The workshop takes place from 11 to 15 November 2024 at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and is organized by Jonas Helsen (QuSoft/CWI) and Markus Heinrich (HHU Düsseldorf/U Cologne).
We are full and do no longer accept new participants.
This workshop aims at bringing together a small group of people with different backgrounds and a common interest in random circuits. The workshop will feature some talks, but will also leave plenty of time for discussions and spontaneous sessions. We want to create a vivid atmosphere which will ideally spark many new ideas and collaborations. The main topics are:
| Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | reception + registration | sessions / discussions | sessions / discussions | sessions / discussions | sessions / discussions |
| 11:00 | welcome + morning session | morning session | morning session | morning session | morning session |
| 11:15 | Pieter Claeys Random circuits and approximate designs in many-body dynamics |
Tobias Haug Pseudorandomness and Clifford-enhanced MPS |
Michał Oszmaniec Anti-concentration of bosonic/fermion RQC |
Tommy Schuster Random unitaries in extremely low depth QuSoft seminar |
Nobuyuki Yoshioka Symmetric Clifford group and its application in quantum computing |
| 12:30 | lunch | lunch | lunch | lunch | lunch |
| 13:30 | sessions / discussions | sessions / discussions | sessions / discussions | sessions / discussions | sessions / discussions (as needed) |
| 15:00 | Jonas Haferkamp Incompressibility and spectral gaps of random circuits |
Yosuke Mitsuhashi Unitary designs in symmetric quantum circuits |
Soumik Ghosh Anti-Concentration for the Unitary Haar Measure and Applications to Random Quantum Circuits |
Ryotaro Suzuki More global randomness from less random local gates |
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| 16:15 | sessions / discussions | sessions / discussions | sessions / discussions | discussions | |
| 17:00 | social evening |
The workshop will start on Monday at 11:00 with a morning session. Please come at least 30 min earlier for registration. There will also be a reception and coffee from 9:30 on, for those arriving early.
The daily morning session shall be used by the participants to self-organize the flexible parts of the program (in blue): Feel free to suggest topics for discussion, organize your own thematic session or additional talks, and propose (evening) activities. There are seminar rooms and discussion corners available to be used.
Scheduled talks (in green) take about 45 min and leave plenty of time for questions and discussions.
The workshop takes place at CWI, the Dutch research institute for mathematics and computer science, located in Amsterdam's Science Park. Please consult the CWI website for detailed directions.
We have arranged the accommodation of participants in two nearby hotels (The Manor and Hotel Casa) and participants are informed a few weeks prior to arrival about their hotel. In case of questions, please contact Carla van Asperen.
Amsterdam has a large international airport (Schiphol) with direct flights to many destinations worldwide, and can also be reached by train from many major cities in Europe (Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt).
How to get to ...
Public transport in Amsterdam works very well and can be navigated using Google Maps or GVB's journey planner. Payment is simplest (and in most cases cheapest) by checking in and out with your contactless credit/debit card (or your mobile phone using Google or Apple Pay). This means that if you enter or exit a station, you have to hold your card against the reader at the gates to open them. The price will be calculated automatically based on the travelled distance (it is comparably cheap). The same principle holds both for metro and for trains. For trams and busses, you have to check in or out if you enter or exit the vehicle, respectively. If you have to transit, you first check out and then check back in. See OVpay for more information and a nice video explanation.
Some credit cards do not work with the system (e.g. because the banks disabled this feature). In this case, you may still add your credit card to Google or Apple Pay and use your phone instead. Alternatively, you may buy an electronic ticket online, or a paper ticket at a vending machine. Paper tickets are however relatively expensive, especially for single trips. There's also the possibility to get a multi-day pass, in case you want to travel often.
Important: Do not forget to check out! You may be charged extra in this case.
Note that catered lunch will be provided on all days. Here are some alternative options around the campus.
We have also compiled some dinner recommendations, mostly in Amsterdam-Oost (East). There you will also find plenty of additional options, e.g. in the Indische Buurt (around Javastraat), around Linnaeusstraat, or along the Amstel river.
Some more recommendations: