Conference Schedule

Thursday, April 9th, 2026

Location: FSU Chemical Sciences Laboratory 1003 - The Kroto Auditorium

Time	Presentation Title	Speaker
8:50-9:00 am	Welcome
9:00-9:30 am	Brownian Motion of a Magnetically Levitated Drop of Superfluid Helium	Jack Harris (Yale University)
9:30-10:00 am	Simulating New Phases of Quantum Matter with Superconducting Qudits	Irfan Siddiqi (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
10:00-10:20 am	Magnetically Levitated Quantum Fluids and Solids for Quantum Computing and Networking	Wei Guo (Florida State Univ.)
10:20-10:45 am	Coffee Break
10:45-11:15 am	Progress in Quantum Computing Across the Stack	Sophia Economou (Virginia Tech)
11:15-11:45 am	Quantum Accelerated Supercomputing	Antonio Mezzacapo (NVIDIA)
11:45 am - 12:05 pm	Significant Depth Reduction of Qudit Quantum Circuits via Dynamic Circuits	Efekan Kokcu (Univ. of Central Florida)
12:05-1:30 pm	Lunch Break
1:30-2:00 pm	The Fate of Our Field: A Look at Quantum Utility in Particle Physics	Henry Lamm (Fermi Natl. Accelerator Lab)
2:00-2:30 pm	Leveraging Quantum Computers and Machine Learning to Simulate Biomolecular Processes	Norman Tubman
2:30-2:50 pm	Unveil the Power of Dynamic Quantum Circuits	Siyuan Niu (Univ. of Central Florida)
2:50-3:10 pm	Optically Controlled Molecular Qubits	Haochuan Mao (Florida State Univ.)
3:10-3:35 pm	Coffee Break
3:35-4:00 pm	Beam Search Decoder for Quantum LDPC Codes	Min Ye (IonQ)
4:00-4:20 pm	Automated Characterization and Gate Optimization of Superconducting QPUs	Jelena Trbovic (QuantrolOx)
4:20-4:40 pm	The State of Quantum Software & Emerging Ecosystems	Brian Pearson (qBraid)
4:40-4:55 pm	X-Band Clock Transition in Pr(II)	Jakub Hruby (Florida State Univ.)
4:55-5:10 pm	Quantum Error Mitigation	Phat Thanh Tran (Florida State Univ.)
5:30-7:00 pm	Poster Session and Reception

Friday, April 10th, 2026

Location: FSU Chemical Sciences Laboratory 1003 - The Kroto Auditorium

Time	Presentation Title	Speaker
9:00-9:30 am	Optical Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy	Steven Cundiff (University of Michigan)
9:30-10:00 am	Distributed Quantum Science with Neutral Atom Arrays	Jacob Covey (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
10:00-10:20 am	Thermal Effects on Optical Properties of Color Centers in Diamond and Silicon Carbide	Hebin Li (University of Miami)
10:20-10:45 am	Coffee Break
10:45-11:15 am	Generalized Wigner Crystallinity and Quantum Magnetism in Hubbard Model Emulators	Hitesh Changlani (Florida State Univ.)
11:15-11:45 am	Quantum State Preparation	Rafael Nepomechie (University of Miami)
11:45 am - 12:05 pm	Magnetic J-Oscillators, a New Quantum Amplifier for Precision Molecular Sensing	Danila Barskiy (University of Miami)
12:05-1:30 pm	Lunch Break
1:30-2:00 pm	Freeform Vortex Resonators for Control and Generation of Classical and Quantum Light	Alexander Khanikaev (Univ. of Central Florida)
2:00-2:30 pm	Active Integrated Photonics for Information Processing and Quantum Networking	Liang Feng (University of Pennsylvania)
2:30-2:50 pm	A quantum Microwave-Optical Interface via Silicon Nanomechanics	Han Zhao (Univ. of Central Florida)
2:50-3:10 pm	Hermitian Exceptional-Point–Adjacent Dynamics from Long-Range Interactions: A Many-Body Quantum Analog	Pawel Jung (University of Miami)
3:10-3:35 pm	Coffee Break
3:35-3:55 pm	Transforming Engineering Infrastructure for Quantum Innovation	Likai Yang (Keysight Technologies)
3:55-4:15 pm	Commercializing Quantum in the State of Florida	Matthew Cimaglia (Quantum Coast Capital)
4:15-4:35 pm	Building Quantum, Together	Daphné Zinetti (QBlox)
4:35-4:50 pm	Telecom-band Integrated Spin-Photon Qubits for Scalable Quantum Systems	Sakibul Islam (Univ. of Central Florida)
5:00-6:00 pm	MagLab Tour	Meet in the CSL Lobby
7:00-9:00 pm	Invited Speaker Dinner	(by invitation only)

Saturday, April 11th, 2026

Location: FSU Chemical Sciences Laboratory 1003 - The Kroto Auditorium

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
9:00-9:30 am	Hybrid Magnomics for Coherent Quantum Information Processing and Transduction	Jing Xu (Univ. of Central Florida)
9:30-10:00 am	Quantum Friction at the Nanoscale	Lilia Woods (Univ. of South Florida)
10:00-10:20 am	Disentangling Multi-Component Quantum Criticality via Spectroscopic Calorimetry	Ali Bangura (Natl. High Magnetic Field Lab)
10:20-10:45 am	Coffee Break
10:45-11:05 am	Emergent Superparamagnetism in TiS₂ Induced by Atomic-Scale Defects	Paula Coelho (Univ. of North Florida)
11:05-11:25 am	Magnetic Interactions in Clusters and Their Effect on Quantum Decoherence	Jason Haraldsen (Univ. of North Florida)
11:25-11:40 am	Critical Quantum Sensing of Kerr Nonlinearity with a Biased DOPO	Julian Orozco Hererra (Univ. of Central Florida)
11:40-11:55 am	Multiband Topological Superlattices for Robust High-Dimensional Quantum Entanglement	Javad Zakeri (Univ. of Central Florida)
11:55-1:20 pm	Lunch Break
1:20-1:40 pm	Quantum Annealing for Building Surface Sunlit Calculation	Zhipeng Deng (Univ. of Central Florida)
1:40-2:00 pm	Harnessing Spin Topological States for Highly Efficient Quantum Transport in Molecules	Kun Wang (University of Miami)
2:00-2:15 pm	Angle-Resolved Torque Magnetometry of Er2Ti2O7 Thin Films	Jennifer Reid (Florida State Univ.)
2:15-2:30 pm	Is Disorder a Friend or a Foe to Melting of Wigner-Mott Insulators?	Sandeep Joy (Florida State Univ.)
2:30-2:45 pm	Critical Theory of Pomeranchuk Transitions via High-Dimensional Bosonization	Zhengfei Hu (Florida State Univ.)
3:15 pm	Closing Remarks