Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Quantum Computing Reunion Conference
UCLA Lake Arrowhead Lodge, U.S.A.

June 8-12, 2026

Monday, June 8
9:00-9:40 Di Fang Mixing time of open quantum systems via hypocoercivity
10:00-10:40 Diyi Liu Driven dissipative ground state preparation
11:00-11:40 Ke Wang System Bath Interaction models beyond Lindblad
14:00-14:40 Maria Boada Spurious transmon excitations: All the things we learned by modeling real quantum hardwares
15:00-15:40 Ahmad Majed Alkadri-Arafa After Quantum Assembly: Variable Coefficients, Boundary Conditions, and Output in Qu-FEM
20:00-20:50 Tim Wildey Optimal Control, Design, and Multi-fidelity Uncertainty Quantification for High-fidelity Models
Tuesday, June 9
9:00-9:40 Ruizhe Zhang Quantum Filtering and Analysis of Multiplicities in Eigenvalue Spectra
10:00-10:40 Jose Morales Escalante Wigner formulation of open quantum systems: from optimization in phase-space to discrete formulations
11:00-11:40 Soo-Jong Rey The Discard ZX Calculus as a Framework for Open Quantum Systems -- From Infrared Safety to Certified Simulation
20:00-20:50 James Evans
Wednesday, June 10
9:00-9:40 Marius Junge The Hidden nature of Non-Markovian evolution
10:00-10:40 Tyler Kharazi Provable Quantum Speedups for Reaction-Rate Estimation from High-Dimensional Fokker-Planck dynamics
11:00-11:40 Rahul Sarkar
20:00-20:50 Di Fang Applied and Numerical Analysis for Quantum Computing
Thursday, June 11
9:00-9:40 Yasuyuki Kawahigashi Anyons in tensor networks and operator algebras
10:00-10:20 Lucas Tecot Quantum Error Correction Decoding
10:30-10:50 Scott Nie Operator Bounds on Magic and Non-Local Magic
11:00-11:40 Dima Shlyakhtenko Matrices with CAR entries
20:00-20:50 Jeff Hittinger The Genesis Mission