Quantum Advantage for Computational Chemistry

Program

Summer Cluster on Quantum Computing 2026

Location

Calvin Lab auditorium

Date

Friday, May 29, 2026

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8:30 – 9 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

9 – 9:35 a.m.

End-to-End Simulation of Chemical Dynamics on a Quantum Computer

Ivan Kassal (University of Sydney)

9:35 – 10:10 a.m.

Quantum Simulations of Spectroscopy: Algorithms and Applications

Torin Stetina (Xanadu)

10:10 – 10:30 a.m.

Break

10:30 – 11:05 a.m.

Leveraging Low-Energy Assumptions for Quantum Speedups

Nick Rubin (Google)

11:05 – 11:40 a.m.

Dimensionality Reduction Methods for Quantum Simulation of Chemical Processes

Karol Kowalski (PNNL)

11:40 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Observation of Improved Accuracy over Classical Sparse Ground State Solvers using a Quantum Computer

William Kirby (IBM)

12:15 – 2 p.m.

Lunch (on your own)

2 – 2:35 p.m.

Barriers to dequantization of near-term molecular electronic structure methods

Oskar Leimkuhler (University of Copenhagen)

2:35 – 3:10 p.m.

Coupled quantum-classical dynamics in the Liouvillian framework

Matthias Degroote (Boehringer Ingelheim SComm)

3:10 – 3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30 – 4:05 p.m.

Quantum advantage in quantum simulation in the age of classical simulation

Garnet Chan (Caltech)

4:05 – 5 p.m.

Prospects for Quantum Advantage in Chemistry - near term and long term

Andrew Baczewski (Sandia),
William Huggins (Google),
Peter Love (Tufts)

5 – 6 p.m.

Reception