Workshop on Quantum Computing and Operations Research
Description
The goal of the workshop is to foster the creation of a community at the intersection of operations research (OR) and quantum computing (QC). Quantum computers use the laws of quantum mechanics to manipulate information. This yields a model of computation that can be faster than any classical computer for certain tasks, and for several decades, researchers (mostly in theoretical computer science and quantum physics) have been investigating what can be done with this computational model. Recent hardware developments have spurred a tremendous surge of interest from the government, industry and academia, and finding suitable applications -- possibly in the long term -- can be considered one of the most pressing research topics in this area. Some of the main application areas of QC for scientific computation, such as optimization and simulation, are traditionally within the domain of OR; yet quantum computing is considered a branch of computer science, and only a small number of people focus on the interplay between these disciplines. The main reason for this apparent disconnect is probably the lack of available quantum computers up to this point: OR is a field rooted in practical problems and numerical evaluation, whereas quantum algorithms have -- for the most part -- remained purely theoretical. With recent progress in QC hardware, we believe that it is time to encourage the OR community to start looking at QC as a viable model of computation that could have practical applications in a few years. Not only QC algorithms can be developed for OR applications, but also, OR techniques can be used to improve existing QC methods (e.g., classical optimization is an important component of many QC algorithms for near-term devices); this interaction may lead to the development of new quantum-inspired methodologies. The proposed workshop will aim to bring together, for the first time, prominent researchers in OR, QC, and especially their intersection. We hope that this workshop can inspire a generation of students to try to understand what is the potential of QC for OR applications, and move the first steps toward the creation of a research community that can influence future developments in the area.
Registered Participants
Name | Affiliation |
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Gabriele Agliardi | Politecnico di Milano |
Yousef Alhamdan | Umm Al-Qura University |
Ahmed Umer Ashraf | Ghent University |
Beste Basciftci | University of Iowa |
Vedat Bayram | TED University |
Marcelo Benedito | University of Campinas |
David Bernal | Universities Space Research Association |
Gustavo Bezerra | Laboratório Nacional de Computação CIentífica |
Eric Bourreau | LIRMM, Montpellier University |
Robin Brown | Stanford University |
Dylan Camus | University of Toronto |
Joshua Cantin | University of Toronto |
Marco Caserta | IE University |
Sachchida Nand Chaurasia | Banaras Hindu University |
Chen Chen | The Ohio State University |
TING-YANG CHOU | National Taiwan University of Science and Technology |
Andre Augusto Cire | University of Toronto |
Carleton Coffrin | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
John Cortese | |
Ryan Cory-Wright | IBM Research (and incoming Assistant Prof at Imperial College Business School) |
Federica Di Pasquale | Università di Pisa |
Yulong Dong | University of California Berkeley |
Ryan Do | University of Toronto |
Pau Farre | D-Wave Systems |
Xinyu Fei | University of Michigan |
Stenio Fernandes | Bank of Canada |
Michael Friedlander | University of British Columbia |
Mituhiro Fukuda | Federal University of ABC |
Daya Gaur | University of Lethbridge |
Patrick Gelß | Zuse Institute Berlin |
Paulina Goedicke | University of Cologne |
Christoph Graczyk | Zuse Institute Berlin |
Camille Grange | |
Alexandre Granzer-Guay | University of Toronto |
Hanyu Gu | University of Technology Sydney |
Serhat Gül | TED University |
MD TABISH HAQUE | Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur |
Aram Harrow | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Creston Herold | Georgia Tech Research Institute |
Rebekah Herrman | University of Tennessee |
Davod Hosseini | Saint Mary's University |
Haesol Im | University of Waterloo |
Nouhaila INNAN | Hassan II University Of Casablanca |
Gabriele Iommazzo | Zuse Institute Berlin |
Garud Iyengar | Columbia University |
Venkitesh Iyer | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
Jonas Jaeger | University of British Columbia |
Phillip Kerger | Johns Hopkins University |
Jalil Khatibi Moqadam | National Laboratory of Scientific Computing |
Danial Khorasanian | University of Toronto |
Sang Kim | Yale School of Management |
Christian Kirches | TU Braunschweig |
Tamás Kis | Institute of Computer Science and Control |
Sebastian Knebel | Zuse Institute Berlin |
Megan Kohagen | Quantinuum |
Dominik Krupke | IBR Algorithms Division |
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Thomas Lavastida | University of Texas at Dallas |
Sven Leyffer | Argonne National Laboratory |
Daniel Lidar | USC |
Amy Liu | University of Toronto |
Xiaotong Liu | University of Toronto |
Phillip Lotshaw | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
Muhammad Maaz | University of Toronto |
Gabriel Marin Sanchez | |
Danica Marsden | Bank of Canada |
Catherine McGeoch | D-Wave Systems |
Matin Moezzi | University of Toronto |
Behrang Mohajer | University of Toronto |
Kyungduk Moon | POSTECH |
Mahdi Mostajabdaveh | Polytechnique Montréal |
Giacomo Nannicini | University of Southern California |
Carlos Olivos | Auburn University |
Gizem (Ozbaygin) Tinic | Sabanci University |
Ojas Parekh | Sandia National Laboratories |
Dhrumil Patel | Cornell University |
Oksana Pichugina | University of Toronto |
Sebastian Pokutta | ZIB |
Felix Prause | Zuse Institute Berlin |
Zihao Qu | University of Texas at Dallas |
Ishant Rawat | University of Toronto |
Kazi Shah Nawaz Ripon | Ostfold University College |
Ugur Sahin | Technical University of Munich |
Andreas S. Schulz | TU Munich |
Zarin Shakibaei | Zuse Institute Berlin |
Sara Shashaani | North Carolina State University |
Siqian Shen | University of Michigan |
Koneswaran Sivagurunathan | |
Steven-Marian Stengl | Institute of Mathematics |
Peng Sun | Duke University |
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Elham Torabian | University of British Columbia |
Mustafa Kemal Tural | Middle East Technical University |
Friedrich Wagner | Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS |
David Waller | Department of National Defence |
Ziteng Wang | Northern Illinois University |
Jesse Ward-Bond | University of Toronto |
Petra Wolf | University of Bergen |
Henry Wolkowicz | University of Waterloo |
Ziwei Yang | University of Toronto |
Jiekai Yin | University of Toronto |
Arash Zargar | University of Toronto |
Bo Zeng | University of Pittsburgh |
Peter Zhang | Carnegie Mellon University |