Room: D9-2005
Organizing committee: Cunlu Zhou, Dave Touchette, Simon Verret, Josh Cantin, Alexandre Leblanc, Elisabeth Mailhot
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 and Quantum 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 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 | Cédrick Perron | Marco Armenta & Simon Ducharme: Category Theory |
Josh Cantin |
| 04-21 | 9:30–11:00 | TBA | TBA | Josh Cantin: ZX-Calculus |
Dave Touchette |
| 05-05 | 9:30–11:00 | TBA | TBA | Maxime Dion & Alexandre Leblanc: Pauli Strings |
Cunlu Zhou |
Topics (Winter–Spring 2026)
- Fermionic Gaussian states / classical simulability / Stabilizer: 1
- Quantum programming / C*-algebra / ZX-Calculus: 2
- Quantum advantage / Verification / Factoring RSA / QML: 3
- Quantum learning / tomography / Hamiltonian learning: 4
- Quantum Gibbs Sampling / Lindbladians / PDE & ODE: 5
- Hamiltonian simulation / digital-analog / Trotterization: 6
Contact
qars.iq@usherbrooke.ca