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TartanQEC schedule for 24–26 June 2026

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    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

    Modeling and Benchmarking Early Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers

    Jordan Hines (Sandia National Laboratories)

    G.07 Informatics Forum

    Chutes and Ladders: Dynamical Automorphisms via the ZX-Calculus

    Michael Vasmer (Inria Paris)

    G.07 Informatics Forum

    Coffee Break

    Informatics Forum Ground Floor Foyer

    10:45–11:15
    11:15–11:45

    The Walking Cat Architecture

    Mark Webster (IonQ)

    G.07 Informatics Forum

    11:45–12:15

    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

    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

    Logical gates on Floquet codes via folds and twists

    Bhargavi Jonnadula (Nu Quantum Ltd)

    G.07 Informatics Forum

    15:00–15:30

    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

    21:00–01:00

    Committee Room, Teviot Row House

    Day 2 | Thursday 25th June 2026

    08:30–09:00

    Coffee & Registration

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    Informatics Forum Ground Floor Foyer

    09:00–10:00

    Riverlane Tutorial

    Adrien Suau (Riverlane)

    10:00–10:30

    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

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

    Peter Shanahan (University of Edinburgh / Alice & Bob)

    G.07 Informatics Forum

    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

    Bridging Quantum Error Correction and Mitigation

    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

    Paul Hilaire (Télécom Paris)

    G.07 Informatics Forum

    15:00–15:30

    Achieving Thresholds via Standalone Belief Propagation on Surface Codes

    Alexandru Paler (Aalto)

    G.07 Informatics Forum

    Coffee Break

    Informatics Forum Ground Floor Foyer

    15:30–16:00
    16:00–16:30

    Tsim: Fast Universal Simulator for Quantum Error Correction

    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

    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 & Drinks Reception

    17:00–18:30

    Informatics Forum Ground Floor

    Buffet Dinner

    18:30–20:00

    Informatics Forum Ground Floor

    Day 3 | Friday 26th June 2026

    08:30–09:00

    Coffee & Registration

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    Informatics Forum Ground Floor Foyer

    09:00–10:00

    Quantum Error Correction with Superconducting Circuits

    Andreas Wallraff (ETH Zurich)

    G.07 Informatics Forum

    Coffee Break

    Informatics Forum Ground Floor Foyer

    10:00–10:30

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

    Josh Viszlai (Infleqtion)

    G.07 Informatics Forum

    11:00–11:30

    Architecting the Path to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers: A Systems and Compilation Perspective

    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

    12:00–13:45
    13:45–14:15

    Resource-adaptive distributed stabilizer measurement via very noisy Bell pairs

    Linnea Grans-Samuelsson (University of Oxford)

    G.07 Informatics Forum

    14:15–14:45

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

    Francisco Garcia-Herrero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

    G.07 Informatics Forum

    14:45–15:15

    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

    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)