Program

Below you can find an overview of the conference schedule. Here is the full schedule in table formatting.

Monday, August 17th Tuesday, August 18th Wednesday, August 19th Thursday, August 20th Friday, August 21st
8:50 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 10:15 Long Plenary Talks Long Plenary Talks Long Plenary Talks Long Plenary Talks Long Plenary Talks
10:15 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 11:55 Short Plenary Talks Short Plenary Talks Industry Session Short Plenary Talk Business Meeting
11:55 – 12:20 Conference Photo
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 14:55 Parallel Sessions Parallel Sessions Parallel Sessions Parallel Sessions
14:30 – 16:10		 Parallel Sessions
14:55 – 15:20
15:20 – 15:45
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break Coffee Break
16:15 – 16:40 Parallel Sessions Parallel Sessions Parallel Sessions
16:15 – 17:05		 Parallel Sessions
16:15 – 17:05
16:40 – 17:05 Coffee Break
17:05 – 17:30 TBA Goodbye!
Poster Session
17:30 – 19:30 		Boat Tour
17:30 – 18:30
Conference Dinner
19:00 onwards


Monday, August 17th
8:50 – 9:30 Registration
Long plenary talks
9:30 – 10:15 Alex Maltesson, Ludvig Rodung, Niklas Budinger, Giulia Ferrini, Cameron Calcluth Equivalence of continuous- and discrete-variable gate-based quantum computers with finite energy
10:15 – 11:00 Raphaël Mothe, Jessica Bavaresco Efficient quantum-circuit simulation of classical control of causal order
Coffee break
Short plenary talks
11:30 – 11:55 Vinicius Pretti Rossi, Beata Zjawin, Roberto D. Baldijão, David Schmid, John H. Selby, Ana Belén Sainz How typical is contextuality?
11:55 – 12:20 Dichuan Gao, Razin A. Shaikh, Aleks Kissinger Graphical algebraic geometry: from ideals and varieties to qudit ZH completeness
Lunch break
Parallel A Parallel B Parallel C
14:30 – 14:55 Yìlè Yīng, Maria Ciudad Alanon, Daniel Centeno, Jacopo Surace, Marina Maciel Ansanelli, Ruizhi Liu, David Schmid, Robert Spekkens On whether quantum theory needs complex numbers: the foil theories perspective Tomoaki Kawano, Ryo Kashima Restricted negation in orthomodular logic Alexandre Clément A complete equational theory for real-Clifford+CH quantum circuits
14:55 – 15:20 Timothée Hoffreumon, Mischa P. Woods On the experimental falsification of real QT / A real matrix theory consistent with QT (merged) Alexandru Baltag, Sonja Smets Logic meets Wigner's friend (and their friends) Xiaoning Bian, Sarah Meng Li, Neil J. Ross, John van de Wetering, Yuming Zhao A complete and natural rule set for multi-qudit Clifford circuits in all odd prime dimensions
15:20 – 15:45 Roberto D. Baldijão, Marco Erba, David Schmid, John Selby, Ana Belén Sainz Tomographically-nonlocal entanglement Bert Lindenhovius, Vladimir Zamdzhiev Operator spaces, linear logic and the Heisenberg–Schrödinger duality of quantum theory Colin Blake Completeness for prime-dimensional phase-affine circuits
Coffee break
16:15 – 16:40 Beata Zjawin, Marina Maciel Ansanelli, David Schmid, Yìlè Yīng, John H. Selby, Ciarán M. Gilligan-Lee, Ana Belén Sainz, Robert Spekkens The resource theory of causal influence and knowledge of causal influence Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan, Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay, Robin Cockett Generalized inverses of quantum channels: a categorical perspective Fedor Kuyanov, Aleks Kissinger Efficient classical simulation of low-rank-width quantum circuits using ZX-calculus
