Quantum Africa 6

Programme Committee and Local Organising Committee

Programme Committee

•  Franco Nori (RIKEN / University of Michigan) – Chair
• Marcello Dalmonte (ICTP, Trieste)
• Rosario Fazio (ICTP, Trieste)
• Barry Sanders (University of Calgary and University of Science and Technology of China)

Local Organising Committee

• Omololu Akin-Ojo (EAIFR) – Chair
• Alex Rogers (African Leadership University, Rwanda) – Co-Chair
• Marie Chantal Cyulinyana (NCST Rwanda / University of Rwanda, Physics) – Venue and Accommodation
• Christian Kwisanga (University of Rwanda, Physics) – Transport and Accommodation
• Steve Ndengue (EAIFR) – Finance
• Blaise Tchapnda (AIMS) – Communication and Advertisement
• Richard Musabe (Rwanda Polytechnic / UR School of ICT) – IT
• Damien Hanyurwimfura (African Center of Excellence in Internet of Things, UR)

Invited Speakers

A. From Industry

• Trond Andersen (Google Quantum)
• Abe Asfaw (Google Quantum)
• Fernando Brandão (Caltech, USA / AWS)
• Oliver Dial (IBM, Yorktown Heights)
• Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia (PsiQuantum)
• Helmut Katzgraber (AWS)
• Jarred McClean (Google Quantum)
• Marco Pistoia (JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
• Pedram Roushan (Google Quantum)
• Terry Rudolph (PsiQuantum)
• Simone Severini (AWS)
• Nathan Shammah (Unitary Fund)

B. From Academia

• Meigan Aronson (University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Tommaso Calarco (Jülich, Germany)
• Susan Coppersmith (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
• Marcello Dalmonte (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
• Rosario Fazio (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
• Giulia Galli (University of Chicago, USA)
• Steve Girvin (Yale University, USA)
• Jens Koch (Northwestern University, USA)
• Erika Kawakami (RIKEN, Japan)
• Daniel Loss (RIKEN / University of Basel, Switzerland)
• Tiago Mendes (University of Augsburg, Germany)
• Will Oliver (MIT, USA)
• Francesco Petruccione (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
• Anna Sanpera (UAB, Barcelona, Spain)
• Christine Silberhorn (Paderborn University, Germany)
• Charles Tahan (White House Office for Quantum Information Science, USA)
• Mark Tame (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
• J.S. Tsai (RIKEN / Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
• Benoît Vermersch (CNRS, Grenoble, France)
• Frank Wilhelm-Mauch (Jülich, Germany)
• Peng Xue (CSRC, China)