TartanQEC Timetable

Daily Programme

Day 1 | Wednesday 24th June 2026

09:00–09:30

Registration & Coffee

Informatics Forum Ground Floor Foyer

09:30–09:45

Welcome

Joschka Roffe (University of Edinburgh) , Jonathan Pritchard (University of Strathclyde)

09:45–10:15 arXiv:2603.18457

Modeling and Benchmarking Early Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers

Jordan Hines (Sandia National Laboratories)

G.07 Informatics Forum

10:15–10:45

Title TBC

Michael Vasmer (Inria Paris)

G.07 Informatics Forum

Coffee Break

Informatics Forum Ground Floor Foyer

10:45–11:15

11:15–11:45 arXiv:2604.19481

The Walking Cat Architecture

Mark Webster (IonQ)

G.07 Informatics Forum

11:45–12:15 arXiv:2307.13296

Measurement-free gadgets & classical logic in ion trap quantum computers

Sascha Heußen (neQxt)

G.07 Informatics Forum

Lunch

Informatics Forum Ground Floor

12:15–14:00

14:00–14:30 arXiv:2507.19430

Directional Codes: a new family of quantum LDPC codes on hexagonal- and square-grid connectivity hardware

György Gehér (Riverlane)

G.07 Informatics Forum

14:30–15:00 arXiv:2512.17999

Logical gates on Floquet codes via folds and twists

Bhargavi Jonnadula (Nu Quantum Ltd)

G.07 Informatics Forum

15:00–15:30 arXiv:2602.13638

A theory of quantum error correction for permutation-invariant codes

Yingkai Ouyang (University of Sheffield)

G.07 Informatics Forum

🏳️‍🌈 Pride in Quantum Social

15:30–16:30

G.07 Informatics Forum

Arthur's Seat Hike

16:30–19:00

Meet at the main entrance of the Informatics Forum

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland–Brazil 🇧🇷 World Cup Match

23:00–02:00

Location TBC

Day 1 timetable
Time	Session	Speaker(s)	Location
09:00–09:30	Registration & Coffee	-	Informatics Forum Ground Floor Foyer
09:30–09:45	Welcome	Joschka Roffe (University of Edinburgh) , Jonathan Pritchard (University of Strathclyde)	-
09:45–10:15	Modeling and Benchmarking Early Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers arXiv:2603.18457	Jordan Hines (Sandia National Laboratories)	G.07 Informatics Forum
10:15–10:45	Title TBC	Michael Vasmer (Inria Paris)	G.07 Informatics Forum
10:45–11:15	Coffee Break	-	Informatics Forum Ground Floor Foyer
11:15–11:45	The Walking Cat Architecture arXiv:2604.19481	Mark Webster (IonQ)	G.07 Informatics Forum
11:45–12:15	Measurement-free gadgets & classical logic in ion trap quantum computers arXiv:2307.13296	Sascha Heußen (neQxt)	G.07 Informatics Forum
12:15–14:00	Lunch	-	Informatics Forum Ground Floor
14:00–14:30	Directional Codes: a new family of quantum LDPC codes on hexagonal- and square-grid connectivity hardware arXiv:2507.19430	György Gehér (Riverlane)	G.07 Informatics Forum
14:30–15:00	Logical gates on Floquet codes via folds and twists arXiv:2512.17999	Bhargavi Jonnadula (Nu Quantum Ltd)	G.07 Informatics Forum
15:00–15:30	A theory of quantum error correction for permutation-invariant codes arXiv:2602.13638	Yingkai Ouyang (University of Sheffield)	G.07 Informatics Forum
15:30–16:30	🏳️‍🌈 Pride in Quantum Social		G.07 Informatics Forum
16:30–19:00	Arthur's Seat Hike		Meet at the main entrance of the Informatics Forum
23:00–02:00	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland–Brazil 🇧🇷 World Cup Match		Location TBC

Day 2 | Thursday 25th June 2026

09:00–10:00

Title TBC

Andreas Wallraff (ETH Zurich)

G.07 Informatics Forum

10:00–10:30 arXiv:2604.14296

Scalable quantum error correction tailored for a heavy-hex qubit array

Seok-Hyung Lee (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU))

G.07 Informatics Forum

Coffee Break

Informatics Forum Ground Floor Foyer

10:30–11:00

11:00–11:30 arXiv:2601.10786

Elevator Codes: Concatenation for resource-efficient quantum memory under biased noise

Peter Shanahan (University of Edinburgh / Alice & Bob)

G.07 Informatics Forum

11:30–12:00 arXiv:2604.01282

Exhaustive Optimisation of Automorphism Groups for Stabiliser Codes

Aisling Mac Aree (University of Galway)

G.07 Informatics Forum

12:00–12:15

Focked-Up Fault Tolerance: Rewriting Noise in Continuous-Variable Quantum Codes

Razin A. Shaikh (University of Oxford)

G.07 Informatics Forum

12:15–12:30

Loss-Tolerant Distributed Lattice Surgery using Fusion Networks

Felix Burt (Imperial College London)

G.07 Informatics Forum

Lunch

Informatics Forum Ground Floor

12:30–14:00

14:00–14:30

Title TBC

Zhenyui Cai (University of Oxford)

G.07 Informatics Forum

14:30–15:00 arXiv:2410.07065

Enhanced Fault-tolerance in Photonic Quantum Computing: Comparing the Floquet Code and the Surface Code in Tailored Architecture

Paul Hilaire (Télécom Paris)

G.07 Informatics Forum

15:00–15:30

Title TBC

Alexandru Paler (Aalto)

G.07 Informatics Forum

Coffee Break

Informatics Forum Ground Floor Foyer

15:30–16:00

16:00–16:30 arXiv:2604.01059

Tsim: Fast Universal Simulator for Quantum Error Correction

Rafael Haenel (QuEra Computing)

G.07 Informatics Forum

16:30–16:45 arXiv:2604.15043

SyQMA: A memory-efficient, symbolic and exact universal simulator for quantum error correction

George Umbrarescu (University College London (UCL))

G.07 Informatics Forum

16:45–17:00

Optimising Partial Fault-Tolerance for Neutral Atoms

Stefano Veroni (University of Oxford)

G.07 Informatics Forum

Poster Session

17:00–18:30

Informatics Forum Ground Floor

Buffet Dinner

18:30–20:00

Informatics Forum Ground Floor

Day 2 timetable
Time	Session	Speaker(s)	Location
09:00–10:00	Title TBC	Andreas Wallraff (ETH Zurich)	G.07 Informatics Forum
10:00–10:30	Scalable quantum error correction tailored for a heavy-hex qubit array arXiv:2604.14296	Seok-Hyung Lee (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU))	G.07 Informatics Forum
10:30–11:00	Coffee Break	-	Informatics Forum Ground Floor Foyer
11:00–11:30	Elevator Codes: Concatenation for resource-efficient quantum memory under biased noise arXiv:2601.10786	Peter Shanahan (University of Edinburgh / Alice & Bob)	G.07 Informatics Forum
11:30–12:00	Exhaustive Optimisation of Automorphism Groups for Stabiliser Codes arXiv:2604.01282	Aisling Mac Aree (University of Galway)	G.07 Informatics Forum
12:00–12:15	Focked-Up Fault Tolerance: Rewriting Noise in Continuous-Variable Quantum Codes	Razin A. Shaikh (University of Oxford)	G.07 Informatics Forum
12:15–12:30	Loss-Tolerant Distributed Lattice Surgery using Fusion Networks	Felix Burt (Imperial College London)	G.07 Informatics Forum
12:30–14:00	Lunch	-	Informatics Forum Ground Floor
14:00–14:30	Title TBC	Zhenyui Cai (University of Oxford)	G.07 Informatics Forum
14:30–15:00	Enhanced Fault-tolerance in Photonic Quantum Computing: Comparing the Floquet Code and the Surface Code in Tailored Architecture arXiv:2410.07065	Paul Hilaire (Télécom Paris)	G.07 Informatics Forum
15:00–15:30	Title TBC	Alexandru Paler (Aalto)	G.07 Informatics Forum
15:30–16:00	Coffee Break	-	Informatics Forum Ground Floor Foyer
16:00–16:30	Tsim: Fast Universal Simulator for Quantum Error Correction arXiv:2604.01059	Rafael Haenel (QuEra Computing)	G.07 Informatics Forum
16:30–16:45	SyQMA: A memory-efficient, symbolic and exact universal simulator for quantum error correction arXiv:2604.15043	George Umbrarescu (University College London (UCL))	G.07 Informatics Forum
16:45–17:00	Optimising Partial Fault-Tolerance for Neutral Atoms	Stefano Veroni (University of Oxford)	G.07 Informatics Forum
17:00–18:30	Poster Session		Informatics Forum Ground Floor
18:30–20:00	Buffet Dinner		Informatics Forum Ground Floor

