In conjunction with 2025 International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
Milan, Italy, June 3-4, 2025
Call for papers
Recent breakthroughs in quantum computing hardware have created an explosion of research and activity in quantum information science. The rise of “Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum” (NISQ) devices has revealed major algorithmic and architectural challenges within this new technology. For example, the potential roles of quantum and/or quantum-classical hybrid data structures on algorithm design and performance evaluation are subjects of intense research. The goal of the QCASA workshop is to showcase the novel studies and foremost applications of non-fault-tolerant quantum computers, and provide a timely forum for computational scientists, software developers, computer scientists, physicists and quantum hardware specialists to exchange and discuss ideas on current problems in quantum information science. The contributions in this workshop will help elucidate practical, near-term limitations of current quantum devices, gauge the effectiveness of a class of approximate circuits quantitatively, and garner insight on what degree of that approximation is optimal for a given regime of machine performance. In addition, it will solicit contributions related to systems and applications related research challenges. The workshop will feature contributed papers as well as invited speakers from across multiple fields. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Quantum algorithms
- Hybrid quantum-classical solutions
- Quantum error correction and noise mitigation
- Quantum computing hardware and architecture
- Quantum software engineering
- Quantum optimization
- Quantum circuit cutting
- Quantum machine learning
- Environments, frameworks, and computational models
- Integration of quantum computation with supercomputing infrastructure
- Quantum simulators
- Cloud-based quantum computing
- Application of quantum computing to problems in computational science
- Challenging applications in industry and academia
Organizers:
- Ashfaq Khokhar, Professor and Palmer Dept. Chair, Dept. of ECE, Iowa State University (ashfaq@iastate.edu)
- Mary Eshaghian-Wilner, Affiliate Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, Iowa State University (mmew@iastate.edu)
- Robert Basili, Post Doctorate Fellow, Department of Physics, Iowa State University (basiliro@iastate.edu)
Tentative Program Committee (To be Finalized)
- Hamid Arabnia (University of Georgia)
- Arielle Carr (Lehigh University)
- Vipin Chaudhary (Case Western Reserve University)
- Weijie Du (Iowa State University)
- Mengyao Huang (Lawrence-Livermore National Lab)
- Sakhrat Khizroev (University of Miami)
- Michael Kreshchuk (Lawrence-Berkeley National Lab)
- Soham Pal (University of Arizona)
- Jens Palsberg (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Wenyang Qian (University of Santiago de Compostela)
- Fahad Saeed (Florida International University)
- Shiplu Sarker (Iowa State University)
- Devesh Tiwari (Northeastern University)
- James Vary (Iowa State University)
- Chao Yang (Lawrence-Berkeley National Lab)
Critical Dates (tentative)
- Paper Submission Deadline: February 3, 2025
- Author Notification: March 20, 2025
- Camera Ready: March 6, 2025
Contact Person: Robert Basili (basiliro@iastate.edu)
Note: Expanded versions of all the papers accepted to be presented in the workshop will be reviewed for possible publication in The Journal of Supercomputing (special issue on Quantum Algorithms, Systems, and Applications).