Topics to be covered include (but are not confined to):
❱ Quantum Algorithms & Computing
• Quantum Algorithms HW-dependent Optimization
• HW Agnostic Quantum Circuits Representation & Optimization
• Data Loading
• Time synchronization
• Quantum Error Correction Codes to Reduce Physical Qubits/Logical Qubits Ratio
• Resources Estimation
• Quantum Middleware & Abstract Framework based on basic components
• Quantum Parallel Algorithms
• QPU/HPC and Classical algo/ Quantum algo Hybridization
• Quantum program specification and formal verification environment
• Advances in Qubits Emulation
• Applications-Oriented Benchmarks for Quantum Computing
• Quantum Machine Learning Design & Applications
• Lie Algebra-Based Quantum Algorithms & Quantum Geometry-Informed Machine Learning
• From Classical Problems to Quantum Algorithms Methodologies and Tools
• Quantum Cryptanalysis Engineering
❱ Enabling Technologies
• Cryogenic systems for 1000+ qubits accommodation
• Advanced Cryo-Electronics Engineering
• Cabling and connectors miniaturization
• Interconnection-based scalability
• Room temperature control electronics scalability
• Overcoming the power limitation of laser sources
• Light control qubits: from optical fibers to optoelectronic efficiency
• Quantum photonics
• Possible improvement from the material perspective and qubit fabrication
• Signal processing/multiplexing and error correction
• The feasibility of qubit characterization
• Environmental perturbations and their mitigation
• Multi-modularity qubits hybridization
❱ Quantum Sensors
• Position navigation and timing, including optical clocks, gravimeters, and inertial sensors
• Quantum entanglement as a resource for quantum metrology
• Quantum imaging and spectroscopy
• Magnetometry and related applications
• Quantum sensing and analysis of RF fields
• Quantum technologies for medical applications
• Future prospects in quantum sensing
❱ Quantum Communications
• Syst: Quantum information network
• Syst: Progress in QKD
• Syst: Post-quantum cryptography/QKD hybridization
• Syst: New quantum communication protocols and their uses
• HW: Toward integration
• HW: Sources, detectors, new propagation media
• HW: Quantum memories and repeaters – all hardware platforms
• Demonstrators: Terrestrial & space – projects and results/field trials
• Governmental agency views on quantum communications