Programme

Full-day workshop

Wednesday 4 November 2026

National Physical Laboratory, Teddington

1. 08:30–09:15

   Coffee and registration

2. 09:15–09:30

   Welcome

   Abhishek Agarwal (National Physical Laboratory (NPL)) and Joschka Roffe (Quantum Software Lab (QSL), University of Edinburgh)

3. 09:30–09:50

   Title TBC

   Jonathan Burnett (National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC))

4. 09:50–10:10

   The state of quantum computing benchmark standards

   Charlie Nation (National Physical Laboratory (NPL)) and John Devaney (National Physical Laboratory (NPL))

5. 10:10–10:30

   Quantum Advantage in Quantum Simulation and the MegaQuOp

   Andrew Daley (QCI3 Hub, University of Oxford)

6. 10:30–11:00

   Benchmarking the computational power of quantum computers

   Cristina Cirstoiu (Quantinuum)

7. 11:00–11:30

   Coffee

8. 11:30–11:50

   Certifiable QuOps: a verification wrapper around any figure of merit

   Elham Kashefi (Quantum Software Lab (QSL), University of Edinburgh)

9. 11:50–12:10

   Efficiently simulable quantum circuits with large entanglement, magic, and non-Gaussianity via code-compiled tensor networks

   Aydin Deger (University of Oxford) and Stergios Koutsioumpas (Quantum Software Lab (QSL), University of Edinburgh)

10. 12:10–12:30

    The limits of erasure-based postselection for quantum error mitigation

    Brian Vlastakis (Oxford Quantum Circuits)

11. 12:30–13:45

    Lunch

12. 13:45–14:05

    It’s Not the Gates, It’s What You Do With Them: An Algorithms perspective on the QuOp

    Harry McMullan (Phasecraft)

13. 14:05–14:25

    Scalable decoders for scalable QuOps

    Joan Camps (Riverlane)

14. 14:25–14:45

    Flexible Logical Operations in Silicon Spin Qubit Architectures with Shuttling

    Andrea Husseini (Quantum Motion)

15. 14:45–15:05

    Title TBC

    Ben Yuen (Infleqtion)

16. 15:05–15:35

    Coffee

17. 15:35–16:30

    Group discussion

    See the discussion questions

18. 16:30–17:00

    Summary and wrap up