SwissMAP Annual General Meeting

30 Aug 2026, 19:00 → 2 Sept 2026, 14:00 Europe/Zurich

Maison des Congrès

Elise Raphael, Séverine Gros

The 13th SwissMAP Annual General Meeting will take place from August 30 to September 2, 2026 at the SwissMAP Research Station (Les Diablerets). 

The programme features : 

• Matthias Christandl (University of Copenhagen)
• Victor Gorbenko (EPFL)
• Martin Hairer (EPFL)
• Marcos Mariño (UNIGE)
• João Penedones (EPFL)
• Marcello Porta (SISSA)
• Chiara Saffirio (UniBasel)
• Maryna Viazovska (EPFL)
• Yilin Wang (ETH Zurich)

A poster session for young researchers will take place on Tuesday, September 1. Some timeslots for short talks will also be available on Monday, August 31st.

 

For more information please contact swissmap@unige.ch

 

Sunday 30 August

19:30 → 21:15 Welcome Dinner

Monday 31 August

09:00 → 09:45 Colloquium: Yilin Wang (ETH Zurich)

09:45 → 10:15 Coffee Break – Group Photograph

10:15 → 11:00 Colloquium: Marcos Mariño (UNIGE)

11:15 → 12:00 Colloquium: Chiara Saffirio (University of Basel)

12:15 → 13:45 Lunch

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 19:00 Short talks

19:15 → 21:15 Dinner

Tuesday 1 September

09:00 → 09:45 Colloquium: Victor Gorbenko (EPFL)

09:45 → 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 → 11:00 Colloquium: Maryna Viazovska (EPFL)

11:15 → 12:00 Colloquium: Marcello Porta (SISSA)

12:15 → 13:45 Lunch

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee Break

18:00 → 19:30 Poster session & welcome aperitif

19:45 → 21:40 Raclette Dinner - Domaine Les Sources

Wednesday 2 September

09:00 → 09:45 Colloquium: Matthias Cristandl (University of Copenhagen) - Fault-tolerant quantum input/output

Usual scenarios of fault-tolerant computation are concerned with the fault-tolerant realization of quantum algorithms that compute classical functions, such as Shor's algorithm for factoring. In particular, this means that input and output to the quantum algorithm are classical. In contrast to stand-alone single-core quantum computers, in many distributed scenarios, quantum information might have to be passed on from one quantum information processing system to another one, possibly via noisy quantum communication channels with noise levels above fault-tolerant thresholds. In such situations, quantum information processing devices will have quantum inputs, quantum outputs or even both, which pass qubits among each other.
Working in the fault-tolerant framework of [Kitaev, 1997], we show that any quantum circuit with quantum input and output can be transformed into a fault-tolerant circuit that produces the ideal circuit with some controlled noise applied at the input and output. The framework allows the direct composition of the statements, enabling versatile future applications. We illustrate this with a concrete application, namely, communication over a noisy channel with faulty encoding and decoding operations [Christandl and M{ü}ller-Hermes, 2024]. For communication codes with linear minimum distance, we construct fault-tolerant encoders and decoders for general noise (including coherent errors). For the weaker, but standard, model of local stochastic noise, we obtain fault-tolerant encoders and decoders for any communication code that can correct a constant fraction random errors.

09:45 → 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 → 11:00 Colloquium: João Penedones (EPFL)

11:15 → 12:00 Colloquium: Martin Hairer (EPFL, ICL)

12:15 → 13:45 Lunch