Day 3 | Friday 26th June 2026

09:00–10:00

Riverlane Tutorial

Adrien Suau (Riverlane)

Coffee Break

Informatics Forum Ground Floor Foyer

10:00–10:30

10:30–11:00 arXiv:2509.13247

Demonstration of a Logical Architecture Uniting Motion and In-Place Entanglement

Josh Viszlai (Infleqtion)

G.07 Informatics Forum

11:00–11:30

Title TBC

Prakash Murali (University of Cambridge)

G.07 Informatics Forum

11:30–12:00

Decoding with alternating weighted graph sparsification for quantum low-density parity-check codes

Josu Etxezarreta Martinez (Tecnun - University of Navarra)

G.07 Informatics Forum

Lunch

Informatics Forum Ground Floor

12:00–13:30

14:00–14:30

Title TBC

Linnea Grans-Samuelsson (University of Oxford)

G.07 Informatics Forum

14:30–15:00

A Scalable FPGA Architecture for Real-Time Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes

Francisco Garcia-Herrero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

G.07 Informatics Forum

15:00–15:15 arXiv:2603.05481

High-performance syndrome extraction circuits for quantum codes

Armands Strikis (University of Oxford)

G.07 Informatics Forum

Coffee Break

Informatics Forum Ground Floor Foyer

15:15–15:45

15:45–16:15

Learning to Encode and Decode Quantum Information: Neural Network Approaches to Quantum Error Correction

Roberto Bondesan (Imperial College London)

G.07 Informatics Forum

16:15–16:45 arXiv:2603.17743

Fast stabilizer state preparation via AI-optimized graph decimation

Matteo Puviani (Quantinuum)

G.07 Informatics Forum

16:45–17:00

Finishing Remarks

Joschka Roffe (University of Edinburgh) , Jonathan Pritchard (University of Strathclyde)

Day 3 timetable
Time	Session	Speaker(s)	Location
09:00–10:00	Riverlane Tutorial	Adrien Suau (Riverlane)	-
10:00–10:30	Coffee Break	-	Informatics Forum Ground Floor Foyer
10:30–11:00	Demonstration of a Logical Architecture Uniting Motion and In-Place Entanglement arXiv:2509.13247	Josh Viszlai (Infleqtion)	G.07 Informatics Forum
11:00–11:30	Title TBC	Prakash Murali (University of Cambridge)	G.07 Informatics Forum
11:30–12:00	Decoding with alternating weighted graph sparsification for quantum low-density parity-check codes	Josu Etxezarreta Martinez (Tecnun - University of Navarra)	G.07 Informatics Forum
12:00–13:30	Lunch	-	Informatics Forum Ground Floor
14:00–14:30	Title TBC	Linnea Grans-Samuelsson (University of Oxford)	G.07 Informatics Forum
14:30–15:00	A Scalable FPGA Architecture for Real-Time Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes	Francisco Garcia-Herrero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)	G.07 Informatics Forum
15:00–15:15	High-performance syndrome extraction circuits for quantum codes arXiv:2603.05481	Armands Strikis (University of Oxford)	G.07 Informatics Forum
15:15–15:45	Coffee Break	-	Informatics Forum Ground Floor Foyer
15:45–16:15	Learning to Encode and Decode Quantum Information: Neural Network Approaches to Quantum Error Correction	Roberto Bondesan (Imperial College London)	G.07 Informatics Forum
16:15–16:45	Fast stabilizer state preparation via AI-optimized graph decimation arXiv:2603.17743	Matteo Puviani (Quantinuum)	G.07 Informatics Forum
16:45–17:00	Finishing Remarks	Joschka Roffe (University of Edinburgh) , Jonathan Pritchard (University of Strathclyde)	-