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INQA Conference 2024

Towards Quantum Advantage in Real-World Applications

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INQA Conference 2024 Programme 

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16 - 18 October 2024 in Tokyo, Japan

Start time: 9am JST

End time: 6pm JST

Banquet dinner: 6pm, October 17 2024 

Quantum Annealing is a computational method to solve combinatorial optimization and sampling problems. The INQA 2024 conference will cover various topics related to quantum annealing, focusing on new hardware platforms and novel optimization algorithms and their implementation. The conference aims to bring together leading researchers from academia and industry to share their latest findings and discuss future directions for quantum annealing research. 

Location: The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (MIRAIKAN), 2-3-6 Aomi Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Conference room: MIRAIKAN hall (7th floor) https://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/visit/docs/mirakan_floorguide_2024_en.pdf

MIRAIKAN Website: https://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/en/

Directions to MIRAIKAN: https://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/en/visit/location-directions/

Invited speakers

  • Johan Åkerman (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
  • Mohammad Amin (D-Wave Systems, Canada)
  • Valentina Brosco (CNR, Italy)
  • Nick Chancellor (Newcastle University, UK)
  • Constantin Dalyac (Pasqal, France)
  • Marta Estarellas (Qilimanjaro, Spain)
  • Takuya Hatomura (NTT, Japan)
  • Erika Kawakami (RIKEN, Japan)
  • Tadashi Kadowaki (AIST/DENSO, Japan)
  • Helmut Katzgraber (Amazon Web Service, USA)
  • Chris Kim (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • Kazue Kudo (Ochanomizu University, Japan)
  • Daniel Lidar (USC, USA)
  • Alicia Magann (Sandia National Labs, USA)
  • Yuki Minamoto (Fixstars Amplify, Japan)
  • Yasunobu Nakamura (RIKEN, Japan)
  • Mikel Sanz (UPV/EHU, Spain)

Important deadlines

  • Registration and abstract submission opens August 29 2024
  • Abstract submission deadline: September 11 2024
  • Registration closes: October 4 2024 

Management board

  • Paul Warburton (UCL, UK)
  • Pol Forn-Díaz (IFAE, Spain)
  • Shiro Kawabata (Hosei University/AIST, Japan)
  • Viv Kendon (University of Strathclyde, UK)
  • Jamie Kerman (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)

Contact

If you have any enquires about the conference please email the organising team.