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Resource-aware Quantum Benchmarking Symposium

Wednesday, April 22, 2026
9:30am to 3:00pm
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Gates-Thomas 135
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Join us for a symposium on quantum benchmarking with leading researchers in academia and the quantum industry!

9:30 - 9:45am Coffee Reception (235 Gates-Thomas)

9:45 - 10:00am Symposium Introduction

Austin Minnich (Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics; EAS Division Deputy Chair, Caltech)

10:00 - 10:30am TITLE TBD

Manuel Endres (Professor of Physics, Caltech)

10:30 - 11:00am Context‑Aware, Resource‑Conditioned Benchmarking of Neutral‑Atom Quantum Processors

Ramon Szmuk (Product Solutions Physicist, Quantum Machines)

11:00 - 11:30am Quantum Science and Technology with Rare-Earth Ions and Nano-photonics

Andrei Faraon (William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering; Fletcher Jones Foundation Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Caltech)

11:30am - 12:00pm From Hardware to Algorithms: Quantum Platforms for Near-Term Scientific and Engineering Impact

Roger Luo (Co-founder, Anyon Computing)

12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch (235 Gates-Thomas)

1:00 - 1:30pm Benchmarking a Spin-Based Quantum Sensor in a Two-Dimensional Material

Joonhee Choi (Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University)

1:30 - 2:00pm Quantum Simulation at the Classical Frontier: Benchmarking the Path to Advantage

Gavin Hartnett (Senior Lead Scientist and head of the Applications and Algorithms team, Q-CTRL)

2:00 - 2:30pm High-fidelity probing of magnons on a hybrid analog-digital quantum simulator

Trond Andersen (Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI)

2:30 - 3:00pm Measurement-induced entanglement phase transition on a superconducting quantum processor with mid-circuit readout

Austin Minnich (Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics; EAS Division Deputy Chair, Caltech)

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