Organizing Committee
Yufei Ding, UCSD (yufeiding@ucsd.edu)Jens Palsberg, UCLA (palsberg@ucla.edu) (chair)
Hanrui Wang, UCLA (wang@cs.ucla.edu)
Xiaodi Wu, U Maryland (xiaodiwu@umd.edu)
Henry Yuen, Columbia U (henry.yuen@columbia.edu)
Date and Location
Friday September 5, 2025; the agenda is below. Location: at IEEE Quantum Week 2025 in Albuquerque, in the Albuquerque Convention Center. The meeting room is Mesilla (also known as Room 235), which is in the East Building at the upper level. The workshop is an in-person event.
Objective
After recent breakthroughs in quantum error correction, research on quantum computing is entering a new era. Now computer science is more important than ever to the success of quantum computing. We have more exciting algorithms and more qubit technologies than ever, and now we can suppress hardware errors to some degree. In this diverse field, computer science people can devise quantum algorithms and prove limits on what can be achieved, they can design and implement a software stack, and they can formally verify that algorithms and tools work correctly. This workshop will identify the main research challenges in quantum computing from the angle of computer science. The main deliverable of the workshop will be a report summarizing the discussions and recommendations made during the meeting. We will send the workshop report to people in government agencies across the world who are thinking about starting programs on quantum computing.Target Audience
The workshop target audience are computer science researchers in quantum computing who have an interest in articulating the research challenges of the field. We hope that many of the participants will be professors from academia, and that many other participants will be from industry, government research labs, and government agencies.Sponsors
The United States National Science Foundation, Directorate for CISE.Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation (CIQC).
Agenda
- 10:00–11:45 am: Welcome and lightning talks; session chair: Jens Palsberg; time keeper: Pengyu Liu.
- 11:45–1:00 pm: Lunch in Ballroom A/B/C. Directions: walk across the Skybridge and turn left.
- 1:00–1:45 pm: Error correction and fault tolerance; session chair: Yufei Ding; scribe: Kaitlin Smith.
- 1:45–2:30 pm: Breakout sessions. 1) Algorithms and complexity; session chair: Henry Yuen; scribe: Bill Fefferman. 2) Software; session chair: Xiaodi Wu; scribe: Gokul Ravi. 3) Architecture; session chair: Jason Cong; scribe: Moinuddin Qureshi.
- 2:30–3:00 pm: Break.
- 3:00–3:45 pm: Joint writing session with a shared Google doc. Session chair: Jens Palsberg; scribe: everybody!
- 3:45–4:30 pm: Joint discussion.