Name: Workshop on the intersections of Quantum Information Science and Nuclear Physics
Start: 2026-01-12T07:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-16T20:00:00-05:00
Location: No location set

Workshop on the intersections of Quantum Information Science and Nuclear Physics

from Monday, January 12, 2026 (7:00 AM) to Friday, January 16, 2026 (8:00 PM)

Monday, January 12, 2026

7:00 PM Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

8:00 AM Registration Opens
Registration Opens
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome Remarks (Hazel Sive, Dean of College of Science and Mathematics, UMass Boston)

8:45 AM Towards hybrid algorithms for hadronization in event generators - Yannick Meurice (University of Iowa)

9:30 AM Theory of the Th-229 nuclear clock: from ion-trap concept to solid-state platforms - Andrei Derevianko (University of Nevada, Reno)

10:00 AM Quantum Sensing of Fundamental Symmetry-Violating Nuclear Properties - David DeMille (Johns Hopkins University)

11:00 AM New frontier of quantum computing - Mikhail Lukin (Harvard University)

11:45 AM From Quantum Circuits to Quantum Agents: Towards Scalable and Self-Programming Quantum AI - Samuel Yen-Chi Chen (Wells Fargo)

12:30 PM Nuclear Physics with Rare Atoms and Molecules - Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz (MIT)
1:00 PM Lunch in Ballroom A (Campus Center)
Lunch in Ballroom A (Campus Center)
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM
1:15 PM Lunchtime talk - Update from NVIDIA Quantum Computing Research - Muyuan Li (NVIDIA)
Lunchtime talk - Update from NVIDIA Quantum Computing Research
- Muyuan Li (NVIDIA)
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM Lunch in Ballroom A (Campus Center)
Lunch in Ballroom A (Campus Center)
1:45 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 6:45 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Experimental Quantum Simulations of Nuclear and High Energy Phenomena - Christopher Monroe (Duke University)

3:15 PM Quantum Control and Cold Chemistry with Diatomic Molecules - Dan McCarron (University of Connecticut)

3:45 PM Real-time Dynamics of fermionic models on Superconducting Quantum Computers at the Utility Scale - Talal Ahmed Chowdhury (University of Kansas)

4:45 PM No-go Theorem for Environment-assisted Invariance Symmetry of Entanglement - Akira Sone (University of Massachusetts Boston)

5:15 PM Controlling and inducing strong correlations at twisted material interfaces - Pavel Volkov (University of Connecticut)

5:45 PM Panel Discussion: What Are the Right Problems for QIS in Nuclear Physics?
6:45 PM Adjourn and Dinner in Ballroom A (Campus Center)
Adjourn and Dinner in Ballroom A (Campus Center)
6:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

8:00 AM Registration Opens
Registration Opens
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
8:45 AM
8:45 AM - 1:45 PM
Contributions

8:45 AM DeMarco Group Research and the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park - Brian DeMarco (University of Illinois)

9:30 AM Analog Quantum Simulation of Topological Lattice Models with a Parametric Cavity - Christopher Wilson (University of Waterloo)

10:00 AM Programmable neutral atom quantum computers for nuclear physics - Alexei Bylinskii (QuEra Computing Inc.)

11:00 AM Neutral-atom arrays for cavity QED and quantum computing - Vladan Vuletic (MIT)

11:45 AM Parton Distributions on a Quantum Computer - Jiunn-Wei Chen (National Taiwan University)

12:30 PM Quantum-amplified global-phase spectroscopy on an optical clock transition - Simone Colombo (University of Connecticut)
1:00 PM Lunch at Beacon Café
Lunch at Beacon Café
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Can Bose-Einstein condensates modify radioactive decay of atoms - Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT)

3:15 PM Quantum Diamond Sensors Best of Both Worlds - Ronald Walsworth (University of Maryland)

3:45 PM Quantum Sensing Using a Transportable Optical Lattice Clock - Roger Brown (NIST)

4:45 PM New tools for resource-efficient quantum simulation of nuclear physics with neutral atom arrays - Jake Covey (U. of Illinois and U. of Chicago)

5:15 PM Towards an all solid-state VUV CW Laser at 148.4nm for the 229Th Nuclear Clock - Keerthan Subramanian (University of Mainz)

5:45 PM Panel Discussion: From Algorithms to Hardware: What Must Exist for QIS to Impact Nuclear Physics?
6:45 PM Adjourn and Workshop Banquet at the University Dining Club (Pamir Alpay, Provost, U. of Connecticut))
Adjourn and Workshop Banquet at the University Dining Club (Pamir Alpay, Provost, U. of Connecticut))
6:45 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday, January 15, 2026

8:00 AM Registration Opens
Registration Opens
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
8:45 AM
8:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

8:45 AM Nuclear Clocks and Quantum Memories with hard X-Ray Photons - Olga Kocharovskaya (Texas A&M University)

9:30 AM Solid state nuclear clock - Koji Yoshimura (Okayama University)

10:00 AM Adaptive Non-local Observables on Quantum Neural Networks - Huan-Hsin Tseng (BNL)

11:00 AM Quantum algorithms for nuclear lattice simulations - Dean Lee (Michigan State University)

11:45 AM Nuclear clocks: What now? - Eric Hudson (UCLA)

12:30 PM Quantum Sensing Radiative Decays of Neutrinos and Dark Matter Particles - Myeonghun Park (SeoulTech)
1:00 PM Lunch at Beacon Café
Lunch at Beacon Café
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 6:15 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Neutral-atom quantum computing with nuclear spin qubits - Matthew Norcia (Atom Computing, Inc)

3:15 PM Machine Learning for Quantum Computing and Quantum Machine Learning - Fan Chen (Indiana University Bloomington)

3:45 PM Quantum simulation on curved spacetime - Kazuki Ikeda (UMass Boston)

4:45 PM Addressing the Current Challenges of Quantum Machine Learning through Multi-Chip Ensembles - Junghoon Justin Park (Seoul National University)

5:15 PM Single atom tweezer array platform for open quantum system physics - Hoang Van Do (University of Massachusetts Boston)

5:45 PM Lattice field theory for superconducting circuits - Neill Warrington (MIT)
6:15 PM Dinner at Beacon Café
Dinner at Beacon Café
6:15 PM - 8:15 PM
Friday, January 16, 2026
8:45 AM
8:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Contributions

8:45 AM Quantum effects in strong interaction physics - Christian Weiss (Jefferson Lab)

9:30 AM Quantum metrology of macroscopic nuclear spin ensembles - Alexander Sushkov (Johns Hopkins University)

10:15 AM Unleashing Analog Quantum Computing - Susanne Yelin (Harvard University)

11:15 AM TBD - Ike Chuang (MIT)

12:00 PM Portable trapped ion quantum computer/clock system - Robert Niffenegger (UMass Amherst)

12:30 PM TBD - Eric Holland (Keysight Inc.)

1:00 PM Closing Remarks
1:15 PM Lunch at Beacon Café (lunch boxes)
Lunch at Beacon Café (lunch boxes)
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

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