QCE23: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing & Engineering Hyatt Regency Bellevue on Seattle's Eastside Bellevue, WA, United States, September 17-22, 2023

Conference website	https://qce.quantum.ieee.org/2023/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qce23
Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline	April 10, 2023
Workshop Submission Deadline	April 10, 2023
Abstract registration deadline	May 1, 2023
Technical Paper Submission Deadline	May 3, 2023
Submission deadline	May 8, 2023
QSEEC Submission Deadline	June 1, 2023
Panel Submission Deadline	June 12, 2023
BoF Proposal Submission Deadline	July 17, 2023
Poster Submission Deadline	July 20, 2023
Student Volunteer Signup Deadline	August 31, 2023
Student Volunteer Signup Form	Student Volunteer Signup Form

The fourth IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing & Engineering (QCE23), IEEE Quantum Week 2023 for short, will be held at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue on Seattle's Eastside from Sunday, September 17 to Friday, September 22, 2023. IEEE Quantum Week aims to be a leading venue for presenting high-quality original research, ground-breaking innovations, and compelling insights in quantum computing and engineering.

IEEE Quantum Week 2023 is a multidisciplinary quantum computing venue where attendees have the opportunity to discuss challenges and opportunities with quantum researchers, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, developers, students, practitioners, educators, programmers, and newcomers. Quantum Week aims to exchange and share experiences, challenges, research results, innovations, applications, pathways, and enthusiasm on all aspects of quantum computing and engineering.

In 2022, the third IEEE Quantum Week received outstanding contributions from the international quantum community to form an exceptional program with 250+ hours of programming with 9 world-class Keynote speakers, 67 Technical Paper presentations, 59 innovative Posters, 13 stimulating Panels, 25 workforce-building Tutorials, 16 community-building Workshops, 5 Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, and over 40 exciting Exhibits featuring technologies from quantum companies, start-ups and research labs. The format of Quantum Week 2023 will be similar and held as an in-person event with a virtual component.

IEEE Quantum Week aims to showcase quantum research, practice, applications, education, and training including quantum information science, quantum algorithms, quantum hardware and software, qubit & control engineering technologies, hybrid quantum-classical technologies, quantum development kits, languages & intermediate representations, runtimes, dynamic circuits, software engineering methods & tools, benchmarks & performance metrics, integration of quantum computing and high-performance computing (HPC) architectures, simulating chemical, physical and biological systems, quantum optimization techniques, and quantum machine learning (QML).

Submission Guidelines and Deadlines

QCE23 invites contributions and participation from the international quantum community to form a world-class program. Contributions include Technical Papers for several paper tracks as well as proposals for Workshops, Tutorials, Panels, Posters and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions.

QCE23 Submission Deadlines including updates for all submission categories can be found here on the QCE23 website.

Technical Papers

IEEE Quantum Week aims to be a leading venue for presenting high-quality original research, ground-breaking innovations, and compelling insights in quantum computing and engineering. Technical papers are peer-reviewed, can be on any topic related to quantum computing and engineering, and will be considered by one of the following technical paper tracks. Technical papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another conference or journal.

Quantum Algorithms (QALG)

The theory of solving problems with quantum computers.

• Quantum information science
• Quantum algorithm structures and patterns
• Quantum algorithms and complexity
• New NISQ-friendly algorithms 
• Error correction and mitigation algorithms
• Fault-tolerant quantum algorithms
• Advances in hybrid variational algorithms
• Advances in hybrid QAOA algorithms
• New quantum solver approaches
• Quantum linear algebra
• Advances in tensor network algorithms
• Advances in encoding and learning algorithms
• Advances in Hamiltonian dynamics
• Quantum cryptography

Quantum Applications (QAPP)

The practice of solving problems with quantum computers.

• Road to quantum advantage
• Towards fault tolerance and realization of quantum error correction at the application level
• Quantum Machine Learning (QML) applications
• NISQ and fault-tolerant applications
• Quantum simulation of physical systems
• Applications — chemistry, machine learning, finance, optimization, biological sciences, and other science & engineering applications
• Applications of quantum annealing
• Integrated high-performance computing (HPC) and quantum applications
• Performance evaluation of quantum algorithms
• Optimization problems—transportation, supply chain & logistics
• Quantum AI & decision making
• Quantum medical applications & precision health applications
• Quantum DNA and protein sequencing
• Quantum finance

Quantum Technologies and Systems Engineering (QTEM)

The design and architecture of quantum technologies and systems engineering for computation and sensing

• Superconducting quantum technologies
• Quantum annealing technologies
• Trapped ion quantum technologies
• Photonic and optical quantum technologies
• Silicon quantum technologies
• Quantum dot technologies
• Neutral atom quantum technologies
• Topological quantum technologies
• Hardware-software stack for quantum annealers, trapped ions, superconducting, photonics, neutral atoms, and others
• Quantum characterization, verification & validation: benchmarking and tomography
• Qubit design and control
• Packaging and cooling
• Cryogenics
• Quantum electronics
• Pulse-level control of qubits
• Sensing and metrology
• Characterization and hardware mitigation of noise, state preparation and measurement error

Quantum System Software (QSYS)

The design, architecture, and operation of full-stack quantum computing systems.

• Full quantum software stack: compilers, runtimes, workflows, languages, transpilers, profilers
• Quantum programming, development kits (QDKs), test harnesses, debuggers
• Quantum languages and intermediate representations (IRs)
• Quantum simulators
• Quantum software engineering
• Software for co-design
• Hybrid quantum-classical systems
• Resource estimation
• Quantum control software
• Interfacing classical control and quantum hardware through software
• Error correction and fault-tolerant computing at the system software level
• Testing, validation, and verification of quantum programs and systems
• Benchmarking of quantum systems, quantum volume and other metrics
• Software techniques for error correction and noise mitigation
• Hardware-software stacks for error mitigation
• Quantum software in enterprise systems

Quantum Networking & Communications (QNET)

Quantum techniques and technologies for networking and communications.

• Quantum internet
• Quantum networking
• Quantum switches, routers, repeaters, and other hardware components
• Signal processing algorithms for quantum communication
• Optical quantum communications
• Intra-chip and inter-chip communication
• Secure communication in quantum networks
• Quantum cryptography, quantum key distribution (QKD)
• Post-quantum cryptography 
• Distributed quantum computing
• Cloud quantum computing

Technical Paper Types & Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are available:

• Full papers are 8-10 pages (including figures and tables and appendices), plus two additional pages for references. Full papers should fall into one of the following categories:
  1. Research papers (RESP) that describe the paper’s contributions and/or innovations as well as the research methods used.
  2. Survey papers (SURP) that describe a survey on a research topic in the fields of quantum computing and engineering.
• Short papers are 4-6 pages (including figures and tables and appendices), plus one additional page of references. Short papers should fall into one of the following categories:
  1. New Ideas and Emergent Results (NIER) papers describe novel and promising ideas and/or techniques that are in an early stage of development.
  2. Experience and Application (EXAP) papers 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 in the effort as co-authors and that the paper reflects the perspective of both sides. The papers should emphasize the value of the experience to the community.
  3. Artifact papers (ARTI) describe model problems, exemplars, or useful sets of resources for the broader quantum computing and engineering community.
• Submit your paper using EasyChair to one of the Paper Tracks (i.e., QALG, QAPP, QTEC, QSYS, or QNET) described above.
• Indicate the Paper Type (i.e., RESP, SURP, NIER, EXAP, ARTI) in the file name and description of your EasyChair submission.

Each technical paper must conform at the time of submission to the IEEE Formatting Instructions (i.e., title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type, LaTEX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf option). The submission must also comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship.

For more information about QCE23 Technical Paper submissions, please refer to QCE23 Technical Paper's CFP webpage including contact information on the QCE23 Technical Paper Tracks co-chairs.

Workshops

IEEE Quantum Week 2023 Workshops provide forums for group discussions (i.e., 20–50 participants) 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. Established Quantum Week Workshops may include a paper track.

Each workshop at IEEE Quantum Week 2023 is one day long (i.e., there are no half-day workshops). A QCE23 workshop must last 4.5 hours (i.e., 3 sessions of 90 mins with breaks in between the three sessions). Participation in an IEEE Quantum Week 2023 workshop should preferably be open to all registered attendees. For more information about QCE23 Workshop Proposal submissions, please refer to QCE23 Workshop's CFP webpage including contact information on the QCE23 Workshops co-chairs.

Tutorials

The shortage of skilled labour 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 for developing quantum champions for industry, academia, and government, and building expertise for emerging quantum ecosystems. IEEE Quantum Week 2023 will cover a broad range of topics in quantum computing and technologies including a lineup of fantastic hands-on tutorials on programming and applications. 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 tutorial at QCE23 is 3 hours (two sessions of 90 mins). For more information about Tutorial Proposal submissions, please refer to QCE23 Tutorial's CFP webpage including contact information on the QCE23 Tutorials co-chairs.

Panels

IEEE Quantum Week 2023 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 quantum technologies, quantum start-ups, hardware-software co-design, hybrid quantum-classical computing, 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 45-90 minutes. Each panel at QCE23 is 45-90 minutes. For more information about Panel Proposal submissions, please refer to QCE23 Panel's CFP webpage including contact information on the QCE23 Panels co-chairs.

Posters

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 on recent advances, experiences, and challenges in quantum computing and engineering.

Poster presentations will be scheduled in the Posters Exhibit space at QCE23. For more information about QCE23 Poster Proposal submissions, please refer to QCE23 Poster's CFP webpage including contact information on the QCE23 Posters co-chairs.

Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) Sessions

QCE23 Birds-of-a-Feather sessions or BoFs are informal gatherings of persons interested in a particular topic. The IEEE Quantum Week program will feature scheduled BoF Sessions addressing timely topics of interest in Quantum Computing and Engineering.

BoF sessions at QCE23 are lively discussions of 45 minutes. For more information about BoF proposal submissions, please refer to QCE23 BoF's CFP webpage including contact information on the QCE23 BoFs co-chairs.

Publication

• Papers accepted to and presented at IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing & Engineering (QCE23) will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library and IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) in September 2023.
• The best QCE23 papers will be recommended to the journals IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering (TQE) and ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing (TQC).
• QCE23 will award Best Paper Awards for the Technical Program Tracks. The QCE23 Best Paper Awards will be presented in the plenary sessions before the keynote presentations on the day the respective paper is being presented.

Committees

Organizing Committee

• General Chair:
  • Hausi Müller, University of Victoria
• Finance Chair:
  • Greg Byrd, NC State University
• Event Program Manager:
  • Carmen Saliba, IEEE Computer Society
• IEEE Quantum Initiative Program Director:
  • Terence Martinez, IEEE Future Directions
• Exhibits & Sponsorship Manager & Fulfillment:
  • Regan Pickett, IEEE Computer Society
  • Amir Draquez, IEEE Computer Society
• Technical Program Board Chairs:
  • Yuri Alexeev, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
  • Andrea Delgado, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
• Workshops Chairs:
  • Stefan Eidenbenz, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
  • Luu Nguyen, PsiQuantum
• Tutorials Chairs:
  • Prasanna Date, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
  • Huiyang Zhou, NC State University
• Panels Chairs:
  • Candace Culhane, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
  • Travis Humble, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
• Posters Chairs:
  • Sebastian Feld, TU Delft
  • Ulrike Stege, University of Victoria
• Birds-of-a-Feather Chairs:
  • Natalie Brown, Quantinuum
  • Reena Dayal, Quantum Ecosystems Technology Council of India (QUETCI)
• Standards Chairs
  • Bruce Kraemer, IEEE Quantum
  • Terril Frantz, IEEE Quantum
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Chair
  • Marisa Brazil, Arizona State University
• Publications Chairs:
  • Scott Koziol, Baylor University
  • Patrick Kellenberger, IEEE Computer Society
• Publicity Chairs:
  • Rafael Sotelo, Universidad de Montevideo
  • Katherine Mansfield, IEEE Computer Society
  • Terence Martinez, IEEE Quantum
  • Andy Chen, Redds Capital
  • Reena Dayal, Quantum Ecosystems Technology Council of India (QUETCI)
  • Sebastian Feld, TU Delft
  • Enrico Prati, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
  • Araceli Venegas-Gomez, QURECA
  • Norha Villegas, Icesi University
  • Elena Yndurain, QunaSys
• Marketing & Communications Manager:
  • Katherine Mansfield, IEEE Computer Society
• Registration Manager:
  • Tricia Yamaguchi, IEEE Computer Society
• A/V & Virtual Platform Manager:
  • Steve Woods, IEEE Computer Society

Technical Program Tracks

• Technical Program Board Chairs:
  • Yuri Alexeev, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
  • Andrea Delgado, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
• Track Chairs:
  • Quantum Algorithms (QALG)
    • Bert de Jong, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
    • Susan Mniszewski, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
  • Quantum Applications (QAPP)
    • Laura Schulz, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)
    • Sofia Vallecorsa, CERN
  • Quantum Technologies and Systems Engineering (QTEM)
    • Michael Brodsky, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
    • Silvia Zorzetti, Fermilab SQMS
  • Quantum System Software (QSYS)
    • Weiwen Jiang, George Mason University
    • Michal Stechly, PsiQuantum
  • Quantum Networking & Communications (QNET)
    • Panagiotis Spentzouris, Fermilab
    • Martin Suchara, AWS Braket

Venue

IEEE Quantum Week 2023 will be held at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue on Seattle's Eastside from Sunday, September 17 to Friday, September 22, 2023.b

Contact

Questions about submissions regarding paper or proposal submissions should be emailed to the respective co-chairs mentioned above. Other questions about QCE23 or IEEE Quantum can be directed as follows:

• IEEE QCE23 General Chair, Hausi Müller, University of Victoria — hausimuller@gmail.com
• IEEE QCE23 Finance Chair Greg Byrd, NC State University — gbyrd@ncsu.edu
• IEEE QCE23 Meeting Manager Carmen Saliba, IEEE Computer Society — csaliba@computer.org
• IEEE Quantum Initiative & Quantum Program Manager Terence Martinez — t.c.martinez@ieee.org

Sponsors

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

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

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

• IEEE Technology & Engineering Management Society (TEMS)
• IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (EPS)
• IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS)
• IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS)
• IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc)
• IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES)