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TIQM 2026 Winter Workshop

Venue: Alder Auditorium and Commons, University of Washington campus, Seattle

Registration: There is no registration fee and it is open to all. Please register by completing this form.

HousingThe University Inn is recommended. All invited participants will be staying there. A discount rate is available until December 31 by following this link.

Travel: From Seatac airport, Link Light Rail takes you (in 47 minutes for $3.25) to the U District Station which is 0.4 miles from the hotel and 0.4 miles from Alder Hall. A taxi from Seatac costs about $70. The closest parking is in the Central Plaza garage.

DescriptionOpen quantum systems range from condensed matter to trapped atom systems, from theory to experiment, and from fundamental science to applications. To create a uniquely stimulating environment in this workshop, some invited participants will be asked to speak while others will be tasked with keeping the audience discussions lively. 

Sponsorship: TIQM activities are sponsored by the University of Washington Department of Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Arts and Sciences, and College of Engineering.

Invited Attendees

Andrew Higginbotham 
Non-equilibrium Josephson Systems in One and Two Dimensions 

Archana Kamal 
Decoherence in the NISQ era: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 

Aleksander Kubica 
Layer codes as partially self-correcting quantum memories

Eli Levinson-Falk 
Understanding and harnessing decoherence for sensing and gate calibration 

Yaodong Li 
Slow mixing from emergent one-form symmetries in three-dimensional Ising gauge theory 

Alex Ma 
Controlling and probing quantum correlations with engineered dissipation 

Kanu Sinha
Non-Markovian collective dynamics of waveguide-coupled atoms

Rahul Trivedi 
Open quantum systems beyond the Born Markov approximation 
Ehud Altman
Joshua Folk
Michael Gullans
Matthew Hastings
Dietrich Leibfried
Yuri Lensky
Sylvia Lüscher
Christopher Monroe

Organizing Committee

Mo Chen
Yaodong Li
Charles Marcus
Sara Mouradian
Helpers
TBD

Program

Thursday Jan 15
9.00 - 5.00
Friday Jan 16
9.00 - 5.00
Saturday Jan 17
9.00 - 1.00
January 15 - February 17

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