FoQacia and Perimeter Institute Host Groundbreaking Workshop on Quantum Computational Advantage
From April 30th to May 3rd, the FoQacia project co-organized a workshop on the foundations of quantum computational advantage with the Perimeter Institute in Canada. This hybrid event, held at Perimeter, featured an impressive lineup of 34 talks focusing on critical areas of quantum research, including:
Quantum contextuality, non-classicality, and quantum advantage
The complexity of classical simulation of quantum computation
The arithmetic of quantum circuits
The efficiency of fault-tolerant quantum computation
The workshop attracted significant interest, with 77 participants attending in person and an additional 108 joining online. Attendees greatly appreciated Perimeter’s support, warm welcome, and the stimulating research environment provided.
Special thanks are due to Sarah Gardiner (Perimeter Institute) and Anne-Frédérique Thibodeau (University of Ottawa) for their outstanding local organizational support. The event’s scientific organization was expertly managed by Rui Soares Barbosa and Ernesto Galvão from INL - International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Anne Broadbent from the University of Ottawa, and Robert Spekkens and Jon Yard from Perimeter Institute.
The workshop marks the halfway point of the similarly named FoQaCiA (pronounced "focaccia") collaboration between researchers in Canada and Europe, funded as part of a flagship partnership between NSERC and Horizon Europe.
For those who could not attend, the talks are available to watch on Perimeter’s PIRSA video repository: https://pirsa.org/c24020.