Room: D9-2005
Organizing committee: Cunlu Zhou, Dave Touchette, Simon Verret, Josh Cantin, Alexandre Leblanc, Elisabeth Mailhot
Topics (Winter–Spring 2026)
- Fermionic Gaussian states / Stabilizers / Classical simulability
- Quantum programming / C*-algebra / ZX-Calculus
Schedule (Winter–Spring 2026)
Note: January meetings are 10:30–12:00. From February onward, meetings are 9:30–11:00.
| Date | Time | 5-min presentation #1 | 5-min presentation #2 | Tutorial + Research Presentation | Moderator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01-13 | 11:00–12:00 | Cunlu Zhou | |||
| 01-27 | 10:30–12:00 | Simon Ducharme: Mixed to Pure Tomography |
(Postponed) | Marco Armenta: Stabilizer Formalism |
Cunlu Zhou |
| 02-10 | 9:30–11:00 | Alexandre Leblanc: Cloning of Encrypted Qubits |
Victor Drouin-Touchette: Quantum Speedup for Abelian Hidden Subgroup Problem |
Olivier Nahman-Lévesque: Fermionic Gaussian States Part I, Simon V's Notes, and Quantum Automated Theorem Proving |
Simon Verret |
| 02-24 | 9:30–11:00 | Elisabeth Mailhot: Quantum Learning Advantage |
Dave Touchette: Digital Signatures with Classical Shadows |
Olivier Nahman-Lévesque: Fermionic Gaussian States Part II, Simon V's Notes |
Simon Verret |
| 03-10 | 9:30–11:00 | Louis Desruisseaux: Minimum Weight Decoding in the Colour Code is NP-hard |
Josh Cantin: Experimental demonstration that qubits can be cloned at will |
Simon Verret: Quantum Impurity I |
Dave Touchette |
| 03-24 | 9:30–11:00 | Ludovic Chabot Provencher: The unbearable hardness of deciding about magic |
Maxime Dion: Optimally Generating 𝔰𝔲(2𝑁) Using Pauli Strings |
Simon Verret: Quantum Impurity II |
Josh Cantin |
| 04-07 | 9:30–11:00 | Olivier Nahman-Lévesque: Integer Factorization via Tensor-network Schnorr's sieving |
Cédrick Perron: Clifford Transformations to Reduce Entanglement |
Marco Armenta & Simon Ducharme: Category Theory, Extended notes |
Josh Cantin |
| 04-21 | 9:30–11:00 | Jean Frederic Laprade: Error Correction in early-FTQC Regime |
Gurleen Padda: Benchmarking of Quantum Computers Using Nonlocal Game Strategies |
Josh Cantin: ZX Calculus |
Dave Touchette |
| 05-05 | 9:30–11:00 | Cunlu Zhou: Efficient Quantum Thermal and Ground State Preparation |
NA | Maxime Dion: Pauli Strings I |
Cunlu Zhou |
| 05-08 | 10:00–11:30 | Guest talk by Zhiyan Ding | Cunlu Zhou | ||
| 05-19 | 9:30–11:00 | Simon Verret: Exponential quantum advantage in processing massive classical data |
Ludovic Chabot Provencher | Maxime Dion and Alexandre Leblanc: Pauli Strings II |
Simon Verret |
Contact
qars.iq@usherbrooke.ca