14 January 2025
| 09:00 | Opening and Welcome |
| 09:20 | Invited talk: Quantum Cellular Automata: from models to simulations Giuseppe Di Molfetta, Aix-Marseille University, France |
| 09:50 | Hiperwalk: A Python Package for Quantum Walk Simulations with HPC Renato Portugal, National Laboratory of Scientific Computing, Brazil |
| 10:10 | Search and state transfer between hubs by quantum walks Martin Stefanak, Czech Technical University Prague, Czech Republic |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break (catering area) |
| 11:00 | Invited talk: Hybrid photonics platform for quantum walk Taira Giordani, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy |
| 11:30 | Two Photon Tripartite Entanglement Transfer in Time-Multiplexed Quantum Walks Jonas Lammers, Paderborn University, Integrated Quantum Optics, Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems (PhoQS), Germany |
| 11:50 | Large-scale quantum walks via complex polarization transformations Francesco Di Colandrea, University of Naples Federico II, Italy |
| 12:10 | Demonstration of a photonic time-multiplexed C-NOT gate Federico Pegoraro, Paderborn University, Integrated Quantum Optics, Institute of Photonic Quantum Systems (PhoQS), Germany |
| 12:30-14:30 | Break (lunch on your own) |
| 14:30 | Invited talk: Interacting topological pumps in Rydberg synthetic dimensions Bryce Gadway, The Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| 15:00 | Fate of high winding number topological phases in the disordered extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model Emmanuele Gesualdo Cinnirella, University of Calabria, Italy |
| 15:20 | Dynamics across quantum phase transitions in Rydberg atom arrays Simone Notarnicola, University of Padova, Italy |
| 15:40 | Quantum random walks in neutron scattering Dmitry Pushin, University of Waterloo, Canada |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break (catering area) |
| Session chair: Giuseppe Di Molfetta, Aix-Marseille University, France | |
| 16:30 | Quantum cellular automata for quantum error correction and density classification Don Winter, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany |
| 16:50 | Density Classification with Non-Unitary Quantum Cellular Automata Federico Dell’Anna, University of Bologna, Italy |
| 17:10 | Quantum cryptographic protocols with dual messaging system via 2D alternate quantum walk of a genuine single-photon entangled state Dinesh Kumar Panda, National Institute of Science Education and Research, India |
15 January 2025
| Session chair: Bryce Gadway, The Pennsylvania State University, USA | |
| 09:00 | Invited talk: Non-Hermitian Quantum Walks Peng Xue, Beijing Computational Science Research Center, China |
| 09:30 | Understanding topology and geometry in lattice systems with photonic Quantum Walks Alessio D’Errico, University of Ottawa, Canada |
| 09:50 | Invited talk: Tunable generation of spatial entanglement by quantum walks in nonlinear waveguide arrays Florent Baboux, Université Paris Cité, France |
| 10:20 | Quantum state estimation of optical states via quantum-walk-based quantum extreme learning machines Luca Innocenti, University of Palermo, Italy |
| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee break (catering area) |
| Session chair: Peng Xue, Beijing Computational Science Research Center, China | |
| 11:00 | Invited talk: Bloch oscillations and Landau-Zener tunnelling in a lossy one-dimensional lattice Eva Maria Graefe, Imperial College London, UK |
| 11:30 | Experimental simulation of symmetry-protected exceptional points with single photons Kunkun Wang, Anhui University, China |
| 11:50 | Quantum Walks of correlated photons in non-Hermitian photonic lattices Chong Sheng, Nanjing University, China |
| 12:10 | Topological phase transition in non-Hermitian gauge fields Bikashkali Midya, IISER Berhampur, India |
| 12:30-14:30 | Break (lunch on your own) |
| Session chair: Carolin Wille, University of Cambridge, UK | |
| 14:30 | Locality, Interactions, and Positive Energy in Quantum Cellular Automata Todd Brun, University of Southern California, USA |
