Workshop

Departure Bus Times 
1.30pm with
2.45pm arrival		 BUS DEPARTS FOR NEWCASTLE AIRPORT 39 PAX
1.30pm –
4pm arrival		 BUS DEPARTS FOR UNSW SYDNEY 54 PAX
2pm BUS DEPARTS FOR CANBERRA 19 PAX

Program Day 1

Monday, 29 May

Time Session Title Speakers
8.30am Workshop Opening – Welcome and Overview ECR Committee
Session Chair – Holly Stemp
8.50am Centre Alumni – Where are they now? (Virtual)
  • Assoc Professor Jacqui Romero, University of Queensland
  • Dr Daniel Higginbottom, Simon Fraser University
  • Dr Vincent Mourik, Forschungszentrum Jülich
  • Dr Rachpon Kalra, Microsoft Sydney
  • Dr Maja Cassidy, UNSW School of Physics
Session Chair – Dr Aaron Tranter
9.40am QRNG and Pitch Your Research Proposal
  • Quantum Random Pitch Generator
  • Group 1 Rotation – 15 mins
  • Group 2 Rotation – 15 mins
Session Chair – Dr Danni Holmes
10.10am Communication strategies – How to keep the hype down and talk about your research in a meaningful way. Assoc Professor Chris Ferrie, Assoc Dean Research, Centre for Quantum Software and Information
11am Morning Tea
Session Chair – Luis V Aguilar
11.30am How to Science – advice for building a research career from an emerging research leader Dr Nora Tischler (ANU)
Session Chair – Ozlem Erkilic
11.50am What does a Defence Career Involve?
  • Dr Mark Baker
  • Assoc Professor Ben Travaglione
Session Chair – Dr Ludwik Kranz
12.30pm CQC2T Start-up Company Case Study – perspectives from the commercialisation journey Dr Aaron Tranter, aqacia
1.00pm – 2.00pm Lunch
Session Chair – Holly Stemp
2pm Perspectives from Government, Industry and Professional Services Michelle Price, Partner EY
Session Chair – Dr Danni Holmes
2.30pm Ask Michelle Q&A session with the Centre Director Professor Michelle Simmons, AO
3.30pm
3.30pm – 5.30pm		 Afternoon tea
CQC2T Quantum Games
6.30pm Evening dinner: Buffet Dinner
END OF DAY

Program Day 2

Tuesday, 30 May

Time Session Title Speakers
Session Chair – Professor Michelle Simmons
8.45am Workshop Opening – Welcome and Overview of Future Directions Professor Michelle Simmons, Centre Director
Walter Boas Medal Celebration Session
9.00am Keynote Address: What quantum experiments reveal about the world & our powers in it, and what the future may hold (30 mins + 10 mins Q&A) Professor Howard Wiseman (GU)
9.40am Keynote Address: Electric, magnetic and acoustic resonance with donor spins in silicon (30 mins + 10 mins Q&A) Professor Andrea Morello (UNSW)
10.20am Platform Presentation –
Quantum Memories – What are they good for?		 Assoc Professor Matt Sellars (ANU)
  11am – 11.20 Break
  
Session Chair – Professor Tim Ralph
11.20am Key Results – Creation and storage non-classically correlated light fields in an erbium-based quantum memory Kieran Smith, (ANU)
11.40am Key Results – Development of a fibre coupled erbium based quantum memory Paul McMahon, (ANU)
12pm – 12:10 Break
Session Chair – Dr Rose Ahlefeldt
12.10pm Platform Presentation – Ion Implanted donors in silicon qubit platform overview Holly Stemp, (UNSW)
12.50pm Key Results – Defeating scalability limitations for deterministically implanted ultra-shallow donor networks Dr Melvin Jakob, (UM)
1.10pm Key Results – Automatic tuning of donor in silicon devices using machine learning Dr Brandon Severin, (UNSW)
1.30pm – 2.30pm Lunch
Session Chair – Professor Mick Bremner
2.30pm Platform Presentation – Overview of results in precision atom qubits in silicon Dr Ludwik Kranz (UNSW)
3.10pm Key Results – multi-nuclear spin registers Ian Thorvaldson (UNSW)
3.30pm Key Results – Machine learning assisted precision qubit manufacturing Sam Sutherland (UNSW)
3.50pm Quantum computation on a 19-qubit wide 2d nearest neighbour qubit array Alexis Shaw (UTS)
  4.10pm – 4.30pm Break
4.30pm –6pm Poster Session – Exhibition
6.30pm Evening dinner: Merlot Function Room

END OF DAY

 

Program Day 3

Wednesday, 31 May

Time Session Title Speakers
Session Chair: Howard Wiseman
8am Program Managers Meeting Free time for workshop delegates
10am Industry Perspectives – The Australian Space Agency’s focus on optical/quantum communications and its direction Howard D’Costa (Asst. Director, Space Communications Technologies and Services Lead, Chief Technology Officer, Australian Space Agency)
10.40am Defence Perspectives Dr Mark Baker
Dr Ben Travaglione
Dr Oliver Thearle (Virtual)
11.20pm – 11.40pm Break
Session Chair: Professor Alberto Peruzzo
11.40am Platform Presentation – Si-MOS quantum dot platform overview Dr Henry Yang (UNSW)
12.20pm Key Results – Techniques for on-demand electrical control of spin qubits Dr William Gilbert (UNSW)
12.40pm Key Results – Consistency of high-fidelity two-qubit operations in silicon Dr Tuomo Tanttu (UNSW)
1pm – 2pm Lunch
Session Chair: Professor Ben Buchler 
2.00pm Platform Presentation – Quantum satellite communications Dr Sophie Zhao (ANU)
2.40pm Key Results – Photon-number encoded measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution protocol Ozlem Erkilic (ANU)
3pm Key Results – Equivalence of squeezing and entanglement for two-mode Gaussian states Aritra Das (ANU)
3.20pm – 3.40pm Break
Session Chair: Professor Michelle Simmons
3.40pm Panel Session: Chief Scientist’s Perspective on Quantum Computing (Virtual Session) Dr Amanda Caples (VIC) (Virtual)
Professor Peter Klinken (WA)
Professor Caroline McMillen (SA) (TBC)
4.30pm – 6pm Poster Session – Exhibition
6.30pm Dinner onsite, Rydges Bar

Program Day 4

Thursday, 1 June

Time Session Title Speakers
9am Introduction to quantum Noise spectroscopy and control Dr Gerardo Paz Silva (Griffith University)
9.40am Platform Presentation – Optical quantum computing with continuous variables Professor Nicolas Menicucci (RMIT)
10.20am Key Results – Scalable multipart steering with discrete variables Alex Pepper (Griffith University)
10.40am Key Results – Unitary averaging and its applications Deepesh Singh (UQ)
  11am – 11.20am Break
11.20am Platform Presentation – Integrated optical platform Associate Professor Alberto Peruzzo (RMIT)
11.40am Key Results – Reconfigurable waveguide arrays for QIP Yang Yang (RMIT)
12.10pm Key Results – A pathway towards Er sites in Si with long spin and optical coherence times Dr Alexey Lyasota (UNSW)
12.40pm Transversal Injection: A method for direct encoding of ancilla states for non-Clifford gates using stabilizer codes Jason Gavriel (UTS)
1pm Workshop Close – Poster Session Prizes and Best Presentation Prizes Professor Michelle Simmons

1.30pm – 2.30pm packed lunch provided
END OF CENTRE WORKSHOP 2023

 
1.30pm
2.45pm arrival		 BUS DEPARTS FOR NEWCASTLE AIRPORT 39 PAX
1.30pm
4pm arrival		 BUS DEPARTS FOR UNSW SYDNEY 54 PAX
2pm BUS DEPARTS FOR CANBERRA 19 PAX