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From: Michele Mosca <michele.mosca(a)uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:51 PM
Subject: quantum optimization workshop at Fields Institute (Toronto), Oct. 27-29
To: Scott Aaronson <aaronson(a)csail.mit.edu>
Cc: Rolando Somma <somma(a)lanl.gov>
Hello Scott,
We’d like to bring the following workshop to your attention.
http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/14-15/quantumopt/
Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested.
Best,
Mike
Quantum Optimization Workshop
October 27-29, 2014
Fields Institute, 222 College St. Toronto
Organizing Committee: Thomas F. Coleman, Ilias S. Kotsireas,
Michele Mosca, Panos M. Pardalos, Rolando Somma
Quantum-inspired technologies have begun to emerge in various areas of
Science and Engineering. In the realm of quantum computing,
researchers develop algorithms that carry the potential to solve
extremely hard computational problems, which are currently intractable
by conventional algorithms. Some of the quantum algorithmic tools that
have developed in recent years are known to speed-up the solution of
well known extremely difficult combinatorial problems.
The fundamental goal of our proposed workshop will be to provide a
forum for both scientific presentations and discussion of issues
related to what we call quantum optimization. Optimizations
researchers will learn about the quantum technology and methodologies
and the quantum researchers will learn about hard optimization
problems that may yield to quantum optimization approaches
Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
Sergio Boixo, Google Inc
Richard Cleve, IQC, University of Waterloo
Andy Conn, IBM Research
Robin Kothari, MIT
Ashwin Nayak, IQC, University of Waterloo
William Pulleyblank, Department of Mathematical Sciences, United
States Military Academy
Panos M. Pardalos, Center for Applied Optimization (CAO), University of Florida
Mario Szegedy, Computer Science, Rutgers University
Krysta M. Svore, Quantum Architectures and Computation Group (QuArC),
Microsoft Research
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