16:40 – 17:05 Leonardo Vaglini, Nasra Daher Ahmed, Ravi Kunjwal Causal inequalities witness non-stabilizerness without magic Andre Kornell, Bert Lindenhovius The category of quantum graphs is closed Kwok Ho Wan, Zhenghao Zhong, Ainhoa Zapirain Simulating magic state cultivation with few Clifford terms
17:05 – 17:30 Carla Ferradini, Giulia Mazzola, V. Vilasini Emergent causal order and time direction: bridging causal models and tensor networks James Hefford Nuclearity and trace in monoidal bicategories with application to extended CFTs Mark Koch Classical Clifford+T sampling without computing marginals
Tuesday, August 18th
Long plenary talks
9:30 – 10:15 Maximilian Rüsch, Aleks Kissinger, Benjamin Rodatz / Benjamin Rodatz, Boldizsár Poór, Aleks Kissinger Completeness for fault equivalence of Clifford ZX diagrams / Fault tolerance by construction
10:15 – 11:00 Samson Abramsky, Rui Soares Barbosa, Carmen Constantin, Martti Karvonen Algebraic paradoxes in adaptive quantum computation
Coffee break
Short plenary talks
11:30 – 11:55 Manuel Mekonnen, Thomas D. Galley, Markus P. Müller Invariance under quantum permutations rules out parastatistics
11:55 – 12:20 Marek Arsenault, Hlér Kristjánsson A higher-order perspective on quantum signal processing
Lunch break
Parallel A Parallel B Parallel C
14:30 – 14:55 Andrey Boris Khesin, Sarah Meng Li, Boldizsár Poór, Benjamin Rodatz, John van de Wetering, Richie Yeung SpiderCat: optimal fault-tolerant cat state preparation Daniel Brod, Lorenzo Catani, Robert Spekkens The toy theory is the unique noncontextual theory satisfying \(A_1^3\)-symmetry Matthew Wilson Agent policies from higher-order causal functions
14:55 – 15:20 Kwok Ho Wan, Henry Price, Qing Yao Holographic codes seen through ZX-calculus Tim Achenbach, Andreas Bluhm, Leevi Leppäjärvi, Ion Nechita, Martin Plávala Factorization of multimeters: a unified view on nonclassical quantum phenomena V. Vilasini, Lin-Qing Chen, Liuhang Ye, Renato Renner Events and their localisation are relative to a lab
15:20 – 15:45 Cole Comfort, Giovanni de Felice The delayed stabiliser ZX-calculus Cihan Okay, Aziz Kharoof The geometry of fiber products of probability polytopes Zixuan Liu, Ognyan Oreshkov Parity erasure: a foundational principle for indefinite causal order
Coffee break
16:15 – 16:40 Vincenzo Fiorentino, Kuntal Sengupta Superposition and its connections to uncertainty, entanglement and the quantum tensor product Tom Williams, Mina Doosti, Farid Shahandeh Sheaf-theoretic preparation contextuality via stochastic extension Luca Apadula, Alexei Grinbaum, Časlav Brukner Reference frames for process matrices: from coordinate parametrization to spacetime representation
16:40 – 17:05 Gaurang Agrawal, Matt Wilson Deriving the generalised Born rule from first principles Theodoros Yianni, Farid Shahandeh, Nyan Raess Linear algebra of generalized contextuality in prepare-transform-measure scenarios Yassine Benhaj, Kuntal Sengupta, Cyril Branciard How many systems can be dephased before the quantum switch becomes causally definite?
17:05 – 17:30 James Hefford, Matt Wilson Quantum theory can decohere from a causally-indefinite post-quantum theory David Schmid, Roberto D. Baldijão, John Selby, Ana Belen Sainz, Robert W. Spekkens Noncontextuality inequalities for prepare-transform-measure scenarios Raphaël Le Bihan, Alastair Abbott, Mnacho Echenim Probing the composition of processes with first-order-ISOMIX logic
Poster session (with reception) 17:30 – 19:30
Wednesday, August 19th
Long plenary talks
9:30 – 10:15 Miriam Backens, Simon Perdrix / Miriam Backens Completeness for flow-preserving rewrite rules / Generating one-way computations with flow: flow-preserving rewriting that ignores the interpretation
10:15 – 11:00 Quanlong Wang, Richard D. P. East, Razin A. Shaikh, Lia Yeh, Boldizsár Poór, Bob Coecke Beyond Penrose tensor diagrams with the ZX calculus: applications to quantum computing, quantum machine learning, condensed matter physics, and quantum gravity
Coffee break
11:30 – 12:20 Industry session
Lunch break
Parallel A Parallel B Parallel C
14:30 – 14:55 Luca Apadula, Alessandro Bisio, Giulio Chiribella, Paolo Perinotti, Kyrylo Simonov Higher-order transformations of bidirectional quantum processes Nathan Claudet, Simon Perdrix Insights in graph state entanglement via r-local complementation: structure and a quasi-polynomial algorithm Pablo Arrighi, Doğukan Bakircioglu, Nathan Houyet Quantum theory over dual-complex numbers
14:55 – 15:20 Matthew Wilson, James Hefford, Timothée Hoffreumon Supermaps on generalised theories Piotr Mitosek, Miriam Backens Working with measurement-based computations on qudits Nicolas Moulonguet, Augustin Vanrietvelde Subsystems as subsets of quantum channels, and the strange case of blind agents
15:20 – 15:45 Samson Abramsky, Radha Jagadeesan Essential unitarity for higher-order quantum computation Aleks Kissinger, John van de Wetering ZX-flow: a flexible criterion for deterministic computation with ZX-diagrams John Harding, Alexander Wilce Classical explanations in (and of) general probabilistic theories
Coffee break
16:15 – 16:40 Thomas Bartsch, Yuhan Gai, Sakura Schäfer-Nameki Beyond Wigner – how non-invertible symmetries preserve probabilities Haytham McDowall-Rose, Razin A. Shaikh, Lia Yeh From fermions to qubits: a ZX-calculus perspective Amrapali Sen, Flavio Del Santo Superluminal transformations and indeterminism
16:40 – 17:05 Vanessa Brzić, Satoshi Yoshida, Mio Murao, Marco Túlio Quintino Higher-order quantum computing with known input states Lia Yeh, Jiaxin Huang, Aleks Kissinger, Sarah Meng Li, John van de Wetering A three-way normal form for stabiliser codes across ZX diagrams, circuits, and tableaus Maarten Grothus, V. Vilasini Impossibility of superluminal signalling rules out causal loops in conical spacetimes
Boat tour 17:30 – 18:30
Conference dinner starting 19:00
Thursday, August 20th
Long plenary talks
9:30 – 10:15 Cole Comfort, Robert I. Booth Denotational semantics for stabiliser quantum programs
10:15 – 11:00 Kathleen Barsse, Romain Péchoux, Simon Perdrix Quantum control and general recursion beyond the unitary case
Coffee break
Short plenary talk
11:30 – 11:55 Aabhas Gulati, Ion Nechita, Clément Pellegrini Entanglement in the Dicke subspace
11:55 – 12:20 Conference photo
Lunch break
Parallel A Parallel B Parallel C
14:30 – 14:55 Arianne Meijer-van de Griend, Leo Becker Pauli gadget synthesis for gatesets with arbitrary even-arity Clifford gates Haruki Emori Quantum statistical functions Nadish de Silva, Santanil Jana, Ming Yin Three-qubit nonlocality paradoxes: beyond GHZ
14:55 – 15:20 Soichiro Yamazaki, Seiseki Akibue Multi-qubit controlled gate with optimal T-count Michael Zurel, Jack Davis Basis-independent stabilizerness and maximally noisy magic states Shashaank Khanna, Matthew Pusey, Roger Colbeck Identifying causal structures which cannot support quantum correlations without fine-tuning
15:20 – 15:45 Akash Kundu Tensor and gadget reinforcement learning for improved, hardware-aware quantum architecture search Cameron Calcluth, Oliver Hahn, Juani Bermejo Vega, Alessandro Ferraro, Giulia Ferrini Classical simulation of circuits with realistic odd-dimensional Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill states C. E. Lopetegui-Gonzalez, G. Masse, E. Oudot, U. I. Meyer, F. Centrone, F. Grosshans, P. E. Emeriau, U. Chabaud, M. Walschaers A unified framework for Bell inequalities from continuous-variable contextuality
15:45 – 16:10 Mark Deaconu, Nihar Gargava, Amolak Ratan Kalra, Michele Mosca, Jon Yard Buildings for synthesis with Clifford+R Massimo Frigerio, Mattia Walschaers, Andrei Aralov, Carlos Ernesto Lopetegui-Gonzalez, Emilie Gillet Algebraic techniques for photonic state preparation and characterization Martin J. Renner, Edwin Peter Lobo, Arturo Konderak, Remigiusz Augusiak, Antonio Acín Full nonlocality for non-maximally entangled states
Coffee break 16:10 – 16:40
Career fair 16:40 – 19:00
Friday, August 21st
Long plenary talks
9:30 – 10:15 Thea Li, Vladimir Zamdzhiev Quantum coherence spaces revisited: a von Neumann (co)algebraic approach
10:15 – 11:00 Matilde Baroni, Dominik Leichtle, Ivan Šupić, Damian Markham, Marco Túlio Quintino Composable simultaneous purification: when all communication scenarios reduce to spatial correlations
Coffee break
11:30 – 12:20 Business meeting
Lunch break
Parallel A Parallel B Parallel C
14:30 – 14:55 Simon Burton, Hussain Anwar Meromorphic quantum computing Noé Delorme, Simon Perdrix Diagrammatic reasoning with control as a constructor, applications to quantum circuits David Schmid, John H. Selby, Vinicius Pretti Rossi, Roberto D. Baldijão, Ana Belén Sainz Shadows and subsystems of generalised probabilistic theories: when tomographic incompleteness is not a loophole for contextuality proofs
14:55 – 15:20 Christine Li, Lia Yeh Transversal AND in quantum codes Chris Heunen, Robin Kaarsgaard, Louis Lemonnier One rig to control them all Jan-Åke Larsson The contextual Heisenberg microscope
15:20 – 15:45 Jin Ming Koh, Anqi Gong, Andrei C. Diaconu, Daniel Bochen Tan, Alexandra A. Geim, Michael J. Gullans, Norman Y. Yao, Mikhail D. Lukin, Shayan Majidy Phantom codes: entangling logical qubits without physical operations William Schober, Scott Wesley A complete equational theory for quantum circuits with generalized control Daniel McNulty Quantifying quantum measurement incompatibility via graph invariants
Coffee break
16:15 – 16:40 Vivien Vandaele Asymptotically optimal quantum circuits for comparators and incrementers Sacha Cerf, Harold Ollivier The perturbative method for quantum correlations Raffaele D'Avino, Lorenzo Caramelli, Raja Yehia, Gabriel Senno, Roberto González Pousa, Antonio Acín, Tamás Kriváchy Device independent quantum key distribution with a single measurement per site
16:40 – 17:05 Giuseppe De Riso, Giuseppe Catalano, Seth Lloyd, Vittorio Giovannetti, Dario De Santis A resource-efficient quantum-walker quantum RAM Subhendu Bikas Ghosh, Snehasish Roy Chowdhury, Guruprasad Kar, Arup Roy, Tamal Guha, Manik Banik Strong inequivalence of quantum nonlocal resources Paul Becsi, Matthew Joseph Hoban Bounding classical and quantum correlations in Bayesian networks with quasiprobabilities
End of QPL 2026. Goodbye!