QCE20: IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing & Engineering Virtual Conference Virtual Denver - Broomfield, CO, United States, October 12-16, 2020

Conference website	https://qce.quantum.ieee.org/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qce20

Virtual IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing & Engineering (QCE20), IEEE Quantum Week 2020 for short, aims to be a leading venue for presenting high-quality original research, ground-breaking innovations, and compelling insights in quantum computing, engineering, and technologies.

IEEE Quantum Week is a multidisciplinary quantum computing venue where attendees will have the unique opportunity to discuss challenges and opportunities with quantum researchers, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, developers, students, practitioners, educators, programmers, and newcomers.

QCE20 invites contributions and participation from the international quantum community to form a world-class program. The multi-faceted event will include a series of keynotes, technical paper presentations, technical briefings, informative tutorials throughout the week, community-building workshops, posters, networking receptions, and exhibits featuring the latest technologies and accomplishments from the world’s leading vendors, research organizations, and universities.

Technical papers are peer-reviewed and can be on any topic related to quantum computing, engineering, and technologies. IEEE Quantum Week includes the following technical paper tracks:

• Quantum Communications, Sensing, Cryptography
• Quantum Photonics and Optics
• Quantum Computing
• Quantum Algorithms & Information
• Quantum Applications & Simulating Nature
• Quantum Engineering
• Quantum Benchmarks & Measurements
• Quantum Education

Papers accepted by IEEE Quantum Week 2020 will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The best papers will be invited to the journals IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering (TQE) and ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing (TQC).

Submission Guidelines

Technical Paper Submissions

Call for technical paper submissions

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. For all paper tracks, IEEE Quantum Week 2020 invites papers of the following types:

Technical papers (at most 10 pages main text, inclusive of figures, tables, appendices; plus up to two additional pages for references). Technical papers should: (1) clearly describe innovative and original research, or (2) report a survey on a research topic in the field.

New Ideas and Emergent Results (NIER) papers (at most 6 pages + 1 page of references). NIER papers should describe novel and promising ideas and/or techniques that are in an early stage of development. To that end, NIER papers will be reviewed with dedicated review guidelines.

Experience & application papers (at most 6 pages + 1 page references). An experience paper should describe the experiences gained from applying/evaluating quantum computing and engineering research results in practice. It is encouraged that the partners from both practice and research join the effort as co-authors and that the paper reflects the perspective of both sides. The papers should emphasize the value of the experience for the community – especially the lessons learned due to the transfer of research results to practice.

Artifact papers (at most 6 pages + 1 page references). Artifacts describe model problems, exemplars, or useful sets of resources for the broader quantum computing and engineering community.

Submission Deadline ─ Full technical paper submissions: Extended to Fri, May 22, 2020 due to the coronavirus disrupting our lives.

Note: While the early submission of a title and abstract is optional, we still ENCOURAGE you to do so to help in our planning.  This information is useful for assuring a timely review. Thank you to the authors who already submitted abstracts and/or papers.

Program Board Contact: Greg Byrd, North Carolina State University — gbyrd@ncsu.edu

Posters

Call for poster submissions

The IEEE Quantum Week Posters program presents excellent opportunities for graduate students, undergraduate students, researchers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, and start-ups to showcase their work and engage with the international quantum computing R&D community during the IEEE Quantum Week Exhibits. Posters are intended to stimulate discussions of recent advances, experiences, and challenges in quantum computing and engineering.

The IEEE Quantum Week Posters program presents excellent opportunities for practitioners, researchers, graduate students, entrepreneurs, and start-ups to showcase their work and engage with the international quantum computing R&D community during the IEEE Quantum Week Exhibits.

Poster abstract submissions: July 31, 2020 — you are encouraged to submit abstracts early

Full poster submissions: July 31, 2020

Poster contact: Ulrike Stege, University of Victoria — ustege@uvic.ca

Tutorials

Call for tutorial proposal submissions

The shortage of skilled labor is one of the quantum computing sector’s greatest challenges. The week-long tutorials program, with tutorials by leading experts, is aimed squarely at workforce development and training considerations. The tutorials are ideally suited to develop quantum champions for industry, academia, government, and build expertise for emerging quantum ecosystems. IEEE Quantum Week will cover a broad range of topics in quantum computing and technologies including a lineup of fantastic hands-on tutorials on programming and applications.

Each tutorial at IEEE Quantum Week 2020 is one day long (i.e., there are no half-day or two-day tutorials). The tutorials are scheduled from 10:30-17:00, including a lunch break of 90 mins and an afternoon nutrition break of 30 mins. Thus, tutorials must last 4.5 hours (i.e., 3 sessions of 90 mins).

Tutorial abstract submissions: Extended to Apr 3, 2020 — please submit abstracts early

Full tutorial proposal submissions: Extended to Apr 3, 2020

Tutorial contact: Scott Koziol, Baylor University — scott_koziol@baylor.edu

Workshops

Call for workshop proposal submissions

IEEE Quantum Week 2020 Workshops provide forums for small-group (i.e., 20–50 participants) discussions on topics in quantum research, practice, education, and applications. Workshops provide opportunities for researchers, practitioners, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, developers, students, educators, programmers, and newcomers to exchange and discuss scientific and engineering ideas at an early stage before they have matured to warrant a conference or journal publication. In this manner, an IEEE Quantum Week workshop serves as an incubator for a scientific community to form a research roadmap or share a research agenda. Workshops are the key to sustaining, growing and evolving IEEE Quantum Week in the future. Note IEEE Quantum Week is a highly multidisciplinary quantum computing venue where you can discuss challenges and opportunities with quantum researchers, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, developers, students, practitioners, educators, programmers, and newcomers.

Each workshop at IEEE Quantum Week 2020 is one day long (i.e., there are no half-day or two-day workshops). The workshops are scheduled from 10:30-17:00, including a lunch break of 90 mins and an afternoon nutrition break of 30 mins. Thus, workshops must last 4.5 hours (i.e., 3 sessions of 90 mins). Participation in an IEEE Quantum Week 2020 workshop is preferably open.

Workshop abstract submissions: Extended to Apr 3, 2020 — please submit abstracts early

Full workshop proposal submissions: Extended to Apr 3, 2020

Workshop contact: Travis Humble, Oak Ridge National Laboratory — humblets@ornl.gov

Panels

Call for panel proposal submissions

IEEE Quantum Week 2020 aims to facilitate enlightening and impactful discussions among experts on different perspectives of quantum computing and engineering. Suggested panel topics include but are not limited to hardware-software co-design, hybrid computing, NISQ applications, post-quantum cryptography, quantum programming education & training, quantum workforce training, or frontiers of quantum information science & algorithms. The goal is to gather diverse researchers and practitioners in sharing their insightful perspectives and engaging the broader community in a dialogue. The length of each panel session is 45 minutes.

Panel abstract submissions: Extended to June 19, 2020 — please submit abstracts early

Full panel proposal submissions: Extended to June 19, 2020

Panel contact: Erik DeBenedictis, IEEE Quantum Initiative — erikdebenedictis@gmail.com

 

List of Topics

IEEE Quantum Week 2020 Topics include, but are not limited to:

Quantum Computing — Quantum programming, software engineering; quantum advantage; development environments, languages & tools; software stack & infrastructure; hybrid computing; adiabatic computing; hardware-software co-design; quantum simulators; checking quantum computersQuantum Algorithms, Quantum Computation & Quantum Information — Quantum information science; NISQ algorithms; quantum advantage; algorithms & complexity; theoretical & empirical algorithm analysis; adiabatic annealing; Hamiltonian dynamicsQuantum Applications & Simulating Nature — NISQ applications; simulations of chemical, biological & physical systems; quantum chemistry & materials; optimization problems—transportation, supply chain & logistics; AI and decision making; medicine & precision health; financial modeling, services & portfolio management; manufacturing & mining; machine learning & big data analyticsQuantum Engineering — Quantum computers, hardware & NISQ; superconducting & trapped ion circuits; topological& silicon spin qubits; quantum dots; connectivity & topology; connectivity & topology, quantum error correctionQuantum Benchmarks & Measurements — Quantum measures & benchmarks, quantum volume & fidelity, quantum metrology; gate & measurement errors, connectivity & topology, quantum error correctionQuantum Communications, Sensing & Cryptography — Communications theory; quantum internet; quantum signal processing; quantum error correction & mitigation; coding theory; quantum security & privacy; quantum cryptography & quantum key distribution (QKD), post-quantum cryptography; teleportationQuantum Photonics & Optics — Quantum photonics & optics; photonics information technologies; photonics quantum computing; quantum integrated photonics; quantum photonics devices; optical quantum communications theory; optical coherence; silicon quantum photonicsQuantum Education & Training — Ramping up quantum workforce; undergraduate & graduate courses in quantum computing, information science, algorithms, applications; quantum standards; quantum teachers training; quantum summer schools; quantum ecosystems 

Committees

Technical Program Board

• Technical Program Board Chair
  • Greg Byrd, North Carolina State University
• Program Track Co-Chair Quantum Communications, Sensing, Cryptography
  • Dana Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder & ColdQuanta
  • Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton
• Program Track Co-Chair Quantum Photonics and Optics
  • Lukas Chrostowski, Univ of British Columbia
  • Colin McKinstrie, LGS Innovations
  • Kartik Srinivasan, NIST
• Program Track Co-Chair Quantum Computing
  • Andrew Cross, IBM Research
  • Travis Humble, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Program Track Co-Chair Quantum Algorithms & Information
  • Scott Pakin, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Program Track Co-Chair Quantum Applications and Simulating Nature
  • Matthias Troyer, Microsoft Research
  • Nathan Wiebe, University of Washington
• Program Track Co-Chair Quantum Engineering
  • Thomas Ohki, Raytheon BBN
  • William D. Oliver, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• Program Track Co-Chair Quantum Benchmarks & Measurements
  • Joseph Emerson Quantum Benchmark
  • Catherine McGeoch, D-Wave Systems
• Program Track Co-Chair Quantum Education
  • Scott Koziol, Baylor University
  • Heather Lewandowski University of Colorado Boulder

Organizing Committee

• General Chair
  • Hausi Muller, University of Victoria
• Finance Chair
  • Candace Culhane, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Panels & Technical Briefings Co-Chair
  • Erik DeBenedictis, IEEE Quantum Initiative
• Workshops Co-Chairs
  • Travis Humble, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Kristel Michielsen, Forschungszentrum Jülich
• Tutorials Co-Chairs
  • Scott Koziol, Baylor University
  • Bruce Kraemer, IEEE Quantum Initiative
• Posters Co-Chairs
  • Andreas Bergen, engageLively, Inc.
  • Ulrike Stege, University of Victoria
• Sponsorships & Exhibits Co-Chairs
  • Candace Culhane, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Michelle Tubb, IEEE Computer Society
• Operations Managers
  • Carmen Saliba, IEEE Computer Society
  • Terence Martinez, IEEE Quantum Initiative

Steering Committee

• Hausi Muller, University of Victoia
• Greg Byrd, North Carolina State University
• Candace Culhane, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Travis Humble, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Erik DeBenedictis, IEEE Quantum Initiative
• Scott Koziol, Baylor University
• Bruce Kraemer, IEEE Quantum Initiative
• Catherine McGeoch, D-Wave Systems
• Tom Conte, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton
• Oleg Mukhanov, SeeQC, Inc.
• Amr Helmy, University of Toronto
• Elie Track, nVizix
• Terence Martinez, IEEE
• William Tonti, IEEE

Keynote Speakers

• Michelle Simmons, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia
• Jerry Chow, IBM Research, USA
• Anne Matsuura, Intel Labs, USA
• Alán Aspuru-Guzik, University of Toronto, Canada
• Krysta Svore, Microsoft Quantum, USA
• Patty Lee, Honeywell Quantum Solutions, USA
• Kae Nemoto, National Institute for Informatics (NII), Japan
• Jake Taylor, OSTP, QuICS, and NIST, USA
• Alexander Condello, D-Wave Systems, Canada
• Yu Chen, Google AI Quantum, USA

Publication

Papers accepted by IEEE Quantum Week 2020 will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

The best papers accepted to IEEE Quantum Week 2020 will be invited to the following journals:

• IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering (TQE)
• ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing (TQC)

Venue

The inaugural IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE 2020), or IEEE Quantum Week 2020, will be held on October 12-16, 2020 as a virtual or digital-only conference due to the COVID-19 situation.

Contact

For questions regarding paper submissions Technical Program Board Chair: Greg Byrd, North Carolina State University — gbyrd@ncsu.edu

IEEE Financial Sponsors

IEEE Quantum Week is financially co-sponsored by the following IEEE organizational units:

• IEEE Quantum Initiative (QI)
• IEEE Computer Society (CS)
• IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc)
• IEEE Photonics Society (PS)
• IEEE Council on Superconductivity (CSC)

Supporters and Patrons

The organizers of IEEE Quantum Week 2020 sincerely thank all our patron and supporter sponsors — IEEE financial co-sponsors and technical IEEE technical co-sponsors — for supporting our mission of building a premier meeting series of quantum minds and advance quantum computing, engineering, and technology. We deeply appreciate your leadership, support, and investment in the inaugural IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE).