2nd Annual Canadian Graduate Quantum Conference

2nd Annual Canadian Graduate Quantum Conference

Event held from June 3-6, 2019

From June 3^rd to 6^th, students from the University of Waterloo attended the annual week-long Canadian Graduate Quantum Conference, held this year in Sherbrooke, Quebec. The conference featured research talks by students primarily from quantum CFREF programs across Canada. On the opening day, Joseph Emerson, IQC faculty member, gave an introductory talk about TQT. Entrepreneurship, diversity and communications workshops took place throughout the week to aid in networking and to give participants the opportunity to form connections.

The conference included 75 participants from the Université de Sherbrooke, University of British Colombia, University of Ottawa, McGill University, and University of Waterloo presented on various topics. Participants from the University of Waterloo included:

Archana Tiwari, who presented on the observation of non-linear hall effect in two dimensional MoTe2

Nachiket Sherlekar, who presented on all-electric on-demand single photon source with high emission rate

Arash Ahmadi who presented on on-demand entangled photon pair generation

Meenu Kumari, who presented on untangling entanglement and chaos

Kristine Boone, who presented on randomized benchmarking under different gatesets

Shih-Chung Hung, who presented on progress towards quantum machine learning with microwave quantum optics

Hammam Qassim, who presented on Clifford recompilation for faster classical simulation of quantum circuits

Joshua Ruebeck, who presented on how epistemic interpretations of quantum theory have measurement problems

Aditya Jain, who presented on asymmetric broadcasting of quantum correlations

Carolyn Earnest, who presented on DEMUXYZ: a hardware efficient single qubit gate

Daniel Grimmer, who presented on collisional thermometry

Eduardo Barrera Ramirez, who presented on linear quantum dot arrays with simplified MOS geometry

Ian George, who presented on numerical calculations of finite key rate for general QKD protocols

Jeremy Bejanin, who presented on efficient TLS detection and estimation in superconducting qubits

Jeremy Flannery, who presented on single-photon switching inside a polarization-selective cavity

Nairong Hou, who presented on ESR characterization of LB film

Rahul Deshpande, who presented on dynamic nuclear polarization in phosphorous doped silicon

Rubayet Al Maruf, who presented on High Efficiency Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon

Detectors Integrated with Laser Written Waveguides

Shayan Majidy, who presented on Violation of augmented Leggett-Garg inequalities with continuous

in time velocity measurements

Shreyas Patankar, who presented on Heat localization in nanostructured materials studied using

ultrafast time-domain incandescence

Soumik Ghosh, who presented on the Complexity theoretic bounds for quantum classical games

Stefanie Beale, who presented on New and rigorous methods for decoding errors

Each panelist shared their research and participated in a follow-up discussion and Q&A after their presentations. We are grateful to all the presenters for sharing their expertise and knowledge, and for fostering an inspiring experience. TQT is also grateful to those who organized the conference and made it enjoyable and educational to all those who participated.