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Registration
Registration

4:00-5:00 PM, Aug 14th 2026

Hine Hall, IU Indianapolis

Reception - Snacks and Drinks
Reception - Snacks and Drinks

5:00-7:30 PM, Aug 14th 2026

Hine Hall, Tower Ballroom

Registration desk
Registration Desk Open

7:45-8:30 AM, Aug 15th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

8:30-9:00 AM, Aug 15th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Charles Bruce and Rickey Carter
Quantum Technologies in Medicine: Vision and Works in Progress

Charles Bruce and Rickey Carter, Mayo Clinic in Florida

9:00-9:45 AM, Aug 15th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Multi-Objective Quantum Architecture Search for Noise-Resilient Circuits with Barren Plateau Mitigation
Multi-Objective Quantum Architecture Search for Noise-Resilient Circuits with Barren Plateau Mitigation

Aahan Shah, Armaan Sharma, and Hana Sultana

10:00-10:30 AM, Aug 15th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Solving Systems of Linear Equations Using Sample-Based Quantum Diagonalization
Solving Systems of Linear Equations Using Sample-Based Quantum Diagonalization

Taha Selim

10:30-11:00 AM, Aug 15th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Milana Bazayeva
Computational Chemistry Enabled by Quantum Computers – An Overview of Cleveland Clinic Contributions in Quantum Computing

Milana Bazayeva, Cleveland Clinic Research

11:00-11:45 AM, Aug 15th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Poster session and lunch
Poster Session & Lunch

12:00-1:30 PM, Aug 15th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Learning Relationship between Quantum Walks and Underdamped Langevin Dynamics
Learning Relationship between Quantum Walks and Underdamped Langevin Dynamics

Yazhen Wang

1:30-2:00 PM, Aug 15th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Byzantine-Resilient Federated Learning via QUBO-Based Client Selection on Quantum Annealers
Byzantine-Resilient Federated Learning via QUBO-Based Client Selection on Quantum Annealers

Andras Ferenczi, Dagen Wang, and Sutapa Samanta

2:00-2:30 PM, Aug 15th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Quantum-Classical Reservoir Computing to Predict Influenza H3N2 Antigenic Distance
Quantum-Classical Reservoir Computing to Predict Influenza H3N2 Antigenic Distance

Mehdi Khalaj, Lingling Jin, and Steven Rayan

2:30-3:00 PM, Aug 15th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Poster session and coffee break
Poster Session & Coffee Break

3:00-4:00 PM, Aug 15th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Dedicated Neuronal Circuitry as a Hopf Bialgebraic Mechanism for Syntax Supports the Strong Minimalist Thesis: Implications for Large Language Models
Dedicated Neuronal Circuitry as a Hopf Bialgebraic Mechanism for Syntax Supports the Strong Minimalist Thesis: Implications for Large Language Models

Laurent Dekydtspotter, A. Kate Miller, Rodica Frimu, Justina Eshun, and Micheal Adeoye

4:00-4:30 PM, Aug 15th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Lean-Typed DisCoCat Reduction Certificates with Externally-Attributed Semantics
Lean-Typed DisCoCat Reduction Certificates with Externally-Attributed Semantics

Rob Sneiderman

4:30-5:00 PM, Aug 15th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Bob Coecke
From Relational Intelligence to Quantum Entertainment

Bob Coecke, Relational Intelligence

5:00-5:45 PM, Aug 15th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Banquet
Banquet
Registration desk
Registration Desk Open

7:45-8:30 AM, Aug 16th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Jasmine Brewer
Enabling Scientific Discovery with Generative Quantum AI

Jasmine Brewer, Quantinuum

8:30-9:15 AM, Aug 16th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Variational Quantum Transformer Architecture for Synthetic Language Generation
Variational Quantum Transformer Architecture for Synthetic Language Generation

Julian Hager, Michael Koelle, Gerhard Stenzel, Tobias Rohe, Jonas Stein, and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

9:30-10:00 AM, Aug 16th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Quantum Personas: A Q-NLP Formalism for Context-Dependent Character Dynamics
Quantum Personas: A Q-NLP Formalism for Context-Dependent Character Dynamics

Amir Reza Asadi

10:00-10:30 AM, Aug 16th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

CLAQS: Compact Learnable All-Quantum Token Mixer with Shared-ansatz for Text Classification
CLAQS: Compact Learnable All-Quantum Token Mixer with Shared-ansatz for Text Classification

Junhao Chen, Yifan Zhou, Hanqi Jiang, Yi Pan, Wei Zhang, Yingfeng Wang, and Tianming Liu

10:30-11:00 AM, Aug 16th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Ethan Krimins
Federal Quantum Algorithm Development Pathways

Ethan Krimins, Quantum Research Sciences

11:00-11:45 AM, Aug 16th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Poster session and lunch
Poster Session & Lunch

12:00-1:15 PM, Aug 16th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

The production of meaning in the processing of natural language
The production of meaning in the processing of natural language

Christopher J. Agostino, Quan Le Thien, Nayan D'Souza, and Louis van der Elst

1:15-1:45 PM, Aug 16th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Evaluating Hybrid Quantum and Classical Proxies for Reinforcement Learning Driven Text Instance Selection
Evaluating Hybrid Quantum and Classical Proxies for Reinforcement Learning Driven Text Instance Selection

Santiago Galiano-Segura, Juan Pablo Consuegra-Ayala, Olga Frances, and Elena Lloret

1:45-2:15 PM, Aug 16th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Training Data Set Effects in LLM-Assisted Quantum Portfolio Optimization
Training Data Set Effects in LLM-Assisted Quantum Portfolio Optimization

Pradyot Bathuri

2:15-2:45 PM, Aug 16th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Coffee break
Coffee Break

2:45-3:00 PM, Aug 16th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Quantum-Structured World Models (QSWMs) for Predictive Latent Dynamics
Quantum-Structured World Models (QSWMs) for Predictive Latent Dynamics

Hailong Jiang, Emran Hossain, Feng Yu, Jianfeng Zhu, Guilin Zhang, and Wulan Guo

3:00-3:30 PM, Aug 16th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Learning to Program Multi-Chip Quantum Neural Networks via Fast Weights
Learning to Program Multi-Chip Quantum Neural Networks via Fast Weights

Samuel Yen-Chi Chen, Chun-Hua Lin, Jiun-Cheng Jiang, Kuo-Chung Peng, Yifeng Peng, Junghoon Justin Park, Huan-Hsin Tseng, Hsin-Yi Lin, Kuan-Cheng Chen, Chen-Yu Liu, and Shinjae Yoo

3:30-4:00 PM, Aug 16th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Keeper L. Sharkey
The Next Decade of Quantum AI: A Roadmap from Computation to Discovery

Keeper L. Sharkey, ODE

4:00-4:45 PM, Aug 16th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Organizers
Closing Remarks

Organizers

5:00 PM, Aug 16th 2026

Campus Center, IU Indianapolis

Dinner and socialization
Individual and Small Group Dinners

5:30-8:00 PM, Aug 16th 2026

Indianapolis