| 14:50 | Continuum Limits of Discrete Quantum Walks With Decoherence Lara Janiurek, University of Strathclyde, Scotland |
| 15:10 | Effective dynamics from minimising dissipation Antonio Rotundo, University of Pavia, Italy |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break (catering area) |
| 16:00-18:00 | Poster session (click here to see the posters list) |
| 20:00 | Social dinner |
16 January 2025
| 09:00 | Invited talk: Identifying network topologies via quantum walks Claudia Benedetti, University of Milan, Italy | |
| 09:30 | Pulsation of quantum walks on Johnson graphs Taisuke Hosaka, Yokohama National University, Japan | |
| 09:50 | Causal decompositions of 1D Quantum Cellular Automata Augustin Vanrietvelde, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France | |
| 10:10 | Classification of One-dimensional Single Fermionic Quantum Cellular Automata Paolo Meda, University of Pavia, INFN, Italy | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break (catering area) | |
| Session chair: Eva Maria Graefe, Imperial College London, UK | ||
| 11:00 | Invited talk: Classical Simulation of Parity Preserving Circuits Carolin Wille, University of Cambridge, UK | |
| 11:30 | Exploring dynamical quantum phase transitions and work extraction in open quantum systems using matrix product states Grazia Di Bello, University of Naples Federico II, Italy | |
| 11:50 | Nuclear Structure Application of Quantum Simulation Paul Stevenson, University of Surrey, UK | |
| 12:10 | Exponential tail estimates for quantum lattice dynamics Christopher Cedzich, University of Dusseldorf, Germany | |
| 12:30 | Group Photo – Meeting point: registration desk | |
| 12:50-14:50 | Break (lunch on your own) | |
| Session chair: Roberta Zambrini, IFISC, Spain | ||
| 14:50 | Invited talk: Recurrence in discrete-time quantum stochastic walks Aurél Gábris, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic | |
| 15:20 | Variational quantum simulation and non unitary dynamics in Gaussian and non-Gaussian continuous-variable systems Paolo Stornati, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Plaça d’Eusebi Güell, Spain | |
| 15:40 | Efficient implementation of discrete-time quantum walks on quantum computers Luca Razzoli, University of Insubria, Italy | |
| 16:00 | Quantum Walks over Different Topologies Farid (Roohollah) Ghobadi, Nexus for Quantum Technologies, University of Ottawa, Canada | |
| 16:20-16:50 | Coffee break (catering area) | |
| 17:30 | Guided tour |
17 January 2025
| 09:00 | Invited talk: All-optical quantum information processing in the ultrafast regime Kate Fenwick, University of Ottawa | National Research Council of Canada, Canada |
| 09:30 | Exponential optimization of adiabatic quantum-state preparation Davide Cugini, University of Pavia, Italy |
| 09:50 | Thermodynamics and Protection of Discrete-Time Crystals Gabriele Cenedese, University of Insubria, Italy |
| 10:10 | First Hitting Times on a Quantum Computer: Tracking vs. Local Monitoring, Topological Effects, and Dark States Sabine Tornow, University of the Bundeswehr, Germany |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break (catering area) |
| Session chair: Renato Portugal, National Laboratory of Scientific Computing, Brazil | |
| 11:00 | Invited talk: Quantum reservoir computing and skin effect Roberta Zambrini, IFISC, Spain |
| 11:30 | Random compilers for Hamiltonian simulation via Markov chains Benoît Dubus, ULB, Belgique |
| 11:50 | Measurement-Induced Phase Transitions in Infinite-Range Systems without Postselection Barriers Gianluca Passarelli, University of Naples Federico II, Italy |
| 12:10 | Experimental implementation of quantum-walk-based portfolio optimisation Dengke Qu, Beijing Computational Science Research Center, China |
| 12:30-14:30 | Break (lunch on your own) |
| 14:30 | Invited talk: A comfortable graph embedding on closed surface for quantum walk Etsuo Segawa, Yokohama National University, Japan |
| 15:00 | Chiral quantum walks and applications Giovanni Ragazzi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy |
| 15:20 | Perfect Chiral Quantum Routing Simone Cavazzoni, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy |