohammadi.

For practical information, please contact maths-conference-administrator@bristol.ac.uk