Dates: January 29-31, 2025

Place: University of Gdańsk, MFI Faculty

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QuantumSpeedUp Workshop, took place from January 29 to 31, 2025. This three-day event brought together researchers from the quantum technology community to explore the latest advancements and challenges in developing quantum technologies. The workshop aimed to foster collaboration, idea exchange, and inspiration among members of Poland’s rapidly growing quantum technology community.

The first Quantum SpeedUp was held in 2019, shortly after the establishment of the two International Research Agendas focused on quantum technologies: the International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies (ICTQT) at the University of Gdańsk, and the Centre for Optical Quantum Technologies (QOT) at the University of Warsaw. Since then, the event has been organised annually by both units in Gdańsk and has been steadily gaining popularity among scientific institutions.

Last year’s edition opened with activities led by the International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies (ICTQT) at the University of Gdańsk. Key highlights include a presentation of ICTQT’s research agenda, with a particular focus on the goals and progress of the IRAP FENG Project.

Additionally, the workshop featured keynote presentations, SpeedTalk sessions, a poster session, and plenty of networking opportunities.

Last year’s event was a part of the promotion of research conducted by the ICTQT at the University of Gdańsk, under the project titled ‘International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies 2.0: R&D Industrial-Experimental Phase’ (contract no. FENG.02.01-IP.05-0006/23). The mentioned project aims to develop new and groundbreaking quantum technology methods and their applications. The research will focus on the advancement of quantum devices such as quantum random number generators, quantum communication links, more advanced sensors, and quantum software. The research is led by Prof. Marek Żukowski, a prominent Polish theoretical physicist specializing in the foundations of quantum mechanics. The project is being carried out as part of the IRAP FENG initiative of the Foundation for Polish Science, co-financed by the European Union under Priority 2 of the European Funds for a Modern Economy 2021–2027 (FENG).

Dates: November 20th-22nd, 2023

Place: University of Gdańsk, ul. Kładki 24, 80-822 Gdańsk

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The Quantum Speedup workshop series is aimed at complementing other successful prestigious Polish venues of quantum scientific exchange, such as the KCIK-ICTQT Symposia hosted in May, the Ingarden Annual Sessions hosted in November, and the quantum information seminar series that each Polish institution in the network hosts locally.

The main defining feature of the Quantum Speedup is to provide everyone (from master students to professors) with the opportunity to speak and present their work. For this, the first Quantum Speedup embraced as a defining feature the concept of Speedtalks complemented with poster sessions: during the Speedtalk sessions, each scientist can describe their work in a 3 minute long and one slide presentation (see the 2022 Speedtalk session below), details of which could be later discussed face-to-face during a poster session. Nowadays we consider the Speedtalks+Poster combo an aspect of the Quantum Speedup that will be featured in every edition.

The main defining feature of the Quantum Speedup is to provide everyone (from master students to professors) with the opportunity to speak and present their work. For this, the first Quantum Speedup embraced as a defining feature the concept of Speedtalks complemented with poster sessions: during the Speedtalk sessions, each scientist can describe their work in a 3 minute long and one slide presentation (see the 2022 Speedtalk session below), details of which could be later discussed face-to-face during a poster session. Nowadays we consider the Speedtalks+Poster combo an aspect of the Quantum Speedup that will be featured in every edition.

In addition to its defining feature of Speedtalks, the Quantum Speedup may also host additional session depending on the needs of the Polish quantum community at the time. In the first edition of the Quantum Speedup, these sessions were devoted to the new institutes and research groups to introduce themselves. In the second edition, the sessions were used for selected participants to present an invited contribution on some relevant work carried out in the recent year.

Quantum SpeedUp has already established itself as an event of unique character, integrating Quantum Information scientists from Poland. We hope Quantum Speedup 2022 repeats the success of its previous editions!

Dates: December 5th-8th, 2022

Place: Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics (ul. Wita Stwosza 57, Gdańsk 80-308)

Quantum SpeedUp Scientific Committee decided to award three young scientists for the best posters:

🅠 Susane Calegari from Centrum Fizyki Teoretycznej Polskiej Akademii Nauk for poster presentation entitled “Fermion Sampling under realistic assumptions”,
🅠 Paweł Cieśliński from Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science at University of Gdansk for poster presentation entitled “Reliable Entanglement Verification with Finite Copies of a Quantum State”, and
🅠 Otavio Augusto Dantas Molitor from ICTQT – International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies for poster presentation entitled “Salient signatures of entanglement in the surrounding environment”.

Additionally, Paweł Mazurek from ICTQT won a public award for the best speedtalk: “The asymptotic emergence of the Second Law for a repeated charging process”.

Congratulations to all!